The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-06-20
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. l, 95G951Ec;
No. >, S7tGS7&c. Corn-No. ., 55056c.
Oats--No. ,, 3IK6S2e. Rye-No. 1, ga
exc. Barley-No. ? Spring, 59'a6Oc.
Two children in Milwaukee. in endeav-
oring the other day to hide from their
playmates, sprang into chest with
spring ock. Before their place of conceal
ment Wa discovered one had died, and the
other was saved only after the greatest ex-
ertion.
Near Pleasant Ridge, Green County, a
boy named Edward Selves chased bear
with an ak few days ago. The animal
retired in good order until he had lured
his enemy to a suitable place, and then
fell upon him, tooth and nail, and was
tearing the shirt from his intended BAN
| quet, when the boys dog arrived, and the
bear was eventually laid low.
Mrs. Ellen Long pleaded guilty the other
| day at hartford, Green Lake County, of
the murder of the boy Harry Whittemore,
aged eleven years, and was sentenced to
life Imprisonment. Mrs. Long is thirty
five years old, good-looking, and a daugb-
| ter of Judge A. H. Myers, one of the most
prominent men in the interior of the State.
The body of c. A. McGiver was recently
fished out of the Feaver River, near
Leakez's dam, in Grant County. MeGiver
left home on the 2Sth of May in search of
employment. As he was greatly discour-
aged at the time, it was supposed that he
committed suicide. He left family of
wife and eight children to battle for them
| selves.
Henry Strong, President of the now de-
funct Strong's Bank at Green Bay, Brown
County. recently wrote to some friends in
| that city from Montreal, saying that he
lost the banks money in speculations in
wheat, pork and stocks. lie borrowed the
money from the bank on various securi-
ties and on the notes of his brother. No
other person, he said, was concerned with
| him in the steal.
Ths Ryder Brothers, of Otter Creek, Eau
Claire County, lost fine span of horses
and a lot of farm machinery by the burn
| ing of their barn few days ago. The loss
was about 81, 100 above insurance for $780,
Charles Dellsr, farmer, of Manitowoc
| County, while riding in wagon with five
companions a few days ago was struck by
lightning and killed. The others escaped.
wheat statistician of Milwaukee esti-
mates the spring crop at 141, 900 coo BUSH
els, and the Writer yield at $4,000, 900.
At noon the other day the extensive
planning mill situated at Kelly, Marathon
! County, on the Lake Shore Road, was COM
pletely destroyed by fire, which originated
in the engiue-room from sparks in shay
ings. 1t was the property of the T. N.
Kelly estate. Loss, $4,000; insurance,
$1,000.
A watch nearly two hundred years old
was found ON the body of an unknown
man, killed by train recently at Milwau-
kee. The time-piece was from the manu-
factory of one Benna Hoebela, Nueren-
berg, Bavaria. The number was 562. The
watch had tortoise shell back lined with
silver. 1t will be turned over to the pub
lie museum unless called for.
Receiver Elmore, of Srong's Bank at
Green Bay, Brown County, reported a few
days ago that the total liabilities were
1896, S78.42, while the fairly good assets
were about SIS, 900. Strong was at Toron-
to, and was liable to remain there.
The recent tragedy in the town of Pop
pie, Clark County, was the result of
quarrel in the presence of several ladies
the day before. After Isaac Meddaugh re-
ceived the fatal wound he said to Perkins:
'Hdgh, what have done shat you should
shoot me down like this?' Perkins re-
piled: "Ike, l warned you to keep away
from me; l could not be whipped; l have
shot you and it can't be helped now, but
T I i -
Reuben Adams, who had been ac' ing as
postmaster az Jersey, st. Croix County,
for the last four years, was removed from
the service few days ago. His successor
had not been named. Adams had settled
his account with the Government.
Two sons of William Goetzenberger, of
Ashland, strayed into the woods the other
day, and would have died from hunger
and exposure had not a mill-owner kept
his steam whistle in full blast. The little
fellows toddled in the next night in an ex-
hausted condition. Finding they were
lost, soaked to the skin and nearly frozen,
the eldest boy at night laid his little
brother beside fallen tree and covered
him with his own body, thus keeping him
from perishing with cold.
& The hay-sheds of the Superior Lumber
Company at Ashland were destroyed by
| fire early the other morning with nearly
one hundred tons of hay. The fire was
started by tramps, one of whom had been
arrested. Loss $1,000; no insurance.
Mrs. A. F. Warden, wife of the editor
of the Plymouth (Sheboygau County, Re
porter, died the other afternoon, aged
twenty-eight years.
The Schocl-land Commissioners at Mad
ison the other day apportioned the school
fund of the State, amounting to $213092,
among the 507,362 school children of the
State for the ensuing fiscal year, the
amount per capita being forty-two cents.
A year ago the number Of children was
493,498 and the per capita allowance forty.
A town site has been laid out at Bad
River, on the line of the Wisconsin Cen
| trail Railroad, by the Bad River Lumber
| Company, which have already put up
large hotel. The large saw-mill Of the
company is running better this year than
ever before, having been refitted during
the past winter. With an immense stock
of logs on hand the company expects
steady run.
| Scores of saloon-keepers at Madison
were arrested the other day at the in
stance Of the Law and Order League, for
selling liquor on Sunday. The evidences
was obtained against them by two stran-
gers, who narrowly escaped violence at
the hands of the aggrieved saloonists
/ when the fact became known.
William Case Peart and George Tog-
nette, the two lads convicted of burglary
at Waukesha few days ago, have been
sentenced by Judge Sloan to three years
each in the State Prison.
William Kearns, who escaped from the
county jail at Kenosha November 4, 1888,
and who had been at liberty ever since,
was arrested in Chicago few days ago.
He would DO sent back.
The State Treasurer reports the total
balance in the State Treasury to be 81, 172,-
61S, of which 500, IA is in the general
fund.
Prairie DIN Chien neonIa will asL1 Con