The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

4 spring. O0-Rc.
The dead body of Henry O'Neal, young
man of Beloit, was found in Peet Sc
4 Kieler's undergrad the other morning,
with his neck broken. 1t was supposed he
fell off pile of lumber
/ A three-year old child of Norwegian
woman, on her way to Menominee, Mich,
to join her husband, died on Northwest
ern train, near Appleton few days ago.
The American Missionary Associations
meets in Madison October p, 2S and %.
| About five hundred persons are expected
! to he in attendance,
2 Leading citizens of La Crosse are organ
| izing a cremation society.
George Wilson was convicted at James
vile recently of committing an assault
with intent to kill, by sending bullet
| through the top of David A6bot's hat, in
the town of Lima, Rock County, and
sentenced to three years in prison.
Mr.. John Tatlock, formerly an assistant
in the Washburn Observatory, has with
drawn from the faculty of Beloit College,
! where Re was instructor in astronomy. He
has been succeeded by Prof. Charles
Bacon, of Wakefield, Mass.
The State Convention of the Woman
Suffrage Association at Whitewater re-
Gently elected Rev. Olympia Brown, of
Racine, President; Mrs. N. james, of
Richland Center, Vice. President; Mrs. w.
J. Trip, of Whitewater, Secretary, and
Miss DeMunro, of Milwaukee, Treasurer.
La Crosse is to have a National Bank
with capital of 100000. The stockhold-
ers are nearly all Illinois men, and the
cashier is to be from that State.
/ Miss Hattie Bright, of Fort Atkinson,
has gone to Washington Territory under
an engagement to teach school there.
One of the most conspicuous structures
and Oldest land marks in the vicinity of
| Milwaukee, an old style Holland windmill,
located just north of the city, end for over
a quarter of a century used for grinding
flour and feed, was burned early the other
morning.
Charles F. Slighanl, proprietor of a hotel
and restaurant at Madison, failed recently
with $4,000 liabilities and $1,000 assets.
The next Northwestern Lutheran Con-
ference will be held in La Crosse. Yhe ju-
risdiction embraces Northern Illinois,
Iowa, Western Wisconsin, Minnesota aud
| Dakota. ~.
A fire broke out at $3.50 the other morn
ing in the rear of the saloon of Otto
Schesock, at Marinette, consuming seven
buildings, including the Commercial House
and several places of business. The total
loss was from $25, 900 to $50, 200; insurance
about half. The origin of the fire was I'M
known.
The crop of amber cane IN Green Lake
and Marquette Counties is a failure, owing
to the early frosts. In many places it il
left standing.
A number of small dwellings at Eau
Claire, occupied by Norwegian families,
were destroyed by fire tle other night.
Total damage, about $500; insurance,
about $500.
Francis Clifford, aged eighty -eight, COM
mitted suicide at the residence of his
daughter in the town of Unity, Clark
County, a few days ago.
There was excitement at Port Washing
ton, Ozaukee County, the other day over
the death of Miss Maggie Runkle. Her
body was exhumed, resulting in the dis
covery that it had been dissected and a
portion of theremains removed. The ply
sicians say that death was caused by ty-
phoid fever.
The DIR. A. w. Powers recently lynched
at Hollister, Cal, at one time resided III
Palmyra, jefferson County.
C. w. Thompson, of La Crosse, one Of
the earliest settlers of Western Wisconsin,
and widely known throughout the North
west because of his connection with i'm
portant railway enterprises, was stricken
with paralysis the other night and was in
critical condition.
II. Pen tland's residence at Beloit was
partially destroyed by fire few days ago.
Loss, $1,1OO; fully insured. M
The complete and revised census returns
give Milwaukee a population of 1885, 800, an
increase of AZ, 631 since 1880.
The State Anti Prohibition Society has
issued circular containing statistics on
the recent special license election in Wis
consin, wherein the following figures are
shown: In sixty-two localities where an
attempt was made to increase the present
saloon license a population of AGO, 100 cast
a ballot of So, 1913, of which 44,14S were for
the 5000 license, s65 for $3.50, and II, 13G for
$500. The majority in forty-two towns fol-
low license was 27,071, and in twenty
towns for high license 6S5.
The balance in the State Treasury for
the fiscal year ended September 90, 1885,
was sos, S71.22.
Mrs Catherine Arndt, formerly resi-
dent of Green Bay, and relict of the late G.
c. P. ,Arndt, who met with tragic death
in the Wisconsin Territorial Legislative
Hall, at the hands of fellow member,
James r. Vineyard, February 11,s1S42, died
at New Brunswick, N. j., recently, aged
eighty-two years.
The dwelling house of Charles Brown,
at Lake Mills, Jefferson County, which
was just rebuilt, having been destroyed by
fire last summer, was again burned down
the other night.
Willie Hodge, farmers boy at Elk
Creek, Eau Claire County, killed bear
recently that weighed 295 pounds.
J. c. Nesson, of Manistee, Mich, was in
Milwaukee fnw days ago looking after
one Captain Albert Morris, who went to
Milwaukee with the formers trading
schooner Birdie, with a cargo of potatoes.
1t was said that Morris sold the potatoes,
pocketed the amount realized, something
like $780," and vanished. He was thought
to have gone to Chicago.
man named Abel committed suicide
the other night at Horns Corners,
Ozaukee County, by hanging himself in
his house. Abel ~as a widower, and
went to that place about four weeks ago
and lived alone. No motive was known
for the suicide.
1T is said that no quarter of the State is
exempt from potato-rot.
Fl. H. Martin will put I'M 10000, 900 feet
of timber this winter for the Chippewa
Lumber Company. His camps will be on
the Moose Ear, about ten miles from
Chetek.
The hop crop of Mansion, Juneau Coun-
ty, is superior to any of late years, both
in quantity and quality.
/ A new Good Templar District has been
organized in Rich1and County. The juris-
diction embraces the counties of Juneau,