The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-01
wisconsin Items.

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations. Wheat-No. 2, S3@S3}lc Corn
No. 2, 36@362c. Oats-No. 2, 261l@27c.
Rye-No. 1, 591401591Sc. Barley-No. 2
Spring, 5194c.
In different institutions in Wisconsin
there are at present 1924 insane persons.
A brilliant social event occurred at the
residence of General David Atwood, of
Madison, few evenings ago in the joint
celebration of the SEVENTEEN birthday of
General Atwood and the twentieth birth
day of Miss Mary FairGhild, daughter Of
General Lucius Fairchild. General Atwood
is the proprietor of the Daily State Journal
of that city, and the Oldest journalist in the
State. About five hundred invitations to
residents of that city and prominent citi-
zens of the State were issued. Many were
present from neighboring cities The gath
ering was notable one, including many of
the early settlers of Wisconsin.
At Waukesha the other morning the jury
returned verdict of guilty of man
slaughter in the first degree against Louis
Christensen for the killing of Michael
the jury disagreed
Rt. Rev. Bishop Francis Xavier Kraut-
bauer was found dead in his bed at his
house in Green Bay the other morning at
eight o'clock. Bishop Krautbauer was
born near Ratisbon, in Regeusburg, Ba-
varia, January 3, 1925 He received a uni
versity education at Munich, and subse-
quently took the orders of priesthood. He
concluded to go to the missionary field Of
the United States, arriving in Buffalo Co
tober 20, 1850. In April, 1859, he went to
Milwaukee as Chaplain of the Convent Of
Notre Dame. He remained there until
1875. On the 9TH of February of that year
he was confirmed by Pope Plus TX as
Bishop, see of Green Bay, and on June 80,
1875, was consecrated and raised to the
Bishopric at the cathedral in Milwaukee.
On July 2, 1875, he arrived in Green Bay.
Willie Landgraf, twelve years of age, son
of g. A. Landgraf, of Fort Atkinson, JEFF
ferson County, died the other night from
internal injuries received while coasting.
At Florence there is toboggan slide 260
feetlong and so feet high, The club at that
place was one of the first to organize IL the
United States, and now numbers nearly
one hundred active members.
The Pepin County farmers charged with
the theft Of a lot of corn in the town OF
Brunswick, Eau Claire County, were dis
missed on preliminary examination of
the case.
Henry Steinmetz, Of Richfleld, Washing
ton County, became involved in quarrel
recently with @. c. ATnet, his father-in-law,
with whom he was residing, and attacked
Arnet with an axe, striking him several
times, but was prevented from killing him
by the interference of a son of the latter.
A warrant for attempted murder was
issued.
Kunde Peterson, while engaged in telling
a tree at a logging camp on the Upper
Chippewa the other day, was caught in It's
fall, the trunk striking him in the bacK,
producing injuries which resulted fatally.
The home of the unfortunate man was at
Hudson, st. Croix County, where his re-
mains were sent for interment.
La Crosse is the only city in the State
that has street-cars heated by coal-stoves.
The third case of hydrophobia in Mil
waukee within two months ended the other
night with the death of Charles Thorpe, a
ten-year-old boy.
George H. Daubner, of Brookfeld, Wau-
kesha County, was released from Chester
(Ill) Penitentiary recently, and on his ar
ival at Brookfeld was met at the depot by
a large body of his neighbors with band
of music and escorted to his residence.
Hay is so scarce in Door County that the
demand has to be supplied from Chicago.
One of the barns of the A. Fuerman Brew
ing Company, at Watertown, was destroyed
by fire the other evening, together with one
horse and seven cows. Loss, $1,000; insur-
ance, 81, 900.
The Indians are making large hauls Of
every variety of fish in the lake north of Eau
Claire, and disposing Of them to dealers at
from four to five cents per pound undressed.
The dealers supply the Eau Claire and Chip
pewa Falls markets at ten cents per pound,
and there is no limit to the demand.
Articles consolidating the Milwaukee &
Dubuque and the Bureau & Northwestern
Roads were filed few days ago at Madi-
son. The object is to construct railway
from Milwaukee to st. Louis, 70 be called
the Milwaukee, Peoria & st. Louis Road,
with capital stock of 5000.
Louis Anderson, young Scandinavian,
was buried under haystack during Sc
we're storm last winter, and remained there
fox twenty-six days without food or drink.
When discovered he was nearly dead, and
both feet were so badly frozen that they had
to be amputated. He was few days ago
released from the alms-houSe at La Crosse.
Hon. E. A. Foot, pioneer, who was the
first Mayor of La Cygne, Kan, died recent
ly at Center, Rock County, aged seventy
six years
The six-year-old daughter Of 4r. and Mrs.
Lucius Bruegger, of WATERFOWL, died the
other evening of diphtheria, making the
third child they have lost by this dread dis
ease within two weeks-sll Of them girls.
Neither of the buckwheat-cake gour-
mands of Wausau obtained the champion
ship medal at recent trial Each had dis
posed Of ninety-one cakes when time was
called.
One of the public schools in the West Divi-
sion Of Eau Claire has been closed ON account
of the prevalence of contagious diseases.
Captain James Rogan, the second white
man who settled where Watertown now
stands, died there the other day of general
debility, in his eighty-seventh year. Captain
Rogan was born at Downpatrick, Ireland,
in October, 1799 coming to America in 1923,
and settling at WATERFOWL, N. z, where he
resided ten years. In 1884 he landed in Mil
Waukee, and made his claim there in 1885,
when that place was an unbroken wilder
ness The first white settler, Timothy john
son, preceded him only few months. The
deceased was widower, and leaves wild
owed daughter.