The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-07-10
Wisconsin Items.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, S7(0S71c. Corn
No. 2, 47C9476c. Oats-No. ., 320S2Kc.
Rye-No. 1, 60K061Hc. Barley--No.
Spring, SOC.
A. j. Grover, when arrested near Me-
nomonee the other day for the murder of
G. G.. Loomis, at Orrville, O., last April,
had in his possession considerable prop
erty which belonged to his alleged victim.
Rev. H. Lamb Lyche, pastor of All
Saints Church at GAINESVILLE, and Miss
Mary Golden, of the same city, were mar
ried the other evening, Rev. Mr.. Jones, of
Chicago, officiating.
The steamer B. w. Blanchard was COM
plotting lher cargo at Milwaukee few
days ago when fire was discovered in her
boiler-room, and before it was extin-
guished the boat and cargo were damaged
to the extent of $4,000. The cargo of corn
in the hold was taken on at Chicago.
Henry Goodman, one of the wealthiest
and most influential farmers near Madi-
son, was instantly killed few days ago
by having frame fall on him while barn
raising. He was born in Derby shire,
Ill loSJj clAO GdAAlO w w 1SNOuolA LII
lS49. He was married to Miss Mary Hope,
If Middleton, in 1857, and lost his wife
very suddenly in 1880. He leaves family
of eight children to mourn his loss.
The managers of the Girls Industrial
School at Milwaukee have decided to turn
the institution over to the State, and it
will be placed under charge of the State
Board of Supervision.
Rev. E. G.. Homme's asylum at Witten-
berg, Shawano County, shelters sixty
orphans and eight aged and infrm people.
At the present time fishing at Pewau-
kee Lake, in Waukhsha County, is I'M
usually good. One party recently capt.
ured in three hours seventy black bass
weighing between three and five pounds
each.
Over one hundred men are now at work
in the Berlin Green Lake County, granite
quarry.
A remarkable incident Is reported in
connection with the havoc by the recent
storm at Milford, Jefferson County. Five
children, three of John Gormley's and two
of neighbours, were at play in COW
stable, when the structure was lifted up
by the wind and carried clean over their
heads, there being no floor in the building,
and all remained uninjured.
The burglars who have worked in Mil
waukee so assiduously during the past
few weeks paid visit to the First Baptist
Church few nights ago and robbed it of
silverware and other valuables amount
ing to several hundred dollars.
4 The freight depot of the ST. Paul Rail-
way at GAINESVILLE was destroyed by an
incendiary fire the other morning. Loss,
$4,000.
Miss Isabella McCabe, aged nineteen,
died recently in Milwaukee, at the resi-
dence of her father, A. McCabe, after a
lingering illness. She was niece of Cen
eral Phil Sheridan.
A terrific thunder storm passed over
Milwaukee the other afternoon, but with
out doing specific damage. Lightning
struck at several places. At Waterford,
near that city, new church was struck
and the high steeple demolished.
The De Pere Brown County, Neovs says:
Some one ought to hunt up an old boot
leg and punch a leather medal for that De
Pere man who charged his brother fifty
cents for his dinner and gave him thirty
five cents for his days work. Such large
heartedness should not go unrewarded."
Six cows of Mr.. NJ. A. Place, farmer
who resides in the northern part of the
town Of Oconomowoc, Waukesha County,
were recently attacked by some disease
which was wholly new to locol experts.
The animals plunged violently, rapidly
lost strength, and muscular commissions
or spasms ensusd. Four of the cows died
within two days. The remaining two TALL
that were in the field) were improving
slowly. A few hours befora the first one
died they were all apparently we'll. It
was discovered upon examination that the
animals were poisoned, but by whom was
unknown.
Two eight-year- twin boys of H. w.
Smith, of Milwaukee, were playing on the
river bank the other afternoon, when one
pushed the other in and he was drowned.
At Williamsburg, near Milwaukee, Mrs.
Quabis, a German woman, was burned to
death few evenings ago while trying to
start fire with kerosene oil.
The President has appointed James B.
Hayes, of Wisconsin, to be Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of TIE Territory of
Idaho, and Arthur r. Delaney United
States Attorney for the Eastern District
of Wisconsin.
A farmer named John Jansen fell dead
in store at Hareford, Washington Coun-
ty, few days ago.
A lump of copper weighing 377 pounds
was recently found in a gravel pit on the
Santee farm, near Plymouth, Sheboygan
County.
Harvey Clark, fourteen years of age,
lost his right arm recently by falling un-
der freight train at Boscobel, Grant
County.
A match game OF baseball, played re-
Gently at Sheboygan, between the Brillion
club and the home club, resulted in VIC
tory for the home club by score of Is to
IA. Eleven innings were played to decide
the game