The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-04-03
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 3, TS0TS&c. Corn
No. 2, 4KR42c. Oats-No. 3, S1aS1Kc.
Rye-No. 1. 67f667kc. Barley-No. 9
Spring, 56t6561c; No. 8, 55kc.
Mrs. Elvis, the wife of a wen-known
jeweler at Marshfleld, Wood County, died
suddenly the other morning, presumably
of heart-disease. She attended to her du.
ties as usual the previous day, and was
apparently in good health.
The tannery of Pfster 6 Vogel, on
Vogel's Island, at Milwaukee, was burned
the other evening, with large amount of
stock, the total loss being 100000
Mrs. George o. Spear shot herself at her
home in Sturgeon Bay, Door County,
few days ago with pistol, infiicting q
wound in the right temple. Family trouble
caused her action. Her condition was
critical, with chances against recovery.
A. S. Foote, who served a term in prison
for firing printing-office in La Crosse, is
said to be keeper ola saloon in Chicago.
The La Crosse Chronicle is informed that
one of his prison friends had quite a sum
of money, and used it to start two or
three saloons, putting Foote in charge of
one of them.
Blanche Roosevelt Tucker, distinguished
in musical and literary circles, was one OF
the beauties of La Crosse years ago She
is now writing life of Dore, in London.
Mrs. Louisa Eissner aged sixty seven
years, dropped dead at her residence in
Quiz cho In of
the mother of Charles Eissner, who was
a delegate to the famous West Bend Con-
vention, and a supporter of General
Bragg, finally voting for Sumner. Paraly-
sis of the heart was the supposed cause of
her sudden death.
Congressman Sumner has returned from
Washington, and has resumed the practice
of law with his partners, Messrs. TullaF
and Hemlock, at Waukesha.
During a recent quarrel in colored
family at Manitowoc Happy Sam stepped
in to protect his wife against his stepson,
Boneless Charley, and was badly cut about
the neck and breast. The stepson was
drunk at the time.
The property of the Rock River Paper
Company, at Beloit, which originally cost
$3.50, 900, was sold at auction recently fol
$500.
Captain Pike, of Bayfield,, has contracted
to furnish 1000 cords of stone for the Lake
Shore & Western ore dock at Ashland.
Several years ago James Blackburn ar
rived at Milwaukee fir ON Canada. He soon
ingratiated himself with business men,
and was employed by the Milwaukee:
Lake Shore g. Western Railroad as pay
master. In 1880 the company built saw
mill at Norrie, Marathon County, ant
Blackburn was put il charge. Two years
later statements were demanded, but they
were unsatisfactory. The mill was finally
| shut down, and an examination of tho
| books showed a deficiency of $4,000.
Blackburn had been in the habit of ship.
ping lumber to Chicago and selling on his
own account. He was arrested few days
ago and turned over $4,000, after which he
left for Northern Michigan.
| The tug Oconto was sold at Green Bay
| few days ago by HI. W. Hart and Z. B.
Hart to Vanwinkle & Montague for $4,000.
She is SIDE wheeler, ight-draught boat
and will be employed at Garden Bay, this
State.
Miss Eva James, daughter of Senator
James, of Richland Center, Richland
| County, is SOLE manager of hss fathers i'm
mense business interests while he is in
Madison. having under her i'm fediate con-
troll large lumber-yar a tie-yard, mill
and two farms, keeping the books and
personally managing all the business.
Miss James has frequently paid out 81, 900
in one day for ties only, so the magnitude
of her undertaking can be estimated.
Will A. Powell, of La Crosse, is the only
| living officer of the Pawnee scouts of 1865.
| The chief, Major Frank North died recent.
ly, and Fred Kislingbury, the Second
| Lieutenant, was among the dead of the
Greedy Polar Expedition.
| More poetry is said to come from Wis
consin than any other State in the Union.
The La Crosse Chronicle says: GA meg
sage from the Louis ANA State Lottery
states that Mr.. Joseph Lutiger, of this
city, has drawn the capital prize of the
March drawing, $4,000. Mr.. Lutiger is
night yardmaster in the Fifth Ward rail-
road yard, and as deserving of good fort
une as anybody we know. The informa-
tlOu S6SLlS W D0 SOIdlSuG anu IciIdDle3 uuu
we hope it may prove So"
Rev. Varnum Hull, veteran Baptist
clergyman of Milton Junction, Rock
| County, died few days ago.
The La Crosse Knitting Works Company
was organized the other evening with B.
| E. Edwards, President; M. Funk, Vice
President; w. R. Putnam, Secretary, and
| ,D1o of
machinery had been bought and the own.
er, Mr.. Marvin, is stakeholder in the new
| company. He will be retained as superin-
tendept. The company will employ fifty
hands to start with and increase the mum,
Der as fast as the product finds market.
| Lieutenant C.. A. Adams, of Green Bay,
has been ordered to join the United States
steamer Pensacola at Norfolk, for three
| years. cruise in South American waters.
| Peter Steenis, a liveryman of Appleton,
| Outagamie County, committed suicide by
hanging in his barn the other evening.
| Steenis went home under the influence of
| liquor in the afternoon, and after quarrel
ing with his wife threatened to kill him.
self. Afterward he was found hanging in
his barn. He had been a resident of APP
| pleton thirty years, and was well to do.
Miss Ida May Rusk, daughter of Gov
ernor Rusk, died early the other morning
after an illness of several weeks. She
was in the twenty sixth year of her age,
and was the second daughter Of the Gov
ernor. The funeral services occurred at
the Executive residence, and the remains
were taken to Viroqua, Vernon County,
her old home, for burial.
Mr.. Gavin Campbell, the new manager
of the Green Bay, Winona & st. Paul
Road, asserts that the line will be man
aged solely in the interest of the Farmers
Loan & Trust Company.
J.L. Rose, a shoemaker of Cuba City,
Grant County, at one time fellow-work-
man at the bench in Massachusetts, W tn
Vice President Henry Wilson, was frozen
to death the other nj ght while intoxicated.
The will of an over-sensitive musician in
Wisconsin contained the request that the
village brass band should not play at his
| funeral.
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