The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-26
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS
Losses by the Recent Flood.


list of losses: Estimated cost of restoring
dam and boomage works, s. jO,0 900; damage
to residences. stores, mills, public bridges,
etc, in Chippewa Falls, S250,00O; damage
and loss at mills between Chippewa Falls
and Eau Claire, $125, 900; damage and loss
to residences and stores and contents on
the North Side, in Eau Claire, $4,000;
damage to stores and residences and con.
tents on the East Side in Eau Claire, $780,.
900; damage to residences and stores and
! contents in Eau Claire, 500, 900; city's loss
on five bridges and public improvements,
sewers, ETC., 500, 900; losses by mill own
ers in stocks and injuries to mills in Eau
Claire, $4,000; individual losses at Eau
Claire not included in the above, $500, 900;
loss of Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad,
100000; losses sustained by farmers in
Chippewa Valley, below Chippewa Falls,
100000; losses at Porterville, Meriden
and Durand, $45, 900; losses of lumbermen
in escaped logs and cost of securing logs
and lumber, $3.50 900; total, $2,O10,000.
wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat - No. l, 94095c;
No. ., 73K074c. Corn-No. 2, 53}8G054c.
| Oats-No. 9, 27C02716c. Rye-No. l, 530
53Kc. Barley-No. . Spring, 6Oc.
A dividend of 121z per cent. will be paid
creditors of the insolvent Manufacturers
Bank of Milwaukee, October 1. The bank
owes $442, 900, but its assets have not been
made public.
The twenty fourth anniversary of the
| loss If tba Cd Ioio IN, OBJ Oh;
was observed in the Milwaukee Catholic
Cathedral few days ago by a solemn
high mass for the faithful who persisted on
| the occasion. Four hundred Milwaukee
ans lost their lives by the sinking of the
steamer.
James Polandre, a Frenchman by birth,
aged about thirty, met with fatal acct
dent at the State Lumber Company's mill
at Eau Claire the other evening. While
| engaged at work on the edge, a piece of
flying slab struck him on the head, inflict
ing wound which caused death almost
instantly.
Judge David j. Pulling, of the Third
Judicial Circuit, has rendered his resigna-
ton to Governor Rusk, to take effect Oc-
| tober l. The cause assigned was ill-health,
| to cure which the doctors had advised
| that he go to a warmer climate next win
| ter. The resignation would doubtless be
accepted
| Two hundred dollars was purloined from
| the clerks room of the propeller Lady
| Washington at Green Bay the other night.
! A fireman on the boat, who hastily van
/ ished, was suspected.
| The Germania Iron Mining Company of
| Ashland, Outagamie County, filed articles
| of association with the Secretary of State
| at Madison recently. The capital stock is
| 81 900.
| The post-off1ce at Lakeville, Chippewa
| County, has been discontinued; mail to
| Cartwright.
William Brooks, of GAINESVILLE, died at
Milton Junction recently from an over
dose of morphine. The fact that he was
| to be tried in GAINESVILLE for receiving
stolen property weighed heavily on his
mind and it was believed that he commit
| ted suicide. He was a young man of
family.
| w. H. Dodd, of Milton Junction, Rock
| County, was seriously wounded while
waiting for train at Pensaukee recently.
| A rife in the hands of the station agent
was accidentally discharged and the bull
let crashed through the top of Dodd's
head. The surgeons were obliged to cut
! out piece of tae skull about as large as a
quarter of dollar.
Frederick G. Lintz, an old and wealthy
resident of Sheboygan, was found dead in
| his bed the other morning, having died of
heart-dis ease. He was seventy years old.
| Quite a sensation has been made at
| GAINESVILLE by the discovery that some
| $137,000 of bonds issued away back in 1858
by the Rock River Union Valley Railway
Company against the city of GAINESVILLE
have not been Cancelled. The city was
supposed to be out of debt, save about
| $4,000 in school-house and fire department
sbonds The record shows that the old
railway bonds were Cancelled and de-
stroyed in 1850, but by some means or
other, and by what means is a mystery,
many of these bonds are still out.
Instructions have been received at Ash.
land to at once make the proper arrange
ments to proceed with the work on the
/ Northern Pacific Railroad from that city
westward toward Superior City. 1t was
/ the intention of the contractors to COM
plete the grading and lay the iron at once.
Rough estimates made upon the total
loss in the Chippewa Valley by the recent
storm were that it would not fall short of
$2,000,000 Of this amount the city of Eau
Claire would represent nsarly one-third.
The mystery attending the disappear
/ ante of Johnnie Behrend from his home at
| Green Bay, in December, 1892 was cleared
! up recently, when Fisherman Davidson
found on one OF his hooks set in the river
boys boot with portion of the leg in it.
Fastened to the boot was skate, which
was identified by the parents as one of q
| pair their boy was carrying to the river
| when last seen alive.
Extensive finds of copper and silver
have been made recently in Bayfield, Coun-
ty. David Palmer's big find, assayed,
yields forty per cent. copper and four hun
bred dollars in silver to the ton.
Miss Lille Anderson, of Waukesha,
about year ago caught violent cold, the
result proving the loss of the voice. She
had only been able to speak above a whis-
per since that time. Medical science
l pTOVSu u ITO avail IA lew QdYS ago SD6
was taken i'll very suddenly, the sickness
lasting only a few minutes, when to her
amazement she found that her voice had
| returned.
A complete train of cars, with locomo-
tive, made of grain and grasses, is shown
to visitors at the Milwaukee Exposition.
Every part is perfect. The locomotive,
headlight and cab windows are made of
mica broRght from the Black Hills region.
Captain Jenkins recently killed four
hundred-pound bear on Freeman Rum
mery's farm in Langlade County.
In breach of promise suit at Milwaukee
recently Miss Elizabeth Phillips was
awarded Judgment for 5000 against
Ernest Meincke, son Of a leading manu-
facturer.
The recent floods did $4,000 damage to
the lumber yards at Merrill, Lincoln
County.
New Lisbon. Juneau County, is to be
the southern terminal point Of the Milwau-