The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-02-12
wisconsin Items.

The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations: Wheat-No. 2, 7S@7S$c. Corn
No. 3, 36@33Ac. Oats-No. 2, 2S@2Sssc.
Rye-No. l, 571I@5sHc. Barley-No. 2
Spring, Sc
Thirteen cases of trichiniasis were re-
Gently reported at Rib Lake, Taylor Coun-
ty, and four cases existed at g camp near
Medford.
Herbert Morrel, an Englishman living in
abject poverty at Mount Hope, Grant
County, has received the gratifying news
that protracted suit in chancery court
in England had at last been decided, and
that by the decision he, as heir, would re-
ceive a million dollars as soon as he ap-
peared to claim it.
About November last J. J. Cleveland e
teacher in the public school at La Crosse,
disappeared suddenly from the city, desert
ing his wife and large family and taking
with him Miss Mamie Mcmillan, a young
lady well-known and esteemed throughout
the city. Detectives have been searching
for them continually since that time, and
few days ago found Miss Mcmillan at
Baltimore. Nd, where she had been de-
serted by Cleveland. She returned to her
home. The whereabouts of the deserter
were unknown.
The public schools in the vicinity of
Pierce and Albany, Green County, closed a
few days ago on account of the ravages Of
scarlet fever.
The election Of successor to Congress
man Rankin will take place in the fifth dis
trict on the 23d inst
George Whitcombe pleaded guilty at
Green Bay the other day to the charge of
burglarizing the Chicago & Northwestern
depot at Suamico, Brown County.
Mrs Nina L. Dousmap, of Prairie du
Chen, relict of tie late H. L. Dousman,
has been appointed Administrative of the
Dousman estate, the scheduled valuation Of
which is 81, 100000.
Woodsmen from the Flambeau river re-
port fully thirty inches of snow on level.
Petitions for the construction of break
water near the mouth of the harbor at
Manitowoc, to prevent heavy seas from
washing into the river, have been very
generously signed by vessel owners and
shippers along the lake.
At La Crosse recently a lrdy named Mrs.
Splahw had her arm amputated for cancer
in that member.
A recent fire at Fairchild, Eau Claire
County, destroyed the post-office and
store adjoining. Nothing was saved but
the contents of the post-office safe.
John Beekman Cole, one of the oldest
railroad cond actors in the United States,
died at Sheboygan a few days ago, where
be had resided since 1S43 He had charge
OF the first railway passenger trains run
ming on the line between Albany and
Schenectady, N. Y, the earliest completed
link of the New York Central railway. He
leaves three children.
The residents around Polley's mill and
store on the Oxbow, in La Crosse County,
have petitioned the Postmaster-G General for
a post-ofice.
A meeting of the trustees of Lawrence
University, Of Appleton, Wis, was held at
Milwaukee recently, when d. u. Ormsby,
of Pewaukee, formally presented to the di-
rectors, to be held in trust for the educa-
tional institution, the sum Of twenty-three
thousand dollars. The amount Of bills re-
ceivable was turned over to the board, who
appointed D. Mcmillan receiver of the be-
quest
Fire in Fred Roth's vinegar factory at
Milwaukee the other night caused a loss OF
5000; insured for 81, 0O0-
James W. Sherman, special broker on
the Chicago Board of Trade, committed
suicide at his home in Waukesha early the
other morning by taking dose of chloro-
form because of business troubles. He was
about thirty-seyen years old.
Morris Tauber, of Albany, n. Y, was ar
rested in Milwaukee the other night for
swindliug. He forged orders on the city
treasurer and got them cashed-
Mrs James r. Stuart, wife Of the we'll
known artist, died at Madison early the
other morning, aged fifty years. She was
buried at Louisville, KY, her childhood
home.