The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-03
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

quotations: Wheat-No. 2, Tie Corn
No, 2, 41s%c. Oats-No. 2, 261zc. Rye-No..
l, SOC. Barley-No. 9, 5S9lc.
A Berlin company expects to ship thir-
teen thousand yards of granite before 1857.
A Prohibition paper has been started at
La Crosse.
Much of the land burned over by forest
fires near Two Rivers, Manitowoc County,
was covered with bare and half-rottem
trunks of hemlocl1 trees, cut down years
ago for the bark on them and left to rot.
The drought, says the Two Rivers Gazette,
rendered the brush, tree-trunks and even
stumps very infiammable, and when onca
a fire got started it went right through,
clearing more land than five hundred men
could clear in five years. Next year these
lands, if seeded down this fall, will make
excellent pasturage. 1t is not all damage
that the fires have done; some good will re-
suit from them.
A new post office has been established at
Waubeek, Pepin County.
Three carrier-pigeons released at day
light recently at Wilmington, H., arrived
at Milwaukee at T:30 D. m. The distance
is about 100 miles.
A terrific rain and wind-storm set in at
Evansville at four o'clock the other after
noon. The wind blew gale and the rain
fell in torrents. Three inches of water fell
in an hour. The storm was general through
out the county. Reports coming in stated
that many barns and tobacco sheds had
been wrecked. Corn had been leveled to
the ground. In the evening there was an
other rain and hail-storm, which cut grow
ing tobacco terribly.
Last spring Henry Richards fell and
broke his leg on defective sidewalk in
Bridge Creek, Eau Claire County, and
now he wants the town to pay him $1,000.
The Western Summer School of Philoso-
ply was formally opened at milwaukee,
the other evening, Mr.. John Johnston de-
livering the address of welcome.
Henry D. Webster well-known bust.
ness man of Milwaukee, died there a few
days ago, aged sixty-five years. His
death was not looked for, as he appeared
in excellent health but a short time be-
fore.
The $4,000 residence of Nathan Marks, of
Retreat, Vernon County, was destroyed by
fire few Gays ago.
The other morning barn, hay-shed and
fifty tons of hay belonging to farmer
named VanbuskIrk, living six miles west
of Eau Claire, were struck by lightning and
consumed. Loss, 81, 500; no insurance.
Governor Rusk has pardoned Charles
| Carter and IL E. Lucus Carter had served
two years OF three years term for killing
an Indian, and Lucas was serving q short
term for receiving stolen goods.
Edward King, of Eau Claire a German
| Ill E
gun at his wife few evenings ago, but
failed to hit her. He then reloaded the
gun and shot himself in the neck and died
soon afterwards. The cause of his action
was Jealousy.
Joseph Leveque, an employee of the Me-
nominee Water Works Company, was
struck twice on the back of the neck re-
Gently by a sand-bag OF sluug-shot in the
hands of some unknown person and
dropped dead on the spot. 1t was supposed
his neck was broken. His assailant ran off
rapidly and made his escape.
The scene from the Northwestern train
between Fort Howard and Oconto is des-
olate one. Two weeks ago the land was
thickly wooded up to the line of the rail-
road. Now there is not living tree left
| standing. The flames swept down through
| the country, licking up the brush and dead
trees and killing the live ones which were
too green to burn.
A meager report was received at Eau
Claire few days ago that Albert Savaria
and his family, well known in that locali-
| ty, had been murdered by Indians The
Savarias started for the far West five
weeks ago, and the direful news was the
first heard of them since that time.
Green Bay sportsmen are making ar
rangements for a grand deer hunt to come
off in the near future.
The Wisconsin Glass Works at Milwau-
kee were recently closed by the sheriff.
| At Beloit few days ago, shortly after
heavy storm had abated, two barns be-
longing to Clark Nye and Henry Allen
were struck by lightning and burned. The
loss was about So, 500.
Forty-five prohibition speeches are
billed for Eau Claire County this season.
A 110-pound turtle was caught recently
near Monticello, Marquette County.
The jailor at La Crosse recently found
his prisoners well prepared to escape.
They had bars of iron and knives secreted
in various parts of the Jail. The knives
had been smuggled in by outsiders.
A COW died of sun-stroke near Eau Claire
recently.
Much anxiety has been caused by the
ravages of hog cholera on farms west Of
GAINESVILLE. The cholera was brought there
by animals from the Chicago Stock Yards.
Out of a drove of two hundred in one
| place about one hundred and fifty had
died There were fears that the disease
would become epidemic.
A large band of Indians with their
squaws recently migrated from the Court
d'Oreille reservation, some ninety miles
north of Eau Claire, to the Big Chetek,
Birch, Balsam and other lakes for the pur-
pose of gathering their wild rice harvest
for the winter The crop will yield fairly
well, but not up to the average.
There was thrilling scene in Barnum's
circus at its recent exhibition in Madison.
Mrs Henry Reif's hat blew under cage
containing four panthers. When she
stopped to pick it up one of tue animals
caught her head in its paws, and Iacerated
her face in frightful manner. A keeper
was il The cage at the time, and attempted
to beat the animal back, but only sue
ceeded in stirring the savage natures ofthe
QUIET IHTee. Lucy dppeoEod Aeduy W GodT
him but he turned or them and succeeded
in lashing them back. Mrs. Refs wounds
were serious.
Rev. W. B. Guion, of St. Matthew's
Episcopal Church, Waukesha, has accept
ed call to go to Cleveland and take charge
of a parish there.
Miss Stanton, of Ixonia, Jefferson Coun-
ty, fell in a fit while carrying pot of
boiling tea recently and was fatally
scalded.
Mrs August Becker, of Milwaukee, adj
ministered carbolic acid to her eightyear-
old son. August by mistake a few days
ago. The little fellow died in great agony
shortly afterward His mother was almost
wild with grief.
Lumbermen in the region of Shawano
are putting up considerable wild hay this