The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-22
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

Recent fires: Henry Leonard's harness
shop at Appleton, Outagamie County;
loss, $1,000. Colonel E. NJ. Bartlett's resi-
dence at Eau Claire; loss, $500. Doud,
Son & Co.'s cooper-shops at La Crosse;
loss, 5000.
Peter Weber, of Madison, a blacksmith,
aged about forty-eight years, fell down
stairs in his home the other afternoon. and
broke his neck, dying Instantly. He was
an old and respected resident of that city.
He leaves wife and one daughter.
Governor Rusk recently reappointed ].
Fl. Evans, of Platteville; G.. E. Gordon, of
Milwaukee, and c. A. Hutchins, of Fond
du Lac, Normal School Regents for the
term of three years. The Governor also
appointed w. A. Fricke, Coroner of Milwau.
kee County, vice Charles Kuepper, de-
ceased.
One million feet of logs doomed near
Wausau, Marathon County, belonging to
the Gustavus Werlich estate, were sold at
Watertown, Jefferson County, the other
day at auction to Jesse Stone, of the
Bank of Watertown, for the consideration
of $4,000. The money would be used to
pay some of the liabilities left by Mr..
Werlich, who, it will be remembered, COM
mitted suicide in December last, and left
matters in bad shape.
A man supposed to be Lewis Lapland
died in the cars at Marinette, Marinette
Cednty, the other evening. He was a
stranger, and was supposed to have been
employed in some lumber camp.
The Glenn mineral springs at Wauke-
sha, Waukesha County, owned by the
heirs of the late millionaire, j. K. Glenn,
of New York, has been sold to rich resi-
dent of Chicago, the price being $4,000.
A little girl died at Eau Claire, Eau
Claire County, few days ago from in
juries received while playing 'crack the
whip"
Charles A. Kuepper, Coroner of Mil
waukee, died very suddenly at noon few
days ago, in his sixtieth year.
John Waters, an employee of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Road, was crushed
to death in the yards the other evening.
Waters was assisting in unloading iron
machinery, when box containing cast
ings fell upon him. He lived but short
time.
Fred Walter, employed as oiler at Con-
ways planing-mill, Milwaukee, was killed
a few mornings ago by being twisted
around pulley. Walter was at the time
trying to repair broken belt. The pulley
was in motion, and he was suddenly drawn
in between the pulley and the belt. He
was carried around twice, his body being
cut completely in two. Walter leaves a
wife and two children.
Logging operations in all of the pineries
of this part of Wisconsin are being pushed
forward to the fullest extent. The cut on
the Chippewa will reach 700,000,000 to
800,000,0O0.
Otis Hull, Milwaukee embezzler, was
afew days ago sentenced to one year in
the House of Correction. The point was
raised in argument for new trial that
portion of the money which he was accused
of embezzling was his own, as he worked
on commissions, and that no division hav-
ing been made, he could not be held for
embezzling money belonging to himself.
The point was a new one in this State, but
after careful consideration Judge Mallory
took an opposite view.
Wonewoc, Juneau County, has been
badly scorched twice recently, and yet de-
clines to purchase even hand engine for
future protection.
Philip Snyder was hit by a flying edg-
ingin a saw-mill in Morrison, Brown Coun-
ty, few days ago and killed.
Mary Schaefer, who was to have been
married at Milwaukee the other night to
Henry Gunther, carriage manufacturer,
failed to appear at the time appointed for
the ceremony, and the police instituted a
search for her. A recent dispute touching
the creed in which their children, should
they have any, would De brought up, was
assigned as the cause of the trouble, the
woman being Catholic.
There are three hundred and ninety in
mates in the State Prison.
Johnes E. Rhodes, a prominent and
wealthy butcher and highly respected
citizen of Madison, fell dead in the State
Bank the other morning while making
deposit. Heart-disease was supposed to
have been the cause of his death.
Conductor Francis Kimbail, who aroused
the citizens of Wonewoc, Juneau County,
from slumber the night of the fire in that
place recently, and thereby saved num-
Der of lives and much property, has been
made the recipient of handsome gold
ring by the people of that village as a tes-
5imonial of appreciation of his manly and
heroic efforts.
Before dying in the Milwaukee House of
Correction the other night Charles Ford,
imprisoned for vagrancy, informed the
Superintendent that his real name was
Andrews, and that he was the son of a
well-known Detrci5 (Mich.) restaurateur.
A man dressed in woman's clothing re-
Gently victimized the good ladies of Apple
ton, Outagamie County, by telling pitt
full story as to how (s)he became widow,
drawing from their charitable pocketbooks
a good sized sum of money.
The salary of Postmaster Candall, of
Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, has
been raised to $2,10O above expenses.
August Schmitt, of Milwaukee, German
about sixty years of age, was found dead
in his room a few days ago. He had COM
m tilted suicide by hanging. The last time
he was seen alive was the night before,
when he retired as usual. Nothing more
was heard from him until his non appear
ance led to his door being forced, when
he was found suspended from the wall
The cause for the act was not known.
holman Kohn, dealer in general mer-
chandise at Eau Claire, was arrested the
other afternoon charged with setting fire
to the Kepter Block a few days ago. Koh
occupied an apartment on the first floor.
At the recent annual session of the
Southern Wisconsin Cane Growers Asso-
citation the officers Of last year were res
elected, viz: o. P. Dow, Palmyra, Presi-
dent; l. B. Green, Hebron, Secretary.
Eli Williams, of Neilsville, Clark Coun.
ty, is one hundred years olds, his wife is
ninety-fiye, and they have been married
since 1923.
The Northwestern Road recently paid
into the State Treasury $4,000 for semi
annual taxes.
At Milwaukee the other evening Jerry
Fl. Arnold, twenty-five years old, day tele-
graph operator in the Northwestern Rail-