The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-09-17
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Blackberry excursions are very popular
in the vicinity of Marinette
Duck-shooting is now legal in the State.
The residence of J. G. Babcock, at Evans
vile. Rock County, was damaged by light
ming to the extent of 81 900 the other night
A Milwaukee hop-dealer recently had
the malt in the Menasha Islani brewery
attached to satisfy a $50 claim.
There are sixty-three inmates In the
Brown County insane asylum.
An Anti-HorSe- Thief Association has
been organized at Milton, Rock County; a
Building and Loan Association has also
been formed.
A Polish resident near Shawano has be-
come a raVing maniac because of his losses
during the recent forest fires.
Early the other morning a brewery BE-
longing to Val Blatz, of Milwaukee, was
totally destroyed by fire at Fort Atkinson,
i'll which was burned horse and cow. The
former tenant had just closed the brewery
on the expiration of lease. 1t was the
work of an incendiary; loss, $1,000; no in
snrance on building.
Olesen & Hogan, merch ant tailors at
Eau Claire. have assigned for the benefit
OF their creditors.
Ernest Burmeister, treasurer of a school
district in West Kewaunee. disappeared the
otherday with 1924 of the school fund. His
brother was elected to the office on paying
in the amount due the district.
Pauline Mittelstaedt, the Milwaukee
midwife who murdered several children
for money considerations, and who pleaded
guilty to one of the charges, was arrested
at Reed City, Mich, and taken to Milwau-
kee few days ago. She kept lying
in hospital, and in one case is said to have
burned pair of twins in order TO earn
twenty-five dollars.
j. NJ. Smith, near Green Bay, raised one
thousand bushels of berries from three
acres and half this year. He sold them
for two thousand dollars.
The business men of Eau Claire talk of
consolidating all the woodworking estab-
Hshments of the place into giant plant
for the wholesale manufacturing trade.
A grand jury at Milwaukee has been in
structed by Judge Mallory to bring in in
dictments against all persons contributing
to the deposit of foul matter in the three
rivers, which have become a public nui-
Sance.
A natura]-gas well has been discovered
near Kaukauna. The gas was ignited, and
was blazing forty feet into the air.
The crops raised on the Industrial School
farm at Wauk9sha this year were excel
lent, the small grain thrashed aggregating
thirty-five hundred bushels. The corn is
an average crop.
There was recently twelve feet of water
in the river at Neilsville, and it was ex-
pected that this sudden rise would bring
from 100000 to 75,0O0,000 feet of logs into
the boom.
Mrs. q. Fl. Slayton, of Berlin, Green
Lake County, recently found in the yelk
of an egg an animal about quarter of an
inch in length and leech-like in shape.
The microscope showed its back covered
with white spots. 1t was to be sent to q
scientist for examination.
The prospects for the tobacco crop in
Wisconsin have been materially improved
since the drought was broken. New leaves
have been sent out, and in many cases at
least half crop of very fair leaf will be
secured if the frost win hold off for little
while.
The men who were thrown out of en-
ployment by the closing of the saw mills
at Wausau have engaged in raising dead
logs. They receive twenty cents log,
and have raised about six hundred thou
sand feet. Logs that became water-soaked
over twenty years ago and sank to the
bottom of the Wisconsin river have been
recovered, and are, in every instance, as
sound as the day they were cut.
A severe frost in the vicinity of Berlin
the other night made serious inroads on
many of the cranberry fields.
Anton Schneider, an old settler of Door
County, died at his home in Forestville
the other night. He had lived there thirty
years. He served in the war, where he
contracted rheumatism, and has been to.
tally disabled for the past eight years.
A barn valued at $1,000 and belonging to
Nathan Hob, of Hortonville, Outagamie
County, was destroyed by fire few days
ago.
One hundred persons belong to Mil
waukee cremation society.
An iron box dug up few days ago by
Frank Leroy on his farm in Oconto County
contained gold watch, two gold chains,
roll of greenbacks and a number of copper
coins.
The Manitowoc Methodist Church was
rededicated recently. 1t was blown down
some time ago, and has just been rebuilt.
. Corn is failure in Trempealeau Coun-
ty, and the stalks are being cut up for fod-
der
Watertown has a weed commissioner.
One-half of the cranberry crop in the
United States last year was grown in this
State.
The thirty-frst annual session of the Wis.
consin Lodge of Good Templars was held
recently at Madison. Chief Templar J. F.
Clighorn presented his annual report,
showing that within the past twelve
months there had been one hundred new
subordinate lodges organized in the State,
while the present total membership is
about thirteen thousand. The treasurer's
report showed the receipts had been s., 943
and expenditures s., 427. The following
officers were elected for the ensuin year:
Chief Templar, E. W. Chaplin, Waukesha;
Councillor, E. G. Comstock, Milwaukee;
Secretary, B. F. Parker, Mauston; Treas
urer, L. W. Parker, Mansion; Superinten.
dent of Juvenile Templars, Allie A. Reed,
of Prescott.
Burglars cracked the safe in the office of
the Page Shoe Company at Milwaukee the
other night and secured four hundred dol
lars in currency. No clew.
The name of Elk Mound, Dunn County,
has been changed to Amy, in honor of Miss
Amy Kellogg, president of the Women's
Christian Temperance Union.
Rev. a. V. Nepper was recently expelled
by the Milwaukee District Conference of
the III. E. Church on charges Of falsehood,
misappropriatiug missionary funds and
general unministerial and unchristian
conduct.
A UtIey Green Lake County, granite
company expects TO furnish employment
to two hundred men this winter.
Louis Helmantel, the oldest school
teacher IN Milwaukee, for the past twenty
nine years principal of the Ninth district
school, died the other morning.