The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-10
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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The grocery firm of Ives & Graves, of
| Altoona, Eau Claire County. assigned re-
Gently to Isaac Cross for the benefit of
creditors Liabilities, 5000: assets. s., 900.
| The John Thompson & Sons Company's
| plow-works at Beloit were damaged by fire
at an early hour the other morning. Loss,
| $500; insured.
L. Abrahams & CO., clothing manufact-
Hrers at Milwaukee, failed few days ago
| for $4,000
! Eoen Bacon, well-l1nown farmer near
GAINESVILLE, killed himself with an overdose
| of morphine the other night. It was be-
| leved he was insane at the time.
| Harry Reed, of GAINESVILLE, was badly
bitten on the arm by a pet monkey few
days ago.
A party of four Wisconsin hunters
camped on the Little Popple river, a tribu-
| tary of the Menominee, have killed twenty
| three deer in three weeks.
Steps are beng taken IN Eau Claire to
| form baseball club to join the North
western League next summer.
Two new towns have been made by the
| County Board of Chippewa County, and two
| more are to be made.
A prominent farmer named Thomas
| Thatcher, living near Wilson Station, St.
| Croix County, was struck by passenger
| train going west the other evening, while
| walking on the track, the cars running
over him and mangling his body horribly.
| He leaves wife and one child.
S. A. Halls logging camp, on the Upper
| Chippewa, near Glidden, was completely
| destroyed by fire few days ago, Loss,
| about $1,000.
| A student named Rose, at Beloit College,
| was enticed from his room recently and set
| upon by several others, who tried to gag
| him. AS they met with resistance they
| beat him severely, and left him tied to a
| tree, where he was found.
Two freight cars were badly demolished,
and caboose burned, on the Omaha rail-
| road the other night near Boomer, Chip
pewa County, resulting from collision of
a couple of cars which became detached
| from train.
Henry c. Barlow has been appointed as
| sistant general freight agent of the Wis
| consin Central road.
| In settling damages for the wreck at
East Rio the st. Paul officials encountered
| a claim by New York drummer for a trunk
| and four quarts of whisky.
| A. D. Quint, living near Porterville, Eau
| Claire County, lost his residence and near
| ly all of the contents by fire the other night
| Loss on building, $500; on contents, 800.
The property was uninsured.
Engineer Little, whose heroism at the
| time of the Rio disaster undoubtedly saved
many lives, has received beautiful gold
medal from the hands of Bishop Whipple,
4 of Minnesota who a 1lcG on q
| Inflated train.
A jury at Milwaukee the other day con-
| victed three more of the beer-garden riot
ers and acquitted six others.
A powder-mill near Platteville, Grant
| County, was blown up the other evening,
| with 10000 pounds of product, but no one
| was injured.
A fire broke out in the barn of ]. L. Rood,
| at Monroe, Green County, few days ago,
| and spread so rapidly that three neighbor-
| ing barns, large shed of lumber and sew
| eral outbuildings were destroyed The loss
| amounted to several thousand dollars.
| On the steamship Aller, which arrived in
| New York few days ago, the dead body
| of Mr. Frank, prominent merchant of
| Milwaukee, was taken from the cabin to an
| undertaker's and prepared for shipment
| West. Mr.. Frank was returning from a
| trip abroad with his wife and two sons, and
| died on the steamer.
A party of hunters after fur along the
| Chippewa tributaries have within short
| time made successful capture of forty
beavers along Muskrat river, an important
| tributary of the Eau Claire river, by trap
ping and poison. The woods in that direc-
| ton were never before known to abound so
| plentifully with wild game.
In several wells recently sunk about
| Kaukauna, in the search for natural gas,
| large pieces of coal have been found.
Whitefsh were running recently at Reyes
lake, near Florence, and fishermen were
catching them in large quantities.
| The fifteen -year-old son of E. E. Ely, of
| Oconomowoc, while skating on Laballe
| lake the other morning broke through the
| ice and was drowned.
| Suit has been brought at Milwaukee by
| the heirs of James P. Greves for posses.
| sion of 100 acres Of land in the heart of ST.
| perior, Douglas County.
| A new post-office has been established at
| Beatrice, Adams County.
| Willie Smith, aged thirteen years, shot
| d bear the otner day near Weyerhauser,
| Chippewa County, that weighed three hum
| dred pounds.
| The building occupied by A H. Baker
and Miss Wheeler as jewelry and mil
| linery store, at Appleton, was burned the
| other night. The losses on building and
| stock were covered by insurance, amount
| ing to 1875.
| Colonel Wallace Botkin, formerly of Wis
! consin, has lost his reason. While being
| taken from Montana to the Soldiers Home
| at Leavenworth recently he leaped from
| the train and received serious injuries.
| William Swale, the proprietor of the old
| est wholesale millinery house in Milwau-
kee, made an assignment the other day to
| Thomas Beeoher, to secure liabilities OF
about $75,0 900.
George Parr, lumber manufacturer, and
one of the principal general merchants OF
| Barron, made an assignment a few days
| ago The assets and liabilities were about
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively.
| The seventh annual meeting of the Wis
| consin Humane Society was held at
| Plymouth Church in Milwaukee the other
| evening.
! One of the skating Kinks at La Crosse is
(, used as livery stable, another as a knit
| ting factory and the third will probably be
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| refrigerators.
Leon Johnson arrested near Chetek for
stealing an OK at lumber camp on the
Red Cedar river, pleaded guilty to the
charge the other day before Judge Swift,
| Of Barron County, and was sentenced to
| the penitentiary at hard labor for one year.
A crosier costing $500 is to be Christ
| mas gift to Bishop Katzer from the several
branches of the Catholic Knights of Wis.
| consIn.
The Wisconsin State Sunday school con-
| ventiou met in first annual session the other
| evening in the First Baptist Church at Mil
waukee. Five hundred delegates were
| present, and much interest was manifested
The following officers were chosen for the
| ensuing year: President, E. G. Durant, OF
Racine; Vice-Presidents, Rev w. G. Walk
er, Of Madison; Rev E. D. Eaton, of Be
| lott, and B. P. Raymond, of Appleton
| Treasurer, w. w. Starkweather, of Mil
| waukee.
| A butcher in Butternut, Ashland County,
recently found five-dollar gold piece in the
stomach Of steer which he killed.
| James Stewart, a well-known Lancaster