The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1883-08-10

| First Internal Revenue District with the
Third. Captain Beams district has hereto
fore consisted of Milwaukee, Waukesha,
Racine, Kenosha and Walworth counties.
Hereafter, the First Internal Revenue Dis
trict will comprise the counties of Milwau-
kee, Racine, Waukesha, Walworth, Keno
sha, Ozaukee, Washington, Dodge, Sheboy.
gan, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Waushara,
Marquette, Winnebago, Manitowoc, Co
lumbus, Brown, Kewaunee, Outagamie,
Waapaca, Door, Florence, Marinette, Ocon.
to, Langlade, Shawano, Lincoln, Price and
| Taylor. Captain Bean has not yet actually
taken charge of his enlarged district, but
his official bond has been filed, and he will
do so n q few days.
Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 1, nominal; No. .,
i $1.O001.0O1z; No. 8, nominal; No 4, nomi-
nal. Corn-No. 2, 5O4@50Kc. Oats-No. 2,
3gt03074c. Rye-No. 1, 562l(057c. Barley
No. Spring, nominal.
/ A little incident happened at Appleton,
Outagamie County, recently that caused
considerable mirth. An old farmer came
in on the Fourth and tried to get in the
] First National Bank. Some fellow seeing
| him try the door told him the bank was
busted. "By Jimmy, over $1,000 gone to
| thunder!" With this exclamation he
/ started for home and spread the news.
The standing of the bank being questioned,
4 all the farmers who had deposits came
ftocking in, and nearly $4,000 was drawn
/ out. The standing OF the bank is among
the best in the State, being able to pay So
i for every dollar of outstanding certificates.
/ The joke is on the farmers, great many
of whom would have had interest for three
months due them in few days. The bank
is about $500 ahead on the affair.
1t is reported that the Wisconsin Cent
raj Railway Company will lay track from
/ Chippewa Falls to st. Paul, on account of
encroachne nts by the Omaha Company.
At Druecker's stone-quarry, four miles
north of Port Washington, Ouzakee Coun-
| ty, passing train the other day struck a
mule, killing and throwing the animal
upon a man named Colt Young, breaking
Young's leg so badly that it had to be
amputated. Young was an inmate of the
Soldiers Home, and was out for a while
trying to earn a living driving team.
Nearly $3.50 were found on the person of
professional beggar in Milwaukee re-
| Gently.
Mrs. Matt. Carpenter will erect hand
/ some monument at the grave of her illus
| trious husband.
S. Lightcap, owner of the Lightcap Mill,
in Hazel Green, Grant County, the largest
| Touring establishment in the State south
| Of Madison, died the other night, at the
| age of seventy years. He was prominent
| inventor, and one of the pioneer millers of
| the State.
The banks in the State, doing business
| under the State law, made their seminar
nual report to the State Treasurer few
days ago of their condition the morning of
Monday, July 2. There are thirty-five
| such banks, with an aggregate capital of
$l6490,4 31; deposits, $14,647, 1863; specie,
1888, 76O; cash items, $253,978; United
States currency. $1,162,78O. Total iabili-
ties, $21, 182, 445.
The story of sea-serpent set afoat a
! few days ago by two citizens Of Green
Bay, Brown County, finds confederation
in the statement of fisherman at Bailey's
Harbor, Door County, named Cady, who
reports seeing strange creature thirty
feet long and two feet in diameter, which
made for him as he stoned it.
In the tornado the other afternoon a
farmer named Graszle, residing on the Lis
bon road, several miles northwest of Mil
waukee, suffered damage loss of $1,000.
20 hill Il
orchard uprooted, and the growing crops
destroyed. He reported that all the farm
ers in his neighborhood suffered more or
less through the destruction of crops, etc.
A Prairie du Chen Crawford County,
man, who is continually berating news
papers, recently walked fourteen miles to
purchase one that mentioned him as a
prominent citizen.
Belle Clay, of Wautoma, Washington
| County, committed suicide the other morn
ing. She bought two ounces of laudanum
! and retired to her room the evening before,
and was found in the morning in half
dead condition. She died between eight
and nine O'Clock from the effects of the
poison. Miss Clay was a young lady of
about twenty years of age. No cause
could be attributed for her action.
Mrs. Darrah Kelley, of Genesee, Wauke-
sha County, was killed by Milwaukee &
st. Paul train few nights ago. She sat
down on the track near her home, and did
not notice the approaching train until too
late to save herself.
The Upham Manufacturing Company, of
Marshfield, Wood County, has recently
purchased 3O,0O0,0O0 feet of pine on Yellow
River for 100000 of the Necedah Lumber
Company.
There remained in the State Treasury
August 1 a balance in the general fund of
$49S.915; total balance in the Treasury,
1894.
Arthur McKellor, Familiarity known
among business men of Green Bay, as
sold Mac" has fallen heir to nearly $780,
600, left him by an older brother who died
a short time ago near Utica, N. Y. cold
Mac" is sixty-one years old.
There lives in Milwaukee a five-year-old
boy who can play over three hundred tunes
on violin and has composed two pieces
himself.i
On the strength of the gold and silver
excitement in Rudolph, Wood County,
Almeron Batter sold forty acres of his land
to a company recently for $4,000
The cranberry crop Of Wood County is
said TO be almost a complete failure. The
marshes were all under water, and the loss
was estimated at 100000.
Rev. T. Snyder, of the Northwestern
University, of Watertown, Jefferson
County, has resigned the Professorship of
English Language and Literature, which
he had held for five years past in the insti-
tuition, and accepted a call rendered him
by one of the Lutheran churches of the
city of Buffalo, N. Y, intending to enter
upon his pastoral duties September 1.
A farmers daughter named Speneger,
residing near Milwaukee, stole from her
father SECURITIES representing $2,7O0 and
fed to Chicago with gambler the other
day.
Bruss & Kronenberg's planning mill, at
Milwaukee, was partially burned the other
night. Loss, $1,000; insurance, $1,000.
Willie Goss, ten years old, was commit
ted to the State Industrial School recently
by Justice Brice, Of Green Bay, on convic-
ton of larceny in robbing the store of