The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-23
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

/ The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations.: Wheat-No. Q 761l9761zc.
Corn-No. 2, 36lla361Ic. Oats-No. 2 3il&
+ @3l1zc. Rye-No. l, 641{@6411Se. Barley
(! No. Spring, 50J{c.
| A fire occurred the other evening II. the
elevator Of Borchert Bros, at Milwaukee.
Loss about $500 Sebastian Brand and
d. O'Connell, firemen were buried beneath
the falling walls, and sustained dangerous
and possibly fatal injuries.
Near Fall Greek, Eau Claire County, g
| few mornings ago an affray occurred be-
| tween two farmers named William Wagner
and G. Moe, the latter having been work
| ing farm for Wagner. The parties got
into fierce quarrel, ending by Wagner
shooting Moe through the breast, causing
death in less than half an hour. Wagner
reloaded che revolver, retired to his house
and discharged the weapon, the contents
| taking effect in his abdomen, resulting in
| his death IN few moments.
There are ifty-one life prisoners in the
State Prison.
1t is reported that the Segnitz Cigar Fac
tory at Milwaukee, which employs six hun
| dred men, will be reopened in a few weeks,
and will give work to men who belong to
one labor organization.
On April II Belle Langan, aged nine
years. of La Crosse, had tasted forty-two
deys. She cared no more for food then
| than when her fast was begun, and really
| seemed to despise the mention or smell of
| cooking more than ever. The abstemious
| little anti-epicurian was, however, grow
| ing perceptibly weaker, and did not run
about or play much, as she did the previous
| week. Her case was so remarkable as TO
arouse great interest in the community.
Henry Barrette, the defaulting treasurer
of the town of Bridgeport, Crawford Coun-
ty, has been persuaded to return and set
tie his shortage of 1894. The bondsmen
paid $500 and $253 was paid in by Bar
rette, leaving $342 unaccounted for
A savage dog-fght for fifty dollars a
side occurred in Milwaukee the other night.
1t has been decided by the Wisconsin Cen
trail Railroad Company to extend their dock
at Ashland three hundred feet farther out
into Chequamegon bay, which will give
the steamers about twenty-five feet of we
| ter
Stephen Thomas, a pioneer of the State,
|
day, aged seventy-four years.
The Chicago & Northwestern railway
will build branch between GAINESVILLE and
Evansville, Rock County, provided the city
give bonus and the right of way, which
will cost between $685. 900 and $50, 900. The
road is to be completed in ninety days
from the time the right of way is given.
| no 20,
Fairchild, Eau Claire County, tried to kill
his infant child a few days ago by choking
it in the cradle. He was prevented by 9th.
ers of the family and a neigbbor who dis
| covered him in the act. Dahlke became
violent but the neighbor seized an axe and
drove him out of the house. Dahlke way
supposed to be insane, and was PLACED in
Jail
Farmers in the region of MSrkesan,
Green Lake County, recently offered
twenty-five dollars to the person who
would shoot a wolf which had been prowl
ing around in that vicinity.
Advices frcm Edgerton, Rock County,
say that the tobacco trade at all the mar
ket points In the State continues to show a
good deal of activity. 1t was estimated
that about one-fourth the crop had been
sold to date. Prices remained unchanged,
ranging about six cents for fair TO medium
crops, the good or poor grading above or
below these figures.
II. Eugene Bolens editor Of the Port
Washington (Ozaukee County, Star, died
a few days ago, aged fifty-fve years. He
had founded TO urteen papers, six of which
are still in existence.
Colonel Thomas Fl. Kruger, promoted by
the President to be Brigad er General, is q
native of Wisconsin, and was made a ca
Diet from this State in July, 1850 After
graduating with high honors from West
Point he wac brevetted Second Lieutenant
on July /, 1854, and resigned April 1. 1855.
He next practiced law in his native State.
When the war broke out he enlisted and
became Lieutenant-Co Colonel of the Third
Wisconsin Volunteers, June 80, 1861. lie
was made Colonel in August of the Same
year.
A Board of Trade suit which was brought
in Milwaukee some years ago was recently
compromised. Five lawyers engaged in
the case have since died, and the sole sur-
vivor of the counsel is in the lunatic asy,
| lum.
George Carpenter, aged twenty, was ac-
cidently shot and instantly killed the other
morning by Dick Lahe companion. The
| Young tneu were in a boat shooting fish on
La Belle lake, near OconomoUoc, when
the accident happened.
James Woodruff died recently at Big
Springs, Adams County, under circunSr
stances indicating suicide by poison He
= ma f l.
each of the members of the family that
| provided for him. but no evidence of such
means were found, his personal effects
hardly covering his funeral expenses.
Paul Bechtner has been unanimously
| chosen manager of the exposition at Mil
waukee. He is a vinegar manufacturer,
! and credited with all the desirable show
capacity to make the exposition success
this year.
William Helms. aged forty years, a farns,
| or who resides near Kewaskum, Washing
! ton County, killed his wife at noon the
ether day and is now in jail in that place.
| He had shown sjgus IF insanity. Two Of
fieers were sent ~ the Board of Superyis-
ors to take him in custody. Helms saw tho
Ulcers approach his place, and diyining
I their intentions, opened fire with revolv-
er. The first bullet passed through the coat
of one of the officers without injuriDg him.
! The next shot was intended for the second
officer, but h. lodged, and the bullet struck
Helms wife, killing her instantly. -Four
children are left motherless by the trag-
! edy, one being babe two weeks old
The Second Adventists OF Neillsville,
Clark County, are greatly exercised be-
cause the public librarian of the place
would not list for distribution certain
books they had donated.
Farmers ara selling new maple sirup in
| Green Bay at s1.10 gallon The trees
were yielding more freely than for years
! past.
The twenty-eighth annual meeting of the
| Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce Associa-
ton was held recently, and President john
ston and nearly all the old officers were
| re-eIected