The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-25
Wisconsin Items.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 1, 951a(096Kc;
No. 2, 8SC08SHc; No 3, nominal; No. 4,
nominal. Corn-No. 2, 47C04Sc. Oats-No.
2, 32032Kc. Rye-No. /, 5S(a58hc. Barley
No. 2 Spring, 59@59Kc.
On account of recommendation to mer-
cy, Arthur G. Middleton was recently sem
fenced to ten days in the House of Correc-
ton at Milwaukee for robbing the mails.
R. B. Ogilvie, dry-goods dealer at Mad
ison, has failed, with liabilities of $65,000.
A fund for the benefit of Miss Emma
Bond, the victim of the Taylorville Qll.)
outrage, has been started at Palmyra, JEFF
ferson County.
Thomas K. Wilkie, an employee at the
Big Heart silver mine, west of Eau Claire,
fell to the bottom of sixty-foot shaft the
other night, and was killed.
Father Ward recently arrived in Milwau-
kee with fifty girls from the Turtle Mount
ain Band Mission in Northern Dakota, who
are to be educated in the House of the
Good Shepherd at the expense of the Gen
eral Government.
The trust funds in the State Treasury at
the beginning of the year amounted to
$6S2,379.14 against 1919, 406.06 at the begin.
ming of 1888.
Asmuth & Co.'s elevator at Milwaukee
was damaged $4,000 by fire early the
other morning.
Judge Mallory, of the Milwaukee Munic-
ipal Court, few days ago entered upon
his twenty-fifth year of continuous service
in that position. He has tried nearly $4,000
cases, believed to be the largest number
ever brought before any single Judge in
this country.
A strange circumstance recently
came to light at Marque to- Green Lake
County, by the death of John Linhardt.
In looking over his private papers it was
found that in 1868 he was awarded by the
Government a pension of eight dollars a
month. He had never told any one about
it and had never drawn cent of it. 1t
now amounts to over 81, 100, which his fam
lily would no doubt receive
Work has been re sumed upon the Capitol
extension.
The present State officers went into Of.
fee the first Monday in January, 1882, and
their terms were to have expired a few
days ago, but the Constitutional Amend
ment providing for biennial sessions of
the Legislature and biennial elections made
necessary the adoption of another amend
ment extending the presenttee one year,
SO that hereafter State officers shoald be
elected at the same tims as the L3gisla-
ture. The Attorney-Genegal has decided
that county officials throughout Wiscon-
sin will be required to execute new bonds
for 1884, but not to renew their oaths of Of
flee.
w. L. Pierce, years ago a Marquette
Green Lake County, boy, but la.er a law
partner of Lieutenant Govereor Bingham,
of Chippewa Falls, this State, has opened
law offices in Las Vegas, n. M.
During the past year the Green Bay,
Winona &c st. Paul Railway Company dis
bursed in Green Bay and Fort Howard,
Brown County, abou $150,000 in payments
for wages, the construction of coal docks
and supplies.
The University of Galesville, Trempeleau
County, under the auspices of the Presby.
terians, was burned the other morning.
The contents were mostly saved. Loss,
$4,000 1t would probably be rebuilt at
once. No insurance.
new turn was given to the prohibi ion
element in local politics at Mlwauk e
the other day by the sale of the Chris
ti0a Statesman, a well-establishe religious
weekly, to Captain A. G. Sickle, who goes
there from Iowa to run the paper in the
interests Of tn Prohibitlonists. 1t is said
TO be tao Intention of this faction to make
an aggressive movement in the State in the
coming campaign.
JOIN Gergan, a section hand on the Nil
waukee & Northwestern Railroad, was
killed recently at Appleton, Outagame
County, by one of the company's engines
Miss Minnie Pope, of Sheboygan, received
two $1,000 bonds as New Years present
from her uncle in New York, and the town
is said to he filing up with young men.
A recent fire at La Crosse DESTROYED
Fred Carleton's grocery and the Vienna
Bakery. CRrleton's loss ON building and
stock was 81, 600: insured for 1859. The
Vienna Bakery loss was $500; insured for
81, 800.
The Klaus block, a three-story building
at Green Bay, Brown County, was burned
the other day. Loss, 81, 900.
Alfred Harris, a well-known crook, was
arrested at Milwaukee early the other
morning while lettering about in the
vicinity of the st. Louis House. On being
searched at the station a set of burglars
tools and plan of the house, even to the
dog-pen, with "no dogD marka on it
were found. He was sent up for ninety
days.
Walter GILES pie, a cabipet-maker of
Madison, was arrested the other day,
charged with passing counterfeit money.
He ives afterward discharged, the counter
felt" silver proving to be genuine