The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-26
Wisconsin Items.


The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No 2, S0@S08c. Corn
| No 2, 3715(03Sc. Oats-No. 2, 29115(030c.
Rye--No. l, 5S19@5914c. Barley-No. 3
Spring, 513sc.
District Deputy Moody has organized
| branches of the Knights of Labor at Fair
child, Eau Claire County, and at Neills-
vile, Clark County.
In the Robinson suit against the Board of
Street Commissioners and city of Water
| town, in the circuit court at Jefferson,
| Judge Bennett held a few days ago that the
| commissioners were not liable for damages,
and verdict was brought in against the
city in the sum of seven thousand dollars.
John Craig, a leading farmer in the town
| of Seymour, Eau Claire County, ma suf-
| fer amputation of his feet having frozen
them while driving to Eau Claire with
load of produce.
Carcasses of deer, killed by wolves, are
reported numerous in the Wisconsin sec
ton through which the Thornapple river,
a tributary of the Chippewa runs. The
snow was so deep that the deer could not
run, and so fell easy prey to their ravenous
| enemies.
The two-year-old son of j. Jachen, of Mil
waukee, was fatally scalded the other morn
| ing by the overturning of coffee-pot filed
with boiling coffee.
| A conhagration the other morning at
| Windsor, twelve miles from Madison de-
stroyed the cheese factory, elevator and
barn of Henry Fisher, valued at $4,000,
and the warehouse and contents owned by
| E. Warner and S. Raymond, valued at 81
| 500; insurance small.
The loggers in the Chippewa valley ars
now of the opinion that the cut of the
season will be thirty per cent. lower than
| in the winter of 1S84-S5
Ex-Congressman Thad c. Pound has es-
| tablished a bureau of real estate, loans and
immigration in Chippewa Falls.
There are about thirty-five hundre ed lum-
| bermen at work around Marinette
They work from five a. N. to seven
p. M, and get from eighteen to thirty dol
lars per month. Men driving four-horse
| teams receive from twenty-six to thirty
| dollars.
Over two hundred million feet of logs are
already banked in the Menominee river
lumber region.
Mr.. and Mrs s. McElroy, of Berlin,
| Green Lake County, celebrated the fiftieth
| anniversary of their marriage the other
evening, surrounded by happy friends and
relatives.
| Miner lyle, of Prairie du Chen, swal-
| owed tablespoonful of laudanum the 9TH
er day on a wager for ten dollars. When
his friends arrived with doctor, to "pump
him out" they found him saving wood.
On urging him to submit to the pumping
process he replied: "Tm doing that my
SELF" and sawed away for three hours, in
the meantime perspiring freely. He then
went home slept four hours, got up and
went about his work feeling just as well as
ever.
The South Superior Iron Company of
Hurley, whose object is to conduct gem
eral mining business anywhere in tho
United States, filed articles of association
in the State Department few days ago.
The capital stock is 100000.
The Stevens Point, Wausau & Northern
Railway Company recently filed articles
of association in the State Department at
Madison, the incorporators being j. B. Can
terbury, G. G. Hfxon, j. T. Pettingill, w.
w. Cargill and B. E. Edwards, all of
Lacrosse. The company has a capital stock
of $4,000, and will build line from Ste
yens Point northward to a point on the
Michigan State line interest County, dis
tance of one hundred and fifty miles,
humps are at present affecting the school
children of La Crosse.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Thrill recently cele-
brated their golden wedding at Port Wash
ington, Ozaukee County. The aged couple
are natives of the dukedom of Luxembourg,
and were married at Weller in 1885, They
emigrated to America in 1S47 and settled at
Belgium, Ozaukee County. Fifteen years
ago they removed to Port Washington.
Miss Jennie Conger, daughter of H. A.
Conger, of Oxford, Marquette County, Sc
turned home from dance at two o'clock
the other morning, took dose of strych-
nine and died at three O'Clock. A young
| man to whom she was engaged left the
country two weeks ago.
The paper published by the pupils of the
GAINESVILLE high school is named Our 0un.
William McGonigal, county Judge of
Grant County, died from stroke Of paraly-
sis in his Office at Lancaster at nine o'clock
the other morning He had been county
judge for the past twenty-three years.
Several Milwaukee breweries are now
working on the eight hours day labor
system, with the same pay to employees.
A mad-dog scare is said to prevail at
Waukesha, and thirty or more vagrant
CANNES have been killed.
The Eau Claire Merchants Club has dis
solved its organization.
The house of B. B. George, at Stetson-
vile, Taylor County, was burned at eight
O'Clock the other morning. A little boy of
six years was lost in the flames. Two of
the children were thrown from an upper
window to the ground.
A statistician figures that the inhabitants
OF Milwaukee County pay for beer, annual
ly, S36O00O0 and for -four S1,140,0OO, thus
expanding s2,460,OOO more for beer than
they do for -four.
Jesse B. Haidel and Miss Jennie Hinchy
were arrested the other night in Milwaukee
for robbing railway official of his gold
watch and purse.
Charles Richards, of Knapp Station,
Dunn County, has received arrearages of
pension amounting to twenty nine hundred
dollars. He was member of the Twenty
first regiment.
1t is said that General Pope, after his re-
tirement, will go to Europe for year, and
then settle down in Milwaukee.
Miss Amy C. Kellogg, president of the
Wisconsin Wonan's Temperance Union,
hes commenced series of meetings in
Dunn County.
The pastors of Marinette churches are
preparing to establish a branch of the
Young Mems Christian Association in that
city.
Fire in the business section of Augusta,
Eau Claire County, early the other morn
ing destroyed a hotel, the postrofflce
and thirteen other structures entailing a
loss Of $4,000. The insurance aggregated
$4,000.