The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-09-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS is

Tho following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations.: Wheat-No. /, 95C095 &c;
No. 2, 79r6T9kc. Corn-No. 2, 5S(05S1Sc.
Oats-No. ., 29Ia3Oc. Rye-No. /, ola
55c. Barley-No. . Spring, &C.
DR.. D. W. Perkins, one of the oldest and
best known residents of Milwaukee,, died
suddenly few days ago. He had been a
practieing dentist for many years. He was
born in New York in 1916.
Small ox in Black Creek and Center
Townships, Outagamie County, was few
days ago rapidly spreading. Seven fami.
lies, or about thirty-fiye persons, in differ.
emit localities had been quarantined. Sew.
en- persons had had the smallpox, four OF
whom had died. There had been seven
teen cases of vario1oid. Three new cases
were reported, twoin Black Greek and one
in Center.
Post-ofice Inspector Clapp was in La
Crosse recently to inaugurate free deliv-
cry of mails there. The rounds are t,i
commence on October /.
Joseph Merkel, born in Baden in 1876
died suddenly at his home in WATERFOWL
the other night of Inflammation of the
bowels. He went to Watertown thirty
five years ago.
Northrop & Co.'S private bank, at Platte.
vile, Grant County, closed it's doors re.
Gently. The deposits did not exceed ten
thousand dollars. Every creditor would
be satisfied in short time.
Hiram Waterhouse, hailing from Bloom
ington, ILL.,, was found wandering around
in the vicinity of the depot at Evansville a
few nights ago suffering from the effects
of long exposure, and was taken in charge
| by Marshal Hogan. The boy said he was
| fifteen years old; that his mother was in
| lunatic asylum, and that he did not
| know anything about his father. He was
| trying to fad place to work, and had the
appearance of being an honest boy. The
| Marshal procured medical attendance for
him, and would try and learn more par
ticulars concerning his family.
The sale was made of the Bursinger City
| brewery at Watertown recently, by J. H.
| Sleeper, the assignee of the property, to
Messrs. Hartig g. MANI, for the sum OF
$4,000. Hartig & MANI are Milwaukee
parties. IS 3Yf Haa
| Constable Nicholas Bilkins, of Plym-
outh, Sheboygan County, shot and killed a
young man named Walter Masterson the
other night in a street row.
Tho Wisconsin Women's Suffrage Con-
vention is called to assemble at Richland
Center, Richland County, September
and 10.
| A steam thrasher fell through a bridge
in Waukesha County a few days ago and
fatally injured Joshua Cooper, farmer.
The slaughter-house of Peter Snyder,
at Merton, Waukesha County, with fifty
hides and one hundred pounds or more OF
tallow, was burned a few nights ago. The
| fire was incendiary, and the flames burst
at almost the same moment from the four
corners of the building. There was q
heavy wind blowing at the time. No in
| surance.
1 At Lancaster the other day George
Neuromberger, a farmer, shot and killed
his wife, and tried to commi5 suicide by
hanging, but was prevented. Cause, jeal
ousy. He was sixty years of age and bis
wife was twenty five.
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lawn of his house at Appleton, Outa
| gamie County, a few evenings ago when
somebody entered the house from the
rear and carried out trunk containing
eighty-seven dollars and some valuable
papers. The fact was not discovered un.
til the next forenoon. The day previous
Mr.. Randall had taken six hundred dol
lars out of the trunk and deposited it in
the bank.
Governor Rusk has issued proclama.
tion TO the people of the State urging
them to give the Wisconsin Commissions
ers to the New Orleans Exposition earnest
aid financially and in the way of appro-
pirate displays of the industries and re
sources of the STATE. l" H.
Gabriel E. McIsaac, clerk Of the Circuit
Court of Florence County, disappeared q
few days ago. He was charged with hav.
ing appropriated to his own use about
s., 900 Entrusted to him by settlers engaged
| in proving their lands, and his bondsmer
denied that they were responsible for the
losses. $3.50 9i1 mtt
The new village of Pratt, in Ashland
|
lies, and is growing rapidly.
A large amount of work has been done
on the Ashland, Montreal & Gogebic iron
range the past season in the way of ex
| ploration, ara the developments are such
as to warrant the belief that a number OF
good mines will be opened by the time
shipping facilities are furnished by the
completion of the Milwaukee, Lake Shore
! g. Western Railroad to Ashland.
An unknown vessel was capsized in
lake Michigan opposite Milwaukee few
days ago. +; was thought that all on
| board must have been drowned. Attempts
made 10 ascertain the name of the vessel
had been without result.
Over thirty persons were poisoned re-
Gently near Menominee alta wedding feast.
The poison was put by mistake in a cake.
All those affected were soon removed from
danger by theuse of proper remedies ex
cept young woman named Martha Cut
| ton, who was yet ILL.,
During the recent storm at Depere
Brown County, section of the steeple o
St. Francis Church was blown out and car
ried bodily over the residence of Father
DeKelver, aud deposited gaiust the side
of the residence of Thomas Hill.
Smallpox has entirely disappeared from
the vicinity of Black Greek, Outagami'
| County.
The tobacco harvest in Rock County j;
being prosecuted with great ear nestness
i The crop is so much heavier than was an
| ticipated that most growers find that theil
| sheds are far to small to accommodate it
/ and the farmers who are not forced t.
/ build additional barns are few indeed.
/ A carpenter-shop and barn adjoining, al
| Green Bay, belonging to Adolph Green
was destroyed by fire few days ago. Loss
upward of $1,000; insured for $500.
/ I s. S. Wickham, the first mail-route agen
4 on the Chicago & Northwestern Railway
between GAINESVILLE and Chicago, died o
apoplexy recently. He was a veteran o
the Mexican war and had attained the agt
| of sixty-fve years.
The money lost by hotel fires in Wiscon
| sin last year is said to have amounted t.
/ $371, 6S9. The insurance aggregated sos,