The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-03-13
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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John James, an old resident of nil.
waukee, dropped dead at has hone the
other evening. Paralysis was the cause.
Deceased was seventy three years of age.
Carl LILLIAN, a resident of the town of
Milwaukee, froze to death It his home the
other nighS. LILLIAN lived alone. It was
supposed ne went home intoxicated and
lay down without fire. His BODY was
found The next morning by neighbor.
The City Council of Marshfeld hiss Of
fered $40 for the arrest of the man WIN
set fire TO the Upham Company's factories
and the company he's duplicated the offer
The factory employees have organized
themselves into vigilance committee.
Great suffering is reported among tn.
poor of Wausau. The amount set aside
by the county for the poor has been ex-
pended. and relief societies have been
organic ed.
The hog cholera is still raging In Manito-
Voc County, Veterinary Surgeon Atkinson
reported ninety cases and twelve deaths
recently in the pens of William Rohr g.
Sons, breeders Of Berkshires.
DR.. Clara Huntington, who has beer
engaged in the practice of medicine il
GAINESVILLE for several years, was arrested
few days ago and held to bail in s., 900.
| charged with causing the death, through
malpractice, of Mrs. II. G. Ebbetts.
A La Crosse gentleman, who was in Chi.
cago recently, tells how he wanted to get
across the street and slirmished along
some dis tance looking for cut or tunnel.
Seeing sign ahead surrounding a ten
foot drift he made for it, thinking it might
indicate a passage way. What the sign
said, was: ''Please keep off the grass
Only this and nothing more.
The chemist of the Agricultural Depart.
ment at Washington says his analysis OF
sugar canes the past season shows that the
sorghum of Wisconsin is much richer in
total sugars han the Southern cane is.
James Pars ons, of Sugar Grove, Vernon
County, recen tly shot black eagle that
measured sew N feet and three inches from
tip to tip of its wings.
Carl Taylor, Treasurer of the township
of Chelsea, Ia. vlor County, whose books
show deficit of $11 900, was arrested few
days ago in Florida, and would be brought
back.
Rev. j. Drummer, a Jesuit priest once sta
toned at Green Bay, died at Bombay re-
Gently, aged eigh ty years.
Norman and Charles willard have
bought an interest, of Mr.. Henry Sherry of
| all the real estate and personal property
| located at MilladcTe, Wood County, on the
| line of the Central Railroad. The property
consists of MANY hundred acres of pine,
| hard wood and farming lands, a large
stock of lumber, lath, shingles and the past
winters cut of pine Logs, also planning
mill, saw mill in course of erection, board
| tng-house, store and number of dwell
lings; in fact, the town belongs to the
firm, and the sale is the largest ever made
| in that vicinity.
The home of Ira Ives, fourteen miles
from Chippewa Falls, was destroyed by
fire the otherinight. Loss, $500.
The men employed in large manufact-
uring establishment at Green Bay have
signed total abstinence pledge, with
! clause that any delinquent shall wear
| barrel over his head, with his head stick
ing out at the top, one hour each day for
one week, with the words branded on:
q Traitor to the Cause"
A dispatch was received at Waukesha a
| few days ago for William LANCER, an
nouncing the death of his youngest
daughter, Mrs.. Josie Zinn, at her home
near Goshen, Ind. Deceased was married
at her fathers home, on East avenue, last
September, and had resided in Indiana
only five months. Her death was caused
by typhoid fever and lung complication.
| Minneapolis capitalists have purchased
/ twenty seven acres of land at Menominee,
| Dunn County, and will enter into the
manufacture of brick on a large scale.
Walter Pease, one of the oldest resi-
dents of WATERFOWL, died the other after
noon of congestion Of the lungs, aged
| eighty-six years. Deceased was born in
| Connecticut and engaged in business in
Hartford before going to Watertown in
1647. During his residence there he had
! carried on large farm. He leaves wife
| and four children.
Mr.. Ely, father of E. e. Ely and Mrs.
Judge Small, of Oconomowoc, died at his
home in New Jersey recently at the age of
ninety one years.
The GAINESVILLE Crock County, Prohibition
| Club organized a few evenings ago and
elected the following officers for the ensu-
ing year: President, w. A. Lawrence;
First Vice President, G.. j. Kellogg; Sec
ond Vice President, j. M. Alden; Secre.
tary, II. W. Sykes; Treasurer, G.. Held.
Mr.. Jake Lift has secured the manager
ship of the Milwaukee Academy of Music.
The GAINESVILLE Boot Company recently
| $1,000; liabilities, $4,000. The company wa9
organized four years ago.
1t is announced that a company stands
ready to build narrow guage railway
from Sturgeon Bay to Green Bay, If the
| people at the termini and along the pro-
posed line will pledge theright of way and
a bonus of $4,000. :.
The repair shops of the Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railway at Monroe, Greene County,
were burned the other night; loss, $1,000.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railway Company is building an iron
| bridge at Woodman, Grant County. The
| WORK employs seventy men.
Two wood -sawyers and driver, in TAX
ing corpse recently from a camp on
Jump River to Chippewa Falls, were at
tackled by apack of wolves. 1t is said that
the men killed twenty -seven Of the ami
mails, and finally succeeded in escaping.
William Ross Patch, of Lancaster, Grant
County, now travelling in the old country,
was obliged to hurry out of England to
avoid arrest as Suspect
Forty thousaad brook trout, destined for
streams in Grant County, were frozen to
death while il transit recently from the
State hatchery.
William Spelding, one of the largest
landowners in Rock County, died at Har-
mony the other night, aged seventy eight
years He was a brother of Mr.. Jesse
Spalding, the Collector of Customs at
Chicago.
III. ]. Swart, an old settler and pioneer,
living near Fort Atkinson, Jefferson Coun-
ty, died very suddenly the other day.