The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-01-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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A recent fire in the grocery store of j. S.
| Oestreich, Hitchcock, WaIkesha County,
occasioned loss of 81 800 to Mr. Oestreicb
on his stock, and slight damage TO ths
building. Insurance, 50, 700.
The other evening the body of Andrew
! Terscoe, for a number of years employed
at the mills of the Empire Lumber Com
! pany, in Eau Claire, was found behind
wood-pile on the premises of the Pioneer
Lumber Company, frozen to death. He
| leaves a family. His death was attributed
to over-indulgence in stimulants.
The Northern Pacific Road has COM
pleted its Wisconsin division between Ash
land, Outagamie County, and Superior,
| Douglas County, and will put on regular
trains early this month.
James Norris, who had charge of the
| first dining car run out of Chicago, died al
Chippewa Falls few days ago, aged six
ty-tve years.
In his report Secretary Timme makes
| the following estimate of expenditures and
revenues for 1886 and 1887: Expend lures:
| Salaries and permanent appropriations
| $259, 649.54; interest, S164, 5SS. SO; charita-
bic institutions, $2SS000; clerks and en-
ployes, $4,000; miscellaneous, $265, 59S;
total expenditures, 81, 049, $500. Revenues:
Licenses and fees, $945, 800; taxes author
lied by law, $249, 1890; total revenue,
| $1,194, $3.50. Legislative expenses, $780,
| 600.
Miss Lizzie Plankinton, daughter of
John Plankinton, of Milwaukee, is now
said to be the donor of the bronze statue of
| Washington THAT is to be set up in Mil
waukee on July next.
At a meeting held recently at Appleton
to observe the one hundredth anniversary
of Methodism in America, $4,000 was
raised to endow Lawrence University.
The mutilated body of John Walls,
| crazy Hubbleton man, was found under a
freight-car ia the Chicago, Milw&ukee 81
st. Paul yard at WATERFOWL few days
ago.
The residence of George S. Case, in
Hebron, Jefferson County, was burned re-
Gently. Loss, 81, 800; insurance, $3.50.
The citizens of Cumberland, Barron
County are circulating a petition to re-
woke the village charter and go back into
the old town system, for the reason, as the
petitioners allege, of inefficiency in the
village officers to develop fire department.
after expending great sums Of money for
such purpose.
A building owned by o. Hanson, in EaC
Claire, was destroyed by fire few morn
ings ago. The building was occupied by
Mr.. Olson as a blacksmith shop and Mr..
Kalberly as wagon-shOp, the latter on
the first floor. Loss on building and toolE
by Olson, 81, 200; insurance, 5000. Kalber-
ly's loss on stock and tools is $500; fully
covered by insurance.
The entire iron works at Bay View, neaI
Milwaukee, were put in operation few
days ago, and with the exception of few
days now and then when repairs are being
male, will be kept going steadily, with
the possible exception of the pudding
department.
fire in Nicollet, Brown County, few
days ago destroyed several buildings be-
longing to the former Northwestern wag-
Oh works. The loss was about 500; nc
insurance. The burned buildings included
small residence occupied by Mrs. NJ.
Burkhart, who lost most OF her furniture.
Six hundred thousand shaved hoops,
stored in one of the buildings, were insured
for 81 400, covering the loss.
A fire broke out in DIR. Alexander's barn
at Eau Claire the other afternoon, making
a complete wreck of the building. Four
hundred bushels of oats and his supply of
hay for the winter was lost. Total loss,
$500; Insurance, $3.50.
Mrs. o. Wilson, seventy-two years old,
was assaulted in her sons store at Beloit
the other night by a negro who had asked
for candy. The brute struck her twice on
the head with piece of iron, inhicting
wounds which were at the time thought to
be fatal. He then robbed the money drawer
and escaped.
John Garfield, of Manistee, Mich, who
handles large amount of the salt manu-
featured at that place, will make Ashland
a distributing point for salt for the great
Northwest. He will commence operations
next season.
A thirteen~year old Montello CHAR
quette County, trapper named Cardo, has
THUS far this winter marketed the pelts of
118 muskrats, seven minks and three
skunBs.
While on his way home the other night
Samuel Chadwayne, an inmate of the Sol
diers' Home Of Milwaukee, froza to death.
The logging camp of j. B. Grieves, on
Fellow Greek, Marathon County, is bank
ing 1900 feet of pine logs per day.
The Merrill g. Houston iron-works at
Beloit were sold a few days ago by order
of the court G. II. Bessley, of Chicago,
secured what is known as the Parker g.
Stone portion, and $4,000 was offered foJ
the remainder of the property. If the sale
was confirmed a new company would be
organized and business resumed.
sThe Post office Department has estab-
lished mail route between Bayfield, and
Gable.
Last year 17,000,o 900 whitefish and 10000,
600 wall-eyed pike were distributed from
the Milwaukee hatchery.
The extensive saw-mills of Briggs &
Sherry, at Sherry, Wood County, were de-
stroyed by fire the other morning BY
hard work the mill yard, containing seven
million feet Of lumber, and the planning
mill were saved. The loss was about 3d.
500, with an insurance of $1,000. The mill
would be at once rebuilt. The cause Of the
fire was unknown.
The people of Wood County have pu.-
chased farm for their paupers. The trac4
is situated about two-and- a-half miles
from Centralia, and embraces $50 acres
about seventy acres of which are under
cultivation.
The Superior Iron Company fled articles
of incorporation recently at Madison. The
object is to mine ore, and the capital il
100000.
The Commercial Hotel at DE- Tere, Brown
County, was destroyed by fire early the
other morning. Loss, 1880; insurance
5000.
Robert C. Haney, pioneer citizen o.
Milwaukee, died recently, leaving larg'
fortune.
The claim of Charles Converse. who re
ceived serious injuries by collision be
tween trains on the st. Paul and North