The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-28


stantly killed the other evening by c. W.
Bum, of the law firm of Cameron, Lozy g.
Bum, who mistook her for burglar EN-
deavoring to break into his residences
Miss Eckert and three companions, sup
posing Mr.. and Mrs. Bum were at an en-
tertainment, drought to brighten the SER
want friends at Mr.. Bunn's home by making
them believe they were burglars. Maggie
went to the front door and endeavored to
open it. Mr.. Bum fired a shot through the
glass panes of the front entrance. A sharp
scream was heard, and upoQ opening the
door he found the girl shot through the
heart and dying. Burglaries had been of
frequent occurrence there of late.
Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat--No. 1, 94095c; No. 2,
70C07O2lc. Corn-No. 2, 37C030c. Oats, =
No. 2, 281< 629c. Rye-No. 1, 51hG052c.
Barley-No. Spring, 52c.
William Seybert and Godfrey Hans
combe, two prisoners confined in the Wood
County Jail, escaped few days since and
had not been recaptured. Unknown par
ties passed a monkey wrench to them
through the bars.
L. Losers clothing store, H. w. Boyer's
restaurant, R. A. Walkers harness-shop
and the temperance saloon of Wiley &
Hanscom, of Merrill, Lincoln County, were
recently destroyed by fire. Loss, about
$4,000; covered one-half by insurance.
Two dwelling-houses belonging to An.
drew Larson and William Magee, with most
of their contents, were destroyed by fire at
Eau Claire the other night, The loss was
estimated at $1,000; covered by three
fourths insurance. Brown & Nichols ware
house was also destroyed by another fire;
loss, 81 800; and Gregorie's clearinghouse;
loss, s. 300.
The State Historical Society of Wiscon-
sin met the other evening in the Senate
Chamber at Madison to receive from Hon.
Elihu B. Washburne, of Illinois, in behalf
of his wife, an oil portrait of her father,
Colonel Henry Gratiot, of Gratiot's Grove,
who was one of the earliest settlers of the
southwestern portion of the State.
Mrs. James Mccormick, eighty years of
age, was burned to death recently at the
residence of her daughter in Ellenboro,
Grant County, while replenishing the fire
in a small stove. Mrs. Domer suffered
serious burns in attempting to save her
mother.
Senie, the wife of Silas R. Sleeper, of the
commission firm of Sleeper Bros, of Wa
tertown, died the other forenoon of malig-
nant diphtheria, after a brief illness, in the
thirtieth year of her age. Deceased came
from Manchester, N. H., and had resided
there six years with her husband. She
leaves daughter and son, the latter being
seriously i'll with the same disease that
proved fatal to his mother.
A Madison man claims to have invented
a type setter, which, when perfected, will
revolutionize the work of composition. The
machine is to be worked like type
writer.
Captain Wilson's attorney, Mr.. Hunt, OF
Hunt & Freeman, of Menomonee, has given
the following facts in regard to the affairs
of Wilson and the Pioneer Lumber Compa-
ny: The liabilities of the latter are $685.,
900. The estimated cash value of the as
sets is $250,000; the company claims assets
of 100000. Mr.. Wilson's liabilities, as in
dorsed for the company, are $285,000 His
other liabilities are $125, 900, mostly indorse-
ments of the Lafayette Lumber Company.
His assets are from 100000 to $3.50, 900, and
in the ordinary course of business would
net $550,000 Although his affairs are
much mixed he will have good property
left after the settlement.
Milwaukee is discussing the advisability
of erecting jail with better accommoda-
tions.
Robert Moore, of the town of Buena
Vista, Richland County, died the other day
from wound caused by the explosion of a
gas-pipe that he was using instead of a
cannon during Cleveland celebration.
Owners of four-mills in Eau Claire and
adjacent counties complain loudly of the
poor quality of wheat offered.
HJohn Wieman, of Trempealeau, was an
rested in Chicago recently, dispatch hav-
ing been received from the Chief of Police
of the former city asking for his detention.
Wieman, it was alleged, left the State TAX
ing with him mortgaged property.
The youngest member-elect of Congress
is Robert M. La Follett, of Wisconsin. He
is twenty eight.
An agent for Green Bay house shipped
seven tons of fresh fish from Sturgeon Bay
few days ago. Besides, $500 pounds of
sailed trout were sent to Green Bay. Other
purchases of fish on that day amounted to
6,419 pounds. The market for trout is so
overstocked that the new lots caught are
sailed for future use.
Ira W. Brunson, pioneer business man
of Grant County, died at Mt. Hope few
days ago.
Thomas Ryan, railroad man, was re-
Gently arrested in Milwaukee at the in
stance of the Humane Society, for
systematic abuse of his wife and chill
dren.
The Grant County Herald says manu-
facturer in that place has made and sold
over 10000 butter tubs
At an early hour the other evening the
Waukesha Wooden Mills were discovered
on fire, and within two hours the entire es-
tablishment and its contents were totally
destroyed. 1t was four-story stone
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largest and most prosperous in the State.
Seventy employees were thrown out of
work The origin of the fire was not
known. The loss on building and stock
was $4,000; insurance, $4,000. Two store
buildings adjoining the mills, containing
one hundred and fifty thousand pounds of
wool, narrowly escaped.
While Louis Berg was cutting timber re-
Gently on the brow of bluff sixty feet
high, near Warrentown, he missed his foot
| ing and fell to the bottom of the precipice
and was killed.
A number of brook trout have recently
been caught in the vicinity of Elkhart
Lake, Sheboygan County, in some streams
where they were planted, some two years
ago, by 7. G. Sharpe.
Fishermen at Milwaukee enter complaint
that whitefsh are being extirpated by the
pound and trap nets stretched all along
| the lakes.
Navigation has practically closed at La
Crosse, though there was no ice in the
river.
While Merrill (Lincoln County, family
was away the other day a tramp entered