The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


The follow;ng are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: 7Wheat-No. g SsISdeS3c. Corn
No. g, 39a39ll5c Oats 2, 2S@2S9$c.
Rye No, |, 5g55s@6i11lc Barley-No. 2
Spring, 5f$lc. aa 81
The students suspended from yhe Wis
consin University recently on account of
non-attendance at military drill have been
reinstated
The Governor a few days ago issued
requisition on ihe Michigan authorities for
the return to this State of Fink Cole, who
was held in Detroit for bigamy He mar
ried a Miss jackson at Rock Island, ILL.,,
and afterward went to Oconomowoc and
there married Miss Mabel Munger The
first wife had been looking for him for
some time. ta4a @ &
Israel Hayden, who diedrecently at Flint
vile, Brown County, was one of the Nor
mons who colonized Beaver Island under
Prophet Strang. He had not been there
long when his fellow latter-day saints de-
pfivel him of his wife, prosecuted him and
drove him from the island.
4 A new tobacco association has been
formed in Rock County as an auxiliary to
the Northwestern Tobacco Growers league.
Frank Perkins, of Albany, Pepin County,
was lodged in Jail at Eau Claire few days
ago on charge of stealing corn from
Farmer Mcintosh. Perkins, who is a WELL
to-do-farmer, was released on bail
A case of hydrophobia developed recent
ly in the family of Joseph Hills, farmer
living about five miles from Manito~oc.
The father of the family was bitten in the
hand last summer The wound soon healed.
The other day, however, the old gentleman
was troubled with a choking sensation in
the throat whenever he attempted to drink
water, and q physician was sent for, who
Immediately detected symptoms of hydro
phobia. q. s.f.s4s,ec @re
The Calodonian Iron Mining Company,
which intends to operate near Ashland, was
Incorporated a few days ago at Madison
The capital stock is S1,000,000 @
John Abendrath and wife, of GAINESVILLE,
had narrow escape from death a few
nights ago, caused by escaping coal-gas
Both would recover.
Forest Mccoy, OF Wausau, Marathon
County, was frozen to death while out
hunting recently, His tracks showed that,
blinded by snow-storm, he had lost his
way, and for a long time had travelled in a
circle. al1s l
An x-clergyman of Milwaukee has for
years been collecting funds for charitable
purposes. 1t was discovered the other day
that every dollar was appropriated to his
own use. Qitga "a soNt
The Board Of Directors of the State Agri-
cultural Society held its annual meeting
for the fiscal year ended December l at
Madison few days ago. The Treasurer's
report showed the gross receipts for the
year to be S19,11495, which sum includes
the annual appropriation of $1,000, anC
also the balance on hand year ago, 81, 125.
The total disbursements were $16,647; bal
ance on hand, 81, 45S, which will more than
lliquidate any indebtedness incurred in DC.
tober.
The woodworking department of thf
Croker Chair Company, at Sheboygan,
was destroyed by recent fire, and two
hundred hands were thrown out of EN-.
ployment. Loss $4,000.
n uldu III ~ HedTIy SJdTV0u cOuuIblOH dI-
rived at Granville, Milwaukee County, re-
Gently, from Rochester, Mimi! here he
had been confined in the insane asylum.
lie escaped about a month ago, and since
then had been looking for the home of his
sister, who lives near Granville He crossed
the Mississippi ON a raft, which he made
out of drift-wood and willows, and, after
meny trials and dangers, reached the Wis
consin side. he was SO weak that he was
hardly able to walk. s sI ems
The boiler in the new saw-niil of Joseph
A. Taft, near Superior, Douglas County,
exploded the other morning. Jerry MarlIee,
of Minneapolis, was killed, and John Breton
fatally injured. William Burgess anG
William Barlow, both of Superior, had
Cornelius Debrum, OF Little Chute, Out.
agamie County, was bound over to the Mex
term of the Circuit Court at Appleton re
Gently for burning the barn Of his divorced
wife. The barn and contents were valued
at 500. There was some live stock burned
Governor Rusk has appointed George w
Wing County Judge of Kewaunee County
for the residue Of the term ending the first
Monday in January, 1886, in place Of Judge
Miller, deceased. 8ai @ 81 a5f
Edward Fairburn, of Milwaukee, who the
other morning returned from protracted
spree in Chicago, had a quarrel with his
wife, and during the same seized his six
months old babe and threw it on the hot
kitchen stove, probably fatally injuring it
1t is said that bitter feeling exists
among students Of the Wisconsin State
University at Madison against the regents
of the institution. Certain rules pron.ul
gated by the latter are resented as an IL
fringement of the rights Of the students.
1t was currently reported at Hortonvill.
a few days ago that Mrs. John Dye, wife Of
tho President Of the Outagamie County
Fair Association, had fallen heir to several
million dollars. Mr.. and Mrs. Dye would
shortly leave for England, it was said, TO
take steps to secure the property.
Mrs. Adolph, who was shot through the
brain at a house of ill-repute in La Crosse
by John Hart, died the other morning.
Hart, who shot himself twice through the
scalp after shooting his victim, was in Gus
tody and would recover.
A. P. Moore and Sarah Louise Marshall,
both claiming to be FROM Chicago, awak,
ened Justice Parsons at hishome in Milwau-
kee at three a. m. few mornings ago and
were made man and wife The groom SAID
he was a dealer in horses.
The secretraafTiage at Madison of Miss
Genie Knight, nineteen years old, daughter
of Colonel ]. Fl. Knight wealthy lawyer,
lunlberman and politician of Ashland, tc
Leslie d. Rowley, aged twenty-five, com
mercial traveller and son of NJ. S. Rowley,
of Madison, was made public a few days
ago, and created sensation.
The Superior Mine in Ashland County
was recently sold by Captain N. d. Moore
to a Milwaukee syndicate. The purchasers
will soon commence the work of mining.
Mrs. Mary Mulcalius of GAINESVILLE, re-
certify received a. verdict Of 5000 againsa
The city for fatal injuries received by her
husband a year ago, by the caving in Of e
fire cistern. e
A new post-office has been established in
Door County, three miles east of Sturgeon
Bay, and George Pinney appointed as post
master The name of the Office is ever
green.n Z qa