The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-04
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, 75A@151Ic.
Corn-No. 2, 9611saS614c. Oats-No. 2, 2S2
GD99114c. Rye-No. l, 621496211c. Barley
No. Spring, 4615c.
A large volume of water viii be required
to boom the logs now hung up along the
Chippewa river
The punishment for participation in riot
under the Wisconsin statutes is imprison-
mcnt in the county Jail not more than one
year or a fine not exceeding $500.
The cornerstone of the new Congrega-
tional Church at Eau Claire was laid a few
days ago.
1t is proposed to increase the Milwaukee
police force to IT'S men and pay them
81, 900 per year. The Milwaukee patrolmen
now receive $500.
1t is said that with few exceptions the
capitalists of La Crosse were working-m men
twenty years ago.
The fourth floor of block on West
Water street, Milwaukee, occupied by the
Brunswick Bake Billiard Table Company
gave way a few days ago, carrying with it
the floors below, finished billiard tables,
tables in the course of construction, ma
chinery, etc. The loss would probably ag-
gregate $4,000.
The litigation which has been going on
between Manitowoc County and the town
of Manitowoc Rapids, growing out of al
legged unjust tax apportionments, is likely
to be adjusted amicably.
At Milwaukee recently ducks nest was
found in wooden drain about two feet
square and from two and a half to three
feet underground. The duck, it appears,
walked up the drain from the lowest end,
distance of nearly five hundred feet de-
posted her eggs in the cavity above mem
toned, and Matched her brood.
The drives in the Menominee river are
progressing very finely this year. On some
of the smaller streams the logs are tagging,
but the general result is thus far good.
The daily receipts for the past two weeks
&C the Internal Revenue Collectors office
at Green Bay have averaged $1,000.
Regent Reyes, of the State University,
is evidently infatuated with the game of
lawn-tennis. He has gone to the expense
of having a ditch dug from the lower
campus to the lake to carry off the water
so that the tennis grounds may be kept
dry.
Two warehouses on Quebec pier at Su-
perior, Douglas County, were burned re-
Gently, causing loss of $50 0OO
Two little children of M. V. Forrest,
prominent citizen of Boydtown, Chippewa
County, ate wild parsnips the other even
ing and died two hours later in great
agony.
A La Crosse citizen got wrathy the other
day because strange dog came into his
yard and whipped his own canine, and, Sc
curing an axe, he chopped the visitors
caudal appendage into mince meat.
The Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
Railroad Company has posted advertise
ments for large number of men to work
on the road in the northern part of the
State The bill states that graders will be
paid 131S cents and choppers 16 cents per
hour.
r. G. Inman, of Bradford, Rock County,
recently had his neck partially dislocated
by the sudden movement of COW which
became frightened while he was milking
her.
Acknowledgement Chapman has ordered
the Second regiment of the Wisconsin Ma
tional Guard into camp at Manitowoc
August 9 to IA, inclusive, and the Third
regiment into camp at Wausau June IA to
10, inclusive. The First regiment, which
was called out to suppress the Milwaukee
riots, will not go into camp this year.
The Home Mission Society of Wisconsin
held three days session at Madison re-
Gently. A growing interest in home mis-
sionary work in the State was reported.
One hundred shares have been subscribed
for the crematory furnace proposed to be-
erected in La Crosse. The society wanted
subscribers for sixty more shares, when il
would be ready to invest in plant.
j. B. Van Alstine, proprietor of the
Watertown Exchange Hotel, and one OF
the oldest landlords in the State, died sud-
denly the other night of heart-disease at
the age of eighty-two years.
A Jersey heifer died at Milton Junction
few days ago from chewing tobocco.
John Johnson, Alexander MitchelI's
| nephew. is to erect $4,000 residence in
Milwaukee. The building is to be of stone.
At Rhinelander, Lincoln County, Smiths
Hotel, house of ill-repute, was burned the
other morning at four o'clock, together
with four inmates-J. A. Smith, Daniel
Doyle, Mrs. Doyle and Maggie Profit,
whose charred remains were taken from
the ruins at nine o'clock A man named
| Clark jumped from the second story win
dow, and was badly burned. The fire
was supposed to have been of incendiary
| origin.
The premium list for the coming State
| Fair to be held in Milwaukee has been pre-
pared by the State Agricultural Society's
representatives. The cash premiums ag-
| gregate over $4,000, exclusive of a number
of special premiums offered by citizens
The assignee of the Pioneer Lumber Com.
pany at Eau Claire has been granted per-
mission to sell the property, valued as
$500, 900, for the benefit of the creditors.
L. A. Pfefer & Co., tanners, of Appleton,
| failed few days ago with liabilities of
800 600; assets, S25, 900.
The youths of BeIoit nightly enjoy them
selves by throwing eggs of noxious char
acter at the parading Salvationists.
A fire few days ago at Wausau caused
a loss of over 100000. The Plummer G.
| Stewart lumber yards were completely
swept by the destroying element. B. G.
Plummer lost 100000 feet of lumber and
other property, in all valued at $50, 900; no
| insurance. The Alexander Stewart Lum-
Der Company lost S, 100000 feet of lumber,
| tracks and bridges, all valued at $4,000;
| insurance $4,000. The Milwaukee, Lake
| Shore & Western Company's loss was
about s., 900, and other small losses s., 200.
In the Coleman (Marinctte County, and
Westboro Taylor County, section forest
fires were raging few days ago. The for
mer village was partially destroyed.
| Assistant Secretary of State NJ. T.
Parks is at his post of duty again, after
having been confined to the house by i'll
ness for month.
Mrs Alice Smith, of GAINESVILLE, acct
dentally punctured her finger with needle
recently while sewing. The wound has
now become inhamed, and the pains she
/ experiauees are aponizino Friends de-