The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-02-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

W1SCUNSlN STATE NEWS.
The Grand Army of the Repub1I,
The nineteenth annual encampment of
the Grand Army of the Republic, depart
ment Of Wisconsin, met at Madison a few
days ago. The total number of members
In the State is 9,l65; number of posts, 1913.
The receipts during the year were Sc. 414.S9;
disbursements, $4,6l3.51; cash on hand,
S1,S01.3S. A resolution was adopted that
commandments and the Board of Managers
of National homes make provision for
soldiers pending an examination of their
papers, by building temporary barracks Of
wood and supplying them with food and
clothing, as the homes were now over
crowded. The following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Department
Commander-James Davidson, of Sparta;
Senior Vice Department Commander
Earl M. Rogers, of Yiroqua; Junior Vice
Department Commander-T. w. Haight, of
Waukesha; Surgeon-F. W. Byers, of
Monroe; Chaplain-J W. Sanderson, of
Milwaukee; Council of Administration
w. A. Wyse, of Reedsburg; George E.
Smith, of Racine; H. P. Fischer, of Mil
waukee; D. G. James, of Richland Cen
ter; George c. Ginty, of Chippewa Falls.
wisconsin Items.
q The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 3, 76G1761c. Corn
No. 2, 4Ot041c. Oats-No. 2, 91031}&c.
Rye-No. 1, 64k@6G14c. Barley-No. 2
Spring, 54HC05424c; No. 8, 5Sc.
The Milwaukee Chamber Of Commerce
propose to present to tho Legislature bill
for the appointment of a railroad COM
| mission similar to that of Illinois.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. A. Weber, of Mil
waukee, celebrated their golden wedding q
few days ago.
Charles Dawson, a Hebrew, nineteen
years old, was recently arrested at James,
vile for collecting five hundred dollars
from Chicago parties, for which he failed
to make return.
The principal hotel of Superior City,
| Douglas County, was burned the other
| night. 1t was not a large one, and the loss
| was small. The guests narrowly escaped
with their lives.
The Richland County Agricultural soci-
| Center, commencing on the 18th of next
month.
John Remington, one of the Oldest set
tiers of North Prairie, Waukesha County,
died recently, aged eighty years.
! Barney Busbois, half breed, from the
Menomonee reservation, was arrested by
| Deputy United States Marshal Henry Mar
1 of PoI n i
with taking a quantity of liquor on the
reservation. He was arraigned before
United States Commissioner Bromley,
pleaded guilty, and was ordered committed
to the Milwaukee County jail to await
sentence from the United States Court in
that city.
| Sash and door manufacturer of several
Wisconsin towns formed the Northwestern
Association the other night, and elected
G. M. Paine, President. They resolved to
reauce the out put, and to call in their
"drummers" for thirty days.
| Charles e. Andrews, the baking powder
manufacturer, of Milwaukee, made an
assignment few days ago to F. G. Bige-
low, reporting assets of $4,000 and liabil-
flies of $180,00O,
| A recent fire at the village of Fall
Creek, in the eastern part Of Eau Claire
County, reduced the furniture store and
dwelling of William Nieber to ashes, and
also a hotel building adjoining, involving
total loss Of $50, 900. Nieber's loss on
building is $4,000, of stock and household
! goods $1,000; covered one-half by insur-
ance The loss on the hotel building is
$1,000; insurance light. By great EXERT ons
| the whole town was saved from a clean
sweep by the fire.
| Frank Miller, an old soldier living near
Marshfield, Wood County, recently re-
ceived pension arrears amounting to S515.
David Gorham, of Shewano, is one of
the oldest printers in the State. Fifty
| four years ago he 9earned the boxes" in
| the Wisconsin Democrat, paper published
in Green Bay by the late G. G. Sholes.
| john J. Orton, one of the foremost law
yers of Wisconsin, died at his home in Mil
waukee a few nights ago, leaving to his
wife and child an estate valued at $500, 900.
Mr.. Orion was born in Brookfield, Madi-
| son County, N. Y, in 1872, admitted to the
bar in 1S47, and settled in Milwaukee in
| 1849. He became famous in defending a
| personal suit against him by J. A. Noonan,
/ a prominent politician, which lasted thirty
years, and in which he alone gained vic.
tory over an army of sixty five lawyers.
The Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance.
Company of Milwaukee will buy the New
hall House site and erect an Office building
to cost over 100000. The building will be
one of the finest in town.
Carl Miller, German, living on Rock
River, a mile east of Edgerton, Rock
County, was arrested the other day on the
charge of stealing tobacco from the sheds
of Henry Whitaker and James Hopkins,
residents of Fulton. A light snow which
fell the night before made it an easy mat
ter to track the culprit to his home, where
sixteen bundles of bulk tobacco were
found. Seven were taken at Hopkins
and nine at Whittaker's. The value of the
property was nearly 500.
Nels Pearson, alias George W. Wilson,
William Needham, alias William Farrell,
and Henry Lutz, alias 'Slim Jim," we'll
known crooks, were sentenced at Madison
few days agot to two years each in the
State Prison for burglary.
A crowd of Polish roughs attacked
German in a saloon at Berlin, Green Lake
County, few nights ago and, after rob-
bing him of about 5000, amused themselves
by beating and pounding him till he was
nearly dead. The man escaped and ran on
the river, where he fell into hole from
which ice had been cut during the dav.
He was luckily seen by policeman and
rescued. He was very badly frozen and
would probably die from the effects of his
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