The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-03
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS,

Barley-No. . Spring, 59c.
A new post-ofice has been established
at Rube, Manitowoc County. with Joseph
Thalhammer as postmaster.
The recent flood in the Chippewa bot
toms showed the engineer of the Winona,
Alma & Northern Railway that the grade
there must be at least four feet higher.
The work has been let from Smeltzer's to
the Chippewa River, in Buffalo County,
and through the bottoms in Pepin County
. distance of five miles.
The dwelling house of Robert Robert.
son, in the town of Lincoln, Kewaunes
County, was burned the other morning.
A miner named Krupp was found dead
in potato field near Ashland few days
ago. He had evidently committed suicide
by cutting his wrists and bleeding to
death. Nothing of value was found upon
| his person. He was about fifty years of
age and single.
Aurelia Aren fell into the river at Green
Bay few nights ago and was drowned.
Her body was recovered the next morn.
ing. Certificates of deposit and money
were found on her person to the amount
of over one thousand dollars.
A La Crosse newspaper intimated that
the damage to wheat by rust recently was
very serious, and that grain had been sold
at certain points on the basis of twenty
eight and thirty cents per bushel. Elevator
men complained of working in the cars,
the wheat smelt so badly.
General Sam Draper, of Lancaster, Grant
County, is the smallest voter in the State.
He is twenty-five years old, forty-eight
inches high and weighs fifty-five pounds.
He is an exemplary young man, and is
highly respected in that community,
The jewelry store of W. H. Gately, at
Milton junction, Rock County, was en-.
tered by burglars recently and $500 worth
of goods taken.
At Milwaukee the other evening, the
wife of General E. L. Bragg, while alight-
ing from car in the Union Depot, fell and
broke her leg.
The livery stable of Webb Flack, at APP.
pleton, was burned few evenings ago,
causing loss of $4,000; insurance, g, 300.
Frank Sandys, formally engaged in the
| commission business at Eau Claire, made
an assignment to M. B. Hubbard recently.
Liabili ties, 81, 200; assets, $1,000. The sus>
pension was caused by depression in
trade and an inability to collect outstand-
ing debts.
Captain W. H. Harris, of Caledonia,
Mimi, has sent to the State Historical So
eiety the ten-pound riaed cannon-shot
which killed Myron Gardner, of Trem.
pealeau, this State, who WAS member of
| Company B, Second Wisconsin Volunteer
Infantry, at Blackburn's Ford, Va, July
18, 1861. Gardner was the first three-years'
soldier from Wisconsin killed by Confed-
crates during the rebellion.
Several thousand dollars worth of silks
and velvets were stolen from the store of
szehnter & Co., in Madison, the other
night.
A fire few nights ago ct Berlin, Green
Lake County, destroyed an entire block of
wooden buildings On Main street, includ-
! Ing the priests house and, barn, Cooley &
Sons livery stable, Mrs. Coakland's mil
linery store, Taylor's undertaking estab-
lishment, Saulsbury's grocery store, two
residences and three CT four unoccupied
business houses. Two span of'horses were
burned to death. The entire loss was
about $4,000; insurance, 100000 There
were about sixteen buildings in all de-
stroyed.
Mrs. Heitle, wife of Leonard Heitle, died
at her home in Watertown a few mornings
ago, after brief illness, aged seventy
seven years. Deceased went to that vicin-
lily with her husbsnd thirty five years ago.
She leaves fot1r sons and three daughters.
Joseph Kent, of the firm of End & Kent,
one of the oldest business houses in She.
boygan, died the other morning at six
o'clock of consumption. His health had
been poor for several years, and he failed
rapidly during the past few weeks.
Mrs. Marie LIE Clair, of Green Bay, wife
of Charles LIE Clair, died suddenly from
apoplexy few nights ago. She belonged
to one of the old French families there,
having resided in that city since 1886.
John Marshall, living about a mile from
Maffnette, on the Peshtigo Road, was
dangerously shot the other evening while
preparing to retire, elc assassin firing
through the window with a shotgun
loaded with both fine AMI buckshot. The
1 charge took effect in the right shoulder
and neck, tearing the flesh in a fearful
manner. There was no clue to the assas-
sin further than that Marshall received an
anonymous letter recently, warning
him to leave the COUNTY on pain of death,
but no notice was taken of it, as he did
not know he had an enemy in the county.
1t was thought the wounded man would
recover.
A recent fire at Seymour, Outagamie
County, destroyed the residence of John
Stewart. Loss, $500; insurance, 5000.
Robert o. Pfster, business man in
Green Bay, died few days ago from the
effects of wound caused by the glancing
Ct hand-ax while he was repairing cul-
wort He had neglected to call doctor
until pyenia set in.
A large iron gray horse was -stolen from
the stable of Mr. Samuel Arthur, residing
four miles east of Platteville, Grant
County, the other might. A reward of
1925 was offered for the horse and the
capture of the thief
A man named Dunn made remarkable
haul of fish from Lake Mendoza, at Madi.
son, the other day. He captured six pick.
erel, among a number of others, two of
which weighed twenty-five pounds each,
one sixteen pounds, and the remaining
three twelve, nine and six pounds respec'
lively, or an aggregate of eighsy-saven
pounds.
The parsonage of the Lake Street Meth
odist Episcopal Church at Eau Claire, oc-
cupied by Rev. G. Pitcher, was totally de.
stroyed by fire few days ago. Loss,
$1,000; covered swo-thirds by insurance.
It has been found by committee APP
pointed to inves tigate the matter that w.
Fl. Swinehart, formerly Treasurer of Lin.
coin County, is indebted in the sum Of
eleven thousand dollars.
The Cream City Brewing Company OF
Milwaukee has amended its articles Of in
corporation, increasing the capital from
$50, 900 to $125, 900.
Mime. Dowbroski, Milwaukee rag pick
er, is said to be worth forty thousand dol
| lars.
In the Lake Shore & Western Road
| offices the other dav proposals were opened