The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-07
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


| quotations: Wheat-No. 2, S7x0S7Xc.
Corn-No. ., 45t045Hc. oats-No. 3, 2s0
2Shc. Rye-No. 1, 5SG5S1lc Barley-No.
Spring, 59kc.
James Nugent was missed recently from
his home in the town of Oconomowoc. A
few days ago his body was found in
Ashippun Lake.
A. w. Longley, Chicago business man,
was thrown from buggy near GAINESVILLE
few days ago, dislocating his shoulder
and causing internal injuries.
A. GoIlusch has sued R. NJ. Collier, of
the Oconomowoc Herald, for 5000 dam
ages for an alleged libel printed in that pa
per.
1t is stated that the prospects of large
hay crop in the State this year are not
very good. Most of the hops have been
winter-killed, and in consequence they
| will not bear.
In the First Revenue District of Wiscon-
sin during the year ended June so the
| quantity of distilled spirits made was $780,
| $40 gallons.
Inc Conovers enjoyed family reunion
at Sheboygan Falls. The six brothers and
sisters added their ages and posted a total
of All years. 3
| United States Internal Revenue COL
lector Wall, of Milwaukee, says that in the
| five counties composing his district there
are $50 fewer saloons at present than in
| July of last year. About four fifths of
this decrease is in Milwaukee.
Mrs. Elizabeth Page, wealthy Milwau-
kee widow who for a number of years had
lived alone, was found dead in her bed the
other day from natural causes. She had
not been seen by neighbors for two days.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company is relaying its track in
the vicinity of West Salem, La Crosse
County, with new steel rails
Three enterprising young men of She
boygan have built passenger catamaran
from skiffs picked up along the lake last
year. The boat will carry twenty passen-
gers.
The aggregate of the BURBERRY harvest
in ShawanO County will be about five
thousand bushels. The market opened at
sixty cents aRail-about three pals to the
| bushel-but went down to thirty and
forty cents. The picking is done wholly
by the Indians of the Wisconsin Reserva-
tion.
Another violent rain and wind-storm
passed over the vicinity of Eau Claire the
other afternoon, which resulted disas-
| trously to the crops. Winter wheat and
rye, which was just ready for harvesting,
was lodged to great extent, and most of
it would have to be cut with scythes or
sickles. Corn was too backward to sus-
tain much damage.
The Wisconsin Central Road has made
arrangements for terminal facilities in
Chicago, which indicates that no further
attempt to secure terms from the st. Paul
for right of way will be made. 1t will
now build an Independent line.
An inquest was held at Eau Claire few
evenings ago over the remains of an I'M
known young man found dead on the rail-
road track near the North-si elevator,
who had been run over by the cars. The
features were unrecogniza5le, but the VIC
tim was apparently about twenty-five or
thirty years old. Nothing was found on
his person save knife anS LAO in money.
The remains were taken in charge by the
city and decently buried.
L. d. Mills, of Chicago, died the other
morning at six O'Clock of apoplexy, at the
Watertown Junction. House, aged fifty
eight years, when en- route to visit his
brother in Appleton.
Rev. j. A. Willard, pastor of the Con-
gregational Church, died at Appleton a
few days ago, after a short illness caused
by over-wOrk. He was twenty years old,
| a graduate of Amherst, and one of the
ahlest ministers in the city.
| Upon complaint of her husband, Mrs.
Harvey Myers and George Walker, of
| Rome, Jefferson County, were arrested q
| few days ago for adultery, and in default
of bail lodged in Jail to await trial. Mrs.
Myers had previously entered complaint
against her husband for assault with in
tent to do great bodily harm, and he now
retaliates.
| A recent storm at La Crosse did consid-
cradle damage. The chimney of David
sons mill was blown down; also the dry
house at Washburn's mill. Lightning
struck the offices of both these mills, set
ting them on fire.
The ice house of Shedd s. Co., of Chi
cago, at Oconomowoc, was burned by in
cendiaries the other night. Loss, 5000.
A peculiar disease was a few DAYS ago
repeated to be prevailing among colts in
several localities in Buffalo County. The
disease makes its first appearance in the
| joints, usually the gambrel. The swelling
increases until the joint is destroy ed,
| when d-poisoning sets in and the ami
| NAL dies.
1t is said that the Big Heart Silver Mine,
eli Y1iIac dnuu thu ChipDayra Rfryar fro,,,
Eau Claire, is to be taken hold by a capt.
talist and experienced miner of Ashland,
and that operations are to be commenced
without delay.
Thomas Weaver, aged sixty three years,
died at his home in Lisbon, Waukesha
| County, the other day after a protracted
illness. Mr.. Weaver was a native of En-
gland, an ex-member of the Wisconsin
| Legislature, and one of the largest hop
dealers in the county. g.
A great sensation is being created at
Hudson over the notice of contest of the
will of the late William DweIley, who died
very suddenly last April, leaving $4,000.
The instrument left the entire property to
the widow, and the other heirs claim fraud
in the execution of the will. L. N. Bwelley,
a DlOUHoiJ dIlfcu IcCSutl1 IOm DOStOu 70
conduct the contest. Mrs. Dwelley has
been one of the leading educators of st.
Croix County for a great plumber of years,
and was Superintendent of Schools from
1881 to 1884.
An assignment was made a few days
ago by the Eau Claire Chilled Plow Works,
the bond of the assignee being placed at
100000. The amounts of the assets and
liabilities had not been made public.
The merchant mills of the North Chicago
Rolling Mill Company's works at Bay
View, near Milwaukee, started up the
other morning after having been idle for
nearly two months.