The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-04-02
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

WIOCUNS1N STATE NEWS.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations. Wheat-No. 2 U146771Sc.
Corn-No. 9, S61s93614c. Oats-No. 3 BIZ
| @3l5sc. Rye-No. /, 6S1149641lc. Barley
No Spring, Sic,
The Ministerial Association of the James
vile district of the Methodist Church is to
meet at Clinton Junction May 3 and 5
John Kreur's home, near Belgium Sta
ton, Ozaukel County, was riddled by light
ming a few days ago and one child seriously
| injured.
Four or five persons were recently mys-
teriously missing at Milwaukee, and the
body of an unknown man lay in the
morgue in that city.
Scarlet fever was spreading so alarming
| ly in the city of Augusta, Eau Claire COun-
ty, that the public schools were ordered to
be closed until the scourge was checked. 1t
was feared the contagion would spread to
neighboring villages in that district.
Rev. DIR. Henry Truro Bray has resigned
the rectorate of st. James Church at
Manitowoc.
An explosion caused a fire in W. 4.
ClaTk's dry-goods store at Appleton the
other night, the loss reaching $4,000; fully
covered by insurance.
The Milwaukee & ST. Paul railway shops
! Mt Milwaukee were flooded by an inunda-
ton recently, and seventeen hundred men
were forced to quit work for several days.
| While walking along the tracks of his
railroad few days ago near Cady Mills
st. Croix County, S. III. Davis, wealthy
| lumberman, had his coat blown against the
wheels of passing locomotive. He was
caught under the wheels and his right arm
crushed off close to the shoulder.
Eagle Post g. A. R., of Eau Claire, had
campfire the other night. Governor Rusk
and Ex-Governor Fairchild addressed the
boys.
The body of Andrew Sheriff, Chicago
lumberman, was taken from the river at
Milwaukee few days ago. He disappeared
last fell, after a week of dissipation.
John F. Duggan, treasurer of the local
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers at
/ Milwaukee, who mosteriously disappeared
some weeks ago, is said to be defaulteF
for $1,000. His father had paid about half
that amount
The assemblies of the Knights of Labor
at Eau Claire are numerically the largest
in the State.
Hiram Bowen, former postmaster ct
GAINESVILLE, died recently at Los Angeles,
Cal, aged seventy-one years. He was an
owner and editor of the GAINESVILLE Gazette
for several years and was, during Senator
Carpenters career, an owner and manager
of the Milwaukee Sentinel.
August Dalton. charged with the shoot
ing of John Mcintyre, a war veteran and
former inmate of the Soldiers Home, was
held at Monticello, Marquette County, s.
few days ago to trial at the June term of
the court on charge of manslaughter.
Bail was Fixed at one thousand dollars, in
default of which the defendant was sent to
Jail The shooting occurred in the town Of
! Packwaukee.
Mrs. Stewart, wife of Alva Stewart,
Judge of the Ninth judicial circcit, died at
Madison the other night after long ill
ness. She was an invalid for many years
She was in middle life.
A street car broke through the Lacrosse
river bridge to the bed of the river the
other afternoon. The horss was killed, the
car splintered, and passengers more or less
injured. Three ladies in the cGY escaped
with slight bruises, but two gentieIGeIf, +.
A. Remick and E. E. Buckingham, wers
very seriously cut about the face and body.
Mr. Remick was taken from the car insen-
sible, but the physician stated that unless
he was hurt internally he would probably
recover.
IL o41,, NT,nI
burn, Grant County, one of the most COM
plete in the Northwest, with capacity of
100000 bushels, is finished
1t is reported that three thousand cases
of tobacco still remain in the hands of
farmers in Southwestern Wisconsin. Values
range at five to seven cents, but the sale of
the weed at any price is by no means as
sured The result will be that the acreage
next season will be greatly reduced.
Charles Cavart, of Appleton, man
about sixty years of age, may become
blind on account of the thoughtlessness Of
boys while snowballing. He was hit in the
left eye. from which Inflammation has now
extended to the right
At present there are eighteen inmates in
the La Crosse County alp1shouse
Edward Ferguson, for sixteen years pen
sion agent at Milwaukee, has been appoint
ed auditor Of the Wisconsin Central rail
road, James Barker being relieved from
the duties of that position in order that
hereafter he may devote himself exclusive
ly to the duties of general passenger agent.
The Evangelical churches of Eau Claire
are arranging for a religious revival
Tobacco in Rock County, is being rapid
ly taken up by dealers at prices which,
though low are liberal enough, as large
portion of the 1885 crop was cut early to
avoid frost and is therefore green.
The presidency of the University of Wis
consin has been rendered to Prof. Thomas
c. Chamberlain, of Beloit college.
The National iron furnace at Depere,
Brown County, will soon be put in opera
ton for the season.
Further reports of damage done by light
ming in the surrounding country during the
recent storms have been received at Palmy-
ra, Jefferson County. The freaks of the light
ming were miraculous in the escapes of
| human beings and animals in the buildings
struck. The re5idence of Mr.. George Olds,
of Little Prairie, was struck, the bed on
which himself and wife reposed burned
and shattered, and the bedding destroyed
by fire, while they were uninjured. The
barn on Thomas Emmett's farm, at La
Grange, was struck at it's highest place,
the electric fluid running down post,
killing one horse and leaving two others
close by uninjured. Numbers of stock in
open fields throughout the county were
killed.
The State Supreme Court bas decided
that structure used as church parson-
age but not owned by the church society,
| is exempt from taxation, thus reversing
the decision of county court.
Frank Barr, an aged and eccentric bach
elor, the wealthiest citizen of Grant Coun-
ty, was recently taken to the insane hos
| pitaI at Madison.
The erection of a soldiers monument at
/ cost of ten thousand dollars is among
the points to be decided by the people Of
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