The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-11

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. /, 953&(0961zc; No.
2, 94Ca95c; No. 8, nominal; No. A, nominal.
Corn-No. ., 5705Sc. Oats-No. 2, 800
3SAc. Rye-No. 1, 62663c. Barley-No. 2
Spring, 62t0621c.
Thirty-three tons of hay per day is the
average baled by a hay-press at Truesdale,
Kenosha County.
The residence Of A. Lamont, promi-
nent lumberman and mill man, living two
miles south of Colby, Clark County, was
partially destroyed by fire the other night.
The heroic efforts Of the family and neigh.
bors saved the dwelling from complete
destruction.
The grain commission firm of HARDWOOD
& Rogers, of Milwaukee, suspended few
days ago. The cause of the embarrass-
ment was the failure of customers to come
to time with margins. The firm is COM
posed of Frank Harwood and G. G.
Rogers, and was formed to continue the
business of Allen Johnson, who was killed
in the Newhall House fire.
Gustavus Werlich, a leading business
man of Watertown, Jefferson County,
killed himself in his office few days ago,
leaving wife and six children.
The report of the Post-Ofice Department
of the number of letters missent from the
different post-of1ces of the country-repre
senting the errors of mailing clerks-shows
that Milwaukee has the best record of any
city in the country. The number of mis-
sent letters from that city shown by the
report is 1868, to 4, 400 from st. Paul, 6,501
from Kansas City, and proportionately
large numbers from other cities.
The State reports ]2,4o6 marriages, 49,
344 births, and 4,684 deaths during the
year.
Bishop Welles, Of the Episcopal diocese,
denies the statement laJely made in Chi
cago paper that the Nashotah (Waukesha
County, Seminary is to be moved to Chi
cago.
BY the bursting of wafer-pipe in the
store of Rich & SLIDER few days ago,
goods to the amount of $1,000 or Sc, 900 were
damaged.
Lester Pavy, who died at Milwaukee the
other evening, commanded a schooner on
the lakes as early as 1929. For the past
twenty years he has suffered from paraly-
sis.
Lund's saloon and Ekland Bros.' furni-
ture store at Eau Claire, were destroyed by
fire few days ago. Total loss, $4,000
The recent snow-storm apparently ex-
tended with more fury in the direction Of
the Chippewa pineries than at points fur
Their south. Reports received from the
forks Of the Chippewa say that there was
fully twelve inches Of snow in those local.
itics, affording the very best Of roads to
get logs to places of banking. The men
were glad to see it and were rushing their
work along with all possible dispatch.
There was yet determination to increase
the forces in the woods and plenty of men
waiting to fill the demand. Wages are
low, and farmers having teams with moth.
ing to do during the winter are anxious
for employment, even at remuneration
to save expense of keeping.
Wetstein, the Fargo clothier, charged
with defaulting Milwaukee merchants out
of over $4,000, has arrived in Milwaukee
and been placed in the county Jail to await
an examination.
The grave of the late Matthew H. Car
penter at Forest Home Gene cry, in Mil
waukee, has been marked by his family
with stately monument of granite. The
monument is seven foot square at grade
and twenty-five feet high. On the north
front of the die is the following: "To the
memory of Matthew Hale Carpenter. Born
in Moretown, VT, December %, 1924; died
in Washington, D. c., February d. 1881.
A man greatly beloved" The monument
bears no other inscription.
A baseball association has been formed
at Milwaukee, with the intention of taking
the field with professional nine next sea-
son. The capital stock of the association
is to be ten thousand dollars, five thou
sand dollars of which is already taken. FL.
D. Mckee was elected manager, and i'm
mediately started for the East to secure
members of the nine.
The thirtieth annual meeting of the State
Historical Society was held at Madison
few evenings ago. Last year, 1888 vol
umes and 2,496 pamphlets were added to
the library, making the total number of
books and pamphlets 10A668.
A farmer of jefferson County reports
that he has grade COW lately fresh IN
milk that gave in seven days 264 pounds of
milk from which he made twelve pounds
Of butter, or one pound of butter to TWEEN
ty-two pounds of milk. He fed twelve
pounds day of equal parts of bran and
shorts.
During the year there was spent in Mad
ison $153, 100 for public buildings, $4,000
for business buildings, and 1867, $50 for
new residences and improvements.
The State Treasurer reports that the ball
ance in the Treasury at the commencement
of the year was $6S2,379. OF this sum
S4S2, 739 was in the general fund.
The legal complications in the estate of
the late S. B. Page of Milwaukee, who left
property valued at 100000, are so many
that his widow had few days ago re-
ceived but 81 800, and was almost destitute
of means.
Wisconsin paid during the year 1888 ten
thousand dollars in bounties for wolf and
wildcat scalps.
Edward Simpson, formerly one of the
best-know local politicians of Milwaukee,
at one time Deputy United States Marshal
for that district, attempted to end his life
few days ago by cutting an artery in his
arm and so bleeding to death. He was
discovered in time to save his life.
The Eau Claire Brewing Company, with
capital stock of $4,000, fled articles Of
association with the Secretary of State re-
Gently, the incorporators being G. B. Cars
teus, Albert Hartwig and E. j. Farr. The
object is to conduct q general brewing
business.