The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-01
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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| The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, 741S(@744c.
Corn-No. ?, SS1S@SSHc. oats-No. 2, 251s
| @2515c. Rye-No. 1, Size. Barley-No-2
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Thirty-three teachers are employed In
conducting the regular fall teachers insti-
/ tutes in the State.
A new brick school-house, which cost
$1,000, has been completed at Sheboygau.
Mrs John Upsalt, living a few miles
from the village of Chetek, Barron Coun-
! ty, was murdered by her husband few
nights ago, who cut her throat from ear to
J ear, and then returned to his room and
{ hung himself with BEDFORD. Domestic
| infelicity was said to have been the cause
of the act.
There are $50 life members of the State
Agricultural Society.
The State university has 16O freshmen
this year.
The malignant diphtheria epidemic in
Louis Valley, La Crosse County, proved
fatal to all the children in Martin Mollov's
family, five in number. Three died in
New corn has already been marketed in
Eau Claire. Forty cents per bushel,
seventy-five pounds by weight, was the
market price.
The Eau Claire Roller Mill Company or
ganized and filed articles of Incorporation
the other day with a cash capital stock of
$4,000, the object being to carry on a
general milling business.
Lumbermen get twenty cents log at
Warsaw for raising "dead " or water
soaked logs from the bottom of the Wis
consin river. They have already raised
about 5000 feet, and logs that have been
dead for twenty years are said to be as
sound as the day on which they were cut
The schooner F. ]. King, owned mainly
by j. S. Durham, of Chicago, was sunk off
Bailey's Harbor, Door County, early few
mornings ago. She was loaded with iron
ore for the Joliet (IlL) Steel Company.
The four-year-old daughter of Bryan
Doolan, of La Crosse, was burned to death
few days ago. Her clothes caught fire at
the stove while she was alone in a room.
The Chippewa Lumber and Boom Com
pany's sawmill at Chippewa Falls was
struck by lightning early the other morn
ing, fred and destroyed, causing a loss Of
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| The Wisconsin UndertakerS' Associations
at its recent session in Oshkosh elected B.
L. Thomas, of Milwaukee, president.
| James S. White, comptroller Of Milwau-
| kee for three terms, was recently taken to
| State prison to serve a two year and half
| term for embezzling 5000 in city bonds
| The district attorney of Shawano Coun-
! ty has refused to prosecute polygamous In,
! dams on the ground that the county should
| not be subject to the expense of regulating
/ the private morals of those wholly under
the control of the general Government
! At Milwaukee the other night Toshio
| Aoki, native of Japan, was married to
/ Eva La France, an American, a justice of
the peace performing the ceremony. The
groollis member. of the japanese Viii
lage Company, which was exhibiting ct
! the exposition.
In the United States Court at Madison
few days ago James d. Leonard, of Nova
Scotia, and Watson Benjamin, of Boston,
were sentenced to State prison for seven
and one-half years each for passing coun-
|
i about 81 600 on their persons, all but $50
/ Of which was good money. r.
| Judge Amos P. Prichard, for the last
twenty-nine years judge of Rock County,
| died suddenly at GAINESVILLE at Gas o'clock
! the other morning of heart-disease. The
Judge was in the act of getting out Of bed
/ when he fell back dead. He had been elect
| ed county judge eight times (four-year
! teTms) without opposition. He leaves a
! wife and four children.
| new life-saving station has been
opened at the entrance of the Sturgeon
/ Bay canal, in Door County.
| Washington Mills, of Alton, Rock Coun-
ty, was killed by a passenger train the
other night, his body being cut in halves.
| A stalk of corn measuring III feet and
! bearing an ear eighteen inches in length
! was grown just outside of the city limits
! of Eau Claire.
| Wisconsin has had nineteen Gubernato-
! rial elections.
| S: D. Chappell, of the town of Norwood,
! Langlade County, recently grew twelve
! potatoes in one hill, the aggregate weigh
| of which was ten pounds.
A cyclone visited the section of tinDered
| country on the west fork of the Chippewa,
| two miles north of the village of Hay
] ward, Sawyer County, few days ago and
laid waste eight million feet of standing
| pine, the property of the North Wisconsin
| lumber Company. The track of the wind
! was six miles long and over eighty rods in
| width, crushing and telling all the timber
in its course.
i At Pittsvi1le, Wood County, iCharles
Brown was shot fatally by a young fellow
/ named Gus Willett few nights ago. Will
lett was drunk and claimed that the shot
was accidental He was locked up.
A force of three hundred men, mostly
old employees, began work few days ago
at Chippe wa Falls rebuilding the works of
| the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Com
pany, recently destroyed by fire.
At Mukwonago, Waukesha County, Mrs.
| Gale Chain, sister-inlaw OF Eugene
| Chain, the well-known Prohibitionist OF
| Waukesha, shot and killed herself while
temporarily insane few days ago.
| A chime of bells is to be placed in the
new German Lutheran Church at Wausau.
A Wisconsin lumber company has been
restrained by an injunction from turning
the waters of Lake Sisabegama into Long
lake.
The installation of the recently-appoint.
| ed Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese
of Green Bay, Frederick Katzer, occurred
few days ago, Archbishop Heiss per-
forming the ceremony, assisted by Bishops
Ireland and Vertln.
| There is an unusually large number OF
| wolves in Adams County this year, and
thew were causing much loss tc the owners
| of chickens.
Mrs. Ericsson, aged seventy four years,
was recently burned to death at her homo
/ near Martinsville, Grant County, while
| cooking plums.
Rev. o. A. Curtis, on leaving Milwaukee
recently for a three-year course of study
/ in Europe, was presented with a draft for
$3.50 and a parchment bearing the auto
graphs of the congregation of Summerfeld