The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-19
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Insane Statistics.

tanned In the month of January, at tao
State Hospital, nineteen patients were adj
mitted, which with the number in at she
first of the month, 521, made total of SIS.
Thirteen were discharged and four lied,
leaving 529 at the close of the month. OF
those discharged, nine went home recov-
cred, two much improved and two some
what improved.
The number of patients in the Northern
Hospital for the Insane at the beginning of
the month of January was eSS, aud twenty
five were admitted, making the total NUN
beE at the close of the month 65S Twenty
eight were discharged and seven died, leav-
623 at the close of the month OF those dis
charged, three went home recovered; four
went home improved; eighteen were trans
ferred to county asylums improved; two
were transferred to county asylums unim-
proved, and one was transferred to the
State Hospital unimproved. OF the deaths,
four were old cases, ranging from sixty
three to seventy-four years of age.
Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, S1@S111c. Corn
No. 2, 36@361Ic. Oats-No. 2, 2719(@2Sc
Rye-No. l, 5716@5Shc Barley-No.
Spring, 51$lc,
About eighty men are engaged in building
railway bridge across Grant river at
Potosi, Grant County.
An extensive logger on the Wisconsin
| river gives a very discouraging report of
logging work on that stream, and says
| with even the most favorable weather from
now until the middle of March the lumber
| men will not be able to bank more than
three-fourths of the intended log cut.
The Omaha Railway Company is nego-
tiating for line of propellers to run be-
tween Washburn, Bayfield, County, and
| lower-lake ports.
| Rev. ]. D. Cole, a Presiding Elder in tAis
| State, recommends preaching one sermon
| year on matrimony, taking for text
that ''it is not good for man to live alone"
Governor Rusk has pardoned Mrs Mar
garet Cooley and Mrs. Rebecca Merritt.
sisters who were sent to prison for perjury
last May. They swore falsely to clear
their husbands, who were concerned in q
burglary.
| The fishermen of Sturgeon Bay are re-
ceiving only from six to six and one-haH
| cents pound for trout and whitefsh.
| The pioneers of Outagamie County are
to enjoy reunion at Appleton on the 22d
| instant.
| Ex-Governor Lucius Fairchild has been
elected department. commander of the
Grand Army of the Republic, to succeed
| Major James Davidson, of Sparta. General
| Fairchild lost an arm at the battle of Get.
| tysburg. He was subsequently Governor
of Wisconsin for three terms and was Min
lister to Spain under President Hayes AID.
ministration.
Citizens of Montfort, Grant County, wers
so scared about scarlet fever that at the
burial of child of Mrs. j. P. Chandler re-
Gently neighbors had to be importuned to
aid in carrying the body to the grave.
| George Koch, a wealthy farmer and
horseman of the town of Wilson, Sheboy-
gan County, was found dead within one
hundred yards of his door the other morn
| ing He had spent the afternoon in She
| boygan and started for his home, four
miles south, in the evening. He had evil
IDENTIFY become chilled, lost his bearings
and died from exposure. He was sixty
three years of age and widower and had
no relatives in America He was not
drinking man.
Jason Carmen committed suicide few
days ago at a house of iIl-fame west of
Wausau, called Cotton Farm. About two
weeks ago he sold his home in Lincoln
County, realizing about $4,000. Since thai
time he had been on a protracted spres
and lost all his money.
Emil Koeberer, of Milwaukee, fifteen
years old, died from injuries received while
thawing out water pipe with gasoline a
few days ago. The can containing the
| liquid exploded, burning the boys body.
Henry McMaster, of Eau Claire, will re-
port at West Point, June Is, for admission
as a cadet, J. o. Thompson, ofTrempealeau,
having failed to meet the requirements of
the academy.
The managers of the st. Paul road have
| informed the Wisconsin Central that the
latter will be permitted to continue using
the st. Paul tracks in entering Milwaukee.
A damage suit for personal injuries has
been instituted by Carl Friberg at Mime
| apolis, Mimi, against Edward p. Allis g.
Co., a Wisconsin firm, extensively engaged
in building flour mills The plaintiff, who
| fell from scaffolding while at work at
Granite Falls, demands 1890 damages
Over two hundred persons participated
in the recent old settlers reunion at Schlei-
| singerville, Washington County.
The Chicago Milwaukee & ST. Paul road
has let the contract for the new depot in
Milwaukee. The structure complete will
cost S25O,O00.
The Kissinger Mining Company, of Mil
waukee, recently filed articles of associa-
| ton with the Secretary of State, the Oh
! ject being to do a general mining bust
ness. The incorporators are j. p Kissir.
ger, A. F. Mueller and Christian Ternskes.
The capital stock is 100000.
There was much excitement at Superior,
Douglass County, few days ago over the
failure of J. A. Taft, lumberman, for s10,-
O00
The libel suit at Milwaukee of DR.. Nathan
C. Hall against the Sentinel Company, for
| $4,000, was recently decided in favor of the
defendant.
The Chippewa Falls & Western Railway
Company recently filed with the Secretary
of State notice of lease it has made to the
Minnesota, ST. Croix & Wisconsin Railway
| Company. It leases its line from Chippewa
Falls to Eau Claire, with al It's equipments,
for period of ninety-nine years from De-
cember 81, 1884
The remains of Mrs. Dwight Foster, the
| first white woman to reside at Fort Akin
son, Jefferson County, were buried at that
place recently.
J. C. Gregory has been appointed post
master at Madison.
d. B. Palmer, a wealthy lumbernln, for
merIy of Grand Rapids, Mich, died at Ash
land few days ago, ard left 100000 to his
child, little girl of ten years, who is with
her mother ct Grand Rapids. Mrs. Palmer
refused TO accompany her husband when
he went West eightyears ago to rebuild his
| fortune.
State Veterinarian Atkinson reports that
he finds large amount of CHAMBERS in the
| State.
The last Legislature passed an act diviS-
| ing the county of Langlade and making a