The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-02-29
wisconsin Items.

59c. Barley-No. ? Spring, 574&(G5Sc.
1t is expected that the cut of logs on tina
Wisconsin River this year will amount to
500, 900, 600 feet.
The Fire Department at Eau Claire is to
be supplied with another team, one thou.
sand feet of hose, and the compensation
of the members is to be increased four dol
lars per month additional to the amount
they now receive.
The Republicans of the Eighth Judicial
District, comprising the Counties of Eau
Claire, Dunn, Pepin, ST. Croix and Buffalo
have called a convention, to be held at
Durand on the 2Sth inst, for the purpose
of placing in nomination a Circuit Judge.
The elevator located opposite the Omaha
freight depot at Eau Claire, and formerly
owned by Thomas E. Randall, has been
purchased by the Eau Claire Lumber Com
pany, and is being converted into feed
mill and grain storage.
William Dobratz, livingnear Milwaukee,
stabbed himself with a pocket-knife the
other afternoon. He fingered several hours
in great agony, and then expired. No
cause was assigned for the act, except de-
spondency. Dobratz was a well-to-do
milkman. He leaves a wife and four chill
dren.
The State Fair Locating Committee of
the State Agricultural Society will meet at
Madison on the 10Th inst. to receive prop
ositions from cities in the State DESTROYS
of securing the annual exhibition.
Rev. A. A. Hoskin, of Milwaukee, COM
planned to the postmaster the other day
that he had received several indecent let
ters written in disguised hand.
President Colby, of the Wisconsin Cen
trail Railroad, has raised $2,5O0,OOO for the
building of line between Chippewa Falls
and ST. Paul, Mimi, one hundred and four
miles.
Charles Erbse, Milwaukee photographer,
dropped dead in the street the other even
ing.
The matter of buildinga road from Chip.
pewa Falls to St. Paul, Mimi, which for
some time has been under consideration
by the Wisconsin Central people, has been
definitely settled and the road is to be a
reality. The extension will be about one
hundred miles in length, and will cross
the Mississippi River near Saltwater,
MINI.
The question of building a dam across
the Wolf River at Shawano, Shawano
County, and utilizing its vast water power
for manufacturing purposes, by system
of canals similar to those at Appleton and
other points on the Fox, is being earnestly
considered by many of the foremost bust
ness men of that place.
Father McGill, in officiating at Milwau-
kee recently at the funeral of Bridget
Eagan, who was killed by her lover,
Starnold, said irreligious public schools
tended to increase immortality, and the
fate of the victim was warning to Catho-
lie girls against mixed marriages.
The cut of logs on the Nemadji River in
1884 will, it is said, be 100000 feet. A
dispatch from Eau Claire says: "Moder-
ate weather has placed the roads to the
pineries in excellent condition again, and
supplies for the drives are being forward
ed in large quantities. Work is booming
in TIE woods and every unemployed man
can readily obtain work at remunerative
wages"
Wood County a Judgment for $4,000 was
rendered against w. H. Upham, of Marsh
field. The suit was the result of an option
deal. Upham, after suit had been brought,
bought the option, allowed the parties to
take Judgment, then sold the option, clear
ing $4,000.
Viroqua, Vernon County, will rebuild
her school building lately destroyed by
fire. At meeting held few days ago
resolution to build high-school building
and appropriate $8,916 for that purpose,
was carried by vote of 129 to As.
August Tietgen, six feet tall and weigh
ing five hundred pounds, died at Manito-
voc few days ago. He was long sought
by showmen, but had horror of exhibit
ing himself, and never went on the road.
He left property worth about $4,000.
The hardware house established in MIL
waukee in 1910 by Clarence Shepard & Co.
made an assignment the other day to
George Tracy. The liabilities were $780,
600 and assets $4,000.
A shocking accident occurred in the town
of Berlin, Marathon County, few days
ago. A man by the name of Carl Porath,
a well-digger, was engaged in blasting a
well for a farmer named Schmidt, and was
using dynamite as an explosive. As he
was about to place the cartridge in posi-
ton and was handling il with the greatest
care, it exploded, tearing off his left arm,
binding both of his eyes and disfguring
him beyond recognition. His recovery
was considered impossible.
James Allwen had his leg broken and
terribly crushed in HogeIs camp, near
Marshfield, Wood County, a few days ago
by rolling log.
The Stewart house and several stores at
Palmyra, jefferson County, were burned
the other day, causing loss of $4,000.
The foundry and machine-shop of Ball
Brothers, at Madison, were almost totally
destroyed by fire the other night. The
flames broke out over the boiler-rooms,
and, spreading rapidly in the upper story,
destroyed all the patterns. The loss was
$751; 600.
The new mill of the Fox River Flour 8
Paper Company, at Appleton, Outagamie
County, started up.
Mrs. W. d. johnson, of the town of
Union, aupaca county, was recently SO
badly injured by falling on a stove during
an elliptic fit that her life was despaired
of.
At Milwaukee few DAYS ago husband
and wife died under singular circum-
stances. Mrs. F. C. Bradley became
alarmingly i'll. Her husband left the room
for assistance. When he returned and saw
her lifelesg corpse he fell dead by her side.
Heart-disease caused death in both cases.
Mr. Bradley was about sixty-fve years Of
age.