The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-13
WISCONSIN Itams.

agricultural societies, 5,400; maintain
ing chronic insane, SIS, 1882; bounty on wild
animals, $1,000.
Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat No. 2, S6C0S61Sc.
Corn-No. 9, 41(041hc. Oats-No. 9, 26C0
26%c. Rye-No. 1, 6OC66Ohc. Barley-No.
Spring, 55Kc.
Two hunters near Green Bay found OBJ
structions on the Chicago s. Northwest
ern Railroad track few evenings ago,
placed there with the evident intention of
causing the wreck of a passenger train
soon due. There was 10 clue.
Two houses and three barns were de-
stroyed by fire at Fort Howard, Brown
County, the other night, causing loss of
$500. Insured for $1,000.
: A report submitted at a recent meeting
of Milwaukee Exposition directors showed
the receipts of the exposition to have
been SCI 800 and expenditures $21,500.
Ex- Governor Thad C. Pound, of Chip
pewa Falls, recently received telegram
from HALEY, Idaho, announcing that he
had been twice made grandpa by the birth
of two bouncing boys, one to his son, II. l.
Pound, and the other to his daughter, Mrs.
d. H. Foote.
At Wausau, Marathon County, few
evenings ago Vernon Young went to the
boarding. house of the Mcdonald Lumber
Company, kept by his divorced wife.
After gaining admittance Young shot her
in the head and neck, from the effects of
L. Il. -
a divorce in September for drunkenness
and failure to support.
Track-laying on the Wisconsin Cen
trails line to Chicago will be begun in a
few days.
Mr.. Plondke, of Wyalusing, Grant
County, recorded a deed few days ago
dated November 6, 1865. The paper, TO-
gether with others of the kind, had been
stolen and placed in tree near the
house, where it would have remained
years longer if Mr.. Plondke had not re-
solved to have less shade around his
dwelling.
At the recent session in Madison war
rants were drawn by the State Board of
Supervision for the support of State insti-
tions for the month of October, as follows:
State hospitals, $10,975.33; Northern Hos
pital, 81, 1S0.0S; School for Deaf, S., 5440S;
School for Blind, 81, 46O.12; Industrial
School, $5,999.41; State Prison, 5,397.SL
A man who a few years ago ranked
among Milwaukee's most prominent and
wealthy business men, A. B. Baldwin, was
recently sent to the House of Correction in
default of payment of a fine imposed for
assault and battery.
The American Missionary Society at its
recent session in Madison elected the fol-
lowing officers: President, Hon. William
B. Washburn, of Massachusetts,; Core
spending Secretary, Rev. DR.. IL. E.
Strictly, New York; Treasurer, II. w.
Hubbard, New York. Rev. DIR. A. F.
Noble, of Illinois, was chosen a Vice
President. President Washburn was made
Chairman of the Executive Committee
and A. P. Foster Secretary.
A sand-scow operating at Milwaukee
recently found the anchor chains of the
steamer Sebastopol, which was sunk in a
hurricane thirty years ago.
At Eau Claire the other evening man
named Mccormick, working on the spire
of st. Patrick's Church, was dropped
seventy feet to the ground by the breaking
of rope, and was fatally injured.
2 Milwaukee has 81, 400 as the nucleus of
soldiers monument fund. E. E.. Woicott
Post of the Grand Army has appointed a
committee to canvass the city for subscrip-
lions. A wealthy citizen is said to have
offered $1,000 toward monument in Ju-
neau Park.
Theodore Guenther, the pioneer potter
Of Wisconsin, died at Sheboygan few
days ago, aged fifty-nine years. He es-
tablished his stoneware kiln there over
twenty years ago.
By an inquest on the rem aims of Mat.
thias Bauberger, of Plymouth, SheDoygan
County, who had been missing for two
weeks and was found dead in the woods,
it was determined that death resulted
from protre cted spree, thus squelching
stories of a sensational murder.
Warrants were issued at Port Washing
ton, Ozaukee County, a few days ago
against the District Attorney, Sheriff,
County Superintendent of Schools, ply
stefan and other well-known persons on
the charge of desecrating the grave of
Margaret Runkel, whose body was disin-
TERED and partly dismembered few
weeks ago.
Henry Gilbert, one of the earliest set.
tiers of Ottawa Township, Waukesha
County, died at his home near Palmyra
the other evening, aged seventy years,
after lingering illness.
The statue of Washington recently pre-
sented to the city of Milwaukee by Miss
PIankinton is the only one of the father
of his country west of New York City.
Treasurer Abbott, of the Wisconsin
Central Road, ann ounces that the Great
be carried out, at an expense of about
$4,000, 200.
1t is said that ducks are numerous this
season in ths marshes near Sturgeon Bay
Ship Canal.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Milwaukee has purchased lot IA
x100 feet on Fourth street, near Grand
avenue, and has building fund of $780,
600.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Mailman, of She
boygan, celebrated their golden wedding
recently in the presence of GONE fifty rel
atives, descendants and an unlimited num-
Der of invited guests. The parties have
resided at Sheboygan since 1854, Mr.. Mall
mann being seventy three years old and
his wife seyenty-one, Both are hale and
hearty.