The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-11-07
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

| George Beard, commercial traveller OF
Beloit, had a frightful experience whilerid-
| ing on the Chicago & Northwestern Road
J few nights ago. Hearing some one cry
/ ''For Gods sake, come out, or you'll be
killed, he sprang out of the caboose just
as locomotive crashed through it. Walk
| in& around to the other side, he found men
at work in the wreck. "Whom are you
looking for?" he asked. "Beard, of Beloit,"
was the reply. He made himself known,
and was heartily congratulated upon his
escape.
The Governor recently issued an order
transferring Nicholas Strotz from States
Prison to the Northern Hospital for the
Insane. Having been convicted in Grant
County of burglary last May, and SEN
fenced to prison for one year, he became
insane shortly after.
Governor Rusk has commissioned NJ. T.
Parker, of Ahnapee, D.strict-Attorney OF
Kewaunee County, vice j. V. c. Yates, re-
signed.
A man by the name of George McCarty,
| who was confined to his bed with brain
fever, at Butternut, Outagamie County,
while his attendant was absent few days
ago tied two sheets together and let him
self out of second STORY window and
made his escape. He was found four days
after his escape standing upright in a
smamp, dead.
Frank Hammond, one of the English
bows who are learning agriculture in this
country, lost one of his hands in a
sorghum crusher near Lake Mills, Jeffer-
son County, few days ago.
The Chippewa Division of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul Road was opened to
Menomonee, via Red Cedar Junction a few
day ago.
A Norwegian laborer on the Central,
named Andrew Ostland, fell under the
cars at New Richmond, st. Croix County,
recently, and his head was cut from his
body.
The steam ferry boat at Eau Claire ran
on some sunken piles few days ago and
was damaged to the extent of $1,000.
Parties living along the Chippewa River,
below Eau Claire, according to their an
Gent custom, have been hauling off and
confiscating all the logs they could handle
which were stranded in their neighborhood
by the recent floods. President Weyer-
hauser has had a number of the parties ar
rested, and will try and break up the GUS
tom.
The other night the house of Henry Daab,
at Watertown, was entered by thieves, who
got a silver watch, forty dollars in money,
and fifty dollar bank check. The resi-
dences of George W. Evans, A. Fuermann,
and H. A Block were also called at, but
nothing of much value was stolen. No ar
rests had been made.
The shops of the Northern Road at Fort
Howard, Brown County, with a locomotive,
five box cars and one hundred cords of
wood, were burned the other night, the loss
being $4,000; fully insured.
Six attempts at burglary were made at
Appleton, Outagamie County, the other
night. At the Northwestern depot the
burglars carried off trunk that had been
put off by passing train and drilled the
safe of Gallager & Co., but were fright
ened off. At the Briggs House the night
Waterman saw man in the dining room
and began following him. The burglar
turned and told him to go away or he
would shoot him. He went, and while get
ting aid, the burglar escaped.
The crop of apples in Wisconsin this fall
is unusually large, and prices at present
ara ranging very low. In some places
twenty-five cents per bushel is paid,
though, as rule, the demand is for high
er figure than this. Growers state that the
apples are unusually wormy-more SO than
they remember of ever seeing them be-
fore.
Frank A. Burton, whose tragic death
took place at La Crosse recently, had a
total insurance on his life of $4,000.
z Three burglars entered the store of Burch
& Clark, at Menomonee, the other night,
and while removing the contents of a show
case attracted the attention of Walter
Clark, occupying a room in the second
|, story. who opened fire through an opening
in the door, instantly killing one of them
The others escaped. The dead burglar was
recognized as being from st. Paul, and Il
q man who recently served term in the
Saltwater Penitentiary.
Wisconsin stands second in the list OF
tobacco-growing States. There were 1900
acres planted in the State this year.
An ARRAY occurred in McWilliams' mill.
in Spencer, Marathon County, few even
ings ago, in which John Hawley stabbed
William Baker in tbs left lung. A physi
clan pronounced the wound serious. Boil
, men were said to have been intoxicated
An old feud existed between them. Bake,
: is about twenty-f five years old and Hawle!
about twenty eight. Both are unmarried
: Northrop & Co.'s Bank at Platteville
Grant County, which failed some time ago
recently began paying the claims of credi-
tors.
The door of the La Crosse Jail, which wa:
} battered down by the avengers of Frank a
Burton, has been almost carried away by
relic-hunters, and the lmb of the tree from
which the assass n "Scotty" was hanged
has been badly mutilated by jack-kniEes
; by morbid curiosity seekers who were after
Tnementoes, while the fated rope has beer
cut into bits and distributed.
John Hawley was arrested at Marshheld
Wood County, the other morning, charged
with stabbing William Baker at Mcmillan
mill with intent to Kill. He was taken be.
fore Justice and entered plea of moi
guilty, and had his examination continued
until November Z. He was released on Civ
: ing bail in the sum of 81 500. Baker wal
| alive, and would probably recover.
The following are the Milwaukee grsi1
: quotations; Wheat-No. 1, 94f695c; No.
a736T31Sc. Corn--No. 2, 41G943c. Oats
No. ., 26&@27c. Rye-No. 1, 52s
,, Barley-No. Spring, 54C155c.
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English agricultural journals report
that new industry has been started in
East Kent, that of growing crops of Law
cnder and peppermint for the purpose
of extracting the oils. This sort Of
!. farnlino had lonO been DrOftably car