The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-19
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS


H. B. Wheeler was found dead on tbs
street at Green Bay few evenings ago,
near the residence of his son, Attorney +.
r. Wheelers with whom he resided. He
was on his way heue from the County
Fair, and his death was Supposed to.have
been from paralysis. He was seventy tive
years old.
William s. Lingle. editor of the Lafay
cite Ind.l EUening Courier and post.
master of that city, died suddenly the 9th
or afternoon at Waukesha of affection of
the heart. He was fifty-one years old, and
beside being prominent as an editor was
successful in business. he left Lafayette
the day previous in good health and died
without 8 moments Illness. The post
mortem showed his aifnfent 10 have been
fatty degeneration of the heart.
The Wisconsin Railway Company Is
putting down iron in Dunn County at the
rate OF tive miles a day. They have
passed through the town of Tiffany, and
have completed the switch TASKS at Carl
ton and Barker Stations.
Will Brooks, of GAINESVILLE, was found
dead the other morning at the Taylor
House, at Clinton Junction. case of sui
citss The cause of the act was not known.
The revised assessment rolls show the
real estate of Milwaukee to be valued at
$33, 737, 13), improvements $24, 500, 645, and
personal property $l6,9l4,975. The valua-
ton for 1888 was $40, 1902, showing an
increase of s, 1854, 24S.
United States Senator Sawyer has pre-
scented the Congregational Church at Hay
wardi the county seat of Sawyer County,
with handsome clock and bell costing
$500!
Mrs. Olsen, of Fort Howard, Brown
County, sold her furniture recently for
four hundred dollars and started for Chi
cago. She was arrested in Milwaukee On
telegram from her husband.
It is said that horse belonging to
man named Ricketson, in Milwaukee,
drinks beer and whisky and chews to-
bacco.
tits said that there are eighty homes in-
La Crosse where neither Bible nor Testa-
ment can be found.
Mrs. Frank Arbuekle, formerly Miss
Gilbert, of Plattville, Grant County, COM
mitted suicide at Sutherland few days
ago; Her husband was killed by lightning
on the 10th of July, and since then she had
found it hard to support herself and three
children.
Governor Rusk has commissioned Will
lam A. Henry, Professor of Agriculture in
the State University, to visit places in
Illinois where pleuro-pneumonia is said to
exist, and ascertain if any stock infected
with the disease has been shipped into
Wisconsin.
George Paterson, aged twenty-five, .,
Milwaukee carpenter, shot and killed him.
self the other night in fit of dependency.
o. H. P. Clarne, one of the Oldest resi-
dents of Greene County, died at his home
near Monroe at seven O'Clock the other
morning, of paralysis. When Mr.. Clarne
first settled in Greene County there were
but four or five families there. He was a
man over sixty years of age.
Hundreds of odd people were recently
pouring into the cranberry marshes near
Berlin, Green Lake County, for hire as
pickers. Among them were a band of
full-blooded Gypsies, and a number of In
dians. The Carey Brothers had made am
pie preparations to shelter eight hundred
pickers in their thirteen houses. The in
dications were that the cranberry crop of
the season would not be a large one.
The aggregate earnings of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway system for
the last week in August were 1923, 900,
against $4,000 for the corresponding
period in 1888. The aggregate earnings
for the mon h of August were 81, 1925, 600
against s., 5000 for the same month last
year.
Miss Eva Van Alstine was attacked by
a tramp at her residence in Oconomowoc
| late the other afternoon. The lady was
alone in the house at the time. A des-
perate struggle ensued, resulting in the
lady freeing herself from the scoundrels
grasp, her clothing being torn to shreds.
| She succeeded in securing possession of a
revolver and attempted to shoot the fell
low. The weapon failed to discharge, and
the tramp becoming badly frightened
made his escape. An alarm was given
but the tramp eluded capture.
The report of Grand Secretary B. F. Par
ker, of the Independent Order of Good
Templars, shows membership in the
State of 14,311, with 3G6 lodges. The order
had a cash balance on hand of $556,02.
| Near Hudson, st. Croix County, half q
| dozen houses were 1eveled by recent cy-
| clone, and horses and cattle were blown
| against the barb-wire fences and badly
lacerated. At Grant twenty-five house,
were demolished, and in the Hudson
| Prairie District six dwellings were torn tc
| pieces, and one person killed. The loss in
| crops, barns and outhouses was very
| neavy.
Union Center, Juneau County, lost its
| largest warehouse by fire the other night
1t was owned by c. c. Eagle. Loss, 81,
| 900. The fire was supposed to have beer
of incendiary origin.
The tobacco harvest is now almost I'm
ished throughout the entire tobacco-grow
ing belt in the State, and better crop, OF
one freer from spot or blemish, never
won't into the sheds.
Between six and seven o'clock the Other
evening the rain fall at La Crosse was five
and a quarter inches, the highest RECORD
ever made by over half an inch. During
the storm large unoccupied barn belong
ing to B. B. Healy, valued at $1,000, wa,
destroyed by lightning A good deal o.
damage was also done by flooded cellars
| A washout was reported at Wincna Juuc
ton, five miles from La Crosse, delaying
the trains.
just before the audience gathered in tn
| Congregational Church at Oconomowo
the other night gas-machine exploded
severely lnjuring two men and damaging
the structure to the extent of $500.
William Ruoff, book-bihder, twenty
seven years old, living at Milwaukee, sho
him self dead few days ago. The caus
was unknown.
Roethinger's brewery at GAINESVILLE wa
destroyed by fire the other afternoon
with all It's contents. Loss, $4,000; no in
surance. The cause of the fire was un
| known.
The fisheries at Bayfield, ship about 30,
900 barrels annually. The industry busie
about $50 hands.
An order has been issued from the L
Crosse Probate Court to executors Of tn
will of the late Governor WashburT