The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-05-29
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

Inc foIlowlng are the MllwauEee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, S7zs(9SSc. Corn
mo. ,, 4S1zG49c. Oats-No. >, 34f03431c.
Rye-No. 1. 74ta74Ic. Barley-No. 2
Spring, SIC.
Hundreds of mud turtles are shipped
from Rock County to Cincinnati, where a
market is found for them.
Fred l.. Hessing, a well-known young
man, whose home was near Madison, put a
ball through his head the other night.
Letters found on his person showed that
Hessing was of sound mind, but claimed
his relatives had defrauded him out of his
just portion of his dead fathers estate.
The dwelling houses and barns of Charles
Larson, c. F. Barron aud John Horrigan,
at Eau Claire, We're destroyed by fire the
other night, involving total loss of about
$1,000. Larson's loss was 5000: insured.
Three families occupying the same build
ing lost 81 1000 on furniture. Barron's loss
was $4,000; fully insured. Horrigan's loss
was $1,000; covered by 900 insurance.
At the State Fair this year no money
premiums will be paid for exhibition of
| fancy stock from other States.
The forest fires that had been raging
west and northwest of Green Bay, in
Brown and Shawano Counties, were ex-
| tinguished by rain few days ago. Much
fencing was burned, and in many of the
small villages only the most determined
work prevented the flames from getting a
Roadway thaS would certainly have wiped
them out. In some localities families
| were obliged to fee from their homes,
leaving everything behind and their stock
to shift for themselves. Much farm prod
uce and growing timber was destroyed.
F. Lauenstine, of Grand Chute, Outaga-
mic County, died recently at the ripe age
of ninety five years. He fought with Ma
| poleon in 1916, and came to this country in
| 1851, residing in Outagamie County tn e
greater portion OF the time.
The large saw-mill of the Butterfield-
Ferguson Company, at Medford, Taylor
County, was burned the other night. The
origin of the fire was unknown. Loss,
| $40, 600: insurance, $500.
A man at Green Bay is the owner of a
sand-hill crane which roams the streets Of
| that city at will.
Two boys of Milwaukee who stole a
wash tub were recently sentenced to the
House of Correction for thirty days.
When Hon. T. B. Scott returned to Mer-
| rill, Lincoln County, a few days ago from
the South, he was escorted home by 500
citizens and 400 school children, headed by
the Merrill Cornet Band. He had done
much for the city, and all were glad that
his life had been spared. Mr.. Scott's
health was still source of anxiety to his
friends.
President Rhinelander, of the Mil
waukee, Lake Shore & Western Railroad,
says that of the thirty six miles needed
to complete the road to Ashland, about
twenty three miles have been graded, and
the work of laying rails would be pushed
ahead as rapidly as they arrive. The
work mad already commenced.
About 100000 feet of new logs have
reached the Wausau booms thus far.
With the present stage of water from 49,
100000 to 100000 feet would be down in
few days The mills that had started w
were saving old logs.
During drunken brawl the other even
ing in Kreutzer's saloon at Grafton, Ozau-
kee County, a young man named Spehn
was struck by the proprietor. The latter
then seized a revolver and fired two shots
at Spehn, the first taking effect in his alb
domen. The wounded man then grabbed
the weapon and prevented Kreutzer from
shooting him second time. The bullet
was extracted, but the victim was in a
critical condition.
The Wisconsin State Historical Society
has purchased of w. V. Webster an in
teresting collection of 200 articles of In
dian dress, ornaments, war implements,
ETC., and placed them on exhibition in the
art gallery of the Capitol at Madison.
The nucleus of this collection was formed
by Governor Doty while he was among
the aborgines of the State.
j. M. Smith, of Green Bay, well known
throughout the State as good authority,
recalls the fact that the spring of 1867 was
worse than this has proven thus far.
There was in that year no growing
weather until June, and in 1858, whatever
this year may bring forth or fail to pro-
duce, there were frosts every month of
the twelve.
A plat of twenty acres on the east shore
of Oconomowoc Lake is being laid out as
the foundation for another summer COLONY.
A heavy frost in the vicinity of Eau
Clair lthe other morning resulted disas.
trously to early Vegetation. pl-.--+ hods IN
many places through the county were al
most totally destroyed, while the fruit
buds also suffered considerably.
The Rock County Sunday school Associ-
alton will hold a session at Johnstown
Sunday, June T.
Charles Baker, of Seymour, Outagamie
County, lost large amount of timber by
the recent forest fire, and fifty thousand
feet of lumber at Thompson's mill. The
mill, which was entirely destroyed, was
insured for $4,000.
The average catch of fish this spring at
Ahnapee, Kewaunee County, has been four
thousand pounds daily.
Alex Hibbar1, the young Milwaukeean
who swallowed trade dollar two weeks
ago, has the coin in his stomach still, but
is in good health.
Whipple Brothers store at Winfield,
Jefferson County, was burned recently.
Loss, 81, 1000; insurance, 500.
Reports recently received at Green Bay
from sections devastated by forest fires
showed the individual losses and general
damage to be greater than at first report
ed. In Brown County the villages of Duck
Creek, Mill Center, Flintville and Little
Suamico suffered severely, and it was only
through the cessation of the wind that the
buildings in Flintville were saved.
Several persons in the house of Charles
Walpine, at Milwaukee, were stunned by
lightning a few days ago. They were
knocked unconscious.
A company was incorporated recently
to improve one of the Apostle Islands,
north of Ashland, for summer-resort pur-
poses.
Charles Meyer, confidential employee
of A. W. Rich & Co., of Milwaukee,
skipped recently, and it was believed he
had gone to New York. His shortage, so
far as known, was only one hundred dol
lars.
Joseph Kurtzweil, of Mosinee, Marathon
CoIntv xvho kiIIad his child raoantI1r hoe