The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-07
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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Milwaukee horses are said to be troubled
with CHAMBERS.
Durand, Pepin County, is to have new
bank, with a capital of S2j,0 900.
Society circles were "all torn up" over
a sensational incident at the wedding of
Hiram D. Murdoch and Allie B. Child at
GAINESVILLE, Rock County, few evenings
ago. During the progress of the festivities
the startling discovery was made that one
of the presents, consisting of fifty dollars
in gold, which had been given by the
groom'S uncle, was missing. Great con-
sternation prevailed among the guests
eighty in number. Finally, to relieve the
endorsement, it was decided TO make a
search Of the guests, which was according
ly done. The money was not recovered.
The George w. Lamb Mercantile Com
pany's dry-goods establishment at Green
Bay, Brown County, was damaged by fire
the other night to the extent of $4,000.
The insurance was over $4,000. The ORR
gin of the fire was unknown.
At five O'Clock few mornings ago an
| engine on the Northwestern Railway ran
into an open bridge in the southern part of
Milwaukee, and plunged through the ice
into the river. The fireman and engineer
| jumped and were fished out, but had mi
raculous escape. The engine was badly
wrecked and lay in the bottom of the river.
Mrs. Margaret Schmidt, of Kaukauna,
Outagamie County, German woman,
! aged seventy'six years, was burned to
death the other morniI about six o'clock,
| her clothes catching fire from stove. Her
son, J. j. Schmidt, had his hands badly
burned trying to extinguish the flames.
Carl Porath, well-digger, was handling
some dynamite the other day in the town
of Berlin, Green Lake County, when it ex.
| ploded, tearing off his left arm, binding
both of his eyes and disfguring him be-
yond recognition. He died soon after.
ward.
Peter Connolly, of Milwaukee, aged six
| ty-five years, was killed few nights ago
while in a drunken quarrel with his wife.
| The section men on the Wisconsin Cen
| trail Railroad at Spencer, Marathon Coun.
ty, all struck recently, the cause being a
reduction of five cents per day in wages
by the company. At last accounts no new
men could be secured. The men announced
their intention to stand out to the last, this
| being the third reduction in wages during
| one year.
| Charles G. Copeland, a Milwaukee
saloon-keeper, recently refused to return
to John Simpson, aged nineteen, a parrot
which the latter had left in the saloon, un.
til whisky bill was liquidated, where
upon Sampson and two other youths pro-
cured the prosecution of Copeland for sell
ing intoxicants to minors.
A. D. Ellsworth, aged fifty-five, prom.
inent resident of Wautoma, Waushara
County, committed suicide at Appleton
| the other day by taking morphine. He left
"a note saying financial troubles caused the
! deed.
! The trigger-shooting match between the
Eau Claire, Milwaukee, and Minneapolis
! (Minn.) Rife Clubs took place at their re-
| spective ranges the other afternoon, re-
| sulting in a victory for the Eau Claire
| Club. Considerable money in the three
cities changed hands on the result. The
! distance was two hundred yards, off-hand.
| The score stood: Eau Claire, 672; Mil
waukee, 624; Minneapolis, 621. This was
| out of a possible TO.
A petition addressed to District-A Attorney
! Clarke has received many signatures ask.
ing that proceedings against Bonnie West,
| one of the four boys arrested some time
ago for incendiarism, be sus ended. The
boy is the son of General West, one of the
best-known citizens and ex-soldiers of
Milwaukee, and the petition sets forth that
he was simply present when one of the
fires was started, and that he is in poor
health and of feeble constitution.
The body of man horribly maugled was
! found upon the track Of the st. Paul Road
| at Brookfeld Junction, Waukesha County,
| the other morning. An examination dis
closed that he was from Chicago, and by
| papers found upon his person it was ascer-
| tanned that he had charted car for a point
| in Dakota. In the car were three horses,
two cows, reaper, and other articles. He
had evidently fallen under the train while
! passing from one car to another. The
/ body would be sent to Chicago.
A benefit concert held at Madison the
other night at the opera-house nette1 1878
| for the food sufferers at Newport, KY.
while benefit at the skating-rink added
| SIS to the sum.
The following letter was received few
days ago in reply to the resolutions sent
to Mrs. Wendell Phillips by the Irish resi-.
| dents of Milwaukee on the death of her
| husband:
Boston, Mass. Feb. %, 1sS4.-John A. Wall,
| Esq.-Dear Sir: am requested by Mrs. Wen
| dell Phillips to express to you and your asso-
faft ofIyfa 4
| very kind feeling and expressive tribute to
| the memory of her honored husband which
| you have been moved to send to her, and
| which she deeply appreciates: Yours, very
! truly, FRANCIS }. GARRISON.
The writer is a son of William Lloyd
Garrison, the famous Abolitionist.
Mrs. Shanks, wealthy widow, begun
suit in the United States Court at Mil
waukee a few days ago against Marshall
| Field g. Co., of Chicago and one of their
| clerks, claiming damages in $4,000 for an
alleged disgraceful scene in their Chicago
store, fifty-cent piece which Mrs. Shanks
| received at one counter being rejected and
declared coun erfeit by another clerk.
Albert Fl. Hill, a carpenter, who up TO
about two years ago resided at Marinette,
Marinette County, was murdered at New
Orleans few days ago by man named
Knight. Mr.. Hill was member in good
standing of the Ancient Order of United
Workmen of Marinette, and was insured
therein for 1000, which amount would be
paid over to his widow.
At GAINESVILLE, Rock County, pan of hot
water fell on and scalded to death three
year-old daughter of Patrick McShane
few days ago.
Great excitement prevails at the village
of Eagle, WaUkesha County, over the al
legged discovery of a valuable diamond. A
woman found a stone few days ago, and
sold it to Boynton, Milwaukee jeweler,
for one dollar. 1t turns out to be an eight
hundred dollar, sixteen-carat, pure-water
diamond. The village is all torn up over
the matter, and land is sold at fabulous
prices.
The store of Nelson & johnson, grocers,
at Ashland, Ashland County, has been
closed by the Sheriff.
A citizen of Dakota has taken possession
Of the valuahla homestead Dre-em11ted bxy