The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-12
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


An ancient feud between Anton Helm
rod and John Baur terminated the Other
day at Kaukauna, Outagamie County, in
the fatal shooting of Baur by Helmrod.
Baur leaves an invalid wife and three
children in destitute circumstances.
Lumbermen who have returned from the
Wisconsin pineries report that il forty
years the production of logs has not been
so expensive as this season. The cut will
not be more than eighty per cent. of last
falls anticipations.
The State University Glee Club is oon-
templating weeks trip through the north
ern part of the State in few weeks. Eau
Claire and other cities will be visited.
The log-cut on the Black river and its
tributaries now amounts to 120,000000 feet.
The ladies of Rhinelander, Lincoln Coun-
ty, are using snow-shoes.
Late the other night a strange man
raised the window of the dwelling-house of
George Kundert at Marshfield, Wood
County, entered the house, and after a ter
rible struggle criminaIIy assaulted Mrs.
Kundert, who was at the time sick abed.
Her husband is employed as night watch
man, and no one was with the woman ex-
cept boy about ten years old. The ruffian
choked and beat the woman until she be-
came exhausted.
Archbishop Heiss, of Milwaukee, has ad,
vised the priests of his diocese to use their
endeavors to restrain Catholics from afili-
ating with the Knights of Labor
Governor Rusk has appointed Captain
George B. Carter, of Platteville, at present
a clerk in the State land office, county
judge of Grant County, vice William Nc
Gonigal, deceased.
A. R. Grant, foreman in Mitchell's plan
ing-mill at Hatley. Marathon County, was
caught by revolving shaft a few days
ago, and it was Thought was fatally in
jured.
One of the Lake Monona ice-boats at
Madison is said to run mile minute with
a good quartering wind.
A leader of the Socialists of Milwaukee
was roughly handled at meeting of the
Tanners and Curriers' Association of that
city recently for demanding the floor to
answer remarks denouncing Anarchists and
Socialists, and more trouble was antici-
pated.
Michael Tracey and George England
were held for burglary at Watertown few
days ago. England has lived twenty years
in Waupun State prison, fourteen of which
were served for his connection with the
killing of John Deegan at Milwaukee in
1862.
Officials OF the Wisconsin Central road
claim that by. April they will have their
track laid to the suburbs of Chicago.
The owners of the Bay View nail-works,
near Milwaukee, have effected settle
ment with the striking employees, and work
has been resumed. The scab workmen arc
to be discharged, the Mingo scale will be
paid, and ten per cent. extra will be al
lowed on automatic feeders.
While arrangements were being made re.
Gently to blast the earth fer new elevator
atWest Superior, Douglas County, Swede
named Anderson went to adjust the wires
for the blast. Foreman McVey, who stood
at the battery, supposing that Anderson
was ready connected the wires, and mo-
ment afterward found to his horror that he
had blown off .Andersons right arm. The
wounded man was doing well.
A camp of Sons of Veterans is to be or
ganized at Eau Claire T..
Presiding Elder Lugg, of the GAINESVILLE
district, vonches for the cure by faith of
two men after fervent prayers in their be-
half. One, who was pronounced incurable,
arose from bis bed and walked to church
the following Sunday, and the other, vet
eran soldier, who had used crltches since
the war, wss enabled to dispense With their
use.
Captain Edward Cox, of Sturgeon Bay,
Door County, has invented steamboat for
winter travel on Green bay that is 10 glide
over the ice at the rate of thirty miles an
hour. He has completed an experimental
boat and has invited friends to witness a
trial trip.
A project is on foot at Milwaukee to or
ganize an association which shall employ
men to ferret out and prosecute persons
who fumigate barley.
A Swedish Lutheran Church and school
are to be established in Eau Claire.
About million acres of valuable pine
lands in Northern Wisconsin, in the Bay
field region, will revert to the Government
if the bill introduced by Judge Payson in
Congress becomes a law Its terms pro-
vide for the forfeiture of unearned lands
granted to the State of Wisconsin by Con-
gress in 1854.
A Temple of Honor convention wiz be
held at WATERFOWL March 16 and II.
At the recent conference in Madison Of
the State Board of Charities and Correc-
tions officers were elected as follows: Pres
ident, ]. @. Adams, of Columbus; vice
president, ]. S. Myers, of Verona; score
tary, A. O. Wright.
A committee to nominate a president of
Nashotah Seminary was formed few days
ago at a meeting of Episcopalian Bishops
at Milwaukee. The rumor has been revived
that the seminary will be combined with
the new Episcopalian College at Chicago.
John Ellis, of Moundville, Marquette
County, raised twenty-one hundred pounds
of tobacco IN two acres.
Receiver EImore sold at auction at Green
Bay few days ago the unconverted Sc
curities AID assets of the Strong Bank.
They brought comparatively little. The
total nominal value represented was about
10000, and the amount realized $1,240. As
a specimen one bidder raked ia a batch of
old notes and stock of nominal face value
of $4,000 for 81. The largest sale was to
angus Smith, Of Milwaukee, an interest in
mineral lands on the Menominee iron
range for $500.
The roads in the Wisconsin pineriss are
now in excellent condition, and the logging
crews are pushing work so rapidly that the
desired cut will be made without difficulty.
Daniel Bowling, prominent contractor
and builder of GAINESVILLE, fell dead on Mil
waukee street the other morning, the cause
of his death being heart-disease.
1t is stated that the burnt district Of
Augusta, near Eau Claire, is to be rebuilt
at once. The fire losses have been adj
justed. Between $4,000 and s2S,OOO was
paid on forty policies issued by fifteen com
panies.
Over two thousand pounds of cheese were
manufactured in Manitowoc County last
season.
T. Maxfeld and ]. G. Beecher, notorious