The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-28
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

logging region was to the effect that the
total cut of this State, this season, was
nearly double that of last year. The sea-
SON had been long, with plenty of snow in
nearly all localities and with no thaws.
Eau Claire is experiencing a boom In
real estate.
BY direction of the Court the jury in the
case of Mr.. snd Mrs. Bennett, on trial at
Milwaukee recently for arson, found the
woman not guilty, and she was discharged.
Bennett was found guilty.
Mrs. James Finnigan, of Neillsville,
Clark County, being driven to desperation
by the actions of her husband, attempted
suicide with laudanum few days ago, but
physicians saved her life.
Hoffman & Billings machine and brass
works at Milwaukee burned the other
morning. Loss, 10000; insurance, $65, 900.
One hundred and ten men were thrown out
of employment.
The other morning the body of Carl
Fehring, farmer residing in the town of
Polk, about seven miles southwest Of
West Bend, Washington County, was
found in the bottom of well one hundred
and thirty feet deep. The man fell into
the well accidentally.
Henry Longholff, seventy-two years old,
living at Fort Atkin son, Jefferson County,
hanged himself recently because he be-
lieved attempts were being made to de-
fraud him of his farm.
The books of the County Treasurer of
Langlade County having been investi-
gated, Eli Waste, the Treasurer, was a
few days ago reported to be nearly $1,000
short in his accounts.
Sunders & Hayes, loggers in Bayfield,
County, recently left for parts unknown,
leaving the merchants losers to a large
amount.
A man named Murphy, residing at Ran
don Lake, Sheboygan County, recently lost
foot by the cars.
The wife of Rev. Job B. Mills, of Ocono-
mowoc, Waukesha County, was recently
taken to the Northern Asylum for the In.
sane. The case is peculiarly sad one.
Twenty years ago or more Rev. Mills, a
member of an Illinois Conference of the
Methodist Church, was driven from the
active ministry by failing eyesight, and
went to Oconomowoc. He became totally
blind after while and helpless. More
than two years ago symptoms of brain
softening manifested themselves in the
husbands case, and he has been gradually
losing strength both in miad and body
since, until he is but wreck of the man he
once was. The strain on the wife was too
severe, and her reason has now failed.
The Wisconsin &c Arizona Mining Com
pany, with offices in Milwaukee, filed ar
ticles of association with the Secretary of
State recently, the object being to conduct
mining and milling business in Arizona.
The. capital stock is 100000, divided into
100000 shares, and the incorporators are
G. A. Sanger, James McBell and J. H.
Manshot.
James Monaghan, young man en-
ployed in Sherry's Mills, Wood County,
had his leg crushed a few days ago, rem
dering amputation necessary, the patient
dying while the operation was being per.
formed.
Early the other morning the feed store
of j. R. Bleasdale, of Evansville, Rock
County, was partially destroyed by fire.
The loss on building and stock would reach
500 or $500, with no insurance. 1t was the
work of an incendiary.
The State Board of Health has issued
two small pamphlets for gratuitous distri
button, one relating to scarlet fever and
the other to diphtheria and containing sug.
gestions for the restriction and prevention
of those diseases.
John Polevski was killed in a logging
camp at Auburndale, Wood County, few
days ago by an unmanageable log. The de-
ceased resided in West Bend, Washington
County.
County, has sold to George G. Wilcox, of
Chicago, six thousand acres of pine lands
in Lincoln County, for 100000.
The Wisconsin Supreme Court recently
decided in the matter of the formal will of
Mary J. Laid, of Grant County, that an
unatte5ted and informal memorandum on
blank page of the will made in pencil by
the testatrix to the Eeffect that the revoked
the will would not stand. The lower courts
had decided that the memorandum of revo-
cation held good. The Supreme Court re.
verses this judgment and orders the will
to be admitted to probate.
w. H. WEIGH, of Clair, Trempealeau
County, was fined one hundred dollars re-
Gently for drawing beer from keg upon
which there was no revenue stamp.
Mrs. Thomas Stay, of Wautoma, Wau-
shara County, committed suicide recently
by cutting her throat The suicide of a
daughter last June drove her crazy.
T. B. McCourt & Bro, of Medford, Tay-
lor County, have failed for $1,000.
J. j. Hogan, of La Crosse, sold recently
1900 acres of uncut pine lands in Taylor
County to the Sanford & Rowell Lumber
Company, of Freeport, Ill. The lands sold
have ON them between 100000 and
2O,OO0,O of good standing pine. The con-
sideration paid was $4,000.
Henry Sievers has been commissioned
postmaster at Newburgh| Washington
County.
George D. Ackley, of Eau Claire, repre-
,senting several Eastern insurance COM
panies, has absconded, it was alleged,
with about $4,000 of the companies funds.
A United States Deputy recently seized
one thousand pine logs in Door County,
which had been cut on Government land
by Otto Anderson, Axel Appel, John
Leathem and Thomas Fl. Smith. The tim
Der is worth about 81, 400.
Extensive preparations have been made
for the National Teachers Convention to
be held in Madison in July, and already
three thousand have signiied their inten-
ton to be present.
Henry Sangholff, an old resident of the
town of Sumner, Jefferson County, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself the
other evening.
Fire at Appleton, Outagamie County,
the other night destroyed two of the build.
ings of the Appleton Manufacturing Com
pany, with loss of $4,000; insurance,
1885,
There have been thirteen suicides in APP
pleton, Outagamie County, within two
years.
The post-ofice at Bayview, Milwaukee
County, was broken open the other night
and $50 in coin, currency and stamps