The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-01
wisconsin Items.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. l, 95At096Kc;
No. 2, 9O09O18c; No. 8, nominal; No. 4,
nominal. Corn-No. 2, 5St05sAc. Oats-No.
2, 32632Kc. Rye-No. /, 6006012c. Barley
No. 2 Spring, 5st05SAc.
Kaufman & Bochrach's clothing store at
Eau Claire was destroyed by fire few
afternoons ago. Loss, $4,000.
David Powers, young man aged twenty
five years, was killed almost instantly at
Cameron's logging-camp on the south fork,
of the Eau Claire River few days ago by
alog rolling on him while assisting in load
ing. The remains were taken to Eau Claire
and forwarded to his former home at
Ottawa, Ont, where his parents reside.
The annual meeting of the State Cane
Growers Association will be held in
Madison February 18th next.
The State Board of Supervisors recently
reported the population of the various
State institutions as follows: Northern In
sane Hospital, 615; State Insane Hospital,
500; State Prison, 3S5; Deaf and Dumb In
stitution, 207; Industrial School for Boys.
3O2; Blind Institute, g.
The Milwaukee Cooperative Cigar-Mak.
ers' Company, an outgrowth of the great
strike of 1882, has failed, the stockholders
losing everything they invested.
Kregness & Dahl, clothing merchants of
Eau Claire, closed the other day from at.
tachment in favor of Gerhar5 & Becker, of
Chicago. Liabilities, $500; assets, $4,000.
H. L. Dousman, of Prairie du Chen,
Crawford County, has purchased twenty
three head of trot5ing stock from Kentucky
breeding farmers, consisting of ten year.
lings, ten weanlings, one two-year-old and
two aged mares. Eighteen of them are
Hambletonian sires and three from dams.
Hon Myron H. McCord, of Merrill, Lin
coin County, has received the appointment
of Register Of the Land Office at Wausau,
Marathon County. Mr.. McCord has been
twice elected to the Assembly and once to
the Senate of Wisconsin.
The Board of State University Regents
has ordered all the University buildings,
especially the dormitories and ladies' hall,
to be provided with fire-escapes.
William Macarthur, Of Richmond, Sha.
wano County, recently killed bear which
weighed three hundred pounds when
dressed.
Anton Vogt's furniture store at Manito-
voc, was few days ago destroyed by fire.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 81, 800.
Mrs. Emily S. Smith recently took out
naturalization papers i'll Milwaukee. Mrs.
Smith is native of England, but has re-
sided in this country since 1850. The pres.
ent action is taken to perfect title to.a Da-
kota homesteadaswhich she took up last
year This is said to be the second case of
the kind occurring in Milwaukee within
the past decade.
A few evenings ago Augustus Papenfus
and Carl Platt, on their way home from
the pineries, were walking along together
near Germantown, Juneau County, when
the latter knocked the former senseless
with aclub and then robbed him of what
money he had, about eighteen dollars.
Platt had not been captured.
Anderson, the man who was found under
the haystack at La Crosse, for twenty
three days without food or drink, has had
his right foot amputated and is getting
well.
The officers and employees of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway, in Mil
waukes and along the lines of that road,
have made up the sum of So, 800, which they
presented recently to Fred A. Cornes, the
we'll known conductor, who has been an
invalid for couple of years past, from
sciatic rheumatism.
The cheese factory and creamery of G..
N. Wiswell, at Elkhorn, Walworth County,
was destroyed by fire the other evening.
Loss, $4,000; insured for 81 900.
The State Dairyman's Association at its
recent session in lake Mills, jefferson
County, elected officers as follows: Presi-
dent, W. M. H. Morrison, of Elkhorn;
Vice-P Presidents, all the ex-Presidents !;
Secretary, D. w. Curtis, of Fort Atkinson;
Treasurer, H. K. LOOMS, of Sheboygan
Falls.
William G. Swan, for some years an i'm
portant official of the st. Paul Road, died
in Milwaukee of consumption a few days
ago. A subscription of $4,000 has been
made up for his family.
About nine O'Clock the other night Hem
ry Bauknecht appeared at the jail in Man
itowoc and surrendered himself to the
Sheriff, stating that he had killed his wife.
He was taken into custody and the next
day an inquest was ordered. The husband
when put upon the stand said chat he was
in the act of showing his wife how to ham
die a revolver, when he happened to pull
the trigger while she was looking at the
barrel and the shot occurred which caused
the fatal result. An eight-year-o boy of
Bauknecht, it was said, asserted that his
father and mother had a quarrel after sup
per and before the shooting. A Coroner's
Jury rendered verdict that the death was
caused by the culpahle carlessness of Bauk-
necht.
Mrs. S. M. Paige, widow lady. has sued
the EUening Wisconsin, of Milwaukee, for
$50, 900 damages. The cause is an article
published some months ago in which Mrs
Paige was described as an adventures.
State Senator P. n. Vest, of Plymouth,
died few days ago, of consumption, aged
fifty four years. He was the wealthiest
citizen of Sheboygan County, and was one
of the leading politicians in the State.
A cigar-deaIer of Milwaukee has sued a
druggist for $4,000 damages for giving
him glass of spirits of ammonia instead
of gin.
Assignments were recently made by
Clancy Brothers, dry goods dealers at Eau
Claire, with liabilities of $4,000.
The Chief-of- Police at Milwaukee recent
" received communication from Sacra-
mento, Cal, signed by Fred Higgins, stat
ing that the writer had with him young
boy about eleven years of age, with brown
hair and blue eyes, who claimed to have
come from Milwaukee, having run away
four years ago. No boy Of that age had
disappeared at that time, so far as was
known to the police. 1t was thought that
the lad was perhaps one who ran away
about two years ago, and Of whom nothing
could be learned further than that he went
to Minnesota.