The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-03-19
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, S11s@Sl4c.
Corn--No >, 37140375sc. Oats-No. ?, 29116
@36c. Rye-Ho. i, G6l4Ge665Sc. Barley
No. 2 Spring, 52c.
Lawrence University, at Appleton, will
! soon have electric lights.
The Unitarians of Madison dedicated
their new church recently. The structure
is of stone, and cost about fifteen thousand
dollars.
A prospective industry at La Crosse is a
saltwater factory.
Sixty trunk makers at Carpdes Schram
& Co.'s factory in Milwaukee struck the
other day for higher wages. They demand
ed an increase of about thirty-fve per
cent, and were sure of getting it.
The oldest native of Oconomowoc now
living within that corporation is j. J. Hall.
He served his country as member of the
Twenty eighth Wisconsin regiment.
The Sons of Veterans have formed an or
ganization at Eau Claire with good mem
berShip. and are differed as follows: Cap
tain, W. H. Kendall; frst-ieutenant Dr.
w. T. Pinkerton; second-heutenant, s. W.
Bracket; chaplain, p E. Bent
The La Crosse Young Mems Christian
Association now numbers POS members.
The tack factory at Evansville, Rock
County, cuts up ton of iron Dolly.
Adam Guckenberger, a hard character,
was arrested at MarShfield, Wood County,
the other day for the recent outrage On
Mrs. George Kundert. On the examination
the guilt of the prisoner was clearly shown,
| and he was at once removed to Grand
Rapids Jail to escape mob violence.
Work on the projected State Industrial
School at Sparta, Monroe County, is to be
commenced as soon as the snow is off the
ground.
Mrs E. Mittens, of Ottawa township, has
sued the town of Summit WaukeSha Coun-
| ty, for ten thousand dollars damages,
caused by falling from load of poultry be-
cause of poor highways.
One of the supervisors of Milwaukee
County states that the management Of
that section of the insane asylum at Wau-
watosa set apart for idiots is disgrace to
| the county.
| AS yet the places in which timber has
been cleared away in Lincoln County are
small.
Alva Gee, o clerk for Plankinton & Co.,
! in Milwaukee, lost his wife recently and
mortgaged his property for five hundred
dollars in order to pay off some pressing
debts. A few days ago be fell into the
hands of some sharpers, VINO made him
drunk and robbed him of his five hundred
dollars.
| The remains of L. G. Fisher arrived in
Beloit the other afternoon from Chicago,
and were buried in the city cemetery. The
college exercises were suspended for the
&, afternoon, and the faculty and students
marched to the depot to meet the remains,
and acted as escort to the cemetery. He
| was one of the founders of eloit College,
and trustee when he died.
| Sergeant S. S. Johnston, an old veteran
of the regular army, died at his home in
Green Bay few days ago. at the age OF
seventy eight years.
A new village has been plated just north
| of the Ashermann mine, in Ashland Coun-
| ty, on the Gogebic range and within half
mile of Sunday Lake, on the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore & Western railro ad. 1t has
| been christened Fink in honor of Mr.. Fink,
of Milwaukee, one of the principal owners
of the Sunday Lake mining property.
G. p PETER, of Pewaukee, Waukesha
| County, carries cane made of the old ship
st. Lawrence that was presented to him by
citizens of Erie for his bravery in saving a
child from drowning at that place.
E. w Kemble, whose illustrations in the
| Century and other periodicals are attract
ing attention, was at one time book-keeper
in the Atlas mills at Appleton.
An organization has been formed by the
| farmers whose lands are overlooked by the
| backwater caused from the dam on Rock
| river at Piperville, Rock County, owned by
Messrs. Glib & Piper, and steps have been
taken to purchase the waterpower right
with view of taking out the dam. 1t is
estimated that thousands of acres Of land
now unfit for cultivation would be re-
claimed by taking out the dam.
| The old soldiers of Lone Rock, Richland
| County, are arranging for veterans re-
union, to occur on the grouds Of the Sixth
battery, at that place. A general invita-,
| ton to old soldiers will be extended, and a
I rousing time is looked for.
William Murray, charged with assault
! ing Mrs E. Burke, at GAINESVILLE, was re-
! Gently sent to Jail for thirty days and
| placed under one hundred dollar bonds to
keep the peace for one year
The demands of the striking shoe-makers
| at Milwaukee have been conceded, and The
| men have resumed work
The value of the hay raised in Grant
County last year was nearly three times
| that of the wheat raised there, that of the
oats nearly four times, and that of the
corn nearly five times.
The tobacco in Grant County varies ir
! quality to such an extent that it requires
as many as six grades of sorting.
A farmer named Roucke, living near
| Milwaukee, while at work recently clean
ing deep well, was buried under several
feet of stones and earth, and lay in the
water forty hours before he could be res
cued by neighbors. He was nearly dead.
The work on the new Wisconsin Central
| line is progressing favorably, and it is
| thought the road will be open for travel in
| June or July.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that the
| Legislature o. IS67-almost twenty years
| ago-passed an act entitled "An act regu-
/ lating the hours of manual labor, and fix
| ing the same at eight hours day 1t is
to be found as chapter So of the session
laws, and was afterward, with trifing
change, incorporated in the revised stat
utes and remains as law to this day. 1t
has been practically ignored from the time
of its passage to the present day.
A new enemy of the sheep has been dis
covered at Hartland, Waukesha County.
Mr.. l. D. Goodwin found that large skunk
had fastened itself to the nose of one of his
/ flock. and that another of the flock ha
| been bled until it sank to the floor.
H. H. Plough has sold his farm near ocon-
{ mowoc to L. c. Straight, of Chicago, for
a consideration of six thousand dollars.
Depositors in the Citizens National Bank
at Beloit were recently notified to with
draw their funds, as the managers of the
bank purpose to engage in other business
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