The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-07-18
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

Oa1S-No. =, olt0o15zc. Rye-No. 4, t0oS
6oc. Barley-No. ? Spring, 62a62Hc.
A girl aged ten years, daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph Freeman, of Wausau,
Marathon County, died recently of infam-
nation of the bowels, brought on, it was
said, by excessive jumping of the rope.
A small cyclone passed over the north
ern part of the State the other afternoon.
The damage done by the wind was con-
fined to the line OF the Wisconsin Central
Road, in the vicinity of Spencer, Marathon
County, and Colby, Clark County. Re-
ports received at the general offices of the
! road showed the cyclone to have been one
of a very mild type, A great deal of tim
Der was leveled and a mill unroofed.
The Daytons, of La Crosse, are Migfort.
une's own. Mr.. Dayton lost his arm in
the war; Mrs. Dayton is helpless rheu-
matte; Oscar, the oldest son, lost thumb;
Addison, leg; Delbert, hand, and Car
mi, three toes. George Dayton is the only
one who has escaped injury of the kind.
For three hours the other evening the
/ section about Madison was visited by
heavy rain-storm, wrecking buildings,
leveling grain, and washing out the fields.
1t was believed the loss would be serious.
John Crinsey, farmer, was recently at
tackled by a vicious bull, near Florence,
Marinette County, and killed.
Another chapter has been added to the
| tragedy commenced with the Myers fam.
| lily at Princeton, Green Lake County.
Miss Addie Myers, next younger sister of
Mrs. Long, the murderess now in Wau-
pun, committed suicide by taking poison
the other morning. No cause was as.
signed for the act, but the probable theory
was it was caused by the despair and
| gloom into which they were thrown by tbs
deed of their sister, Mrs. Long.
A three-year-old son of Mr.. Holmes, Of
Fennimore, Grant County, ate gooseber-
ries a few days ago from bush that had
been sprinkled with carbolic acid to de-
stroy worms and died from the effects of
the poison.
An agriculturist recently shipped 10000
spruce trees from Door County to Dundee,
! Ill.
Edward L. Everts has been commissioned
as postmaster at Menomonee, Menomonee
County.
T. Wamplek was arrested near Ashland
the other day ON the charge of being con.
cerned in land frauds in Texas. Captain
McMurray, of the Texas rangers, had
traced him for months through several
States.
Farmers in the vicinity of Ixonia, JEFF
ferson County, have been terribly victim
lied recently by lightning-rod swindlers.
! Agreements were made to erect rods on
houses at from fifteen to thirty-five dol
lars, and bills subsequently, sent in for
ten times these amounts. Two farmers,
H. HollatE and R. Richards, were forced
to pay four hundred dollars each for rod
ding which they were told by the rodmen
would cost only thirty-fve dollars.
John Swinson, convicted Swede,
hanged himself the other night at Su-
perior, Douglas County, while awaiting
sentence in the county jail, and was found
dead with his legs bent up to keep them
off the ground. He had attempted to kill
Sheriff Thompson last December.
| A fire few mornings ago at Green Bay,
Brown County, destroyed saw-mill, resi-
dence and two small barns. The mill was
owned by E. Morrow, and was valued at
$1,000; no insurance. The mill machinery
was owned by S. A. Bersie, and was
valued at $500; insurance, $1,000. Loss
on dwelling, $500; uninsured. There were
evidences that incendiarism was the cause
of the fire.
Hazel Green, Grant County, is taking
steps to aid in the construction of rail
road called the Eastern Lafayette & Mis-
sissippi Railway, which is to run from
Shnllsburg to the Mississippi by way of
Hazel Green. The town is to subscribe
two hundred shares of the stock OF this
railroad amounting at par value to twen-
ty to $4,000, and pay for the same in me-
gotiable coupon bonds of said town, which
are to bear interest at the rate of six per
cent. per annu1n. The stipulations be-
tween the railroad company and the citi-
zens of the town of Hazel Green provide
that the railroad shall be completed to that
town by the first of January, 1887.
The Citizens League has decided to be-
gin struggle at Milwaukee for the closing
of all saloons on Sunday, according to law.
A number of brewing companies and 1, ZOO
saloon-keepers would, it was said, make a
determined resistance.
Two hundred laborers employed In
Michigan by the7 Lake Shore & Western
Railway Travelled on fat-cars two days
and nights, without food, to make a de-
mand at the Milwaukee Office for wages
due them. They were driven away by the
police, after attempting to break in the
doors. They would have to go back to the
woods to receive their pay.
The st. Croix & Wisconsin Railroad
Company, capital stock 81 100000, has bsen
incorporated. This is a consolidation of
the st. Croix & Chippewa Falls and of the
st. Paul & st. Croix Railroad companies,
with Hon. Charles l.. Colby as President,
and Howard Morris as Secretary. Trains
will be moving from Chippewa Falls to st.
Paul by the 1st of January.
Among the amusements arranged for
the Fourth of July celebration at Durand,
Pepin County, was one of log-rolling An
drew Johnson, man thirty years old, and
who for several years had been in the en-
ploy of the Beef Slough Company, was the
only contestant for the prize. He had
rode the log for several rolls, when he
slipped Snd fell into the water. The cur
rent was swift, there was a strong UNDER
current, and he was drowned in sight o.
1900 or 1900 people. He might have been
rescued, but many supposed him to be
fooling, as he was considered the best log
roller in the country and perfect water
man.
Three hundred employees of the Lake
Shore & Western Railroad shops at Apple
ton, outagamie County, struck the other
day because of the non-receipt of wages
for two months. #
John O'Conners, of Milwaukee, nearly
killed his wife a few days ago with COM
mon jack-knife, and Immediately sur.
rendered himself at the police station.
In row at Washburn, Grant County.
few days ago man named Lynch was
seriously if not fatally stabbed with a
sheath-knife. His assailanS had been ar
rested.
The first dairy fair was held in Wiscon-
sin in 1875, and now Sheboygan County
has ninety cheese factories.
While dragging in the lake at oconomo-
VOC receutIv for the body of William