The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-12
WISCONSIN Items.

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
| quotations: Wheat-No. ., S4t0S4&c Corn
No. 2, 46a465sc. Oats-No. ., 32032 &C.
Rye-No. 1, 571057&c. Barley-No. 2
Spring, 4Sc.
Owen A. Wells has been appointed Col
lector of Internal Revenue for the Third
District.
A fire broke out at two O'Clock the ether
morning in wooden row of buildings in
GAINESVILLE, owned by Mackin, Bleosdale 81
Merrill, and six buildings were destroyed,
with most of their contents. Loss, nearly
$1,000; insured for s., 400.
About 800 O'Clock the other morning
fire was discovered in the rear of the Ex4
change Hotel at Medford, Taylor County,
but it had gained such Roadway that
twenty-six of the principal business
houses, including the newspaper offices,
were soon laid in ashes. The total loss was
placed at 5000, 900.
The annual report of the Treasurer of
Lawrence University, Marquette County,
shows that the total assets of the institu-
ton are $173, ASH. The receipts for the
year aggregated $11, 1888; $S,515 was in
vested in mortgages, and s., 16S remains in
the Treasurer's hands.
A 40 acre farm in Rock County was re-
| Gently sold for $4,000.
| A La Crosse County farmer returning
home recently from the circus met two
men in a buggy, who showed him model
for new style of bureau. In one of the
drawers was thirty five dollars and in an
other a snide watch. They toyed with the
farmers conceit till he gave twenty five
dollars for the contents of a drawer from
which the corner of bank bill protruded
The fool and his money were soon parted.
I-MilagGatee Journal
A phenomenon in the shape of an almost
imperceptible shower Of honey dew oc.
Cured recently at Clinton, Rock County.
The stuff was very sweet to the taste.
Three hundred acres of tobacco are
planted in the vicinity of Clinton, Rock
| County.
Phil Brady, one of the ringleaders of the
recent saw mill riot at Eau Claire, was
few days ago fined two hundred dollars
and costs or six months Imprisonment in
the county jail, by the Municipal Court.
| The fines of his two confederates were
| lighter.
Farmers in the vicinity of Eau Claire
have found carbolic acid speedy remedy
for hog cholera.
The Second Adventists will hold a camp
meeting near the village of Careyville,
fifteen miles west of Eau Claire, June IA.
A boarding tent, with capacity of accom-
modating several hundred, would be
erected, and ministers and professors of
the faith were expected from every direc-
| ton.
| Eugene w. Morley, who had been serv-
ing sentence in the county Jail at Greer
Bay for obtaining money under false pre-.
lenses, finished his term the other night.
Sheriff Carlisle, from Geneva, ILL.,, was
waiting with requisition and immedi-
ately rearrested him, he being wanted at
Geneva for obtaining money from banE
by crooked methods
| A. w. Baldwin, for sixteen years clerk
of the Circuit Court of Rock County, died
at his home in GAINESVILLE few days ago,
aged fifty seven years.
| The depot of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
| OU. dul IGdIlIOdu dU OdkWOOQ3 milwaukee,
County, was destroyed by fire the other
night. Between ten and eleven o'clock,
while the station was in charge of
| Mr.. Mason, night operator, the lamp in
his. office exploded, filling the building
with flames, causing sudden and COM
plete ignition. The combustion was so
rapid that very little in or about the struct-
| ure was saved. Considerable property
within was destroyed, together with some
lumber outside. The loss was about $500.
Judge Mann, of Milwaukee, decided re-
Gently that an insurance company of that
city must pay $3.50 and interest for seal
skin cloak left by lady in a dry-goods
store, where it was burned. The defend
ant had contended that it's policy only
covered apparel contained in plaintiffs
| house.
L. N. Frank, of Deadwood, D. T., has
written to the La Crosse Republican and
Leader that Thomas CT pson, or Gibson,
was recently killed and eaten by bear
| while he was prospecting along the Little
Missouri River. No papers were found on
his person to give aay information of his
family or former residence, but he several
times told Frank that his parents lived in
Wisconsin.
Over one hundred employees of the post
office at Milwaukee took formal leave of
their retiring chief, II. G. Payne, few
days ago. The office passed into the con-
troI of George H. Paul June l.
The long talked-of river improvement
scheme, which is to open navigation be-
tween La Belle lakes and other lakes of the
chain in the vicinity of Oconomowoc, is
now fairly under way. The contract for
building the necessary locks and improv-
| ing the river channel has been let to
Messrs. Casgrain & Brown, contractors, of
Milwaukee, The work is to be finished by
the middle of July.
The recent jury case of Colonel Robers
| Williams, of GAINESVILLE, against ex-Mayor
| Richardson, for SANDER, found for plain
| tiff in the amount of sixty-fve dollars.
Richardson called Williams thief. The
latter sued for 5000.
The revenue from saloon license at Wau-
sau this year will amount to $4,000.
Fire broke out in barn attached to
| Thomas Buffers dwelling in Eau Claire
| the other afternoon, and the house and
three other barns were destroyed, involv.
| ing a total loss of $500: partially in
| sured
Governor Rusk has appointed Almon A
Helms County Judge of Lincoln County
vice A. C. Norway, resigned.
| The Dells Lumber Company, whose mill
| is located two miles up the Chippewa from
| Eau Claire, recently completed a commo-
| dious engine and ooiler-house which is
composed entirely of stone, making the.
building thoroughly fire. proof. Their mill
was the last one IL the Chippewa Valley
| to start, and was running to full capacity,
manufacturing at the rate of 100000 feet of
| lumber per day. The total cut was ex-
pected to reach upward of 15,000.0OO feet
during the season, all of which would be
sent to their Hannibal (Mo.) yards b.
raft.