The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-08-29
wisconsin Items.

quotations.: Wheat-No. l, 90t090ac;
No. 2, T7(077hc. Corn-No. 2, 494zG750c.
Oats-No. 3, 36H037c. Rye-No. L, 610
61Hc. Barley-No. 2 Spring, 60060Ac.
An eleven-year-old girl named Mary
Hatch was met while going to school a few
days ago, about mile from the village of
Gliddon, Ashland County, by man who
dragged her into the woods and commit
ted brutal assault, threatening to kill her
if she told. The child went home and told
her parents what had happened, and her
father procured a warrent for the arrest
of James Nagle, who was captured at
Glidden. He was taken to Butternut for
safe-keeping, where the greatest excite
ment prevailed and threats of lynching
were made. The officers took him to Ash
land, and he was brought before Justice
Elsner, where the girl identified him. He
was bound over under 81 900, in defaulto
which he was sent to the county Jail.
The Pittsville Railroad, formerly owned
by George Wills, will soon be extended
through or near Neillsville.
William Kurt and Joseph Keller, farm
ers, living near Fountain City, Buffalo
County, quarreled recently over tres.
pass by Hurts cattle. The latter Dor.
rowed gun of a neighbor, went to Kel-
ler's house and shot him dead. He then
gave himself up. The farmers were much
excited and threatened lynching. Kurt had
been taken to the jail at Al ma.
The Directors of the Bank of Muscoda,
Grant County, have paid fifty per cent. of
the obligations of the institution, and
would in few days pay twenty-five per
cent. more. They will pay every cent due
their patrons.
Families in Evansville, Rock County, to
the number of sixty persons have adopted
a partnership plan of boarding. They take
their meals in common and hire the help
in the same manner, although, of course,
they all dwell in their own houses.
The Appleton Blast-Furnace shut down
the other evening on account of the over
stocked market and the low price of pig
iron. 1t throws about forty five men out
of employment. si2ai s8j
the granite quarries near Wausau,
Marathon County, are being worked by
large force of men. Over $4,000 worth
of material has been sold this season.
The farmers at Blake's Prairie, Grant
County, have long been organized as an
a@.icultural society. Their annual fair
will take place at Bloomington, September
% and "a. 81
The pickle-factory at Palmyra, Jefferson
County, receives three hundred bushels of
cucumbers daily. ~
Peter Foley was arrested at Boscobel the
other night for clipping with Miss Eta
Childs, fourteen years old The next
morning he was found dead in the lookup
with two bullet-holes in his right temple.
He leaves a wife and babe in the town Of
Scott.
The examination in the case Of the State
VS.. Irwin Jackson, for the murder of Will
ard Sherman on the night of the 3D. inst.
by shooting him in the orchard belonging
to the defendants father, near Eau Claire,
was concluded the. other evening, The
counsel for tho defense moved that the
prisoner be released on bail, but the JUS
tiee refused and jackson was remanded to
Jail to await the action of the Circuit Court.
At eleven O'Clock a few mornings ago
the north wall, forty feet long and ten feet
high, of the fire cistern being built in the
Fifth Ward, at GAINESVILLE, fell in, burying
Thomas Mulcavins under the ruins. He
died two hours after being removed. Three
other laborers were also more or less in
jured. fa.t..t.f aaH eE H III
Hubert BrownelI, about eighteen years
old, met freight train recently two miles
from GAINESVILLE, Rock County, at cross
ing on the Northwestern Road, and jumped
on to ride into the city, where he lived.
Before the train stopped he tried to get
off, but was thrown under the cars and
was so badly mangled that he died in three
hours.
Hon. Andrew E. Elmore and Secretary
A. o. Wright, of the State Board of Char
tiles and Reform, have lately inspected
the jail and poor-house of Verona County,
finding the former in good shape and the
latter well managed but poorly construct
Ell. There is in the poor-house a crippled
soldier Of seventy years of age, who re-
ceived his injuries in the army but did not
receive formal discharge because of
them, and therefore can not gain admis-
sion to the Soldiers Home at Milwaukee.
The Madison State Journal says he is only
one of about one hundred similar cases in
the State.
Jesse Bull, who is in jail at Green Bay
waiting trial for burglary, attempted to
break jail few nights ago by prying his
way out through brick wall. Consider.
able work had BEEN done, but it was in a
wrong part Of the jail to permit escape.
Master Dudley Flowers, Miss zslla Mer-
rick and Miss Sybil Moorhouse, of Edge
wood, Oconomowoc County, aged respect.
lively thirteen, ten and eight years, swan
across Lake OconomowocJ recently, from
the north to the south shore, distance
somewhat over mile.
Richard Walker, lone of the oldest and
best-known residents in Waukesha Coun-
ty, died at his home in Waukesha early
the other morning at the advanced age Of
seventy-five years. sen
Lightning struck the house of Ernst
Klingbaum, near Wausau, Marathon
County, few days ago. killing his son
and fatally injuring his daughter.
Al young man named Koonz. nephew OF
George Stoltz, one of the prominent Ger
the other morning by runaway team at
Merton.
The tobacco harvest in Rock County
has commenced. The yield Will be un'
usually large.
William Guerndt and Henry A. Hall ,
| two boys, aged about sixteen years, in
bathing recently in Pipe Lake, two miles
| east of Hartford, Washington County
were drowned. Two little boys, brothers
of the former, were fishing in boat 6
| short distance away and saw them &C
down together. They came up twice ant
then separated, going down for the las
| time.
| Governor Rusk has appointed J. B. Key:
| County Judge of Adams County fer the
term ending in January, 1886, Tice J. B
| Harrison, resigned.