The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-18


generally discredited, but a party was
made up and found the bodies. No arrest
had been made, and doubtless would not
be, as the grit and pluck of young Andrews
excited much admiration.
wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, S6(0S614c. Corn
No. 2, 411I@42c. Oats-No. 2, 2SCg2S1sc
Rye-No. 1, 6O1l@6l1lc. Barley-No. 2
Spring, 52114c.
The best Wisconsin barley can be OBJ
tanned This year at fifty-five cents bushel.
A fire at the Northwestern Chemical
Works at Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County,
destroyed property the other afternoon to
the amount of $4,000. Insurance, S15,500.
Goss Brothers, of Milwaukee, owned the
property.
The Knights of Labor number eight hum
bred at Eau Claire.
Silver has been found at Now Haven,
Dunn County, and stamp mill will be es-
tablished should the ore develop in paying
quantities. The gold fever still RACES in
Menominee County, and new discoveries
are constantly being made.
According to a report by the President of
the Wisconsin Dairyman's Association, the
number of cows in the State is estimated at
| $50, 900; product of cheese, 10000 pounds;
butter, 100000 pounds; total valuation,
$200OO,0OO.
After two weeks examination, Morris,
charged with the murder of Catharine
| Novaratzky, at Manitowoc, was held to APP
pear at the next term of the Circuit Court
in January.
Charles Filiatreau, who was recently
killed by the fall of tree in Wood Coun-
~, was for years postmaster at Rudolph.
During an incipient fire the other night
at the store of Churchill g. Son, in Bosco-
bel, Grant County, a thief entered the up
per story in which the elder Churchill
| lived, and stole four thousand dollars which
had been secreted between two bedticks
Green Bay has been sued for $1,000 for the
death of Mrs. Aurelia Caron, who walked
into the river in September, 1884, when the
bridge was open
LAUNDERING operations in Northern Wis
consin for the winter promise to be ex-
tensive. The cut on the Menominee is esti-
mated at 4O0,000,000 feet, nearly twice the
cut of last season,
The trustees of the La Crosse public
library filed articles with the Secretary of
State recently to make operative the be-
quest of the late Governor c. G. Wash
burne.
1t has been decided by a number of we'll
known Milwaukee gentlemen to organize
kennel club.
The street-car companies of Milwaukee
have raised storm of indignation by
ordering drivers to deposit 500 in cash as
a fund from which to pay damages done to
| cars.
The Plankington prize of one thousand
dollars for the most desirable composition
that should be produced for the National
Sangerfest, which is to be held in Milwau-
kee in June next, has been forwarded to
Prof. Bomback, at Bonn, Germany, the
committee having awarded him the prize
on his composition of the cantata entitled
columbus.
Walter e. Bauer's extensive toy works at
Appleton were burned the other night with
loss of $4,000. Insured for $1,000.
The official report of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul Railroad for the month
of November gives gross earnings of So, $685.
900, an increase over the same month last
year of 1929, 1913. The increase for the fourth
week of November alone amounted to S115,-
592.
The dwelling of Adam Taopfer, at Green
Bay, was burned at an early hour the other
morning. The inmates were asleep and
were overcome by The smoke. Mrs. Taepfe +
was carried out unconscious and somewhat
burned. Loss, $500; no insurance.
Four of the fifteen locomotives ordered
by the Wisconsin Central Railway Com
pany have been received from the works at
Schenectady, N. Y.
Mary Allen, the mysterious Milwaukee
shop-lifter, has been sentenced to eight
months in the house Of correction. Moth
ing could be learned as to her identity. She
refused to permit her picture to be taken
for the rogue's gallery.
Since the first of September the force OF
the Eau Claire division Of the telephone
service has put up forty miles of poles,
strung two tons of wire and put up seven
teen telephones.
The wife of Peter McGeoch, the we'll
known Spectator, died at her home in
Wauwatosa, Milwaukee County, the other
morning.
The decision of the State Supreme Court
in regard to the printed contract appearing
on blanks used for sending telegraphic
| messages declares them void, as being
against public policy.
The Indians on the Chippewa reservation
have several crews at work putting in logs.
Frank Davie, of Madison, was recently
fined $50 and costs, amounting TO S336.38, for
illegal fishing in Lake Medota.
G. F. Rand, Superintendent of the Good
rich Line and member of the ship-buildine
firm of Rand & Burger, at Manitowoc, died
few days ago of paralysis.
Fishing by night is the leading occupa-
ton of La Crosse sportsmen at present
Pickerel are being caught in the river there
in immense numbers.
The tug Resoiute caught fire the othel
night in her hold from the furnace, ant
burned at her dock in Green Bay, sinking
in thirteen feet of water. She was valued
at 5000, and was insured for 81 500. E
Boaler was the owner.
Wv. Gilman, an old merchant and {
pioneer of Milwaukee, died a few days ag'
at Gilman's Station, N. Y.
A mineral fountain has been struck a
Galesville, near La Crosse. 1t is said t.
rival all the springs in the State. A barre
of water has been taken to La Crosse to b
; tested.
Major W. Il. Joslin, of Madison, has re
| ceived notice from the Adjutant-Ge o
the United States Army that the death-rol
J of the Twenty-ffth Wisconsin Regimen
, contains the names of Al soldiers This
IS more than any other Wisconsin reg
ment. The Seventh Regiment lost 42t
Twenty-ffth.