The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations.: Wheat-No. 1, S9t090c:
No. 2, s4GS4kc. Corn-No. ?, 4s56C049c.
Oats-No. ., 32692kc. Rye-No. 2, 61K@
&c. Barley-No. Spring, 7O071c.
The Baptist. Church at Beloit, Rock
County, the handsomest structure in the
city, was burned at midnight recently.
Loss, $4,000.
Mr.. Moses Guyette, of Sheboygan Falls,
Sheboygan County, and Miss Smith, form.
erly of Sheboygan Falls, but latterly OF
respectable and popular, eloped recently
and were married.
A State law says that any person who
shall use or set in any of the inland
streams or water-courses within the State
any net, rack or obstruction for the pur-
pose of catching fish, whereby the free
passage of fish up and down the same may
ished by fine not exceeding twenty-five
dollars.
According to the laws of the State "any
person who shall catch or take from any
inland lake or water course within this
State any fish except mullets, suckers,
bill-fsh, bull-heads or dog-dsh by the use
of any spear, net, seine, basket, grapple,
trap or by any other device or means 9th.
er than hook and line, or angling, or who
shall disturb or destroy their spawning
beds, except the same to be for the pur.
pose of artificial propagation of fish, shall
be punished by fine not exceeding fifty
dollars, and such spear, net, seine, crap
pie, trap or other device so unlawfully
used, shall be forfeited to the State"
The residence of John Menter, in the
town of Lawrence, Brown County, was de-
stroyed by fire few nights since. The fam
| lily had a narrow escape.
Louis Rollman, the Mayor-elect OF
| Shawano, Shawano County, set out in
| business there five years ago with only
| twenty dollars. He is now the owner OF
one of the largest business houses in the
| place.
Miss Theresa Grunzer, of Greenville,
| Outagamie County, committed suicide the
| other day by swallowing a dose of Paris
| green.
There are seventy-five thousand cords of
wood piled in Door County for shipment
on the opening of navigation.
Adolph Wagner, leading saloon-keep.
| er, pleaded guilty in the Municipal Court
at Madison few days ago to selling
| liquor Sunday and was fined seven dollars
and costs. The saloon-keepers have re.
solved to close Sunday. The BARRIERS have
also resolved to close Sunday. The Law.
| and Order League was considering the ad.
visibility of enforcing the Sunday law IN
/ the case of cigar-dealers and CONNECTION.
! ers.
! The safe of Louis Schultz, proprietor OF
| the United States House at Monroe, Green
| County, was drilled into early the other
! morning by burglars, who secured -four
hundred dollars in cash and one gold and
one silver watch.
Fifteen prisoners in the Milwaukee Jail
mostly burglars and highwaymen, made
an attempt to escape few days ago. Jail
/ er Walsh was called to furnish coal, and
| as he unlocked the grated door he was
! struck in the face and blinded by ashes
He sprang back and pushed the bolt in time
to retain the prisoners.
Work has been commenced on the south
wing of the State House, at Madison, which
/ was wrecked on the 9Th of November last
The wing will be reconstructed on new
/ and greatly improved plans, and the con
tractors expect to have it under cover
again within month. They hope to have
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completed by August next.
Colonel Boynton, Milwaukee jewele1
who recently purchased adiamond from q
farmer near Waukesha, who found it on
his premises and kept it in his home as 6
curiosity, has bought the property and will
at once begin prospecting. The gem is
valued at $500 and was bought for mere
song. Considerable excitement prevails il
the surrounding community.
The Upham Manufacturing Company's
large steam saw-mill at Marshfield, WooC
County, was wholly destroyed by fire the
/ other night. The fire originated in the en-
gine-room and spread SO rapidly that al
efforts to battle the flames were futile. The
loss was $4,000
Assistant General-Superintende At
kiAs, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Paul Road, died ct Lacrosse the other
morning. The remains were taken to Mil
waukee for burial.
The discovery Of vein of copper al
Wauzeka, Crawford County, has interested
several experienced miners, and the devel
opments thus far promise a profitable
| yield. The specimens unearthed are quite
pure, and the ore compares favorably with
that of the Lake Superior region.
Experts employed in an examination O.
the books of the bennett Harvester Works
at Milwaukee have concluded their labors
and exculpate Mr.. bennett from the charge
of misrepresentation of funds that had beer
indirectly made against him.
Fire at Evansville, Rock County, the
other morning destroyed Lehmans Broth
ers' furniture factory. Loss, $4,000; in
surance, $1,000; and the Baker Windmill
and Pump-works. Loss, $4,000; insur.
ance, $4,000.
The annual distribution of annuity goods
at Lac Court, O'Reille Reservation, Bay
field County, was recently made to one
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reservation engaged in logging the past
winter and banked $4,000 worth of logs
They realized from s., 900 to $4,000 net each
from their timber. Agent Duffee described
some of them coming up in broadclotL
and gloves, with gold watches, chains
and seals, to receive their dole of ter
pounds of -four and three pounds of pork
| per capita. In addition to their rations
there was distributed agricultural and
| mechanical implements, house trimmings
locks, latches and hinges. They all have
good frame houses.
/ Mrs. Hannah Dooley aud her servants
/ girl were asphyxiated at Oconomowoc,
Waukesha County, the other night by the
! gas which escaped from a leaky stove
Mrs. Dooley might recover; the servant
would probably die.
There are forsy-eight Limberger cheese
factories in Green County.
The 1iquor-license question for the com