The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-21
Wisconsin Items.

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
! quotations: Wheat-No. 1, 94095c; No. .,
7@11c. Corn-No. ., 40t041c. Oats
No. 2, 2Sa28&c. Rye--No. 1, 5SHc.
Barley-No. ? Spring, 53c.
John Roberts, freight conductor, was
arrested in Eau Claire a few days ago,
charged with the theft of merchandise
from freight-cars.
John Atkins, a farmer living four miles
Forth Of Waukesha, was fatally shot the
other afternoon. Mr.. Atkins reached home
from Waukesha, accompanied by his wife
and another woman. He assisted them
from the carriage, and they entered the
house. Finding the door broken, Mrs.
Atkins spoke to her husband, who was still
in the barn. just as Mr.. Atkins started to
enter the house a man, who had been in
side, rushed between the women, and, pre-
senting a revolver at the head of Mr..
Atkins, fired. The shot took effect in the
left eye, producing instant death. The
murderer fed. The deceased was about
fifty years of age, and leaves wife and
three grown children.
A syndicate at Appleton, Outagamie
County, recently paid thirty two thou
sand dollars for the strawboard paper mill
belonging to the bankrupt firm of Billings
& Morrison.
A German named Remana, living near
Peshtigo, Marinette County, went home
drunk recently and fell in getting out of
his wagon A wheel passed over his leg
below the knee crushing both bones. A
neighbor claimed to be able to set the
bones, and did try, and splinted and ban
daged the leg-bandaging the leg so tight
that it mortified. When doctors were
summoned it was too late to help him, and
he died.
Burglars broke into the room of Miss
Marshall, the daughter Of Samuel Marsh
all, banker of Milwaukee, early the other
morning, and made off with several thou
sand dollars worth of property.
Farmers in the vicinity of Eau Claire are
greatly elated over the fine appearance of
winter wheat. Although the crop is I'M
certa n, by reason of the POSSIBLE ties of
freezing in the absence of snow, the amount
sown is much larger than that of last fall.
With the usual amount of snow the yield
will be bountiful.
John Adams, Jr., Henry Ward and Davy
Pigeon, each aged twelve years, and Burt
James, aged sixteen, were recently arrest
ed at New Lisbon, Juneau County, at the
instance of the Secret Service of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul Railway Com
pany, charged with having placed OBJ
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near that place. They were held for trial.
Fred Groskopf, foreman of hook and lad
der truck No. 1, of Milwaukee, was run over
and killed as the truck was on the way to a
fire few days ago.
An animal, believed to be a sea-lion, was
recently seen in a river at Depere, Brown
County, the movements and appearance OF
this animal corresponding exactly, and the
fact that one escaped from menagerie in
an up-river city several years ago con-
firmed this theory.
Eau Claire advices say the last RATS Of
the season have passed down the Chip
pewa, and everything on the river is re.
markedly quiet. AT the mills everything
has quiet appearance except few mer
seen here and there closing up and fixing
things in shape for winter. An amount Of
work, however, is to be done, but viii
p obably not be commenced till later in tht
season. The mill men are slow in footing
up the amount of their manufacture, but
the cut will reach somewhere in the neigh.
borhood of $40, 100000 feet of lumber with
a proportionate amount of shingles, latl
and pickets.
A post office has been established al
Eagle Point, Chippewa County, with JOIN
Bat IS as postm 4ster.
The Pioneer Lumber Company of Eau
Cl;@ emade an assignment a few days ago,
with assets Of $259,00) and assets approx
+ mating the same figure. Losses by The
recent fool, and alleged discrimination il
freight rates, caused the failure. Captain
William Wilson, of Menominee, also made
an assignment, his liabilities, largely as in.
dorser, amounting TO about 100000. Both
drms would, it was said, probably pay one
hundred cents on the dollar.
Hog-cholera is destroying large numbers
of porkers in 1ewaunee Comfy.
In few weeks Receiver Elmore, Of
Strong's Bank, at Green Bay, will pay {
: dividend Of about twenty per cent. of $3.50,
900 claims against the concern. There still
remains about $4,000 not presented
About s. 900 carried off by the family has
been recovered by the Receiver. Henry
Strong, the defaulting President, is now
living in Canada, and his family lately
joined him.
One year ago John Peterson and Lewis
Means, two Norwegian boys aged fietee3,
sons of farmers in Dunkirk Township,
Dane County, were playing together, when
a gun in Peterson's hands discharged, in
stantly killing Means. The affair being
apparently accidental there was no in
quest held. A few days ag5 the father oil
the dead boy had young Peterson arrested
on a charge of murder, claiming that re-
cent developments warranted the charge.
The German market, owned by the Mil
waukee Gardeners Building Association
was burned the other evening, mourning a
loss of so, 900 on the building and about
5000 on contents: partially insured. The
fire was supposed to have been incendiary,
A boy named Frederick Rainier fell un-
der wagon the other day and was
crushed to death while on his way home
from. school, in Wilson, Sheboygan County
There is a movement in Wisconsin in
favor of high license. Petitions in further
ance- of such policy have been circulated
already.
The Soldiers Home at Milwaukee is be-
ing enlarged to accommodate $50 more vet
Grams.
Adolph Bleyer, of Milwaukee, in the en-
pIoy of the Ereni51d Wisconsin, and wife
and child were nearly asphyxiated the
other night by gas which escaped from 6
coal stove. When found all three were
very sick. Prompt measures saved theil
lives.
4 reunion of more than usually inter
esting character recently was that of tn
five daughters Of Mr.. Samuel Pine, of Mil
waukee, at the advanced age of ninety -on'
years The youngest of them is fifty year.
old, and this was the first time in forty
years they all had met together.