The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-05-30
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations.: Wheat-No. 1, 95lG95Kc;
No. 9, 92G92Ac Corn-No. ., 55G56c.
Oats-No. 3, S5HG8S6c. Rye-No. 1, 65A6
Gee. Barley-No. Spring, 69(969Hc.
Richard Dawns, young man working
in ths State Lumber Company's mill at
Thorpe, Clark County, was struck by a
belt recently and fatally injured. He
lived sixteen hours in an unconscious
state.
The friends and relatives of the late
John Freelove, of Summit, Waukesha
County, are sorely perplexed by the dis
appearance ofnearly one thousand dollars
in money and securities it was known he
had in his keeping. The supposition was
that he secreted the money and died too
suddenly to reveal its whereabouts.
Peter Wade and John Murray had row
over the price of glass of beer at the Will
age of Washburn, Grant County, the other
night, and Wade drew revolver and shot
Murray dead. Wade fed, but surrendered
himself to the police at Ashland.
The application of the town of Butter
nut, Ashland County, for loan of $1,000
for school building purposes, has been
granted by the Commissioners of Public
Lands.
Conductor Timme, of a freight train on
the Omaha Road, met with fatal acci-
dent at Fall Greek Station, Eau Claire
County, the other night by falling under
the wheels. He was attending to coupling
cars. He resided in Altoona, three miles
east of there, and leaves wife.
Boynton, of Milwaukee, who is digging
for diamonds near Waukesha, is said to
have found two in the gravel strata few
days ago. Such crowds had been attract
ed to the spot that he had been compelled
to build high fence around the entire
claim to keep them away.
George Pattee died in the hospital al
Eau Claire recently from the effects o,
injuries received in mill of the Valley
Lumber Company. HIS home was at Elk
Rapids, D. 7.
1t costs dollar in Milwaukee to say
that man is personally very fine fell
low, but politically scoundrel." The
rate was fixed by Justice in a recent
SANDER suit.
Thomas H. Austin, of JohnStown, Rock
County, recently sold herd of seventy
five fat beeves for $7,031.25, or O. cents a
pound.
John r. Schwartz, of the merchandising
firm of Schwartz & Son, of Watertown,
Jefferson County, was seen struggling in
the river partly undressed and crying for
help a few evenings ago. No assistance
could be rendered, and he was carried
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opinion that while laboring under an abb
erration of mind he went into the water.
A Sverdict of accidental drowning was,
rendered. The deceased was thirty-eight
years old and had lived in Watertown.
since a child. He leaves a wife aud three
| children.
The Appleton (Outagamie County, fire
companies have disbanded, and the council
would appoint paid department.
The st. Croix Land g. Lumber Company,
whose interests at Wildwood are in the
hands of a receiver, owing to the failure of
Senator Sabin, has incurred liabilities
ranging up to within 100000 of their as
sets of 100000. The company own TWEEN
| ty thousand acres of hard wood lands and
large milling property.
A man by the name of Ole Johnson was
arrested the other day and lodged in Jail
at Chippewa Falls, Chippewa County, for
the killing of Louis Diamond. johnson,
in st of anger, threw a stone, hitting
Diamond on the head, killing him in
stantly Johnson waived examination be-
fore the municipal Judge, and will be tried
at this term of court.
The burned district in Albany, Greene
County, will be rebuilt this season. A COM
pany have commenced the manufacture of
brick within half mile of the post-office.
J. Il. Atkinson, young man well CON-
nected and married but i've weeks, was ar
rested at Milwaukee a few days ago for
forgery. He was employed as soliciting
agent by DIR. Dart, dentist He turned
in great many orders, for which he re-
ceived his commission, but which now
turn out to be forged. A few months ago
Atkinson found himself in similar pre-
dicament. The charge against him then
was forgery, but he escaped punishment
through failure to prosecute on the part
of his employer.
Mrs. Fl. w. Whitney, of Monroe, Greene
County, is one of the number of ladies
who made 1000 subscriptions for the en-
dowment of the Hubbard University mt
Galesville, Ill.
DIR. S. A. Hubbell, son of Judge Hubbell,
of Milwaukee, being threatened with death
by Postmas.e r Keeler, of Medford, Taylor
County, for improper association with his
wife, shot and killed himself in Medford
the other night. The woman's confession
to her husband led to the suicide.
Milwaukee is to have its big musical
festival on the 18th and l4th of June.
James Gilmore, ex-Mayor of Appleton,
outagamie County, died in that city re-
Gently, aged sixty-eight. The deceased
was the first President of the Appleton &
Northern Railway, now part of the Mil
waukee, Lake Shore & Western Road.
Burglars busted themselves at Hebron,
Jefferson County, the other night. The
store of w. b. Lewis was robbed of one
hundred and fifty dollars worth of goods
and the post-ofice of collection of old
coins and a small amount of money.
The body of young Savage, who was
drowned at Chippewa Falls on May 6, was
found floating in the Dells Dam at Eau
/ Claire the other day.
Philip Reed, Of Lancaster, Grant County,
while in Virginia. last year obtained a
number of silk-worm eggs, which he has
kept during the winter, and few days
ago Matched out about a hundred of them.
The worms are very small, and do not
seem TO thrive very well on their diet of
lettuce leaves.
A brush fire that Mr.. Hoffman set re-
Gently near his new house in Flintville,
Brown County, destroyed The new building
and swept large area of his woodland.
A few days ago the widow of Joe Pei
Iegore, an Indian more generally known
as "By-jingo-Joe," made death-bed con-
fession that her husband burned the Irish
Catholic Church in Depere, Brown Coun-
ty, eighteen years ago.
August Pfugholtz plowed up twenty
pound lump of float copper on his farm in
the town of Ahnapee, Kewaunee County,
the other day.
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