The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-12-03
WISCONSIN IfaYlnS

and so badly beaten by an unknown man
that he died at three o'clock in the morning
Robbery was not the motive, as money wa
found on the person OF the victim.
Milwaukee has expended s., 10000 il
new buildings this year.
tits reported that the organized pharma
cists of the State will apply to the Lcglsla
ture this winter for a law providing for
State Inspector of Drugs.
Deer are unusually plentiful in all of the.
woodland districts this winter.
A. w. Campbell, an old university Law
student and formerly of Vernon County,
was elected to the Dakota Senate from
Brown County at the recent election.
Eau Claire County spent $3.50 last montn
in caring for its paupers.
The Green Bay Cadet Light Infantry ha,
been reorganized under the name of Light
Infantry. The company has very large
membership.
Boys at De Soto, Vernon County, tore up
sidewalk few days ago, and the chief
of-police compelled them to put it in place
again.
Engineer Martin Kelly, who caused tho
collision between his wild engine and
passenger train on the Chicago q North.
western road, near Pine Bluff, q month ago
when one man was killed and several
wounded, was few days ago i'll Madison
held for trial for manslaughter
During the winter $50 men will be en-
ployed in the construction of ore docks at
Ashland
5. A. Halls loggIng-camp up the Chippe-
wa, near Glidden, with contents, was
b11r nj = 1
800; no insurance. A stable located a few
feet from the fire, containing a number OF
working cattle, was saved.
1t will require about 100000 brick TO con-
struct the coal-kilns now being built al
Cartwright, Chippewa County.
Charles l.. Mann, of Milwaukee, has pur
chased the Murdoch mine, near lshpcming
Mich, for S65, 900. A stock company will bt
organized among Milwaukee capitalists to
develop the property.
The recent trial at Shawano of Henri
Schultz for the murder of John Corcoral
resulted in a verdict of manslaughter in the
first degree and sentence of ten years a.
hard labor in the State prison.
The public schools at Fairchild, Ea -,
Claire County, were recently closed in cor
sequence OF an epidemic prevailing among
the children. Efforts TO thwart its spread
had proved futile.
The high school building at Elkhorn wa,
burned the other afternoon. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000
A black bear weighing over three hui
dred pounds was killed few days ago ip
the woods near Eau Claire by lad of thir
teen years, named Willie Smith The ca
cass was shipped to Chicago.
The total miles of postal railway serviC.
in operation in the State the past year
were 9,5SS, run at a cost of 1923 092, of which
5,10S miles were star service, at a cost OF
S102, $40, and 4,4S0 railway service, at a cos
of $500, 600 During the year 7,095, 40 miles,
were Travelled in the postal service; 1856,
AZ by tie star service and , ,429, 329 by TIL.
railway scr,ice.
The schooner Belle Walbridge, lumb6l'
laden, went ashore at Shcboygan the othcl'
morning, the crew escaping The vessel
would probably go to pieces.
d. P. Graves, the oldest and most exper.
enced hunter in the vicinity OF Eau Claire;
killed three tons of venisOn this fall, hHI
hunting groun Is being isolated places 1T
the woods toward the Lake SupcriO,'
region. He secured the hides AMI slddl CO,
bestowing the remainder of the carcasse
on the settlers in the vicinity of the hunt
ing grounds.
The highest point of the tower of Sc;cn, =
Hall, at the State University, will be -
feet above the ground and 80 feet above the
70 Of of the nall.
The Light Guard at Wausau are prepa4
ing to take part in the National competitive
drill at Washington next wear.
There are 534 pensioners in Grant County,
and they relieve the United States Treas
ury of 81, 9S5 every month.
A brutal murder was committed a few
nights ago at Phipps, Sawyer County, by
an Indian named NeW-e-osh, the victim be
ing his squaw. The tragedy was the result
Of quarrel, the Indian laboring under in
tOXicantS.
The other morning a three-year-old
daughter of Thomas Walker, of Shell Lake,
WashbuTn c unity, fell into boiler full of
hot wafer that had been carclessly left
standing in the middle of the floor, spilling
the contents all over her person and scald-
ing hcrin a frightful manner.
Edward SanIerson, of Milwaukee, re-
Gently paid to Colonel J. II. Knight 81 900
wagcred on 10000 plurality for Governor
Rusk, the official returns showing but
IS, rs.
Madison ladies are making preparations
to give an art exhibition for the benefit Of
the local Young Mems Christian Assoca.
ton.
Martin Whitish died few days ago at
the advanced age of one hundred years in
Animation, Grant County. He was Polish
patriot banished for taking part in the rev.
olutions of 1879 and 1916. He was among
the earliest settlers of Southern Wis
cons:n.
The Legislature elected at the receL.
election is Republican by thirty-5even on
joint ballot.
j. P Phillips & Co., dealers in agricuit-
ural implements at Milwaukee, failed tLs
other day. The bond of the assignee was
fixed at $4,000.
Mrs. Schwartzrock, sixty-fve yea. 8
old, dropped dead at her residence in Mi.
waukee the other day while in the dir.
charge of her household duties.
John Wagner, of Door County, a fey
days ago came into possession of a pair #
mules which had been identified as beil
out of a lot captured at Fort Donelson aI.1
used continually afterward by one Of TIE
Wisconsin regiments until the close of tie
war
A curiosity in a stone shaped like boat
is on exhibition at Berlin. 1t was found IN
the Eureka quarry.
A warrant was recently issued for the
arrest of Dr. S.. s. Riddle, of Chippewa
Falls, one of the oldest physicians in the
valley, on charge of killing Anna Baetz, a
girl eighteen years old, by criminal NAL
practice.
The Northwestern Lumber Company Of
Eau Claire recently made a sale of 100000
feet of standing pine to Furgeson Bros, of
Medford, Taylor County, for the considera-
ton Of $4,000 cash. It was considered the
most important transfer that had been
made in Northwestern Wisconsin for some
time
Edward Hanke, fifteen years of age,
while playing with other boys in Milwau-
kee recently shot himself accidentally. The
wound was NOT consi Apred dan oeroIs