The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-02
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

OoS' DdIio9-NO. Z spring, tVtOiIc.
A. S. Stearns, well-known teacher of
Evansville, Rock County, leaped from a
bridge into Rock River the other evening,
and his body had not been recovered. No
cause was known for the deed.
James H. Bentley, Of Milwaukee, while
painting smoke-stack at Sheboygan re-
Gently slipped and fell to the ground, a
distance of sixty feet, and was instantly
killed. Bentley was well. known on the
lakes, as he was formerly sailor.
A confagration visited Baldwin, st.
Croix County, the other morning, destroy
ing the principal business block, in which
were Bosworth's hardware store, the Gen.
trail House and two saloons. Loss, $4,000.
N. S. Greene, who recently resigned as
postmaster at Milford, jefferson County,
was thought to be the old postmaster in
Wisconsin, having held the Office continue
ally from his first appointment in 1913 by
President Polk.
The safe of the Fox River Flour Sc
Paper Company at Appleton, Outagamie
County, was blown open few nights ago
1t being payday, the burglars expected
to make big haul, but were fooled, get
ting only about twenty cents. The same
party visited Seymour, about twenty
miles distant, and blew open the safe of
the Green Bay, Winona & st. Paul Roa1,
getting forty dollars.
Daniel Move, an old resident of Spring
Valley, Rock County, died the other morn
ing at the age of sixty-six years. He was
a member of the Wisconsin Legislature in
1860, and the Vermont Legislature in 1852.
At the wedding of Mr.. G. H. Worthing-
ton to Miss S. M. Ingham at Madison, the
other day Mr.. r. S. Garlick, an intimate
friend, fell dead of eart-disease while
rendering his congratulations.
During the past few days there have
been eighteen deaths from diphtheria in
Milwaukee-ffty per cent. of the cases re.
ported.
Twenty families of German immigrants
recently arrived at Edgerton, Rock
County.
Isaac Hodges, the banker who failed
two months ago at Platteville, Grant Coun-
ty, was recently arrested again for embez-
element, and gave bail. Last winter he was
hale old man; he is now decripit and
nearly blind.
The late Superintendent Atkins, of the
st. Paul Road, had life insurance of
$4,000.
While at breakfast the other morning at
the Cambrian House, in Waukesha, Thomas
Conley fell unconscious to the floor and in
a 10 Al,
heart. He was for many years highly
respected farmer of Lisbon, Waukesha
County, and had only recently sold his eff
fects there and moved to Waukesha.
Mrs. Mary Hedges, an old lady aged
seventy, wife of Isaac Hedges, of Birnam-
wood, Shawano County, dropped dead in
her kitchen while doing her work the other
afternoon. The cause of her death was
not known, but was supposed to have been
paralysis.
According to the State law no person
shall catch or take any fish in or from any
of the waters of Lakes Winnebago, Butte
DIES Morris, Winneconne, Poygan or Little
Lake Butte DIES Morris, nor in or from any
of the waters of the Fox River between
Little Lake Butte des Morris and the mouth
of Wolf River and Lake Winneconne, with
any device for taking or catching fish, ex
cept gill-nets. spears, or hooks and lines.
The brigantine /. M. Hill went ashore
one mile south of Milwaukee harbor pier
the other morning. The crew of seven
men were taken off by the life-saving
crew.
Thomas Connolly, aged forty, a veell-
known resident of Waukesha, was choked
by piece of beefsteak while eating break
fast the other morning, and died after suf-
fering horribly for an hour.
Coroner Herbel, of Chippewa Falls, re-
Gently discovered the body of Eusebe
Canuell, Frenchman, hanging to a tree.
Testimony before the Coroner's Jury
showed he was partially deranged. They
rendered averdict of suicide.
The Agricultural Department. Of the Wis
consin State University has issued circu.
lar again calling the attention of farmers
in che State to the Importance of procur-
ing good seed corn. Much of the seed in
the northern part of the State, the circu-
lar says, is of low terminating power, if
not worthless. 1t advises the farmers to
club together and get good seed in bulk.
John Bause, a German about thirty-five
years old, was found dead recently about
four miles south of Grand Rapids, Wood
County, with pistol tied to his wrist and
a part of his face shot away. Suspicious
of foul play were entertained.
About one million eight numbered thou.
sand trout fry will be distributed from the
Wisconsin State Fish Hatchery at Madi-
son during the present spring, together
with about two hundred thousand Nc.
Cloud and mountain trout fry.
A State shooting tournament will be held
at Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, May
and ., and 5000 is to be distributed in
prizes. Clay pigeons, glass balls and live
birds are to be used.
The Ashland Gold and Silver Mining
Company has lately sunk shaft twenty
feet deep, and the vein at that depth is six
feet and solid mass of ore, assaying $45
in gold and $50 in silver to the ton.
The recently-appointed Assistant United
Estates Treasurer, Charles E. Coon, is a
brother of Mrs. D. E. Weseott, of Sha-
wano, and cousin to NJ. H. McCord, Of
Merrill. Mr.. Coon entered the army as a
private soldier, was wounded in a battle
near Washington, and discharged. Sever
al years later he was appointed to an in
ferior clerkship in the Treasury Depart.
ment, from which position he has gradual
ly risen to that of Assistant Treasurer.
A Winnebago Indian, Familiarity known
in La Crosse as "Yankee Bill" was in
stantly killed by switch engine the other
night. The former brave had been on a
spree in that city.
The La Crosse Lumber Company has
contracted for 100000 feet of lumber at
the following prices: Culls. eight dollars;
dimensions, ten dollars, and frst-class
lumber, fourteen dollars.
Rev. Father Jutz, of Prairie du Chen.
Crawford County, has been appointed to
an important Indian mission in the distant
Territories.
The lumber cut of Merrill, Lincoln Coun-
ty, and Wausau, Marathon County, this
season will be about 175,0OO,O00 feet.
The Waterman in the Dime Museum at
Milwaukee caused panic a few evenings
ago nv ho11riS hing his ravo1va1- in ATTAIN Yf.