The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-20

favored WIN DOuHIlIul 0arV6SCS, our INDUS
tries have increased and our resources have
developed. Prosperity has rewarded every
commendable effort made for our advance
ment, and good health has prevailed through
out the State.
In accordance with the time-hOnored Gus
tom which annually sets apart a day for rem
dering thanks TO Almighty God for the dis
pensatlon or His KIND providence, and Tor the
peace and happiness He has vouchsafed our
people, and in conformity with the proc
lamation of the President of the United States,
/, Jeremiah N. RuSk, Governor OF the State
of Wisconsin, do designate Thursday. Novem-
Der 26 instant, as a day of thanksgiving and
praise, and recommend that ali public and
private business be suspended on that day.
and that the people render thanks to the Su-
preme Ruler for the many blessings they
have enjoyed.
In testimony whereof 1 have hereunto sec
my hand and caused the great searof the
State of Wisconsin to be affixed. Done at the
city of Madison, this 9th day of November.
in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and eighty-five. ]. NJ. RUsK.
By the Governor:
ERNST G.. TnIME. Secretary of State.
wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, S61l@S7c. Corn
No. 2, 4l1S@42c Oats-No. 2, 26@2714c.
Rye-No. 1, 6l@6l1Sc. Barley-No. 2
Spring, 55Hc.
The remains of Charles ". Schwab, who
died two years ago, were exhumed at Eau
Claire recently, and the stomach was re-
moved and sent to Chicago for chemical
analysis The disinterment WAS the result
of rumors that Schwab had been poisoned.
His insurance in the A. o. U. W. and Sons
of Hermann amounted to So, 900.
The steamer John Spry, of Green Bay,
running on Fox River was burned near
Wrightstown, Brown County, the other day.
She had ON cargo of flour and general
merchandise. Loss, $4,000; no insurance
About twenty Oneida Indian children,
having undergone a successful medical ex.
animation by Drs. Fisk and Mailer, do
parted from Dupere the other night in
charge of Rev. J. w Olmstead for the In
dian School at Carlisle, Pa, where they will
remain for period of five years.
The Secretary of State completed tho
official census details few days ago Total
population, 1868, 423; white males, SOC, 342;
white females, 74S,S1O; negroes, in full,
$3.50; Indians, 1895 The nativities are
given as follows: United States, 1,064, 943;
Germany, 265, 756; Scandinavia, 90,057; Ire
land, 1851; Great Britain, 81, 731; British
America, 21,SS7; Bohemia, 15,SSS; Holland,
1857; France, 1868; all other countries,
10000; subject to militia duty, $3.50; sol
diers of the late war, 29,6S6.
Annie Gsandtner, a girl twenty years
old is the regularly appointed switch-tend-
er at one of the railroad crossings in Mill
waukee. She gets forty dollars a month,
house rent and fuel.
While attending a funeral at Marathon
City few days ago John Ness was thrown
from his wagon and instantly killed, his
horses having become unmanageable.
Mrs. Wilhelmina Lempke died in Milwau-
kee recently from the effects of arsenic
taken with suicidal intent. She was forty
years old, and had tried before to XIII her.
self.
At Milwaukee a few days ago the
Mitchell Heights Company sold the Mil
waukee Real Estate Company two hum
dred lots, the consid GRAFTON being $780, 200.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the mar
riage of Hon. t. K. Dunn, of Elroy, Juneau
County, was celebrated by "a large gather
ing at his residence the other evening.
Numerous and valuable presents were re-
ceived by them.
LIT. O6OTR6 huDCuluSOU, dSSu SlAJJ-bWV
years, died at his residence in Durand,
Pepin County, few mornings ago. Hia
illness was of very short duration, being
sick only two hours. The cause of his death
was apoplexy.
Maxwell and Beecher, arrested three
months ago for burglaries, escaped from
jail at La Crosse the other evening by saw
ing off bar and getting out of the upper
corridor window.
A large saw-mill at Porterville, Eau Claire
County, YVES almost totally wrecked the
other day by the blowing out of the en-
gine's cylinder-head That no lives were
lost was considered a miracle.
Mr.. and Mrs. Shepard celebrated their
golden wedding at Clinton, Rock County, a
few evenings ago. Two hundred guests
were present, and a large number of elegant
and costly presents were made.
i is said that in the northern part of the
State, where lumber operations are carried
on, the slaughter of deer is wantonly large.
Both Indians and white hunters kill the
deer for the mere sport, and leave their car
cases to spoil: At the trading-posts inn
mense quantities of venison are bought and
shipped.
Joseph Savaria, a farmer living twelve
miles south of Eau Claire, lost his dwelling
and other farm property, valued at $500,
by fire the other night, the work of an in
cendiary. Insured for about one-half.
Two tramps were lodged in jail at Beloit
a few days ago by Police Justice Kellogg,
under the vagrant acts relating to tramps.
@ ot5S& a,,f
of WATERFOWL for eight years past, died the
other night of asthma, aged fifty-four
years. He was native of Germany, and
leaves wife, but no children.
GAINESVILLE is said TO be infested with
gang of roughs, who have assaulted several
citizens and robbed them.
Imports of Canada barley have recently
been very heavy at Milwaukee. Within
three weeks a certain brewing company
received 10000 bushels.
In limestone quarry on Washington
avenue, Milwaukee, was recently found
some of the finest crinoid fossils in the
country.
In the town of Burns, La Crosse County,
the other afternoon the son of Mr.. Morgan
was killed, and another badly injured,
while helping to move house. In La
Crosse young man named Peter Olsen
was probably fatally injured while engaged
in the same business.
Mrs. E. s. Rice, widowed daughter of
Rev. II. A. Winter, of Madison, was elected
County Clerk of Harper County, Kan, al
the recent election.
The wife of Senator Cameron is said 60
be hopelessly insane as the result of a long
illness, brought on by fall On a Brooklyn
ferry boat last spring. She is at her home
in La Crosse.
The Milwaukee, Lake Shore e. Western
and Northern Pacific Companies have COM
pIeted arrangements for the erection of an
elegant and commodious union depot at
Ashland.
An epidemic of CHAMBERS exists among the
horses at Ashland. The loss from this dis
ease amounts to $4,000.
The Treasurer of the Sheboygan County
Agricultural Society recently received
conscience money" to the amount of