The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-11-06
Wisconsin Items.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat - No. ., S6CaS6sc.
Corn-No. ., 41G41Ac. Oats-No. ,, 25C0
2 Spring, 65&c.
The body of L. c. Watson, of Peshtigo,
Marinette County, was found in the river
at Green Bay few days ago. He COM
mitted suicide by jumping from the bridge
September 81. Supposed cause, disap-
pointed in love.
The entire plant and works of the Eau
Claire Chilled Pillow Company were sold
by the assignee recently for $4,000, the
Bank of Eau Claire being the purchaser.
There were unpaid claims amounting to
over SO, 900 against the institution.
Deer are unusually plentiful this fall in
the woods along the Eau Claire and Chip
pewa Rivers. LARGE quantities of venison
are said to have been shipped thence tc
Chicago, despite the Wisconsin law.
Among a number of recent extensive
transactions in timber tracts along the
Chippewa River, one of the latest was the
transfer of 100 acres for $34, 900.
About eight thousand acres of pine lands
were bid in at mortgage foreclosure sale
at Marinette a few days ago. The
land is located in Marinette and
Florence Counties. The purchaser was
Senator Sawyer, who secured the
land on bid of $50, 900. 1t is estimated
that from 100000 TO 59,000,000 feet
of pine timber is standing upon these
lands. Mr. Sawyer says no cutting viii
be done for several years, as he designs
the property to be an inheritance to mis-
grand children.
Rev. John 7. Kluge died at Sheboygan
the other morning after a short illness,
aged seventy years. Twenty eight years
ago he took charge of the German Re-
formed Church there.
George Wicott, q Frenchman, was killed
recently at Spokeville, Wood County, by
the preinatu g discharge of a gun while
hunting. Deceased was unmarried and
lived at Scandinavia.
E. G. Starr and A. j. Howard, the for
mer serving a six-year sentence for bur-
glary and the latter ife-sentence for the
murder of August 1esch, at Milwaukee, in
the fall of 1867, escaped from the State
Prison at Waupun a few nights ago by
saving through she bars of o cellar win
dow.
A bag Of money recently found in a
wood-pile at Berlin, Green Lake County,
was claimed by young man named
Waatz. He had left it there last summer,
as he was going to work in the country
and did not wish to carry it with him.
A sturgeon weighing sixty five pounds
Te&onflu in RIaaIY RixsaY
Onalaska, La Crosse County.
Frank w. Kinnie. the Brooks Fender
son" of the Brooklyn Times, visited his
parents recently at Oconomowoc while en-
route to California. He is about to estab-
lish a humorous paper in San Francisco.
John Doyle, an old and we'll known
farmer and miner of Sinsinawa Mound,
died the other night, aged seventy five
years. His disease was a singular one,
battling the skill Of his physicians, leading
practitioners of that section. Mr.. Doyle,
was suddenly seized with prickling sem
sation in one of his legs while he was
working in the field last summer, after
which the flesh began to turn black and
slough off from the bones, and few weeks
ago it became necessary to amputate the
leg. He died in great agony.
John McCrea, a printer by trade, aged .
twenty three, recently employed in the
linseed oil mills at La Crosse, was fatally
crushed in the machinery at an early hour.
the other morning. ;
Prof. j. j. Cleveland, of La Crosse,
school teacher, absconded few days ago.,
leaving numerous debts. 1t has since,
transpired that he was accompanied by,
Miss May Mcmillan, niece Of Alexander;
and D. Mcmillan, wealthy citizens.
Mrs. Joseph Schneider wife of lumber;
dealer in Potosi, Grant County, suffering !,
from i'll health, wandered away FRONT
home and drowned herself a few days.
ago. !.
In court at Appleton the other day the
Jury awarded Mary Cantwell six hundred3
dollars damages in her suit against the
city for injuries sustained by defective.
sidewalk.
An Adams County farmer realized 1913
bushels and seven pounds of clover seed
from fourteen acres. At S5.25 a bushel,
the crop would bring SAL 6, or S3S.G7 an
acre. :
The Grant County Herald says: "HaV-.
| ing seen some of our exchanges claiming
that they have unearthed the postmaster
holding office continually for the greatest
number of years in this State we now
come to the front with ours. Celestin
Kaltenbach, of Po5osi, received his first
| commission from Amos Kendall, POst-'
master General under President Martin
| Van Buren,, in August, 1893, making his.
| term up to date forty seven years. As
| Mr.. Kaltenbach can not be removed under.
| the plea of offensive partisanship, his
chance Of completing half century term
of Office is most excellent. For the present,
| we claim the veteran postmaster"
The merchants Of Monroe have paid
more than Sc 600 for ginseng gathered in.
| the towns of Cadiz, Jordan and CIarno,
| Green County. It is said that the "seng".
| is worth its weight in silver when it.
reaches China.
| 7. G.. White. of Mount Hope, Grant
| County. recently thrashed his crop Of
white winter wheat, which yielded thirty
five and one quarter bushels to the acre.
| This wheat is called the Manhattan va
riety. and was formerly raised on the
rock-ribbed hills of Delaware County,
n. Y.
Miss Elite Villas, sister Ct the Postmas-
| ter-General, died recently at Madison,
| aged twenty years.
james Collins, aged forty-six years, was
run over by a train in the Chicago &
| Northwestern yards at Milwaukee the
| other night, having both legs cut off. He
had wife and two children living in
/ Philadelphia.
. The Indians on the Chippewa reserva-
ton are making extensive arrangements
to speedily commence the preliminaries
for logging work the coming winter. a
large number of the tribe were actively
engaged in the work last winter, and their
efforts were crowned with profit and suc1
cess