The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-24
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 9, S6KGs7c. Corn
No. 2, 4hC64Sc. Oats-No. 2, 36z9c7c.
Rye-No. 1, 69969kc. Barley-No. .
Spring, &c; No. 8, 59hc.
A fire at Eau Claire the other morning
destroyed three dwelling houses in the
First Ward with a good portion of the
household goods. The fire steamers failed
to go into service on account of deficient
water supply. The total loss would reach
over 5000.
Dell Moon, the notorious outlaw who bad
been confined in the county Jail at Eau
Claire for fifteen months waiting for trial
at the Circuit Court TO answer to the
charge of assault on his nephew, with in
tent to kill, was discharged the other morn
ing, the jury rendering a verdict of not
guilty. Moons name is familiar in GRIM
inal circles all through the Northwest,
and ne is considered in these parts, which
is his home, as daring desperate.
Certain portions Of Southern Wisconsin,
were infested by mice during the past.
winter, and in Grant County which fairly
swarmed with them, incalculable damage
is said to have been done blackberry,
raspberry and grape-vines, and to small
fruit trees by the vermin. Vines covered
by fax straw Jared the worst. Much dam
age was also done in the vicinity of Bel
mont and Livingstone, in the same coun-
ty, and the destruction has been so COM
plete that no fruit crop whatever is ex-
pected in the sections mentioned. In sew
eral instances the mice have attacked hay
stacks and completely ruined them.
The wife of Hans Nelson committed
suicide at her home in the town of Wash
burn, Grant County, the other morning,
by cutting her throat. She had been de.
ranged for some time.
John P. Lansing. brother of Rev. L.
l.. Lansing, of Beloit, had a narrow es-
cape from death in the recent fire which
destroyed the New Jersey State Capitol
at Trenton.
E. Grossman, notary public and money
broker, of Watertown, died the other night
of inflammation of the lungs, aged sixty
four years.
: The commission appointed by the Legis-
lature to purchase residence for the Gov
ernor secured the house and grounds for
merly owned by Ole Bull, at Madison, for
$40, 200.
The creditors of the Pioneer Lumber
Company held a meeting at Eau Claire re-
Gently and decided to empower George VI,
Lea Pointe, the assignee. to operate their
mills the present season and dispose Of
l. L Al.
interested to the best advantage for tho
benefit of the creditors. The company
failed last fall for $26S,OOO, which was
mainly due to the inability to obtain logs
to operate their mills and loss of property
by high water.
The dam to Puhlman's roller-mills at
Plymouth, Sheboygan County, was swept
away by high water the other night, oe-
casioning serious loss and flooding the
houses in the lowlands all along the river.
The Chippewa Valley Hospital Com
pany, wealthy corporation, comprising
several of the leading physicians of Eau
Claire, has purchased an eligible site of
ground, on which it is proposed to erect
buildings suitable for hospital purposes.
The institution will be especially arranged
for the accommodation of woodsmen, hum
dreds of whom are manned and otherwise
injured while plying their vocation in tho
numbering districts. The buildings will
cost 900.
Henry Rukompf, a saloon-keeper of
Green Bay, was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Baird at Appleton
the other AFTERNOON, charged with selling
liquor to Indians. The prisoner pleaded
guilty, and would go before the court in
Milwaukee and pay his fine.
A new post-office has been established al
Lindwerm, Milwaukee County.
The Wisconsin Legislature closed It's
thirty seventh session a few days ago.
Nine hundred and sixty three bills were
introduced during the session, and 425 be.
came laws. The Governor sent in vetoes
of bills for appointing Fish and Game
Wardens, preventing the shipment OF
game from the State, and for the preser-
vation of trout in Washburn County.
The Wisconsin Daughters of Rebekas
will meet at Appleton in June.
Three frame warehouses, the property
of A. Bennett, K. Doxstad and the Eclipse
Wind Engine Company, respectively, at
Beloit, were destroyed by fire the other
night, together with all the contents, en-
failing loss of $500
A tame raven recently stole ring from
a woman in Milwaukee. She had placed
the ring upon bench while washing, and
the raven carried it off to some secret hid
ing place. The woman brought suit
against the owner of the bird, and the
Judge decided that he must pay the value
Of the lost ring.
At two O'Clock the other morning some
one set fire to the Mickey building, in
Monterey, Waukesha County, which total
ly destroyed the building and contents
Loss, $1,000, with 5000 insurance.
All of the logging camps operating on
the west fork Of the Chippewa in the vicin-
ity of Hayward broke up recently, having
completed the intended cut. The principal
corporations putting in were the North
Wisconsin and Sherman Lumber Compa-
mics, that made scale record of sixteen
million feet each. Loggers concede the
market will open at So, $3.50 and s..
John. Taylor, for years a constable in
GAINESVILLE, died at noon recently, aged
sixty-five years. He leaves a wife and
three children.
Congressman Rankin is again in Wash
ington after three months milk dieting in
Georgia. He says: 81 am feeling very
well. / have lost fifty pounds of flesh
in the past three months. but have enough
left yet, for weigh 165 pounds now. How
/ will get on the next five months is not so
easy to say, for the doctors tell me l can
eat nothing but milk for year."
A young boy boarding in Mrs. Ann
Jeffery's house at Green Bay, picked up
loaded gun the other evening and acct
dentally discharged it, killing Mrs. Jeffery.
She was ifty-fve years old and widow.
John Franckle, of La Crosse, whole
sale grocer, died recently, after linger-
ing illness, aged seventy-two years. He
had been in business there sincs 1856 and
acquired fortune.
A cow at Viroqua, Vernon County, is
credited with the parentage of nine calves
in two years, four at one time and five at
another.
The Winnebsgo Indians are to receive