The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-14
Wisconsin Items.

| The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. l, 95HC096Hc;
No. 2, 90T(0927Ec. Corn-No. 2, 51(0512c
Oats-No. 2, 31AC032c. Rye-No. 2, 5740
57hc Barley-No. 2 Spring, 59KCa59%c.
J. Fl. Gateley's ice-house at Monterey,
Rock County, was burned by fire-bugs the
other evening. Loss, $4,000; insurance, ST.,
| 200. Et..r,
Alexander Butler, carriage manufacturer
| and agricultural implement dealer at
Platteville, Grant County, failed recently
| for $40, 900.
S. D. Locke, formerly of GAINESVILLE,
Rock County, the patentee of the we'll
known Locke grain binder, is now q mem
Der of the New York Legislature.
The machine-shops of Thomas Corbett 6
| Co., at Milwaukee, were damaged by fire
the other morning to the extent of $4,000;
insurance, $500. #sat.i. sa
Michael Zillner, aged ninety three years,
who resided on small farm in the town
of Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, died
suddenly the other night without the at
tendance of a physician. He was an old
settler. f....- ... ,.....-... .sr
August Bernhard jumped from a moving
train at Milwaukee the other day and was
killed. He left wife and four children
Tim Maggie, of Milwaukee, who was
sentenced in the fall of 1882 to five years.
Imprisonment at Waupun for assault with
intent to kill, has been pardoned by Gov
ernor Rusk.
Four different persons are engaged in
taking subscriptions for rebuilding the
university at Galesville, Trempeleau
County. At latest report the amount OBJ
tanned was nearly $1,000. The repairs be-
gin when $4,000 is subscribed.
Hon. H. H. Giles, of Madison, chairman
of the State Central Committee of the Pro-
hibition party, says that the Prohibitions
lists will hold but one convention in this
State this season, and that will be for the
purpose of putting in nomination a set of
State officers and selecting Presidential
electors. The pa ty, he says, will nomi-
nate State officers throughout. The State
is entitled to fifty -four delegates in the Ma
tional Convention.
Advices from the pineries havo been re-
ceived at Eau Claire to the effect that the
log-cut was being considerably curtailed,
as it was believed the amount of logs now
banked was sufficient to keep all of the
mills busily engaged until late next fall.
General John Pope, of the army, intends
to take up his permanent residence in Mil
waukee next fall. His wife and children
will pass the summer there and prepare a
house for him.
Rev. John G.. Hull, residing near Water
town. Jefferson County, long ago COM
menced to use soda for the relief of dis
ordered stomach, and has for years con-
sumed from ten to twelve pounds per week
without apparent injury to himself.
Charles Netzger, who stole several watches
at hotel in Chippewa Falls nddecamped,
was captured recently, arraigned, pleaded
guilty, and was sentenced to ten months in
the State Prison.
DR.. James Piper, who was pastor of the
First Baptist Church in Milwaukee twenty
years ago, died at UnadiIla, Mich, few
days ago, after long and lingering i'll
ness.
c. A. Belden, the leading jeweler of Mil
waukee, died recently after an illness of
five weeks. Deceased was fifty EIGHT years
of age.
The Wisconsin Agricultural Society has
decided to hold the State Fair at Madison
this year, September 10 to 10.
L W. Meagher, Inspector of logs and
lumber for the Eleventh District of Wis
consin, has forwarded to Governor Rusk
the amount of logs scaled and amount of
lumber and shingles manufactured in Ash
land and Bayfield, Counties for the year
1888. There were 53,5Oo,OOO feet of logs
scaled and lumber manufactured in Ash.
land County during the year 1888, and 81
100000 feet in Bayfield, County during the
same period. There was also manu-
featured in Ashland County 7,OOO,000
shingles and 100000 in BAYFIELD, County
during 1883.