The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-28

| Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations.: Wheat = No. ., S16S115c.
Corn-No. 2, 45f045Kc. Oats-No. 9, 25(0
25%c. Rye-No. 1, 56ta569Gc. Barley-lTo.
2 Spring, 5S}5c.
Theodore Heinsdorf, caught in the act, of
committing burglary in the residence of
Mrs. Clara Mann, at Milwaukee, was re-
Gently given three years. sentence.
The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
Railways earnings for the first week in
August were $27, 440, against 500, 4S9 for the
corresponding week in 1884; increase, $4,-
951. The Milwaukee & st. Paups earnings
for the week aggregated $4,000, against
100000 in 1884; decrease, $4,000.
George Grosc, of Boscobel, Grant County,
aged about nineteen years, was killed the
other evening at Wauzeka, Crawford
County, by being run over by a freight
train. He got off the train at Wadzeka
and walked short distance from the sta
ton and went to sleep on the track Both
legs and an arm were cut off, and he was
otherwise terribly mangled.
Charles E. Williams, well-known Mil
waukee railroad man, for many years con-
nected with the Wisconsin Central Road,
was recently killed. by the cars at Caddo,
Indian Territory.
The new planing-mill of the Badger
State Lumber Company, at Badger Mills,
! Eau Claire County, is said to be one of the
best and largest in the Chippewa Valley.
The extraordinary feat of eating three
live mice was successfully accomplished at
a Milwaukee saloon the other night by a
negro, he winning wager of one dollar
thereby.
The managers of the Kewaunee County
fair have invited the veterans of Door,
! Kewaunee, Manitowoc and Brown counties
to hold a reunion at the time of the fair,
and have volunteered to furnish tents, adj
mittance to the grounds, and aliberai sup
ply of uncooked army provisions-pork
and beans, coffee and hard-tack-free of
| charge
/ From the recently completed assess
ment rolls of the city Of Milwaukee it is
shown that nearly $6,500,00O is invested in
brewery property in Milwaukee. Last
year the beer product was nearly 100000
| barrels, not including the manufacture of
three large establishments just outside the
city limits.
| While in an epileptic fit in Milwaukee a
few days ago Fred Hawmiller fell into a
vat of boiling pitch and was so scalded
that he died a few hours later. Two weeks
ago his wife committed suicide in an in
sane asylum.
Charles Hockenbrock, of Chippewa, &C
cidently hanged himself a few DAYS ago.
He had climbed up into large tree in his
fathers yard, and in getting down he
slipped in some way and his head became
fast in crotched limb. 1t was supposed
no remained suspended in this manner
some six or seven minutes, for when he
was discovered by a man passing on the
sidewalk and taken down life was almost
| extinct.
! The Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner
claims to have discovered evidence show
ing that about seventy five insurance
companies in the State are doing business
in violation of the law, and estimates their
collection the past year at 100000
A very heavy storm passed over the
northern part of Clark County the other
night, doing great damage in and around
| Greenwood. An iron bridge eighty feet
long was thrown into Black River. The
roof of the Congregational Church was
moved and many fences blown down. I'm
mense damage to standing crops was done
by hail.
| John George, a native of Ireland and an
old solder of the regular army during the
| Florida war, hanged himself at Prairie du
Chen recently. He was about seventy five
years of age, and had long resided at the
| place named.
| The recent storm in Wisconsin did not
extend north of Port Washington, Ozau-
kee County, and its severity was mainly
local. Thousands of dead sparrows were
picked up on the streets of Milwaukee the
next morning, killed by the unusual sever
| ity of the storm. Nearly an inch and a
half of rain fell in a short period, flooding
cellars and running some of the finest
| drives. In parts of the State some injury
| to crops was reported.
The residence in Beloi5 of Rev. Father
| Ward, of the Catholic Church, was robbed
the other night of 500 worth of jewelry
| belonging to Father Wards sister. The
| next day the articles were returned by one
| Whalep, who CLAIMED that he was forced
| to buy them upon threat of being shot if
he did not. Whalen's statements were not
| satisfactory, and he was arrested. 1t was
thought that his arrest would lead to the
discovery of the persons who have long
been successfully stealing in that city.
The wooden mills of Street Bros, Mar
shall & Co., at Lancaster, Grant County.
were sold recently and the machinery
| would be moved away. This throws about
forty men out of employment
The telephone line between Sheboygan
and Manitowoc has been completed.
Henry ]. Otis, twenty -eight, resident
of Worcester, Mass, died Of heart-disease
on the Milwaukee & st. Paul early morn
ing train from the north recently. The
body was taken in charge by Milwaukee
undertaken and forwarded to Massachu-
setts
John Ellis, one of the oldest residents in
Crawford County, died at his home in
Eastman recently, aged eighty-six years.
Lightning struck barbed wire fence
recently on the farm of John bennett.
near GAINESVILLE, and killed six head of
cattle that CHANGED to be near the inclos-
ure.
As number of Scandinavians were
driving home from dance in Pennington,
Jefferson County, a few nights ago, they
quarreled among themselves and John
Nelson was stabbed in the throat and Peter
Anderson had his wrist badly cut by Nels
ChrfSfanann he o%%
The wounds Of Nelson were thought to be
serious.