The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-15
WISCONSIN STATE MEMS


Oats-No. ., S6l5G737c. Rye-No. 1, 62ta
63Xc. Barley-No, 2 Spring, 54xG755c.
It is reported that gold, silver and four
varieties of mineral paint have been dis.
covered at the falls Of Chippewa River, in
Eau Claire.
Damage to crops in the vicinity Of
| Wonewoc, Juneau County, by the recent
wind, hail and rain-storm was reported
from all quarters. Unsecured crops of
grain and growing corn sustained heavy
damage. Highways and bridges were
washed ouG Lightning did considerable
damage to buildings near the village. 1t
was the most disastrous storm that had
visited that section this season.
Benjamin Foster, of Seymour, Outaga-
mie County, is to spend six months in
prison for attempting to shoot his brother.
The fourteen-year-old son of Oliver
Johnson, of Eau Claire, while engaged in
clearing carriage-way for the passage of
logs in the Eau Claire Lumber Company's
mill the other evening, accidentally fell
| between the track and buffer, and the log
carriage moving, crushed him. He sur
| vived but a few moments.
A severe rain-storm, accompanied with
terrific thunder and lightning, occurred at .
| Plymouth, Sheboygan County, the other
night. Between ten and eleven O'Clock,
when the storm was at its height, two
large barns in the town of Greenbush,
three miles distant, were struck and
burned. Great damage was done to grow
ing fruit, and hundreds of bushels of half.
grown apples were blown from the trees.
The barley crop, which was only half har-
vested, was badly damaged.
John johnson Berghum, father OF ths
wife of Governor Rusk, died of heart-dis-
ease few mornings ago at Westby, Yer
non County, aged sixty-eight He had
been resident there since 1852.
The contractors on the Wisconsin side
for the Alma, Winona g. Northern Rail-
way, will have one thousand men at worS
between East Dubuque and La Crosse by
the 10Th of August.
A twelve-year-oId son of James Corzett
was run over and killed by stave wagon
at Neillsville, Clark County, a few days
since.
The post-ofice at Oslo, Manitowoc
County, has been discontinued; mail to
Clark's Mills.
The State Board of Supervisors has
authorized the drawing of warrants to
meet the expenses of the various institu-
tions in its charge for the month ended
July 30, as follows: State Hospital for
the Insane, IS, 1903; Northern Hospital
for the Insane, 81, 2G5.2S; Industrial
School for Boys, $40, 4J6.C6; State Prison,
81, 49O13; Deaf and Dumb Institute, 49,
114S3; Blind Institution, Sl,009S9; total,
$S7,O56.5S.
| Martin Jeikofska, a laborer fifty-seven
years old, living with his family at She
boygan, committed suicide the other day
by hanging himself on tree in a neigh
boris garden. No cause was assigned for
the rash act.
Charles H. Pratt, of Minneapolis, recent
ly sold 120 acres of land east of Ashland
for $500. Peter Goetzenberger sold
eight acres in the same locality for $1,000
to General Lucius Fairchild, of Madison.
In grove on the farm of William PEN
gany, two miles from Dodgeville, Iowa
County, the recent storm seooped out a
pit sixty feet square and eight feet deep.
Ten or twelve large trees were wrenched
out6and hurled distance OF one hundred
and fifty feet, and stones weighing fully
ton each were rolled off the place. The
strangest part of the affair was that no.
where else on the farm or in that vicinity
could be found the slightest evidence that
so severe storm had prevailed.
Rev. Christian Markworth, while wait.
ing the other morning at the Northwestern
depot at Watertown to take a train,
dropped dead from apoplexY. He had
been attending the twenty-fifth anniver-
sary of ST. Johns Lutheran Church. De,
ceased leaves a wife and eight children.
He was forty-two yearssold.
About eight O'Clock the other evening,
during storm, Edward Hogeson, a boy
/, about seventeen years of age, and resi-
I dent of Manitowoc, was killed near Cato
Falls, Manitowoc County. With two
companions he was spending part of his
vacation camping out, and upon the APP
preach of the storm started for dwell
ingEhouse. The lightning struck a tree
near the boy and falling limb fractured
| his skull.
William B. Sherman. son of Sidney S.
Sherman, of the Sherman Lumber
Company, of Eau Claire, was shot
and fatally injured a few even
ings ago by schoolmate named Irvine
Jackson. Sherman, with several compan-
ions, took ride in the country and OIL his
return home stopped at the farm of Jack
son to get some apples. The boys entered
the orchard, and while in the act of pick.
ing fruit were told to leave by Jackson's
son, but not complying young Jackson dis
charged his gun, which was loaded with
buckshot, the contents entering Sherman's
back. Jackson was lodged in jail. At a
| Coroner's inquest the jury placed the
blame upon jackson.
There are ffty-two post-oflces in Wis.
consin where the annual salary is less
than fifty dollars.
Jefferson County has a remarkable dog,
bel elging TO Pat Scollard, Of the town of
Sullivan. He displays a rapacious appe-
| tite for stones, which, it is said, he will
swallow as they are thrown to him until
| he has partaken of a hat full at a
time. Stones ranging in size from hcB-
DRY nut to half as large as a hens egg are
the great desire of this singularly In
clined animal He is of the wolf species
and about six years old. Another pecu.
| liarity of the dog is that Of amusing him.
self for hours at time with a large rock
stone which he will roll about, completely
absorbed in the work. Taken altogether,
the canine challenges comparison. an d as
curiosity excites no end of wonder.
A tract of pine timber in Langlade
County, belonging to the Page estate, has
been sold to L. o. Rumery and g. W.
| Washburne, for $4,000 The tract is said
to contain 2O,0%,O0) feet.
The Lake Church in Belgium, Ozaukee
County, which was destroyed by lightning
recently, will be rebuilt by the Catholics
of the township. The loss to the parish
was fully $4,000.
! On executions amounting to $4,000, the
grocery house of E. E. Davis & Co., at
Milwaukee, was seized by the Sheriff re.
Gently.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stagge were recently ar.
rested in Fort Atkinson, Jefferson County,
charged with poisoning their child.
Harry Clifford, the gambler who recent.