The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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| The Wisconsin Central railway has de.
eided to locate IT'S shops at Waukesha
A large number of the neighbors of Mrs
! c. Rustad. widow at Clinton Junction,
i Rock County, gave her surprise party a
| few evenings since, bringing large guam
| tity of provisions, and also presenting her
| with the release of a mortgage of five hun
dred dollars on her home.
Fred CRUDE, farmer near Auburndale,
Wood County, served in the English army
throughout the Crimean war, and was en-.
| gagged in twenty three battles in the Union
! army, besides enduring for eleven months
| the horrors of Andersonyille.
1t is estimated that fully sixty million
feet of lumber will be shipped to the East
ern market from Menomonee the coming
summer.
4 Governor Rusk has made the following
| appointments: Mrs. E. B. Fairbanks, of
| Milwaukee, a member of the State Board of
Charities and Reform for five years; J. Y.
Jones' of Oshkosh, member of the State
| Fish Commission for three years; Paul
| Bechtner, of Milwaukee, a trustee of the
! County Insane Asylum for five years; j.
I. Reeve, of Appleton, Supervisor of In
| spectors of Illuminating Oils for two years;
and Adam Conrath, of Milwaukee, a MEM
Der of the State Board of Pharmacy for
! five years. All of the appointments date
from April 1, except that of Conrath,
which is from April ID.
Markesan, Green Lake County, has an
official blacklist, copies of which are posted
in drug stores and saloons. The druggists
and saloon-keepers are warned not to sell
| liquor to the listed ones
Henry Schuyler, who died at Sturgeon
Bay recently, helped to build the walk
| in the-Water,n the first steamer on the
lakes, in 1921. He was eighty-three years
| of age.
Mr.. John Johnston has been elected pres.
| ident Of the Milwaukee Chamber of Com
merce.
In West Prairie, Vernon County, Mrs. W.
| Shannon's house was burned the other
| night, the woman perishing in the flames,
| AS it was known that she had money on the
| premises, it was suspected that murder and
robbery were committed.
| The Chippewa Lumber and Boom Com
pany has purchased from Henry Corwith
| pine lands to the value Of $4,000 lying in
Chippewa and other counties Thomas
McDermott, of Eau Claire, has sold a tract
of hard lands in Chippewa and Saw
yer counties to parties in the East for
| $1,000.
| A large party of Norwegians recently
| left Mount Morris, Waushara County, to
settle in Dakota.
| John M. Hislop, book-keeper at the Mil
waukee Bridge-works, who mysteriously
| disappeared four years ago, has been heard
from. He is employed in a telegraph Office
| at Philadelphia
A fire totally destroyed Churchill's stors
| at Boscobel, Grant County, about two
O'Clock the other morning The flames
| communicated to Walkers brick block, IN
which were the Masonic and G.. A R. halls,
Delap's insurance office, the post-office and
the store of ]. W. Delap. Masonic Hall,
one of the finest in Southwestern Wiscosin,
was, with contents burned. The army
boys saved most of their goods by means
of ladders. The origin of the fire was q
mystery. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000
In dense fog early the other morning
four trains were telescoped in the outskirts
of Beloit. A. w. Squire, conductor, and
Manley Kenyon, brakeman, were badly
hurt. Tie trains consisted only of engines
and cabooses.
E. P. King, for thirty years justice OF
the peace at Beloit, died few days ago.
isidor Seidenbaum was a guest at the
house of Morris Rosenstein in Milwaukee
the other night. He arose early the next
morning and went to the bedroom of
Rosenstein's fourteen-year-old daughter
Annie and shot her through the head as she
slept He then shot himself He was eight
cen years old, and had been in love with
Annie, who repealed his advances.
Burglars made an unsuccessful effort to
get into the vaults of Sackett g. Fitch's
bank at Berlin, Green Lake County, a few
nights ago. They only succeeded in getting
into the outside vault, but secured nothing.
They also ransacEed the offices of Putnam
& Son and H. Stedman, but nothing was
taken of consequence. There was no clew.
Large numbers of ducks are being brought
down by huntsmen near La Crosse
At the recent municipal election in Mil
waukee Mayor Wallber Rep.) was re-
elected. The Council will be composed OF
twenty-five Republicans, eighteen Demo-
Gratis and two Independents. For the first
time since 1880 the Republicans of Madison
elected mayor, E. W. Reyes. His major
ity over his opponent, II. N. Moulton, the
present incumbent, was 416.
A wolf was shot within the city limits of
La Crosse recently.
1t has been decided to build branch OF
the Minneapolis, Sault Ste Marie & Allan
tic railroad from some point on the Me-
non1onee range to Marinette, distance of
about sixty or seventy miles.
D. B. Stewart, one of the oldest and most
respected citizens of Broadhead, died re-
Gently of pneumonia, aged sixty-eight years.
He had resided in Green County since 1853
and was an extensive land owner.
The recent great fire in the lumber dis
| trict at La Crosse caused total loss Of
1862, 000, with an insurance of $4,000. The
two pr ncipaI losers were G. /. Colman
$4,000, no insurence) and John Paul
| ($150, 900, 100000 insurance., whose lumber
mills were the largest in the country.
Another fire a few hours afterward in
GauteFts business block caused total loss
of s42 200; inquired for $4,000. The heav-
lest losers by this fire were George a. Metz
ger, wholesale drugs, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000; Fred Kroner, SIS 600; fully Insured;
S. Gautert, furniture, loss, $1,000; fully in
sured.
William CAM, one of the oldest pioneers
of the Chippewa valley, died the other
evening at Eau Claire after a protracted
illness, at the age of sixty-eight years. He
went to Eau Claire County thirty years
ago and engaged in several OF the early en-
terprises. He leaves family.
The next State fair will be held in Mil
waukee September % to 9th inclusive.
The wife of Frank Bonham, who went to
Grant County from Missouri in 1927. died
at Lancaster the other night at an adj
vanced age. She was one of the earliest
settlers.
The seventh session of the Monona Lake
Assembly, near Madison, will open July IS