The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1884-03-21
wisconsin Items,

quotations: Wheat-No. 1, 95K (096Kc;
No. 2, 91At093c. Corn-No. 2, 54C954Kc.
Oats-No. 3, 3124032c. Rye-No. 2, 57AG0
5sc. Barley-No. Spring, 62%t063c.
At Beloit, Rock County, Mr.. and Mrs
William Kendall, and their servant, Mary
Halter, were almost suffocated with gas
from their coal stove the other night.
numbering operations at Marshfield,
Wood County, still continue active and
camps are being worked to their utmost ca
pacity. few camps and jobbers have
quit operations on accounts of the deep
SHOWS and scarcity of timber. Operations
will not last longer than March %.
L. N. Packard, of Ashland, Ashland
County, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the temple late the other
afternoon. He had sister, school teacher
in Milwaukee, and a brother, theological
student at Chicago.
The dead body of Henry Kauzen, an in
mate of the Soldiers Home at Milwaukee,
was found near the Home the other day.
He died from exposure.
The teachers of Washington County met
at West Bend recently to the number of
twenty-five, and organized a County
Teachers Association, adopted articles of
association, and elected officers as follows:
E. E. Beckwith, Presidents; E. o. Sylves-
ter, Vice. President; D. D. Cameron, Secre-
tary; Miss Cora Sylvester, Treasurer.
Rev. j. R. Reitzel, recently of Chicago,
has been appointed Superintendent of
Sunday-school work for the Congregations
al Church Society.
Jack LIE Claire, notorious character in
Northern Wisconsin, was set upon by
party of several men at Fifield, Ogemaw
County, the other day and so severely
pounded that his life was despaired of.
Prof. Henry, of the University of Wis
consin, thinks that the State will need 10O,-
900 bushels of seed-corn this spring, as the
farmers have none of this years crop fit
for planting.
A tumor weighing sixty seven pounds
was recently removed from Mrs. Bross ct
GAINESVILLE, Rock County. She was doing
well.
1t is reported that many farmers in Me-
costa County will be compelled to borrow
money to get in their crops.
Joseph Mayotte, an Indian on the Bad
River reservation, while under the infiu-
ence of liquor the other day was frozen to
death while on his way from Washburn to
Ashland.
L. K. Bradford, a well known and highly
popular young man of Hammond, St.
Croix County, was instantly killed recent
ly by jumping from an eastern-bound pas
senger train at North Wisconsin Junction,
The through passenger train does not stop
at North Wisconsin Crossing now, but Mr.,
Bradford evidently thought he could land
with safety by leaping into the deep snow
It proved, however, to be solidly packed
by the action of the snow plows, and he was
instantly thrown back under the wheels.
Advices from Florence, Marinette Coun.
ty, say that this has been most profitable
season for the trappers in the Lake Supe-
rior country, the catch of furs being larger
than for years past. Fur-bearing animals
were very plenty.
A new Presbyterian Church at Mason
vile, Wood County, was dedicated few
days ago.
Secretary Wright, of the State Board of
Charities and Reform, says that both State
insane hospitals are occupied by inmates
to their full capacity. The wards for men
are OVERLOOKING. AS new cases arrive old
ones are returned, and owing to the above
cause more men than women are being re-
turned to various counties.
A life-saving station will probably be
established at Port Washington, Ozaukee
County.
A. ]. Mccain & Co., bankers, of Mus.
coda, Grant County, made an assignment
a few days ago. Assets, $4,000; iabili-
ties, $4,000.
At John Staples logging camp, near
Butternut, Ashland County, large pam
Their was killed few days ago. He meas
ured nine feet from the end of his nose to
the tip of his tail, and stood nearly three
feet high.
The Minneapolis, sault Ste. Marie &
Atlantic Railway Company are pushing
their right of way through st. Croix
County.
Colorado mining capitalists have taken
hold of the Big Heart mines west of Eau
Claire.
Mrs. Levi Roger, of Dale, the wife of one
of the leading citizens of Outgama County,
committed suicide the other day by eating
Paris green. No cause was assigned for
the act.
The Madison Common Council at its
meeting few evenings ago granted per-
mission to the Chicago & Northwestern
Telegraph Company and the American
Rapid Telegraph Company to set poles
and string wires in the streets of Madison.
1t also granted franchise for twenty-five
years to the Madison Street Railway Com
PanY,