The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-05-07
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No 2, 7SA@7S1Sc.
| Corn-No. 2, S61l936]}5c. Oats-No. 3. 2911
92o11c. Rye-No. l, 671l@671lc. Barley
| No. Spring, 4711c.
There are in the State ,222 registered
druggists
A hen belonging to Fred Ring, of La
Crosse, recently produced peculiarly
shaped egg 1t is about two inches long,
about an inch and half in circumference,
and one end is curled in the shape of a
crook.
A hoy named Max welnjak, aged seven
years, died at his home in Milwaukee the
other night from the effects of exiting wild
parsnips.
The Oleson House at Berlin, Green Lake
County, was burned the other MOI ming,
the guests escaping in their night clothes
and losing all their property. A dwell ing
adjoining the hotel was also destroyed.
OGas was struck recently at Appleton at a,
depth of 756 feet. The gas rushed forth
with roaring sound and being ignited
blazed to height of fifteen feet The flow,
has been temporarily shut by means of a ,
valve.
Strawberries are retailing at ninety cents.
quart at Eau Claire.
Charles E. Hoyt, an employee in the capt..
! tol at Madison, was recently notified that
| his claim for back pension had been al
lowed, and $3.50 would soon be sent him.
Hugh Kerr, an old citizen of WATERFOWL,
and solae years ago prominent farmer in
| the town oS Emmett attempted suicide the
other afternoon by cutting his throat with
a razor His wounds, though dangerous
were not fatal. Family troubles led to the
rash act. His age is seventy-six years.
Mrs. Hiram MgDonald, of Eau Claire,
rendered insane by religious excitement,
attacked her children recently and wrecked
! she furniture and windows in her house.
| Tramps are overrunning Grant County,
| raiding sheep and stealing horses. The
farmers were organizing a vigilance COM
| mittee.
| At Glen Haven, Grant County, twenty
| FIVE thousand yards of dirt fell the other
dag from the Mississippi river bluffs upon
the Ctiicugo, Burlington & Northern track.
| To remove tue obstruction would cost
| $4,000
The st. Paul Railway Company is Ship
| ping 500, 900 Wisconsin ties to its new Kan
sas City extension.
| A gang of burglars has been making sue
| cessful raids on the smaller towns along.
| the Omaha road, west of Eau Claire. Be-
J fore aybreak the other morning the resi-
| dence of DIR. Lyman, at Wilson Station,
was entered and large sum of money and
three hundred-dollar gold watch and
chain was stolen.
Two men, recently from Chicago, giving,
| their names as Blake and Riley, who ope-
| rated bogus lottery scheme at Milwau-
kee. under the firm name of w. Huber g.
Co., were arrested at that city few days
ago by the postal authorities for using the,
mails in their swindling operations. It;
was believed that they victimized several
| persons.
In the Milwaukee municipal court few
| days ago several of the election repeaters
recently arrested in that city confessed to
| the truth of the accusations against them
| One OF them offered to to the South side
| and point out twenty men who had voted
more than once in the recent municipal
| election.
Among the logs brought down this spring,
| to be sawed by the La Crosse mills are
thousands that have been lying in Rock
Run creek for the past twenty years. Logs
may be found bearing the stamp of 1867
| One log is supposed to be the largest ever
| taken out of the Black river country.
When measured it scaled 1900 feet. 1t was
cut nineteen years ago this spring.
| Brook trout fry to the number of about
| twenty thousand have been placed in the
streams in the region of Florence.
| A Board of Trade has been organized ae
| Washburn, Bayfield, County, with T. L.
| Patterson as president; ID. II. Hauer, treas
urer, and E. R. Barager, secretary.
| While two young men named Eugene
| Page and Will Chilson were digging re-
| Gently into wolf-den near Mount Hope,
| Grant County, the earth caved and closed
the mouth SO as to fmprison Page. Gibson
| worked two hours before he succeeded in
| rescuing his companion.
| In Milwaukee few days ago,at the Clin-
| ton street crossing of the st. Paul road, q
well-illed street-car only escaped by an
inch being crushed by locomotive. Two
ladies received injuries ON their erms.
| Some excitement was recently occasioneG
/ at Wausau, Marathon County, over the
discovery of iron four or five miles from
that city. Indigging well workmen came
across several specimens of ore below the
surface of the ground, and gentlemen
interested in mines on the Gogebic range.
had the specimens examined They
| found that the iron was of excellent quail
| ity and rich in productiveness.
Peter B. Nissan, once a well-known at
| torney of Madison, died in that city few
days ago.
The State Fair Committee has decided to-
| accept Colonel Yates offer, and this years
| State Fair will be held at the Cold Spring
| Driving Park, Milwaukee His offer is for
| the first year one cent and taxes, with
the option afterward for five years at one
| thousand dollars and taxes.
The dead body of an unknown suicide
was found hanging few days ago to a
tree near Potosi, Grant County. The body
was supposed to have been that of rail-
way workman.
The report of the scalers shows tho ex-
act amount of logs put in on the Court
| dOreiIles reservation up the Chippewa by
| the Indians the past winter to be thirty
eight million feet, all of which had been
sold to the firm Of Duprie & Co The firm
| furnished the stock and supplies and the
Indians cut and banked the logs by the
! thousand feet. Most of the Indians who
were engaged in the logging work are en-
gagged in farming during the summer.
They own good homes and are very in
dustriouS.
Price Brothers hardware store and Fl. II.
Heath & Co.'s office at Wonewoc, Juneau
| County, were burglarized the other even
ing. But little of value was taken. Tie
burglars left their tools in Heath's office.
The Appleton Electric Street Railway
Company has awarded contract for The
construction of about two and half miles
of track
Sigfried Rindskoff prominent clothing
merchant of Appleton, was recently ar