The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-26
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


@slSc. Rye-No. l, 6514@651Sc. Barley
No. Spring, 5111c.
The Lake Shore House at Wausau, Mara
thon County, was destroyed by fire the
other morning. Insured for $1,000.
The other morning at six O'Clock wild
train on the Chicago & Northwestern rail-
way, going south, was thrown from the
track three miles north of WATERFOWL, and
the engine and fifteen cars were ditched..
The engineer, Al Shakey, of GAINESVILLE, had
two Of his ribs broken and received fatal
internal injuries
The people of La Crosse County are to
vote at the spring election for or against
the proposed appropriation of $4,000 for
an insane asylum.
Thirteen criminal cases are to be tried at
the spring term of the Chippewa Falls cir
cult court.
Governor RuSk has received notice from
Congressman Caswel that the long-con-
tested Wisconsin war-tax levy has been
adjusted The original levy was about
$4,000 The State had liquidated all but
$51, 900 of the indebtedness up to last Janu-
airy. Governor Rusk had set up demands
on the General Government for commits
sions due Wisconsin for collecting tho
same. The State was allowed fifteen per
cent. for collecting the tax on the final set
Element, and five per cent. on moneys re-
ceived from the sale of all public lands in
this State. These commissions have hqui-
dated the debt, and have left the General
Government in debt to Wisconsin over
100000.
The promoters of the Wisconsin Central
road have been granted a permit to build
a diagonal swing bridge across Chicago
river north of Twelfth street, after widen
ing the stream sixteen feet
The wages offering for log-drivers this
spring at Eau Claire are SO per day for
foremen and 50 to $3.50 for other workmon
and $3.50 for cooks.
The value of the hay raised in Grant
County last year was nearly three times
that of the wheat raised there; that of the
oats nearly four times, and that of the corn
nearly Ave times.
The soil of a tract of land near Eau Claire
has been found suitable for making paint,
ard p factory will soon be erected there by
a corporation,
Eau Claire is deemed very favor able
point for manufacturing enterprises. The
Board of Trade at that place is considering
an offer by Iowans to build carriage fac
tory if sufficient inducements are extended.
st. Paul parties also asked to be encouraged
in starting clock factory, and an Eastern
firm is asking for grounds on which it can
manufacture twenty thousand barrels o
day.
Within the past two weeks twenty-six
new members have been added to the Bap-
fist Church of Berlin, Green Lake County.
Fifty thousand brook trout have recently
been placed in the streams around Lancas-
ter, Grant County, as follows: Pigeon
branch, 10000; Walker branch, 1000; Suck
branch, 5000; Decker branch, Is, 900.
Insurance Commissioner Spooner's re-
port for the calendar year Of 1885 shows
that the total risks written by all fire, ma
rine, accident and guarantee companies in
Wisconsin, by companies licensed to do
business in the State, were 500, 955, 612;
premiums received, 81, 903,010; losses paid,
50, 250, $50; losses incurred, So, 15S, ESQ; per
cent. of losses incurred to premiums
ceived 74.59; life insurance policies issued,
SIG, 425, 805; premiums received, 1928, 9f1;
losses paid, S734,0S9.
A party of sixteen, including the mayor
and aldermen of Pekin, ILL.,, were in Beloit
recently to inspect the water-works, and O
public exhibition was given by the fcemen.
Two school boys of Berlin, Green Lake
County, recently engaged in regular ring
fight in a secluded portion of the city.
One fought as long as he could hold out,
and then turned his part over to a friend.
who was also beaten.
Several of the wealthy paper manufac-
turers at Appleton are disposed to establish
sulphite plant there for the manufacture
of sulphite pulp, which is designed as a sub
stitute for rags and other material used in
the manufacture of paper.
s. H. Carter, wholesale tobacco dealer at
GAINESVILLE, has failed.
Rev. Dionysius Maria Tappert the first
resident priest of La Crosse, died recently
in the Carthusian monastery of Valsainte,
in Switzerland, aged seventyone years.
A heavy shipment of fine bearskins was
recently made from La Crosse.
The examination of George Fl. Wardner
in the municipal court at Milwaukee re-
suited in his committal to the insane asy-
lum. 1t will be remembered that he recent
ly shot Abbott Lawrence on the street
The estimated cut of logs in Bayfield,
County this season is put at 109,00O,000 feet.
Governor Rusk has appointed Jerre R.
Dwyer register of deeds of Marinette Coun-
,f r. hi foft
Edmund Dwyer, deceased, who expired tho
first Monday in January, 1886.
The Appleton Paper & Pulp Company
will erect 100000 pulp mill at Monico,
Langlad County Il will employ 200
hands
Orders have been received at the State
hatchery from every county in the State
for trout, and there will be three millioE
distributed from the hatchery this year.
George Schlotthauer, who had lived in.
Madison twenty-nine years, the greater
portion of which time he was proprietor of
the Lake City Hotel, died recently of drop
sy, aged sixty-three years.
Lieutenant Adamson, U. s. N, has writ
ten to relatives in Wisconsin that his ship,
the Iroquois, is en- route to the Easter
Island, two thousand miles from the coast
of Peru, to examine and photograph for
the Smithsonian institute the remains Of
an unknown race. It is said that one of the
islands is covered with remarkable ruins,
andsthat the present residents are unlike
any other people.
scale of wages and rules, formulated
by the Knights of Labor, were signed the
other day by the cigar manufacturers of
Milwaukee. A general advance in wages
is conceded, and after May eight hours
shall constitute days work.
Mrs. William Coates, of Menomonee, re-
Gently eloped withiBenjamin Scoield. The
woman's husband found the pair at st.
Paul, and would take her back.
The Glee club of Lawrence marquette
County, university intends giving few
public exhibitions during the coming vaca-
ton.
The bee-keepers of Manitowoc County
have been called to meet in Kiel on the
18th inst
George Tonnar's drug store at Menomo-