The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-20
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 9, 7616a77c. Corn
No. 3, 390397sc. Oats-No. 2, 29629.c.
Rye-No. l, classic. Barley-No.
Spring, 5Sa534c; No. 8. sic.
Albert Hoefer, young Milwaukeean,
got tipsy recently, and before he was
aware of his position, a drunken crowd
succeeded in getting him spliced by bo-
gus Justice to a girl who goes by the name
of Nelly. In one way and another, the af-
fair cost him about $780, the bulk of it 60
ing to the treating of the crowd.
Four barns in Eau Claire were destroyed
by fire the other evening, involving a loss
of $1,000; partially insured The next
morning dwelling on the north side was
burned; loss, 800. At the same time John
Vests saloon and dwelling on the west
side was discovered to be on fire and dam
aged to the extent of $500; and Philip
Hinckle's house was also burned; loss, ST.
200.
Henry Calenhausen, living in Durand,
Pepin County, killed his wife few days
ago while the remainder of the family
were at church. The deed grew out of in
felicities pertaining to marital relations
The widower had said repeatedly that he
and his wife could not live peaceably.
After the Coroner's inquest Calenhausen
was placed in Jail and hanged himself
few hours later.
According to ;the signal service report
January was the coldest month known in
Milwaukee for thirteen years, the mean
temperature being 1914 degrees, while for
she thirteen years previous it had been
20.2 degrees, making the mean for January
A8 degrees lower than for thirteen years.
During the month five displays of the eau
honary signal were made, and were justi-
fed in each case, no storms passing over
The station for which signals were not dis
played.
Marinette has decided against incor-
Doration as city.
Peter Truax, of Eau Claire, recently paid
$4,000 for some scattered tracts of pine
land on the Chippewa River, aggregating
1918 acres.
Mr.. L. H. Boughton, Register OF Deeds
Of Grant County, during theyear 1884 reg
istered 1862 marriages, 395 births and 1872
deaths. The law of the State requiring
the registrations is in great many cases
disregarded, and the births, marriages and
deaths are greatly in excess of the number
| recorded.
Henry Evans, of,Crawford County, killed
q great wildcat few days ago, besides a
deer which weighed $50 pounds.
Madison had tremor few days ago
which was due, not to social or other
earthquake, nor yet to a dynamite explo-
sion. A disturbance which shook this Uni
versity buildings was caused by the con-
traction and expansion of ice in Lake Men
dota. Under the influence of intense cold
the ice had expanded until the shores
could resist the pressure no longer, when
the ice burst and doubled up about four
hundred feet from the shore, and on line
parallel with it. The sudden release of
the shore from the pressure caused the
| tremor.
! Samuel j. Goodwin, aged seventy three
! years. leading business man of Beloit
died the other day from heart disease.
William Thorpe, Chairman of the Town
Board of the village of Thorpe, Clark
| County, was shot dead the other night by
his son for abusing his family, The son
| was held for trial.
| Reuben Cook, a farmer of Sharon, ILL.,,
was victimized the other night to the tune
of nine hundred dollars. He recently sold
a farm and was on his way to visit rela-
tives at Hartland, Waukesha County. On
the train he fell in with nice young man,
who persuaded him to stop off at Milwau-
see. Together they took in disreputable
house, and the next morning the nice
| young man and the nine hundred dollars
were missing. No trace of the thief had
been found. T
man named Fratschel, who lives near
Butternut, Ashland County, is under ar
rest, charged with beating his three-year-
old child so badly that the little one died.
He had beaten and abused other members
of the family, and at the time of the death
of the child the mother lay in bed with
bandages around her head covering scars
made by a club in his hands.
Wah Lee, a Milwaukee Chinese laundry
man, gainly attempted recently to commit
suicide by poisoning, because Emma
Mapes violated her promise to marry hiIl
b1AN ACAAoC0 w nave 0u4LSo l1OAo W uO
with him. Wah Lee was said to have
given her $500, besides valuable presents.
& Fred G.. Cowie, who was the author of
the forged telegram by which Congress
man Deuster was recently swindled out of
one hundred dollars, was arrested at
Washington, ID. c., the other day and sent
to Jail on charge of defrauding res
taurant- keeper by giving him a worthless
check for twenty dollars, in payment for
meal, and getting 1920 in change. He
was sent to Jail in default of five hundred
dollars bail. Cowie is the son-in-law of
Waukesha County physician.
The gunpowder mills near Platteville,
Grant County, daily produce 5000 pounds,
or 200 kegs. The establishment consists of
three large tower charcoal kilns, dry
house for saltpeter, two cylinder mills, one
corning mill and dry house, engine house,
keg factory and private house.
Sultze's furniture store at Plymouth,
Sheboygan County, was burned the other
evening. Loss, $1,000.
In the town of Magnolia, Rock County,
two brothers named Rice were playing
cards few nights ago with Larry Boylan,
and at the conclusion of one game Boylan
took the stakes, claiming to have won them.
The brothers charged that he had cheated
them, and when Boylan attempted to get
away the Rices fired, one with pistol and
the other with a shotgun, producing
wounds from which Boylan died. The
Rices attempted to escape, but were capt
ured at Decatur, Green County, and were
lodged in fail at GAINESVILLE
Mr.. j Farmer Rood, of Beloit, recently
received the information of the death, at
the age of eighty three, of his father Col
onel William Rood, of Chicago. Deceased
was one of the prominent business men in
the early history Of Beloit.
A new opera-house to cost $4,000 is to
be built in Depere, Brown County.
j. A. Annas, one of those injured in an
accident on the Milwaukee & Northern
Railway near Green Bay few days ago,
has since died at his home in De Pere. He
was about fifty five years old, and leaves
wife and proWn-uD children