The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-30
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS,

Io&c. hye-No. /, 6lB(d02c. Barley-No.
9 Spring, 56c.
The fair grounds belonging to the Wau-
kesha Agricultural Society were recently
disposed of at public auction to C. NJ.
White, 5000 in cash being the considera-
ton. Mr.. White will plat the property
into village lots next spring, and place
them upon the real-estate market
Workmen engaged the other day in
sinking well at the Chicago & North
western Railroad Stock Yards in Mont
fort, Grant County, struck rich vein of
lead ore, which promised to be inexhaust-
IDLE. The discovery had created no little
excitement at Montfort and vicinity.
Governor Rusk recently made the fol-
lowing military appointments for the First
Regiment: Colonel, S. j. Lewis, of Mon
roe, vice Britton, resigned; Lieutenant
Colonel, j. B. Lagrange, of GAINESVILLE,
vice McLennegan, resigned: Major, Will
lam Helm, Of Madison, vice Lewis, pro-
NOTED.
One of the most important trans actions
consummated in Appleton for several years
was the recent consolidation Of the Manu-
facturers' National Bank with the Com
mercial National Bank. The bank will be
known as the Commercial The capital
stock of the joint institution will be $780,
600, with surplus of $4,000.
Diphtheria wasraging a few days ago at
Eau Claire in malignant form. The
Mayor and Board of Health closed the
West Side schools, four in number.
The Milwaukee Real Estate Improve
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filed articles of association at the State
House few days ago.
The body of Henry Pettys, who had been
missing two weeks, was recovered from
the river at Milwaukee the other forenoon.
He was aged twenty eight years and I'M
married. He was supposed to have COM
nlitted suicide.
Elijah Brown, of Neillsville, Clark Coun-
ty, recently received back pensions to the
amount of $1,64O.
George Harrington was sentenced by
Judge Bundy at Eau Claire recently TO
three years at hard labor at Waupun.
Harrington is about twenty years of age
and his offense was an attempt at high
way robbery.
The other afternoon q fire broke out in
the barn of the Central Hotel at Neills-
vile, Clark County, and consumed the
hotel and outlying buildings. Several
horses were burned and J. E. Breed was
frightfully burned while trying to rescue
his horses. Total loss, $4,000; no in-
surance.
The recent reports regarding smallpox
at Marinette were exaggerated. There
were but two cases, which were isolated.
Joseph Klien and Miss Ray Schaffner,
alleged clippers, who said they were from
Chicago, were married in the court house
at Milwaukee few days ago.
August Market, of the town of Milwau-
kee, died the other morning from the
effects of paris green, which ne had taken
with suicidal intent. He was sixty-six
years old.
While hunting recently at Mill Creek,
Richland County, Robert Owens lighted
his pipe, which exploded in a few mo-
ments, severely burning his face and
wounding one cheek. Owens had unwit-
tingly placed in the pipe with the tobacco
a cartridge, which was exploded by the
burning weed.
Rev. DIR. E. A. Cole, distinguished
Episcopal divine who had been in charge
of Nashota (Waukesha County, Seminary
since 1851, died very suddenly the other
morning, aged sixty-six years.
The proceedings at Port Washington,
OZaukee County, against Sheriff Weyker
and others, who were arrested for desc
Grating the grave of Maggie RunkIe, were
quashed few days ago, no Justice being
found in the county who could or would
take cognizance of them.
Thomas Hogan, brother of j. J. Hogan,
wholesale grocer, of La Crosse, died at the
Madison Insane Asylum the other after
noon. Deceased had business troubles and
lost his wife, which so affected his reason
that it was necessary to conine him.
EsThe ia mily of William Donovan, of Wa
tertown, who is confined in an insane hos
pital, recently received back pensions to
the amount of $4,000. Donovan belonged
TO the Seventeenth Wisconsin Regiment.
Alice Edwards three years ago ran away
from her husband, who is a lq Tor dealer
at Cincinnati In vain he tried 10 find her,
and finally gave up the chase. The other
day he was in Milwaukee on business, ard
when his wife, who was clerking in a
store, left for home, she unexpectedly
found herself face to face with her hGs
band. A reconciliation followed, and
both left for Cincinnati.
The Eau Claire Lumber Company is To-
ating fifteen camps near Thorp, Clark
County. Thirty-five million feet of logs
are to be banked on the north and south
forks of the eau Claire River.
At the recent annual convention in Mil
waukee of the State Undertakers' Asso-
citation the following officers were elected:
President, Carlos Bacon, OF Baraboo; Vice.
President, William Spikes, of Oshkosh;
Secretary, c. H. Grant, of Stevens Point;
Treasurer, J. p. Schumacher, of Green
Bay; Executive Committee, j. T. Smith,
Of Milwaukee, II. Hanson, of Kenosha,
and William Thiele, Of Whitewater.
A case of CHAMBERS was discovered re-
Gently in the streets of La Crosse. The
team belonged to a farmer.
MCGEE e. Gilmore, extensive Chippewa
River loggers, have taken contract to
put into the river 60,0OO,0OO feet of logs
from pine tract located above Glidden,
IN Ashland County. This is one Of the
largest contracts of the kind ever made on
not cut to exceed 10000, 900 feet annually,
it viii require from eight to ten years to
complete the job.
The Fraker- Graves mill, seven miles be-
yond Amigo, Langlade County, has
turned out 100000 feet of lumber this
season, and the Harlow mill, at the same
place, about 100000 feet.
A. Warren Phelps, pioneer of Mil
waukee, died recently from injuries re-
ceived in a RUNAWAY accident few days
before.
fire department has been organized at
the State University at Madison. Tt con-
sists of eighteen members and three hose
carts. A system of alarms and signals has
been adopted.
Burglars recently opened the safe of
George Simonds, at Star Prairie, st. Croix
County, and got $780,
The propellers n. j. Jewett and Albany
INDUCED in a race recently from Port