The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-07-03
Wisconsin Items.


No. 3, 47(0473sc. Oats-No. ., 32032 &C.
Rye-No. 1, 6O&061hc. Barley-No. 2
Spring, SOC.
Scarlet fever is gradually spreading in
La Crosse.
David G. Geary, of Lynn, Clark County,
lost an arm few days ago by accidental
of his gun.
Under a law passed at the last session
of the Legislature, the State census takers
have begun their work.
Mrs. T. B. Brunson, of Prairie du Chen,
has one hundred and fifty silkworms,
some melting, others ready to spin, and
some that have already wrapped them
selves up in the valuable thread, looking
like little balls of sulphur.
1. c. Thompson, aged seventy two
years, was found dead in his bed at Pal
myra the other morning. His death was
attributed to heart-disease. He was an
early settler of the State, and an old resi-
dent of Palmyra.
A man named Arthur J. Glover was ar
rested the other night at Fall Greek,
twelve miles east of Eau Claire, by de-
tectives from Cleveland, O., charged with
the murder of G. G.. Loomis, of Wood
County, O., in April last. Glover was
formerly resident of Menominee, Dunn
County, and his parents reside. near that
place.
There were $50 Confederate soldiers
buried in the cemetery at Madison. The
soldiers there buried were rebel prisoners
at Island No. 10 during the war, and were
sent to Madison to be exchanged. A
wealthy lazy of Southern birth has had
the graves fixed up in nice shape and
headstones erected.
The total amount of salaries paid to
teachers in Milwaukee was formerly $685.
$50, but under new rules recently adopted
the salaries have been increased to $780, 900.
The remains of Sergeant Robert Allen,
Sergeant Company A, Sixth United States
Infantry, were recently removed from the
Government graveyard at Prairie du
Chen, where he was buried forty one
years ago, TO the lower town cemetery,
The remains of quite number of Fort
Crawford soldiers yet remain in the old
burying ground. The survey of the new
railroad runs through these grounds, and
in all probability in the construction of the
line the bones will be dug up and scattered
about over the prairie.
John L. Corcoran was shot and killed at
Wittenberg, Shawano County, a few days
ago by Fred Schultz, landlord of hotel at
which he was a guest. Schultz, who sur
rendered and was released ON bail, claimed
that he acted in self-defense.
There are thirteen thousand Masons in
the State and 205 lodges.
The tramp scare in the town of Wash
ington, Eau Claire County, has subsidized,
and the families of MessrA POI ter and
Foster have moved back into their homes.
Some were inclined to think that the
throwing of stones at the houses in the
night time was a piece of malicious mis-
chief not connected with the assault on
Mrs. Porter by a tramp, but devised and
executed by persons who were unknown,
but were not thought to be tramps.
Leonard Wheeler, aged eighty two, one
of the pioneers of Douglas County, COM
mitted suicide at Superior few days age
by jumping into the river. He was driven
to the act by worry over a suit in the Su-
preme Court which involved almost $40, 900.
che family of John burst, living near
Plymouth, Sheboygan County, was poi
soned few days ago by eating cake in
which arsenic was used for baking pow
der. One member had died and three
others were in dangerous condition.
Governor Rusk has appointed George
w. Raymer, senior editor of the Madison
Democrat member of the Board of Uni.
versity Regents, to fill the unexpired term
lending in 1887 of Postmaster Genera!
Villas, resigned. Mr.. Raymer served
throughout the war, was dangerously
wounded three times, and graduated froE,
the State University in 1871.
Prof. R. w. Burton, of GAINESVILLE, Pres
ident of the Wisconsin Teachers Associa.
ton and Superintendent of City Schools,
recently resigned his SUPPLEMENTARY on
account of contentious in the Schoo.
Board. Commissioner J. B. Whiting also
for 6he same reason.
The eighth annual banquet OF the Mer-
chants Association of Milwaukee was
held the other evening at the Plankinton
House. The association numbers about two
hundred members, including all those
connected with the CONNER
cial and financial interests of the city.
The wife of James Gere, farmer living
in the town of Jackson, Washington
County, committed suicide few mornings
ago by cutting her throat with a pair of
sheep-shears. She was about sixty years
of age and had never been considered Of
an unsound mind until recently Mrs.
Gere was married to James Gere, her hus-
band, only few years ago, both being
well advanced in years and having been
married before.
Rosholt's elevator at OconoTsowoc took
fire few days ago, and the flames were
communicated to several adjoining build
ings, all of which were destroyed at loss
of 1900; insurance, 900.
Elihu J. Palmer, the proprietor of the
Palmer House at Bay View, near Milwau-
kee, and al brother of ex- Governor John
II. Palmer, of Illinois, died at his home
the other night.
The grease-extracting works of Conrad
Graf, at Sheboygan, were destroyed by
fire recently. Loss, about $1,000; insur.
ance, 800.
Carl Schmita, a well-to-do farmer of
Newton, Vernon County, fell dead at Man
itowoc recently.
Morris Wattasch, a Farmland near
Lake Mills, Jefferson County, was in
stantly killed the other afternoon by be-
ing caught under falling stone wall.
He was digging pit for silo next to q
barn wall.
The body of child about ten days old
was found in the lake near the life-saving |
station at Milwaukee the other day with |
piece OF linen cloth tied tightly around its |
neck The babe had evidently been |
strangled, and had been in the water four |
Or five days. The authorities would in |
Festigate.