The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-26
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
8 The foIlowing are the MiIwaukee grain

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations. Wheat-No. 1, 94ta95c; No. >,
70ta701sc. Corn-No. ,, S9G40c. Oats
No. ?, 25a26c. Rye-N9. l, SIX "a 52c.
Barley-No. Spring, sic; No. 5, 44ta44kc.
Charles Hartman, young man, was ar
rested at Milwaukee the other day on a
telegram from the Chicago police. Hewas
charged with extensive forgeries.
At the recent session in Madison of the
State Grange resolutions were passed
favoring separate agricultural school and
petitioning Congress tolmake manufactur-
ers alone responsible to the patentee for
royalties. The Aid Society of the Grange,
which is the life insurance department., re-
ported twelve deaths in the order in the
State this year, and $1,000 in losses paid.
Directors for three years were chosen, as
follows: R. j. Day, of Brodhead; Matt An
derson, of Pine Bluff, and Alexander Stew
art, of Wilson Creek.
Large numbers, of deer are reported near
Marshfeld, Wood County.
George w. Thayer, who shot and killed
young Beall, his fellow Clerk, in Wausau
Marathon County, bank last May,was re-
Gently adjudged insane by a committee of
four physicians and taken to an insane
asylum. Thayer shot his associate in the
back of the head while the latter was
quietly at work on the books of the bank.
Immediately after the shooting Thayer
gave himself up to the authorities and
wanted to be put in Jail. No cause was as
fo,. I'd
been found.
E. 7. Wheelock of the Medford Taylor
County, Star and Times, recently found a
long lost brother at Chippewa Falls.
Charles had not been seen or heard from
for twenty years.
Assemblyman- elect Charles R. Field, of
Watertown, is the youngest member of
the Legislature of 1885, having been born
December IA, 1858, and being, therefore,
not only twenty seven years of age.
William A. Gray, the we'll known stock
raiser at West Salem, La Crosse County,
died the other morning, after brief ILL
ness.
Captain Nat Rollins, formerly of Madi-
son, was elected recently to the California
Legislature from the Leadville District.
A fire a few nights ago at Chippewa Falls
destroyed the Opera-house block, contain
ing the stores Of Lee & Larson, w. Fl.
Stoddard and Prince & Shervey, and the
saloon Of Oscar Anderson, all of which
were burned. On the south the flames
spread to the Cummings block, occupied
by the Chippewa Times, the Western
Union telegraph and telephone office and
other offices, and the stores of G. E. Dalton
& Co. and Leclaire & Mandelert. The fire
was checked here by wide alley. Several
small saloons and a barber shop on the OPP
posite side of the street from the Opera
house were also consumed. The total loss
was about 100000; insurance about $50,
600.
Myron B. Williams, a pioneer of Wis
consin and resident of Watertown for
thirty years, died at indianapolis, Ind, a
few days ago. Herepresented the Twelfth
District in the first State Legislature.
Two men, named Robert Nichols and
Brandt Hanson, were brought to hospital
in Eau Claire a few days ago, in an almost
frozen condition. They had been hunting
in the pineries and accidentally walked
into swamp covered with snow, under
meath which was four feet of slush and
water The men came near being drowned,
but fortunately reached habitation just
as they were getting benumbed. One of
the sufferers would lose a leg and the other
a foot.
The General George A. Custer Grand
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grounds in Mount Hope Cemetery and to
erect suitable monument upon which to
place the names of such soldiers as may be
buried there hereafter. The bodies of a
few soldiers buried in the cemetery will be
moved to these grounds.
The Bayfield, Silver & Copper Mining
Company have struck it rich at their mine
in Bayfield, County. Their ore assays sew
enty per cent. copper, and runs as high as
$3.50 of silver to the ton. The company
claim that the ore is in paying quantities,
and considerable excitement is created by
this find.
The opera-house at Madison has been de-
clared insecure, the walls threatening to
fall, and the building will be rebuilt.
N. J. Welter, proprietor of the Badger
State House, at Superior, Douglas County,
committed suicide at seven O'Clock the
other morning. When he arose he COM
planned of feeling very badly, and, going
into the office, said to the men there:
"Boys, see how brave man dies" taking
at the same time revolver from the desk
drawer and shooting himself through the
head. Family troubles were believed to be
the cause.
: The Executive Committee of the State
Agricultural Society met at Madison the
other morning. The report of the Treas
urer showed that the receipts for the year
1884 were $21,271; disbursements, $1I133;
cash on hand, 81 ,138. The receipts for the
last two years were S46,54l.
Daniel Reed, hearty old man of Madi-
son, celebrated his one hundredth birthday
recently.
The large tobacco shed belonging to John
Richardson, near GAINESVILLE, was destroyed
by fire few nights ago. Loss, $500; in
surance, $500.
A recent fire at Eau Claire destroyed
Schwahn's place and Drosg Brothers brick
block, causing a loss of about $4,000.
The Eau Claire Lumber Company has
established all the logging camps which it
proposes to put in this winter. They are
only eight in number, besides six camps
operated by jobbers for the company, the
fourteen camps employing about 300 men
altogether. This scale of operations is only
about one-half of the extent Of the com
pany's logging last winter, and the other
companies have curtailed in about the same
proportion.
There lives in the town of Manchester,
Green Lake County, German by the name
of Kreuger, whose age is one hundred
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