The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-10-23

tage of the INSCRIPTIONS and disadvan-
tage of honest citizens; that the associa-
ton would withhold support from news
papers which maliciously vilify the liquor
business, and would support no candidate
who was not in sympathy with the aims
of the association; that the association
desired good order, and would cooperate
in all sensible and practical means to that
end, and denounced the sale of intoxicants
to minors and habitual drunkards.
Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations. Wheat = No. 2, 90%G791 &c.
Corn-No. 2, 43t043Ac. Oats-No. 2, 25A0
&c. Rye-No. 1, 6O18G061c. Barley-No.
Spring, 54Kc.
of Clark County was held at Neillsville
few days ago. #
The man who was found hanged recent
ly in a freight Car at Kansas City proves
to be Louis Knoll. formerly we'll KIN own
and wealthy livery stable owner of Mil
waukee. He was forty five years old.
At Eau Claire the other day Judge
home is near Ithaca, N. Y, to two years
at hard labor in the State Prison for steal
ing horse and buggy from a livery stable
in Eau Claire in July.
Conrad Faust and George Mainz, Of
Bailey's Harbor, Door County. were ar
rested a few days ago for illegal voting.
Manager Finney, Of the Wisconsin Gem
81 %o+a o% I, -
Western Indiana Line had refused the
Central terminal facilities in Chicago is
unfounded.
Fire was discovered in the big baEn of
the Chippewa Logging Company, at Chip
pewa Falls, 8 few afternoons ago, just
after freight train had passed, and the
flames soon crossed the street and de-
stroyed eight wooden buildings and one
brick boarding -houSe. The buildings de-
stroyed were occupied mainly by poor
persons, who lost most of their effects.
Quite number were burned and bruised,
but none very seriously. The total loss
was $4,000.
The creditors of J. p. Cooper, of Eau
Claire, will receive their dividends very
soon, in all probability, and the transac-
tion will be finally closed up. The assets
have not yet been accurately estimated,
but will probably amount to about SIS, 900,
or at least enough to pay fifty per cent.
The temperance resolutions were dis
cussed in an animated manner by the
Wisconsin Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence at it's recent session in Waukesha,
the scene at times being bosterous.
Finally the gathering adopted a strict
prohibition manifesto, with the proviso
that the political doings of members
should not be taken as the action of the
entire conference. The sale or use of
tobacco was also unequivocally con-
demned
The dead body of Jacob Kronshage, who
committed suicide, was found the other
day near the Soldiers Home at LeaTen-
worth, Kan. He was formerly of Bos-
cobel, Grant County. Liquor was the
cause of the suicide.
Clark w. Thompson, of La Crosse, and
widely known throughout the Northwest,
died at Wells, Mimi, the other night. The
remains were brought to La Crosse for
burial
In taking a pump from a well at Fort
Atkinson, Jefferson County the other day
a vast quantity OF small white roots was
discovered. They belonged to willow
tree which stood few feet off. They had
entered the well some thirty feet below
the surface and had entirely encased the
pump. 1t was necessary to cut them off
before the pump could be drawn out.
The Supreme Court of Wisconsin has re-
fused rehearing Of the suit of Mrs. Nc
Lienans VS.. The City of Lancaster, Grant
County, in which the plaintiff received a
Judgment of 5000 against the said corpo-
ration for injuries sustained by falling
through sidewalk. The Judgment and
costs amount to $4,000, which the taxpay-
ers of Lancaster will now have to pay.
Mrs. H. G. Lane nee Alice Townlay, who
left Port Washington, Ozaukee County,
some months ago to meet her Texas lover,
and who was married to him in depot,
causing quite little sensation, returned
to Port Washington few days ago a
widow. 1t turns out that her husband was
shot and killed few weeks after her mar
riage.
Solomon Gardner, of Freedom, one of
the eldest farmers of Outagamie County,
committed suicide by drowning recently.
His nat and coat were found on the bridge
with note, stating that he had drowned
himself His body was recovered. Gard
ner, on account or age, lately made over
all his property to his children, who there
after neglected him.
DR.. A. J. Hare has been elected Superin-
tendent of the Milwaukee County Insane
Asylum at the regular meeting of the
Board of Managers to I'LL the vacancy
caused by DIR. Scribner's resignation.
The President has appointed John iB.
Webb Register of the Land Office at La
Crosse, and Lloyd t. Boyd Receiver of
public money at Bayfield,.
Caddie Taylor, the Chicago girl con-
victed in Milwaukee of assault with intent
to kill, was taken to the House OF Correc-
tor the other day for term of six
months.
Henry Kurtz, a Medford (Taylor County,
druggist, failed recently for $1,000; assets,
s., 500.
The Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Company has commenced the purchase of
properly at La Crosse for the right of way
to the heart Of the city, and taken steps
towards the erection of magnificent new
depot, the whole to cost not less than
$500, 900
The body of Edward MaEniason, menu
Der of the crew of the Inflated schooner
Milton, was recovered from the lake about
five miles north of Three Rivers few
days ago by the hfe-saving crew. This
made three of the Millions crew that had
been found