The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-09-18
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=, Loss; t. not organized in 1880; :, not sepa.
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WISCONSIN Items.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat - No. 2, 79M0S0c.
Corn-No. ., 43(G434c. Oats-No. ., 25ta
25Hc. Rye-No. 1, 551E056c. Barley-No
Spring, 674c.
Mansion, Juneau County, has the credit
of sending the first car of new winter
wheat to Milwaukee.
Herman Peschel, of Grant County, wins
claims that his legs, arms, head, face
back, spinal cord, knees, hips and Other
parts of his body were injured by an ac4
.cident while he was employed by the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
Company, in August, 1882, has sued that
corporation for $4,000 damages.
Potato rot is troubling farmers about
Boscobel, Grant County. A large worm is
also causing much damage. 4,ia.
The Wisconsin Central has located ali
the stations on its new line from Chicago
to Schleisingerville, Washington County,
as given below, beginning at Chicago and
going north: City Limits, Belt Line Rail-
road, Chicago & Great Western terminus.
River Forest, Kolzes, Desplaines, Wheel
ing, Halliday, Holcomb's, Hainesville,
Cedar Lake, Antioch, Silver Lake, Wheat
land, Burlington, Honey Creek, Mukwo-
nago, Vernon Center, Waukesha, Du-
plaineville, Sussex, County Line, Rich
field, Ackerville, Schleisingerville. The
total distance between the terminal points
of the new road as shown by the station
distances, is 122 miles. ~ ....t.....
Heirs in Belgium, Brown County, havs
set up claim for the remainder of Father
Hoffen's estate, that bequeathed to the
poor of Green Bay, the bequest to ST.
Francis Seminary having been declared
valid.
Charles Thiele was arrested at Wausau ,
Marathon County, few days ago for the
murder of his wife. His story was that she
left for neighbours at five O'Clock in the
morning. An hour later he followed anc
found her lying in the road, her forehead
resting on a sharp stone. Her examina-
ton shows the skull cracked and marks of
strangulation on the neck. Deceased had
been sick for ten years, and it was sup
posed Thiele murdered her in order to
marry another woman
The Wisconsin State Historical Society
has published the fourth supplementary
catalogue of its library. 1t Includes the
titles of books added to the library since
August, 1881, with cross references. The
library now contains 100000 volumes. Z
DIR. Sampson, an old and prominent resi-
dent of Fairplay, Grant County, while at
work few days ago was suddenly
stricken with apoplexy, and died few
minutes after. He was postmaster of the
place. ~ .aIa ....-
A heavy northeastern caused the water
to rise at Green Bay the other afternoon,
docks, warehouses and cellars being sub
merged, and the portion of the city around
the intersection of the Fox and East
Rivers being also oYerflowed.
Governor Rusk stated few days ago
that, notwithstanding newspaper COM
ment, he had had no call made on him
from any source whatever for converting
the Legislature in special session next
winter for the purpose of reapportioning
the State into Senate and Assembly dis
tricts on the basis Of the new population.
Not single member of the Legislature
had suggested reapportionment to him,
special session.
Mrs. Georgiana Foster committed suicide
recently at Little Grant, Grant County, on
account of an incurable malady. She was
seventy-six years of age. ~.
Jerome O'Connor, clerk in the office of
Plankington & Armour, in Milwaukee,
shot himself fatally the other evening in
the presence of his parents. The cause
was not known. ..
The Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Con-
vention will hold its annual convention in
Whitewater on Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday, September % and 30 and Octo-
Der I.
The proposed formal opening of the lock
end river Improvement at Oconomowoc
has been postponed until next summer.
Seventy five car loads of Sheboygan
County cheese and 10000 pounds addition
al were recently shipped to England via
New York.
The Wisconsin Annual Conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal Church Will meet
at Waukesha October s and continue
about a week. The conference includes
the Milwaukee, GAINESVILLE, Fond dr Lac,
Appleton and Waupaca districts, with
about 150 churches and between 1900
and 1900 members. The session will be
presided over by Bishop Bowman, of st.
Louis.