The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

! WIoCO1fO1N OIAlE NE w y.
| EThe following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No Z, sl1{@S2c Corn
No. 2, 371s@3724c. oats-No. 2, 29115C1oOc
Rye-No. l, 5S]4@59alc Barley-No- 2
| Spring, 505sc.
The twentieth convention 0f the North
western Dairyfnens Association was held
recently at Beloit, Rock County. W. D.
Hoard, of Fort Atkinson, was reelected
president for suing year.
The old soldiers of Wausau aud Mar
quette counties are making arrangements
/ for reunion on the 9th and 10th OF June
The stores of C. A. Maurer and Charles
+ Brown, at Glenbeulah, Sheboygan County,
were totally destroyed by fire late the other
night, together with the stocks. Loss, sI0,-
600; insurance light
Boot and shoe manufacturers at Milwau-
kee, with one exception, refused q few days
ago to concede demands of their employees
touching a scale of prices. The Executive
Committee of the Knights of Labor was
engineering the affair, and it was believed
that six hundred men would quit work.
| The old settlers ofnMilwaukee held their
reunion and banquet at the Plankiaton
House few days ago.
Nelson Dewey, who served from 1S4S to
1852 as the first Governor of the State of
Wisconsin, has brought suit in the Grant
County circuit court at Lancaster for di-
vorce from his wife, Catherine Dewey, To
whom he has been married thirty-siX years
For nearly fifteen years they have been
separated, but have never been legally
divorced. He is seventy-two years old, and
! Mrs. Dewey is tifty-fve.
Thomas Koran, a notorious confidence
man who has practiced extensively in the
Northwest, was recently arrested at Mil
! waullee and taken to st. Paul.
Henry Clark, a man without limbs, died
few days ago in Seneca, Wood County,
where he had lived in seclusion for over
! forty years, earning a scant subsistence by
making baskets.
D. 3. Peck, of Fort Atkinson, Jefferson
County, died very suddenly the other morn
ing. He was one of the old settlers of that
place, and the father of George w. Peck,
of Milwaukee.
1t recently cost = man fifteen dollars to-
steal seven dollar chair from a ShebOY
gan factory
1t is expected that normal school will,
be held at Poysippi, Waushara County, in
the spring
The first annual meeting OF the Trem-
pealeau County Poultry Breeders Associa-
ton was held recently at Independence
and the following officers were elected
President, G. J. Case, of independence.
vice-presidents, w. d. Wickham, of INDIE
pendence. J. R. Brabazon, of Delavan, c.
| FL. Belding, of Madison, Rev. H. Clement,
of Montana, P. w. Flanders, of EIkhorn,
g. A. Markham, of Independence; treas
urer, George Kindschi, of Montana; board
of trustees, Florian Ruedy, d. Watt, George
button, G. J. Case w. D. Wickham, George
Kindschi, g. A. Markham.
1t is claimed that E. w. Dexter of tnes
town of Liberty, Vernon County, is the sol
der mentioned in Grants memoirs who
surrounded and captured half-dozen Mex
leans on a roof at Chapultepec, at the
storming and capture of that place during
the Mexican war. Grant did not know the
name of the soldier, but Mr. Dexter, while
applying for a pensonin 1886, told Mr. Patch
en- the incident. The wound on which nc
based his application was received on the
roof after the capture, while waving the
flag he had taken.
Captain Alfred B. Judd, of Milwaukee,
has beel appointed United States Pension
Agent for the district having its headquar-
ters at Milwaukee
1t is said that Rev. r. G. Quin, of Osceola,
Polk County, was found drunk on Broad
way, New York, a few days ago. His
watch, valued at $50, was stolen, as we'll
as $130 in money. He said that he was OH
his way to Europe and could not account
for his humiliating condition. He was
temporarily committed.
band-saw fifty-seven feet in length is
being put into mill at La Crosse.
Circulars have been issued by the Wis
consin AUTHORIZATION League advising
its members to organize for the spring cam
paign, and to see to it that none but liberal
minded persons are elected as village, town
and city officers.
1t is said that United States Senator Phi
letus Sawyer, the Wis, o lsin lumber mill
ionaire, has adopted a saw-log as a coat-oE
arms.
The East Side TObOggan club, of Eau
Claire, has splendid slide along the cliff,
the distance bling just half mile. The
run was made recently by three members
in thirty seconds, which was the fastest
time on record there.
The post-office at South German town,
Wa aington County, was entered few
nights ago and robbed of sixty-seven dol
lars worth of stamps.
Elmer j. Vineckes, brakeman on the
st. Paul road, fell from his train the other
| night and was run over and killed north of
Western Union Junction.
Henry Tabor, aged sixty-seven, an al
legged relative of ex-senator Tabor, of Col
orado, was killed by fall near Berlin.
Green Lake County, the other morning.
The Blue-Monday Reading Club is the
name of a ladies' organization at Eau
Claire.
From twelve hundred to fourteen hun
dred persons attended the recent Knights
of Labor Mardi- Gras carnival at Appleton.
1t is apparent that every one at James
vile has the polo fever The type-setters
and shoe-makers of the Bower city recently
had contest.
''Twenty-ni: cent dances " are still
given in GAINESVILLE.
Wolves has BEN seen of late in the
town of johnson in the region of James
vile.
The Excelsior Mining Company of Wau-
sau filed articles of Incorporation with the
Secretary of State few days ago. The
object is to do mining business in the iron
regions of Wisconsin and Michigan. The
capital stock is 5000
Martin o. Simons, tried recently at Bar
| aboo, Sank County, for arson, was acquit-
ted on the ground, it is said, that there is
no law prohibiting the burning of ones
own house.
There is living in Albany, Buffalo Coun-