The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-16

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations. Wheat-No. 2, 754@7S11c.
Corn-No. 2, 36s(037Ac. Oats-No. 2, 291l
@3015c. Rye-No. 1, 601lc. Barley-No. 2
Spring, 4Sc.
Marshfield citizens contemplate with sat
isfaction the prospect of railroad shortly
entering that town.
Five additional mines commenced ship
ping ore from Ashland recently.
Between five and six o'clock the other
evening the partly-fnished dwelling be-
longing to Mrs. J. c. Reed, of Palmyra,
Jefferson County, burned to the groand,
together with contents. Loss, $1,000; no
insurance.
The new Union Church at Altoona Eau
Claire County, was dedicated few days
ago. Rev. w. A. McKillop, pastor of the
First Baptist Church of Eau Claire, deliv-
ering the sermon.
The jury at Milwaukee, in the case Of
Schilling, charged with conspiracy, boy
cotting, ETC., disagreed recently and were
discharged.
Huge Michael, a farmers son, ran away
from his home near Appelton, lost his way
in the woods of Taylor County, and starved
to death. His body was found few days
ago.
There are only 800 survivors of the 200
enlistments in the First Wisconsin volun-
teerS.
George N. johnson, of La Crosse, was
arrested on his arrival in Chicago the 9TH
er day with his five children, whom he had
stolen from the custody of his divorced
wife, with the intention of taking them to
some point in the East
Walter McWilliams, of Eagle, Waukesha
County, was recently fined fifty dollars
and costs for keeping drug store and
having no registered pharmacist in charge.
Louis Ellison, aged twenty years. OF
Cedar Falls, Dunn County, was drowned a
few days ago. He was bathing in the river
and was taken with cramps. He called to
his companions for assistance, but they,
thinking he was joking, paid no heed to
his entreaties.
The Wisconsin Conference of the Meth
odist Episcopal Church embraces only the
eastern half of the State; contains 1917 min
listers, including supernumeraries and ,su-
peranuates, and will meet in Berlin Sep.
TENDER %, 1886. The West Wisconsin Con
ference contains about $50 ministers, and
will meet at Black River Falls Septem
Der 80.
The farmers of La Crosse County have
at last got rid of an unpleasant party of
foreigners The emigrants, fourteen in
number, offered to do no work, but when
ever they wished any thing to eat they
would present pistols at the head of farm
or and make known their wants, which
were generally satisfied by the victim.
Milwaukee has cooking school with an
attendance of 100 regular pupils.
A she bear weighing two hundred pounds
was shot by farmer in the town of Sey-
mour, ten miles east of Eau Claire, the
her cub fast in a steel trap with one of its
paws nearly gnawed off.
Large quantities of slippery elm bark are
being shipped from Shawano this season.
Peddlers seem to be in the majority at
La Crosse at present. The authorities are
considering ways and means for their ban.
ishment.
A prairie chicken made it's nest in a
woodpile at Berlin, and the other day
Matched QUO brood of twelve chickens.
Thirteen tramps were arrested in one
day at La Crosse recently.
One lumber-mill at La Crosse affords en-
ployment to 525 men.
Over 330000,000 feet of logs have been
rsfted this season at Beef slough.
A 123-pound muskalonge was captur ed
in Pelican lake recently.
An Eau Claire canine lately made meal
of fourteen chickens.
Patrick Dunn, a convict in &c House OF
Correction at Milwaukee, committed sui
eide the other night by stuffing his mouth
and nose with paper and then burying his
head in the hay of his mattress until suffo.
cation resulted.
The young ladies of Eau Claire have
formed a lawn-tennis club.
Wolves are occasionally seen upon the
streets of Lincoln, Adams County.
Work will soon begin on the new Go "
eminent building at La Crosse.
The village of Romeo, Marathon County,
was totally wiped out of existence few
days ago by fire. The saw and planning
mills, store and adjoining residence, and
about six million feet of lumber, and sew
eral small uW ellings belonging to mill en-
ployes were totally destroyed The rail
road depot was also destroyed The loss
would exceed 1926, 900; insurance, $4,000
The mills would be rebuilt The origin
of the fire was not known. Not a building
remains in the whole town. About one
hundred and seventy-fye people are house
less.
There are over five hundred acres of hops
in Juneau County.
A log in the Black river ct La Crosse is
estimated to contain three thousand feet
of lumber.
evening the partly finished dwelling house
belonging to Mrs. ]. c. Reed, of Palmyra,
jefferson County. took fire from some I'M
known cause, and in an incredibly short
time burned to the ground, together with
three kits of carpenters tools and other
valuableS therein. Loss, about So, 600. No
insurance.
In a"three mile boat-race the other day
at Oconomowoc Gaudaur defeated Hamm
by two lengths in 19:05I.
One lumber pile at Merrill, Lincoln
County, is one-third of a mile long.
A sixty-fve pound ovarion tumor was
recently removed from Mrs. j. R. Chase,
of Berlin, Green Lake County.
A fire at Menominee few days ago de-
stroyed one thousand cords of slabs on the
track of the Chicago, Milwaukee s. st.
Paul railroad. The. flames communicated
to and burned two sleeping coaches and
baggage car filed with the baggage of ".
W. Coles Circus Company. The loss was
quite heavy, but the figures were not OBJ
tainabie.