The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-10-10
Wisconsin Items.

Inc following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations; Wheat - No. /, 94G095c;
Ne. 2, 7TM7116c. Corn--No. 2, 461lCa47c.
0ats-No. ., 2Sc. Rye-No 1, 53(054c.
Barley-No. ? Spring, 581&c.
Mrs. Stage, Of Fort Atkinson, Jeffer-
son County, confessed in court few days
ag that she purchased the poison three
years ago with which she and her hus-
5a4t killed their child. They were sem
nceA 10 Imprisonment for life.
Matt Hobo, Of Marshfield, Wood Coun-
ty, niue years Of age, shot several fingers
from the hand of younger sister recent
~. He told the little one that the gun
was not loaded and asked her to place her
hand over the muzz!e.
S. B. Boynton and G. w. Boyntoa. of
The Eagle Diamond Mining Company, were
made defendants iii the Circuit Court at
Milwaukee a few days ago III an action
brought by Clarssa L. Wood, who suss
10 recover diamond valued at $50, 900.
The Boyntons are jewellers of that city,
and are the parties who discovered the
Eagle diamond mines, located in Wauke-
sha County. The complainant alleged that
on March 10, 1884, she was the owner of
an uncut diamond valued at $4,000, which
the defe1d ants had unlawfully detained.
She seeks the return of the Stone or it's
equivalent in cash, and 500 damages adj :
ditional. The stone is the first one discov-
cred at Ea lie, and led to the mining ope-
rationS there. The defendants claimed
that they bought the stone for one dollar,
and did not until afterward discover that
it was diamond.
The new Catholic Indian School building
at Keshena, Shawano County, is now oc-
cupied. There are one hundred and five pu-
pills in regular attendance, the majority of
whom are girls. The education of one
hundred is paid for by the Government.
The girls and smaller boys are taught by
the Sisters, and the older boys by lay
brother. Six Sisters and a young lady
are now engaged in.the work.
The Indian mounds on the farm of Mr..
Gee, near New Lisbon, Juneau County,
are being explored by Messrs. Weed
Anderle and Hinton. The elevations out
line an animal and are known to experts
as panther mounds.n They are COM
posed of clay and sand, and from the
brick-lilze hardness of the surface it is sup
posed that the builders completed their
work by planting large fires upon them.
In the center of one of the mounds a skull
and the bones of a leg and arm were
found, a fracture in the skull giving evil
dence of violent death. Judging by the
size of the trees on the mound the burial
took place over one hundred years ago.
B. Q. Hutchinson, one of the best known
men in Wisconsin, died at San Francisco a
few days ago. He caused the great wheat
riot of 1859, that was only quellad when
the militia were called out
Ira C. Crandall, of Milton Junction,
Rock County, killed two white pelicans of
enormous size while hunting at Lake
Koshkoning, recently. One measured
eight feet from tip to tip of its wings and
had bill fully fifteen inches long.
William Kluge, a Milwaukee cabinet
maker, assaulted his wife with an ak few
lays ago while intoxicated, and fatally in
jured her. Her skull was twice fractured
and two ribs were broken. The next day
Kluge committed suicide by throwing
himself under train of cars.
A heavy and sudden rise in the Eat
Claire River few days ago swept away a
large part of the Eau Claire Lumber Com
pany's Golfer and main dam. The damage
was not less than 81, 200. Cribs of lumber
foated down the river, the greater portion
of which were lost.
Frank Brown, a Chicago pickpocket, was
sentenced to two years imprisonment in
Madison few days ago.
On the Milwaukee track a few days ago,
with stiff, cool breeze, Richball paced a
nile in 2:13.1. johnson made the circuit
in 2:10, and Minnie R., with running mate,
astonished the spectators with record of
PEST
William Miller is undoubtedly the rich
est farmer in the State. He is worth about
$1,000, 900, and has made it all by homes
toll on his farm in the town of Green
Lake, Green Lake County, and by safe
and remuneradye investment Of his saw.
ings- He sill lives on his farm, as happy
as a Io-d.