The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-31
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, 764(0761Sc.
Corn-No. 9, 361493511Sc Oats-No. 2, 2Js<
@a614c Rye-No. l, 551lc. Barley-No. 2,
5Osl@514c.
The proprietor of a cracker factory at
Kenosha intends to start second one at
Green Bay.
Louis Coulton, hale and hearty resident
of Duck Greek, Brown County, is over nine
| ty-three years old.
Chris Larson, employed as foreman in
Paul's lumber camp, ON Black river, was
struck recently by trunk of tree which
he was saving with such force as to break
both his legs, besides receiving internal in
| juries which rendered recovery hopeless.
/ A ladies' toboggan slide is being organ
| lied at La Crosse. 1t will have about thirty
five members.
The State Musical convention, held re-
Gently at Oshkosh, elected the following
officers, all residents of Portage, for the en-
suing year: President, A. Pa1ley; Vice.
! President, d. Breese Treasurer, Julia Pad
ley; Secretary, W. g. Bissell.
| La Crosse has Woman's Suffrage Asso-
citation.
| The station between Oakfeld and Van
| dyne, on the Northwestern railway, has
been named "Guentherville.
Governor Rusk hls appointed officers for
| the new county of Oneida, which was
| organized by the last Legislature. The
county will begin its corporate duties jan
uary /, 1887. 1t is composed of territory
| taken from Lincoln County. The county
seat will be Rhinelander. The officers are:
| County Judge J. w. Mccormick; District
| 7 7 ~
! +. w. Mcintyre; County Clerk, w. L.
Beers; Sheriff, A Sievwright; Register Of
| Deeds, Ole r. Oleson; County Treasurer,
| G. EOy; County Surveyor, E. S. Sheppard;
! Superintendent of Schools, D. l.. Barnes.
A teamster working in the Black river
woods got hung up on a stump the other
| day with six logs on his sleigh, and in try.
ing to chop lose he cut his big toe com.
| plste1y off.
The Shell Lake (Washburn County, Lum-
Der Com pany's mill, which had been run
ming uninterruptedly since the early part
| of April, shut down the 9th II day with the
lowing extensive manufactures: Lufn-
Der, S4,5l0,0)0 feet; shingles, Il,5O0,0 0J;
lath, 5,500,00O VIII ca is the largest amount
of pr) AUCTIONS for single season in the
history of the mill The company has
planned for logscut Of 35,0.0,0O0 feet this
winter.
The Appleton Post says that some excel.
lent quality of m ca has been taken from
mine on farm near Kaukauna.
Carl Mussfeldt, one of the Milwaukee
rioters, whose sentence was recently sus-
| pended by Judge Sloan on promise of good
behavior, was arrested few days ago for
brutal assault upon his father.
Il = alaAA
vile, Grant County who recently visited
his former home in Germany, is now doing
compulsory military duty in Emperor Viii.
liam's army.
The Beef Slough Rafting Company, whose
locality of operations is on the Lower Chip
pewa, have arranged to handle through
their various channels next season from
0),00O, 900 to 450, 600 900 feet of logs, which
will be run into AM RATED at their works.
A force OF six hundred men win be en-
ployed.
The ice on the Mississippi at Potosi,
Grant County, was recently said to be bet
/ ter than it had been for several years, as
it was frozen over good and there was no
snow On it.
Neillsville capitalists have formed @
syndicate and purchased eight Thousand
thon County.
The business men of Berlin are agitating
the formation of new county with Berlin
as the seat. 1t is proposed that the towns
of Berlin, Brooklyn, Princeton, ST. Marie
and Seneca, in Green Lake County, and the
towns of Marion, Warren, Aurora, Poy-
sippe, Leon, Saxeville, Bloomfield, Spring
water and Mt Morris in Waushara County,
be united for that purpose.
Wesley Vanzandt, the forger and biga-
mist recently arrested at GAINESVILLE, Is
known to have five living wives
The schooner Annie o. Hanson WIZ
wrecked off Two Rivers tho other evening,
during ahard snow-storm. The crew were
rescued by the Two Rivers life-saving crew.
Four of the Lawrence College students
who were suspended for hazing were rein
stated few days ago. The fifth refused to
return to college.
A movement is on foot among business
mems clubs throughout the State to extend
the privileges of their club-rooms to mem.
bers of associations in other cities.
Expert sneak thieves got away with
$4,000 in five dollar notes the other day
from the First National Bank at Milwau-
| kee during the noon hour. With the ex-
had gone to lunch: when two strangers en-
tered and remained near the door. Then
the teller was called to the telephone and
that moment the strangers stepped to hiT
desk window and seized the money and e.
ped.
The Wisconsin Legislature, at its next
session, will reapporti5n the State .nto
Senate, Assembly and Congressional dis.
tricts.
The manufacture of packing boxes is a
new industry at Kaukauna.
Mrs. A. J. Reed, wife of the editor Of tbs
Appleton Post, was seriously injured about
the head a few days ago by runaway
team.
The new Methodist Episcopal Church In
Palmyra was dedicated on recent Sun
day.
J. W. Miller, lumber dealer, was mar
ried few days ago at E u Claire to Mrs.
Lila Stewart, pretty young widow, Of
Quincy, Ill. Their engagement of MARI age
was made by correspondence, without see
ing each other.
The tobcggan slide at Appleton is illu-
minated with campaign torches.
A mush-and-milk social was the latest
thing at Markesan, Green Lake County.
w. J. Dexter, cashier of the First Ma
tional Bank at Wauwatosa, died the other
morning
Ex-Governor Fitkin, of Colorado, whose
death at Pueblo, Col. was recently report
ed, was for fifteen years resident OF Mil
waukee, whege he practiced law. He was
highly respected as citizen and lawyer,
and was very successful. He went West
for the benefit Of his health.
Paul Grottkau, editor of the Anarchist
organ at Milwaukee, the Arbeiter Zeitung,
was few days ago sentenced to hard labor
in prison for thirty days for publishing
| poem libeling Judge Sloan during the trial
/ Of the riot cases. Grottkau claimed that
his city editor was alone responsible for
! the libel
The pipes Of the Green Bay and Fort
! Howard water-works, connecting those
two cities, are being laid and soldered on
! the ice. The curve is adapted to the bottom
of the river, standings having previously
! been taken. When the work is completed
the ice will be cut and the pipe lowered TO
| the bottom