The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Corn-No. 2. 34s403514c. Oats-No. 2, 291E
@2295J1c. Rye-No. ], 64s4@e5c- Barley
No. 2 Spring, 49c.
Mayor Grinsell, of Eau Claire, refuses to-
allow any slugging-matches to take place
in his CITY,
Mr.. 4Axel, farmer living about six miles
east of Kiel, Manitowoc County, cut his
wifs's throat few days ago so that she
might not recover and tEen killed himself.
There were various runners as to the cause
of the tragedy, such as domestic infelicity,
etc, but few who had dealings with AxeA
of late attributed the act to alteration of
mind
Several Indians in the neighborhood of
Prairie du Chen make living by selling
rat pelts.
The water in the Eau Claire river
dropped SO suddenly few days ago as to
cause the log drives, which were well adj
vanced an the north and south forks, to be-
hung up. The drivers had been discharged,
and they were waiting for another heavy
volume of water. The BATH drive con-
tanned about seventy million feet of logs,
but none of the mills would be interrupted
by the delay.
About twelve more saloon licenses will,
it is said be granted at La Crosse this year
than last.
AT Madison the other day Judge Stewars,
of the circuit court, sentenced Frederick
Alexander Peckham to ten years impris-
onment in the penitentiary for aiding and
a6etting his cousin, Eddie Peckham, in
criminally aSsaulting young Norwegian
girl named Spade in February, 1884. The
principal in the crime, Eddie Peckham, es-
capped at the time the crime was commit
ted and had never been captured.
/ The safe of Cassidy & Co., merchants.
of MenOnonee, was blown open the other
night and four hundred dollars taken. The
burglars ned by team to Eau Claire.
The principal speeches to be delivered at
the Scandinavian celebration in La Crosse
May II will be made by F. A. Husher and
Mayor Powell.
A Hudson paper, by way OF advertise
ment, announces that all couples of ST.
Croix County who are married between
May 1, 1886, and May !, 1887, will, on APP
plication, receive the paper one year free
of charge.
Colonel George B. Goodwin one of Mill
waukee'S brightest lawyers died IA few
days ago.
Victoria Hanna, middle-aged woman,
a resident of Kaukauna, Outagamie Coun-
ty, was bound over by Commissioner
Bloodgood the other day in the sum of five
| hundred dollars ON the charge of sending
obscene matter through the mails. The
woman had spite against neighbor, and
mailed her letter of the flthiest de-
| scription.
John B. Finch, head of the order Of
Good Templars of Wisconsin, was ten
| dered a grand banquet the other evening
at Eau Clare by number of prominent
| temperance women. The affair was given
| in honor of the good results attending the
| series of lectures he closed this evening.
| Over two thousand people were present.
The Milwaukee brewers held a confer
ence the other day, and resolved to make n
united stand against the two thousand
strikers who demanded telf hours pay for
| eight hours work.
Three brothers named Magloire, Raphael
and Jacob Delande of Bay settlement,
seven miles from Green Bay, quaTeled the
| other night over the terms of the purchase
of some mining property at Pixies Peak
Magloire, the eldest, attacked Raphael
with knife, and Raphael beat Magloire
over the head with a chair until he was
| dead. Raphael during the fay was badly
| cut by Magloire. 1t was thought that Jacob
| took part in the fight and helped to kill
| Magloire.
| The town board of the town of BeetOwn,
Grant County, recently raised the liquor
license fee from 500 to $125. The two sa-
| loon-keepers Of the place declared they
would not take out licenses for the ensuing
| year unless the action was rescinded.
Benjamin Johnson, a farmer near
Greenleaf, Brown County, has sold his
valuable farm, and proposes to devote
every cent of the proceeds to the cause Of
Adventism in West Virginia. The eccen-
trio gentleman believes that those who
work on the Sabbath will be prosecuted
by human laws within five years, SO he has
sold out. dissolved his family, and here
after will lead the life of model Chris
| tian.
| disappearing, sport that is violation
of the law, is said to be openly carried on
at Oconomowoc.
Frog-catching is a popular sport among
the urchins of Green Bay. They sell the
| hind legs to the restaurants
The police of Milwaukee few days ago
| arrested two leading Administrations
| Hirth and barber named Carl Simon
who are kept at the Central station. Their
| houses were searched and several guns
were seized. Governor Rusk obtained from
the Rock Island arsenal a Calling gun and
| ample ammunition for small-arms.
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early-closing system.
The Omaha Paint and Carpenter Shops
| at Hudson, st. Croix County, were burned
late the other night, one man perishing in
| the flames and several others narrowly es-
Gaping suffocation. The loss to the COM
| pany was $4,000; uninsured.
| Edward Ilsley, a respe cted citizen of Mil
waukee, died the other morning at the age
| of eighty eight years.
The street railways of La Crosse are to
| be heightened.
Hugh Boyle was found not guilty in the
| circuit court of Appleton recently. He was
| on trial for the murder. of Theodore Endter
last December. Boyle got into an alterca-
ton with three of the Endters family in the
woods at Freedom, Outagamie County, and
struck Theodore Endter with a club, caus-
ing his death. The case attracted consid-
cradle attention, owing to the fact that
Boyle is one of the oldest residents of the
county and well off.
DIR. F. W. Kordonat, of Watertown, hav-
| ing been bitten on the hand few days
ago by rabid dog, has gone to Paris to be
treated by Pasteur.
Mrs. r. B. Anderson, wife of the Ameri-
can Minister to Denmark, left Madison.
their home, the other day, to spend the
summer with her husband.
Tobacco producers about Madison were
few days ago complaining of the unusual
Iy low prices being offered by the city deal
ers for their wares. But four and five
cents per pound was offered for the best Of
the weed
The Wisconsin hatchery has this spring
planted in Green bay ffty-f1ve million
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