The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-31
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The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 1, nominal No. 2,
$1.01K0L01&; No. 5, nominal; No. 4, NOM
inal. Corn-No. ., 51&051&c. Oats-No.
2, 3OC03O16c. Rye-No. L, 5Sa5S1kc. Bar
ley-No. aspiring, 65C066c.
The hop crop of La Crosse County prom
Uses large yield.
The Sioux River bridge, at Bayfield,,
which was completed recently, is struct-
ure of more than ordinary note. 1t is
5000 feet long, and its construction called
for 500 piles, 100000 feet of timber and
about five tons of bolts.
In fight at seamen's picnic at Mil
waukee the other day, Fritz Ave, fifty
years old, was struck on the head with a
stone and fatally injured.
Ansley Gray, who is in jail at Denver,
Col, for drunkenness, was once promis-
ing attorney of Milwaukee. He married
a Wisconsin lady, and squandered $4,000
of her money in dissipation.
Major William F. DAVIS, formerly Treas
urer of Juneau County, was buried at Ne
cedah few days ago, having died of can
GER of the stomach.
The farmers in the vicinity of Eau Claire
were recently complaining of some un-
known disease which attacked horses, SIM
liar to the CHAMBERS, and several valuable
animals had died in that and the adjoining
county from its effects.
| A couple were married at Cazenovia,
Richland County, recently, by Allen Tin
ker, the groom, William Marden, being
! seventy-six years old, and the bride,
Mrs. Mallow, being seventy-four.
A bill-poster for circus walked out of a
window ON the third floor Of hotel at
Green Bay the other night, while asleep,
and fell on the roof of a passage connect
ing with the hotel, twenty-five feet below
sustaining serious internal injuries.
Mrs. L. S. Nickerson, of Seneca, Craw
ford County, while laboring under a pre-
sentiment of failing health, recently com
mitted suicide by hanging herself with
rope to sapling. She had been a resi-
dent of the county since 1910, and was
sixty weight yeprs old. She was the mother
of sixteen children.
! The assessment roll of Milwaukee shows
vaIuoSlon Of $70,000,000, an increase of
/ S8, 200, 00O in the last year. ,ti
B A singular and somewhat curious freak
of nature has caused no little excitement
at and in the neighborhood of Hubbellton,
/ Jefferson County, on the Crawfsh River.
A piece Of land four acres in size and sew
en- feet thick became loose from the main
| land and foated down the stream against
the Hubbellton bridge, almost completely
stopping the flow of the water. The farm
ers dreading an overflow of their lands,
which at that place are quite low, were
busily engaged night and day in cutting
channel through the center of the flood.
The land, it was said, belonged to poor
school teacher. za
The old soldiers of Boscobel, Grant Coun-
ty, recently formed post of the G.. A. R.
Chris Nelson, well-known young
Norwegian, of Milwaukee, was drowned
recently while bathing in the Menomonee
River. sts.s et.. sI
Reports come from various parts of the
State, of frauds practiced by peripatetic
silver-plate swindIers, who take away
silverware to be replated, and return
worthless goods instead of those taken.
A young man named Walter Major, of
Whitefish Bay, Door County, was almost
instantly killed few days ago by being
run over by loaded wagon. The load
consisted of hemlock bark. 1t slid off in
front of the vehicle, carrying Major with
| it. He lived only few minutes after the
wagon passed over him.
| Appleton, Outagamie County, has three
toy-manufacturing establishments.
Arrangements are reported in progress
for the reception and settlement of large
| ly increased number Of emigrants from
Europe during the coming season. K. K.
KEENAN,, elnigrant agent for the Wisconsin
Central Railway, departed for New York
a few days ago, whence he sailed for Eu-
rope, destined to Basic. Switzerland. Mr.
KEENAN, took with him 80, 900 pamphlets
printed in German, $4,000 Wisconsin State
maps showing the location of lands, and
quantity of other printed matter. His mis-
sion to Switzerland is to organize colonies
for settlement in Wisconsin. He expected
to be at Basic until October. This will be
the fourth party brought over by Mr.. Ken
nan and shown to homes in the State.
The annual encampment of the First
Regiment cost the State IL ,492.
A heavy sale in pine land, situated on
the Yellow River, in Clark County, took
place recently, the G. M. Upton Lumber
Company, of Marshfield, disposing Of
100000 worth to the Necedah Lumber
Company, of Necedah.
Governor Rusk has appointed Charles
NJ. Webb, of Grand Rapids, Wood County,
Judge of the Seventh Judicial Circuit, 0ice
Gilbert L. Park, resigned.
Judge Larson, of Eau Claire, abandoned
his judicial dignity temporarily the other
day, and umpired game of ball between
the Eau Claire and the Chippewa Falls
clubs.
Gold coin to the amount of sixty dollars
was found recently by Grant County
girl where it was supposed to have been
buried years ago, in a rayine, and washed
out by the rains.
Two barns belonging to William Goathe,
of the town of Pittsfeld, Brown County,
were burned Monday might, causing loss
Of $500.
The State has instituted proceedings
against the st. Croix Boom Company for
obstructing navigation.
An aged turnout recently visited Ocou-
omowoc from Aurora, III. The outfit con-
sisted Of Mrs. Wickizer, aged seventy one
years; her sister, who accompanied her,
sixty-four years of age, and the horse
which they drove has seen twenty-nine
summers.
The most important real estate transfer
in bayfield, County for many months was
MADE recently by the Chicago. st. Paul,
Minneapolis & Omaha Company to the
Rust Owen Lumber Company. The tract
was one of 20, $50 acres of pine land, and
the consideration was $223, $50.