The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-12-19
wisconsin items.

The following the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. /, 94C095c; No. 2,
71@71hc. Corn-No. 2, S2033c. Oats
No. 2, 25C026c. Rye No. /, 52K "a 53c.
Barley-No. 2 Spring, SOC; No. 8, 43c.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Rail.
way Shops, at Prairie du Chen, have been
closed. This throws sixteen men out OF
employment. The company is QUITTING
down expenses for the winter.
The Daily Globe, Milwaukee morning
paper, has suspended publication.
Nearly two hundred men were engaged
at Eau Claire few days ago for work in
the pineries at sixteen dollars to twenty
dollars per month, reduction in wages
from last year Of twenty five per cent.
M. A. Hubbard was seriously injured
near Thorp, Clark County, few days ago
by the accidental discharge of his gun
while cut hunting. The accident would
disable him for life.
1t is reported at Bayfield, that the En-
glish capitalists who own the town at the
mouth of Brule River, Bayfield, County,
are working to secure railroad to that
point, along the lake shore, from Superior.
The prospect for loggers and lumbermen
in the vicinity of Marshfield, Wood Coun-
ty, for the ensuing winters season is not q
bright one. Lumber is low, and as con-
sequence wages will be reduced and less
amount Of "stumpage" cut The wages
for the winter will be from 81 to So less
than paid heretofore, and the cut will not
be over two thirds of that of last winter,
and perhaps not over one-half. r. Conner
& Co. will cut about 5000 900 feet; Arpin
& Cherry, about 100000 B. F. Mcmillan
e Bro, about 8,000,0G0; NJ. j. Powers, reps
resenting Henry Sherry, about 7,000,C00;
the Necedah Lumber Company, in all
camps, about 10000, 900 feet.
Elijah Cove, one of the pioneers of Wau-
keSha County, died at his home in Wauke.
sha the other morning. He was born at
Dresden, Me-, July 6, 1S01 and had been
resident of that county since 1843.
Elias Balzell and George Glass, two Of
the persons charged with assaulting the
half-witted daughter Of Mr.. Lilly, at Lima,
Grant County, were arrested at the resi-
dence Of John Glass, eight miles from
v;rcGra, Vernon County, a few days ago.
Lumber Inspector Hyslop, of La Crosse,
expresses the opinion that the amount of
logs cut on Black River this season will
not exceed 120,000,0GO. He thinks it may
fall as low as 100000. Most of the camps
are under way and getting out logs.
The Methodist Episcopal Church In Bay
View, near Milwaukee, was destroyed by
fire late the other night. The loss was
about $4,000. The Gre caught from the
furnace in the basement.
The One-prico Boston Clothizg- House at
Eau Claire, owned by Henry Levy, was
closed recently by attachments.
Nick Ames, anotorious young vagabond
in custody at Lancaster, GraSt County, has
confessed to over forty burglaries, and de-
ciares that his crimes were for notoriety as
an outlaw rather than for gain.
The other night burglars broke into the
Bennett manufacturing establishment at
Watertown and the machine shops of
Kunert Brothers and stole quantity Of
tools. There was no clew to the thieves.
The sleep of Milwaukee citizens is being
disturbed by masked burglars who put
their pistols under the noses of the Sleep
ers, wake them up, and force them to look
on while the house is being ransacked.
A. j. Bennett and lady who was his
aunt by marriage travelled from Preston,
Eng, to Milwaukee to be welded under
the laws of Wisconsin, and started home-
ward few days ago.
A Shsboygan man has invented new
fire extinguisher. 1t is a liquid compound
contained in a bottle, and provided with a
fuse. In case Of fire the fuse is ignited,
the solution explodes, and the fire is extin-
guished, SO they say.
meet in the Senate chamber at Madison on
December 20.
The Minneapolis Bazaar, at Eau Claire,
owned by Jacob Deutch, was closed by the
Sheriff the other day.
John Gray, of Weston, Marathon Coun-
ty, went deer-hunting the other day, and,
not returning, search was made, when he
was found dead under pine tree, shot
through the heart. 1t was supposed he
was in the treei and ried to pull the gun
up, muzzle first, and that the gun, being a
self-cocker, hit twig and was fired, kill
ing him instantly.
There are 1900 men at work IN the Eau
Claire and Chippewa pineries, and 800 in
the woods on Black River. The heaviest
lumber corporations propose to largely
curtail their product.