The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-04-11
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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oats-No. ., S1a<G32c. Rye-So. ., 5l36G
&c. Barley-No. , Spring, 64,a64s5 sc.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Allen, of Palmyra
Jefferson County, celebrated their sixty.
first wedding anniversary a few days ago.
The raft-towing fleet for the ensuing sea.
son from the mouths Of the st. Croix,
Black, Wisconsin and Chippews Rivers
numbers ninety steamers with sixteen
hundred men. Many of these boats are
furnished with electric lights to enable
them to proceed at night. Only very few
years ago comparatively towing RATS had
not been thought of, and they used to go
down the river as large as farm, with
small regiment of men to manipulate the
unwieldy oars with which they were
guided.
The State prisoners at Waupun number
4O5-395 men and nine women.
Two Milwaukee youths, of prominent
parentage, recently followed the Ida Sid.
dons troupe to Chicago, where, it was re-
ported, they were married by Justice to
two of the members, the brides, a few DAYS
later, taking the road with the company,
and the grooms returning home.
About forty rods of the railroad bed of
the Chippewa division was washed out the
other day, twelve miles below Durand,
Pepin County, and the down passenger
train was ditched, but no one was seriously
hurt
A r1re few nights ago destroyed the
Third ward school building at Appleton,
Outagamie County, large brick structure
valued at $4,000. 1t was insured for S., 200.
The fire was supposed to have caught from
the smoke-stack of the furnace.
A Log Drivers Association has been
formed at Wausau, Marathon County, by
which the expenses of driving logs, it was
thought, would be materially reduced.
Josiah LOOMS, a well-known raft-pilot
at Durand, Pepin County, was found the
other day at his bachelor home, hanging
by the neck, dead. He undoubtedly COM
mitted suicide, but what the motive was
was unknown.
Edward j. Bennett, convicted at Mil
waukee of setting his house on fire, has
been sentenced to six years in the peniten-
tiary.
Mrs. Hickey, an old resident of Boscobel,
Grant County, died suddenly the other
night of paralysis.
The cigar and tobacco store of Wiggen-
horn Bros, at Watertown, Jefferson Coun-
ty, was entered by burglars early the,
other morning and goods stolen, principal
ly meerschaum pipes, valued at over two
hundred dollars. No arrests had been
made.
II, F. Barnes, who murdered his wife
and made-a desperate attempt to commit
suicide at Boaz, Richland County, few
days ago, and whose arrest was deferred
awaiting the result of his wounds, has been
finally arrested and bound over to the Cir
cult Court.
Hugh McIvillan's house, worth $1,000,
was burned at Eau Claire recently. The
loss was covered by insurance.
The depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee Sc
st. Paul Railroad at Richland, Richland
County, was burglarized several days ago,
and the other night two young men named
Thomas and Louis Adams, cousins, were
arrested for The offense. 1t was said a
large amount of the stolen goods was
found In their possession.
Thirty thousand persons gathered near
the cathedral and Episcopal residence at
Milwaukee the other night to welcome
back Archbishop Heiss from Rome. The
societies paraded with torchlights Ex-
Mayor O'Neil and j. G. Ludwig delivered
addresses of welcome, to which the Arch
bishop responded, after which short serv-
ices were held in the cathedral.
The hardware store of Price Bros, of
Wonewoc, Juneau County, was entered
the other night by some unknown parties
and the safe blown open and the contents
taken, but they were found near by
Articles of association have been filed at
the State House of the Wisconsin River
Log-Driving Company of Wausau, Mara
,thon County, with capital stock of $780,
900.
Henry M. Finch, for years one of the
prominent lawyers of Milwaukee and the
State, died after brief illness a few DAYS
ago. Mr.. Finch was native of New York
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The trial Of Margaret Stuessy for being
concerned in the murder Of her husband,
Henry Stuessy, was concluded at Monroe,
Green County, few days ago, the jury
returning verdict of guilty. The crime
was committed in November, 1892 She
was tried as an accessory before the fact.
Her accomplice, a man named Burkhardt
Braham, who did the actual killing, is now
serving a life sentence.
The contract for building the one hun.
dred-mile extension of the Wisconsin Cen.
trail, from Chippewa Falls to ST. Paul, has
been let to Wells, Harrison & Green, Of
Milwaukee, to be completed and in run
ring order by October 10.
1t is reported that Laura Johnson, a Mil
waukee girl, became so indignant the other
day on reading letter from her be-
trothed, in which he expressed the desire
to break off their engagement, that she
tried to snatch the engagement ring from
her finger, but it was SO firmly fixed that
she could not remove it. Seeing a Ratchet
near by, she then deliberately chopped the
finger off and sent it, with the ring at
tached, to the faithless lover.
/, The officers of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway Company announce
that the extension of the Chippewa
Falls division from Eau Claire ~ Chip
,pewa Fails is opened for traffic.
A. P. Linns' saloon at Hudson, st. Croix
County, was burglarized the other night
and the safe drilled open. Fifty dollars in
cash, two watches and aquantity of cigars
were taken. The loss and damage were
bout 500.
: The lumbermen in the vicinity of Grand
Rapids, Wood County. have all quit OPP
erations in the woods. The season was
very successful
The United States District Court at Mad
ison recently fined Stephen Skeels, of Eau
Claire. one hundred dollars and costs for
selling liquor to Indians.
c. II. Sexton, resident of Wayne,
Washington County, was run over by the
westbound passenger train the other night
and cut to pieces. He was about thirty
years of age and leaves a wife and one
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