The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-08
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
| quotations: Wheat-No. l, 94HR95Kc;
No. 2, 5000 Kc; No. 8, nominal; No.
nominal. Corn-No. ., 52052Kc. Oats-No.
2, S2t03211c. Rye-No. /, 59636Oc. Barley
NO. 2 Spring, 59659<c.
The trial of Mrs. Ellen Long, charged
with killing, the boy Harvey Whittemore,
has been postponed at hartford, Green
Lake County, until the June term. Mrs.
Long pleaded not guilty.
Paul N. Klose, of Milwaukee, found a
pocket-book few days ago containing
over seven hundred dollars, and was ar
rested for larceny for keeping it, His
counsel took a contrary view, and Judge
Hamilton ordered the jury to bring in a
| verdict of acquittal.
The horses stolen from II. Kemper, of
/ Milwaukee, early last October, were re-
Gently recovered at Chippewa Falls, in
/ possession of man named Dodge, who pur-
chased them shortly after they were stol-
/ en-, giving in payment yoke of cattle and
his promissory note for one hundred dol
+ lars. The thief then started for the piner-
/ les, where he was arrested and taken back
! to Milwaukee in charge of a Deputy Sher-
iff.
J John Reilis, an employee of the Atlas Pa
per Company at Appleton, outagamie
County, was caught in the machinery
the other night, and both arms and legs
| and nearly every bone in his body were
broken. He died almost instantly.
The four-mill of NJ. Reynen and the
saw.mill of j. S. Monroe at De Pere, Brown
County, were destroyed by fire few days
/ ago. The fire was supposed to have its
origin from a hot bearing in the four-mill.
Loss on flour-mill, $4,000; insurance, ST.
900. The saw-mill was valued at $1,000;
no insurance.
A young man employed in music store
in Milwaukee was arrested the other even
ing at the opera-house for attempting to
pass himself off as a detective. He, it
seems, in common with numerous others
in the city, holds certificate of member
ship in an alleged Chicago Detective As
ISOLATION, which certificates are issued on
payment of $780, The originators of the
scheme, it was asserted by the police, had
roped in a number of boys and young men
at Milwaukee, who were made to believe
that they were members of bona-fide as
ISOLATION.
David Powers was killed by log in
camp on the Eau Claire River few days
ago.
A Mr.. Williams, of Grant, Clark County,
was one hundred years old few days ago.
The Manitowoc sensational breach-of-
promise suit of Mary Halloran against
John J. Lyons was settled the other day
by the marriage of the parties. The case
was called and the courtroom was crowd
ed by morbid listeners. Counsel stated
that negotiations for settlement were in
progress and Judge ellison decided to
wait. At two o'clock the parties an
nounced that settlement had been
reached, and the Judge tied the nuptiaI
knot The case attracted widespread at
tention, owing to the responsibility and
prominence of the families of both par
ties.
A Swede by the name of John Carlson,
who had a contract in Collander g. Peter
sons sand-cut on the Northern Pacific Rail-
road, about twenty-five miles from Ash
land, Ashland County, was instantly killed
by the caving in of the cut the other day,
which completely buried him.
A team from Croft, Murray & Robbins
camp at Siskiwit Bay recently brought to
Bayfield,, Bayfield, County, the corpse of a
young man named John Savage, who was
struck in the head by falling tree, from
the effects of which he died on the road to
Bayfield, for medical treatment. The de-
ceased was native of England, and was
twenty-six years of age.
John Riley, brakeman in the employ
of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Railway Company, caught his foot in a
frog at Wausau, Marathon County, the
other morning, and was injured so he died
in few hours. He was thirty-eight years
old and unmarried.
Pole named Kapesk, twenty-six years
old, committed suicide at Milwaukee re-
Gently by shooting himself through the
head. His clothing caught fire from the
revolver, and he was almost incinerated,
one hand being burned off.
John Malloy & Bros, an old dry-goods
firm at Watertown, jefferson County, as
signed the other day with liabilities and
assets about even.
On request of the Sheriff, small force
of policemen was a few evenings ago
sent out to the town of Williamsburg,
north of Milwaukee, to quell an al
legged riot. On arriving at the place
it was found that hostilities had sub
sided. The trouble arose out of an attach
ment issued against small grocer named
Wohr, at the instance of John r. Robin
son, for debt of $134. A flaw was discov-
cred in the papers, and the. two Deputy
Sherifss were themselves arrested, amid
great excitement. Word was sent to the
city, and in response another officer Of the
Sheriff's force, accompanied by a squad of
police, went out and released the two un-
fortunate officers and secured the goods, all
resistance being quelled by the presence of
the police.
Articles of ass ciation were fled in the
State House few days ago of the Madi-
son Street Railway Company, with a CAPT
tai stock of $4,000.
Among the new Western books soon to be
published is the ''Poets of Wisconsin" by
the poet sisters, Medora Clark sand Julia
Clark Chase. There are about forty liter
airy people of note who have lived or are
living in Wisconsin, and the purpose is to
present in the new book sketches of the ca
reers and samples Of the work Of all the
poets on whom Wisconsin has claim.
C. F. zautner, City Marshal of Water
town, Jefferson County, was acquitted re-
, Gently of the charge Of advising and pro-
curing two tramps to commit the crime Of
larceny.
Peter McGeoch, of Milwaukee, in a re-
cent answer to the complaint of Daniel
Wells, Jr., showed four causes of action
and made a demand for 81, 100000.
Henry C. Paine has been nominated as
postmaster at Milwaukee; Frank L. Dar-
ling at Blue River, Grant County; John C.
Bradley at Peterborough, Grant County,
and James J. Schwerdt at Jamestown,
Grant County.
, Francois Gorkey, one.hundI sd-and-
. two-year-old individual, was the leading
spirit in recent ball at Rudolph, Wood
County.
Muskrats have recently killed several