The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-01-04
Wisconsin Items.

WISCONSIN AC0mSs
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations.; Wheat-No. 1, 97097Hc; No.
2, 95G0951c; No. 8, nominal; No. 4, nomi-
nal. Corn-No. 2, 6o061c. Oats-No. 9, 336
33kc. Rye-No.1, 61(062c. Barley-No. 2
Spring, 60AG061c.
The Chippewa & Menomonee River
Logging and Railroad Company have
completed laying six miles of rail this
fall. This makes twelve miles of road
which the company has. The rail for the
asst six miles was hauled by wagons for a
distance of oyer twenty miles.
Mr.. W. B. Goldberg, father of Mile.
Amelie Goldberg Brilliant, the prima
donna who is meeting with such success in
Europe, has purchased a site for resi-
dence in Milwaukee, and will make that
city his home. His daughter, who is now
twenty-three years of age, will soon re-
turn to this country and sing probably I'M.
der her fathers management
United States Marshal Oakley arrested
George S. Sickle, of Madison the other
afternoon, charged with using the mails to
defraud the public. Sickle, it was al
legged, operated under five distinct titles,
viz: United States Importing Company
Union Manufacturing Company, Ameri-
can Tea Company, United States Tea Com
pany and Union Tea Company. 1t was
also said that he offered to give fifty dol
lars month to agents, but that they were
obliged to send fifteen cents for an ''out-
fit." Sickle received over three hundred
letters on the day he was arrested. This
was said to be his third arrest.
Postmasters confirmed few days ago:
Sidney E. Tubb, Superior, Douglas Coun-
ty; Lars L. Gunderson, Cumberland, Bar
ron County. The post Office at Bateman,
Chippewa County, has been discontinued,
mail to Cadott.
Within few days Judge MSalory, of
Milwaukee, has sentenced total of eighty
tramps to ninety days imprisonment in
the House of Correction, the first ten days
to be in solitary confinement
Arrangements have been commenced at
Milwaukee for reception to Archbishop
Heiss on his return from Rome about the
middle of February. The reception will be
an imposing one.
The damage caused by the fall of a large
chimney on the State University Building
at Madison has been fully repaired. The
expense was $642.
At an Episcopal Church fair, held recent.
ly in Eau Claire, twenty-five dollar mir
ror brought $75O.60. Three popular misses,
Nellie Smith, Lizzie Clark and la OAR
win, ran for the article at ten cents per
vote. Miss Clark won by three hundred
votes.
Joseph Thatcher, well-known young
resident Of Madison, attempted to kill him
self at Dixon, ILL.,, few days ago by throw
ing himself under train. A careful, quick
engineer alone saved him.
The semi-centennial of the organization
of heMethodist Episcopal Church at Platt-
vile, Grant County, was celebrated few
days ago with notable services, in which
several prominent divines took part.
An unknown man, about sixty years of
age, committed suicide the other night in
the outskirts of Lacrosse by hanging. He
was German. An account book in his
possession bore the name of c. Miller.
Wisconsin is getting along so well finan.
ciany that Governor Rusk thinks it will
not be necessary to levy general State
tax for the next two years, or probably
ever again, unless there should be bad
management.
A Luilding at Marinette, owned by 10.
seph Bernard, of Buck ngham, Canada, and
occupiel by George spaughton as a sa-
loon, was burned the other night. An old
man named William Dutton peri she'd in the
flames. He leaves wife and six children.
Property lost, $1,000; insurance, 500.
A L. Tubbs, of Cold Spring, jefferson
County, has hen turkey twelve years old
that has brought him 1925 cash for the
twelve broods of young turkeys which she
has raised.
Arthur G. Middleton, aged twenty-seven,
O distributing clerk in the Milwaukee Post
Office, recently confessed to robbing the
mails, and was held in 81 900 pail.
Mr.. L. B. Benton, the Milwaukee type
founder, has been granted patent on
self-spacing" type, which it is claimed
will 'revolutionize" the type-setting busi-
ness.
The Lafayette Touring mill and ware
house at Chippewa Falls, Chippewa Coun-
ty, were burned recently. Loss, $35, 900.
William Fl. johnson. book-keeper for
George Hiltes, of Dexterville, Wood Coun-
ty, attempted suicide the other afternoon
by shooting himself with thirty eight
caliber revolver at the Central House. The
ball entered above the heart and was ex-
tracted under the left shoulder. He could
not recover. Many rulnors were rife as to
the cause.
The earnings of the Milwaukee & st.
Paul Road for the second week in Dscem-
Der were SOL, 900, against $434, 900 for the
same week last year, an increase of ST..
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