The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-27
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Spring, 551<c.
The Mormon missionaries now active in
Northern Wisconsin have not been success
full in their work. Their latest stand was
at Ledgeville, Brown County.
At Eau Claire recently Joseph Deeroise,
for burglary, was sentenced to two years in
prison, and George Mcdonald for one year,
for larceny. Mcdonald has brother in
the penitentiary serving term for the
same offenSe.
The real estate sales in Eau Claire Coun-
ty for the year ended Sept. 1, 1886, amount
ed to 1926, 479.4S.
DR. Otis Hoyt, a pioneer of Wisconsin,
connected with public affairs from Terri
torial times, and an army surgeon in both
the Mexican and civil wars, died at his
home in Hudson, st. Croix County, a few
days ago, aged seventy-four years.
Two boys, named Piler and Ran, went
out on the river in a small boat at Two
Rivers, Manitowoc County, the other night,
and had not returned. The parents had
given them up for drowned, and thorough
search for their bodies would be made.
The granite shaft erected in memory of
Ex-Governor Washburn, of La Crosse, is the
tallest in the West.
w. 81. Morrison, President of the Wiscon-
sin Dairymen's Association, says it has
been decided to hold the next annual con-
vention of the association in Richland
Center, Richland County, ON Tuesday,
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of the
last week in January, 1885, Mr.. Morrison
says that an unusually interesting pro-
gramme will be presented.
Harrison Ludington, Jr., son of ex-Gov-
ernor Ludington, has brought suit for di-
vorce in Milwaukee against his wife, Helen
Quinn Ludington, whom he charges with
having deserted him in October, 1884.
The vestry of st. Paul's Church, AGlwau-
kee, has instructed it's Cemetery Committee
to secure plans and estimates for a crema-
tory at Forest Home.
John S. Dean has been forcad by i'll.
health to resign the Secretaryship of tho
Board of Regents of Wisconsin University,
position which he had filed for eighteen
years.
Horses in Sheboygan County are suffer-
ing from a disease resembling the epizootic,
or horse distemper.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Hardy, of Genesee,
Waukesha County, celebrated their twenty
fifth wedding anniversary the other even
ing at their residence, with a company of
friends.
In this State the returns from sixty-two
localities where an attempt was made az
the last election to raise the amount of the
present saloon licenses show a population
of 400, ZOO, and total vote cast of 62, 103 In
the forty-two localities Wslere an attempt
to raise the license was defeated there is a
total population of 416S24, and the total
vote cast was 56,914. The twenty localities
where the high license prevailed show g
population of Il, S76, and total vote east
of 5,4S9.
John V. Suydam died at Green Bay the
other morning. He was seventy -four years
old and had been prominently identified
with the pioneer history of the State. He
was one of the founders of the Green Bay
L1teIhgencer, the first Newspaper printed in
Wisconsin.
Leatham & Smith will operate in Door
County this winter six lumber-camps at
Leatham and one on the Peshtigo River.
The work will employ $50 men and forty
five teams. The camp supplies will COM
prise 300 barrels of flour, 100 each of pork
and beef, $4,000 worth of groceries 1000
bushels of corn, 5000 bushels of oats, 80
tons of hay and several thousand dollars
worth of clothing.
Henry Haven, mason employed on the
foundation of the new Science Hall, at
Madison, was killed by q falling derrick the
other afternoon.
In a few days all saw-mills in and tribu-
tary to Eu Claire will be closed down. The
total lumber manufacture of the Chippewa
Valley will not exceed 400, 100000 feet.
A fire at Milwaukee few evenings ago
partially destroyed the factory of the
Northwestern Sleigh Company. The upper
floor was Quilted and material on the lower
floors injured. The loss would be about
$1,000, all covered by insurance.
A number of GAINESVILLE young men will
engage in stock-raising in Arkansas.
A meeting of the Parnen Aid Association
was held at GAINESVILLE few days ago and
the following officers elected President,
Rev E. M. McGuinty; Secretary, Thomas
B. Leahy; Treasurer, Daniel Dow Bowling;
Directors, John Baker, C. NJ Seaman, John
,Donahoe, John Connolly and John Crowley.
About 500 was subscribed
The directors of the Western Indiana
Road have definitely declined to permit the
Wisconsin Central to effect an entrance to
Chicago over the Belt Line.
A cheese factory is being built at Edison
Center, Chippewa County. Dietrich Stauff
archer is building factory of the same
kind in Monticello, Green County.
The vacant Presidency Of Nashotah Col
lege, in Waukesha County, has been ten
dered to Rev. DR.. Nicholson, of Philadel-
phia
Recent reports from sixty-fve stations of
firm Of wheat buyers in La Crosse show a
falling off in receipts equal to forty per
cent. The correspondents are of the opin-
ion that there will be no improvement UNI
til cold weather has fairly set in.
The recent bursting of the cylinder head
at the Northwestern Lumber Company's
main mill at Porteville, near Eau Claire,
shattered the sides and roof of the edifce.
A petition IL in circulation, numerously
signed by taxpayers, residents of the adj
JOlHluS county VI IShlIf ZOE bne FeuIOFdl Oh
the county-seat from its present location at
Arkansaw to Durand, the principal business
place of the county. The petition asks for
special election to be held to ascertain
public sentiment in relation to the matter,
and at last accounts contained over one
thousand signatures.
]. e. Burton, Josiah Barield and Fl. G.
Hopkins, of Milwaukee, recently filed ar
ticles for the Bessemer Iron Mining Com
pany, the capital stock being 100000,
The burglar who stabbed Mrs. Philip
Phillips, of Milwaukee, and assaulted her
young daughters, was captured in another
residence the other day. He gave the name
of John Thompson.
A syndicate of Lake Mills paper-malsers
in the Fox River Valley has purchased the
right to manufacture sulphite, and will
erect large works for the purpose at Apple
ton.
The law firm of Tenney & Bashford,
Madison, have decided to remove to Chica-
go.
The Marathon County Agricultural So
ciety recently elected officers as follows:
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