The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-13
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

2921s4c. Rye-No. ! 53}sc- Barley-No. 2
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| III. <. Smell, representing car company
of Harrisburg, Pa, was recently beaten
/ and robbed of 1900 at Elmhurst, Lang
| lade County.
| There was grand meteorologic display
1 at La Crosse the other night-an Ominous
| black sky, frequently pierced with light
/ ming flashes, which were followed by long,
| low peals of thunder. 1t looked for time
I as though terrific storm was about to
burst over that section, but it passed
/ around them and only few drops of rain
I fell.
| pair of Mormon proselyters are work
/ ing in the vicinity of Green Bay.
4 The safe of the agency of the Best
/ Brewing Company, in Eau Claire, was
robbed of 500 the other night There was
| no clue to the thieves.
A private letter received a few DAYS ago
states that General Lucius Fairchild, of
Madison, while en- route to California to
attend the Grand Army reunion was
robbed of $500 in a sleeping-car.
4 A number of Indians became intoxi-
Gated the other day near Cumberland,
| A3arron County, and INDUCED in pro-
| miscuous fight, in which several of them
we've badly cut up. They procured che
| liquor from two men named Schultz and
| Jacobson who were arrested and held to
| answer. No revolvers were used in the af-
| fray, but the Indians used knives, stones
| and clubs freely. -Four of the ringleaders
were taken into custody and locked up,
but We're soon afterwards released, Severe
/ punishment awaits the men who furnished
! the Indians with in6oxicants
| The BURBERRY crop is about at an end,
\ and thousands of bushels are going to
| waste in the vicinity of Shell Lake and
| Howard, north of Eau Claire.
| Edward W. Moore, suspected of the
| Search murder, near GAINESVILLE, was dis
charged from custody recently, the evil
dence being insufficient to warsant even an
examination.
The Chippewa Lumber and Boom Com
pany of Eau Claire, is build ing a shingle
| mill of immense capacity ia the forests
| about five miles from the town of Weyer-
| hauser, along the SaGlt Ste B[arie road. It
will utilize The waste timber in the June
chorpings, and it is claimed the venture
will pay large profits.
Bellington, ware drowned at Badger Mills,
! Chippewa County, few days ago. Bel
lington sacrific I'd his life in an endeavor to
save his companion.
An old soldier named Edward Cole, liy-
ing with his wife a few miles west of
Brodhead, Green County, received pension
money to the amount of $1,000 not long
since and kept the treasure in the bed.
That amount became due ON some land
few days ago and Cole repaired to the
place of deposit but the cash had depart
ed. The thief had secretsd himself under
the bed and had cut hole through the
center of the same and removed the
money without disturbing the occupants.
George N. Brown, printer, twenty-six
years of age, was dro wned in Lake Mono
ma, near Madison, the other evening, by
the upsetting of a boat.
The new directory of GAINESVILLE contains
the names of thirty-six Browns twenty
one Connors seventeen Jo'neses, fourteen
Johnsons, thirty Murphys, twenty Nc
Cues, twenty-three Rileys and sixty three
Smiths. The Smith family has increased
ten since the last directory was issued
Parties from Minneapolis are at Eau
Clair with view of making tests of soil
along certain portions of 81 x-Mile creek to
ascertain it's adaptability for the manu-
factlre of mineral paint
In the circuit court at Green Bay the
other afternoon W. B. Leppere was sen.
fenced 10 fourteen years in the State prison
for the murder of Byron Simpson year
ago. He was convicted last fall, but re-
al ~ Toll ParY -
The case was taken to the Supreme Court.
The decisions of the lower court were sus.
tanned, and the record being returned sen.
tence was passed The woman, Mary
| Filio, at whose house the tragedy occurred.
was arrested at the time ON the same
charge. The present action would proba-
bly, nelease her.
A Green Bay hay dealer predicts that
next year hay will be selling at twenty
| dollars q ton in that neighbol'hood.
USamHel Price, the first settler of the town
| of Price, in Langlade County, was found
| near Dea'brook the other morning uncon.
| scious from burns received in some un-
known manner, and died soon afterwards.
The great dro ught which has prevailed
| for three months past in tho State was in
tense in July, when only 79-1oO of an inch
| of water fell The average rainfall for
| the month of July from 1856 to 1885 was
| So 100 inches. There had not been suffi-
| cient rainfall in Madison to benefit vegeta-
ton since May 9. All the crops were
| short, and there would not be one-fourth OF
/ the average crop of tobacco, and not one
| tenth what there would have been had
! growers been permitted to set out plants
/ The new railway bridge over the Wis.
| consin river at Prairie du CHEN is COM
| pleted The structure is 1,S00 feet long, the
north trestle approach is 1850 feet and
| about twenty-five feet high, and the south
trestle approach is 1900 leet long, making
| the total length about IL, 600 feet.
TrempealeaU was greatly excited few
| days ago ove.. .he elopement of Maggie, a
| thirteen -yeaF-old daughter of John Brady,
| with John Sullivan handwriting man
! of thirty five. Sullivan drove to Brady'n
| place, near the bay, in buggy and in
| ducing the girl to enter the vehicle, drove
| off. The girls broth er and father pursued
l the fleeing couple to Winona and after
| some threatening talk the girl returned
| Eome. Sullivan soon after went to Brady's
! pl ace with friend and asked to see the
| girl. The father ordered him off the prem
| ses but he refused to go and was shot
dead. Brady gave himself up.
| Bay flies swarmed into Berlin in such
| clouds the other evening that business had
to be suspended. ALI were quite white, and
| it appeared as if snow-storm had visited
| the place.
| A prominent logger at Eau Claire has
| contracted to put in 70,00o,0D feet of logs
| on the west shore of the Chippewa river
The wife of Simon Fliegel, of Milwau-
| kee, abandoned his house a few days ago,
and with one of her children departed for
| places unknown. Mr. Fliegel is commits
sion merchant, who recently moved from
| Chicago.
Matte Jensen, OF Sheboygan, hanged
herself the other day. She was disap-
| pointed in love.
The Natiora! Soldiers Home near Mil