The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-09
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

THE following are the Milwaukee, grain
quotations. Wheat-No. 2, 7214(@is15c.
Corn No. 2, 341{(034115c Oats-No. 2, III
@271lc. Rye-No. L, 5S14@5s5lc. Barley
No 2 Spring 4sc.
At Chippewa Falls a few days ago was
laid the cornerstone of what is to be one
of the finest Catholic churches in the State,
estimated to cost $4,000.
Annie Gerkin, aged thirteen years, and
John Schmidt, aged nineteen years, of
Freeport, H., were married a few days
| ago at Beloit.
A Milwaukee orchestra has been organ
ICED for thirty-eight years.
Lame horses are said to be becoming
very numerous in Milwaukee lately, es-
pecially in some of the livery barns where
they are frequently driven out when limp
ing painfully.
Old Fort Crawford is no longer a feature
of Prairie du Chem. 1t has been torn
down and the stone used for building on
the grounds of ST. Mary's Institute.
A signa1-service station is to be estab-
lished at Green Bay.
| Mrs Joseph Montena fell dead at her
| residence in Eau Claire the other evening,
from heart-disease. She was one of the
earlier settlers.
Three of Milwaukee's well-known citi-
Zens-William Marien, Christian Marien
| and Christoph Marien-have taken steps
| toward establishing title to an estate valued
at A000, 900 francs or S3,000,000. This prop
erty was left by one Christoph Marien, who
after diligent inquiry found no near rela-
| tives, and bequeathed his estate to the City
| of Basic, Switzerland. 1t now develops
| that this millionaire was en- uncle to the
| Milwaukee Martens.
A kerosene lamp exploded a few even
| ings ago in the residence of Mrs. Hogan, at
| Eland Junction, Shawano County, and
| caused $500 damages.
Clothes-line thieves are reported to be
numerous in Green Bay.
Frank White, of Minneapolis, Mimi, who
| graduated from the mechanical engineer
| ing course at the university recently, was
| drowned the other afternoon in Mendoza
| lake while bathing. White was twenty
| FIVE years old, and had secured position
at the university machine-shop for the
| summer.
| OOLlu "a w 0tl, d WGll-huOWI dUCO1 uSy VI
| Milwaukee, died suddenly the other morn.
ing, aged thirty-nine years.
There are five lady lawyers in active
| practice in the State. Only two States
have larger number, Michigan having
six and Illinois seven.
| Many of the girls in the La Crosse
single mills walk four miles to their
work.
Jack Connors, desperate burglar,
escaped from the Wisconsin Penitentiary
three years ago, and nothing could be
learned of his whereabouts until he was
! found recently at work in a shop in tho
| Joliet Qll.) prison, on nine years sem
| tence.
In the past fifteen years the value of tax
able property in Wisconsin has increased
| 71.071, 507 or about sixty per cent.
A large barn on the farm of A. B. Knapp,
three and half miles west of Beloit Rock
! County, was struck by lightning and
burned the other night. Eight head of
cattle were also burned, together with a
lot of farm machinery. The total loss was
about So, 900; insurance, $4,000,
The first sheriff of the county of st. Croix
was Nathanial Lawrence, elected in 1S40
Lawrence is said to have served but one
| summons. He was called to serve sum-
mons on a resident of the county, and he
did SO in the following words: Gin the
name of the immortal God the county of
| st. CroiX and the Government of the
United States, I call on you to surrender p
| The affrighted citizen surrendered at once.
A well on the farm of Louis Hayner,
| about two miles west of GAINESVILLE, re-
Gently settled fully twenty feet, the curb.
ing remaining intact The gravel and
loose earth at the top caved in as the curb
ing went down, and caused the water to
rise within twenty feet of the surface.
At Eau Gale, Dunn County, burglars en-.
| tered the store of Carson & Rand a few
nights ago. blew the safe open, and rified
the drawers of $1,000 of which $500 be-
longed to Louis Heike.
A. Drummer treasurer of the town of
| New Berlin, Waukesha County, was run
| over and instantly killed about eleven
o'clock the other night by the Waukesha
limited express train on the Northwestern
road. Drummer had about seven hundred
| dollars on his person when found.
| A number of horses in the region of
GAINESVILLE are suffering from disease
! similar to "epizoota.'
An inmate of the Soldiers Home at Mil
wakuee, who had been trying to secure a
pension for twenty years, was notified a
| few days ago that a pension, with ar
rearages had been granted him, but the
| old man expired the next night.
The Seventh-Day Adventsts, in session
recently at Madison, subscribed five thou
sand dollars for missionary work.
At Junction City, Wood County, the
other morning James Malloy. logger,
shot and fatally wounded an unknown
stranger a woodman by occupation. The
stranger attempted criminal assault on
Malloy's wife, supposing Malloy absent.
Frank Holly, laborer forty years old,
committed suicide recently at La Crosse by
hanging. He had been in good spirits pre-
vious to the sricide, and the deed was
| wholly explainable.
A Waukeshe. farmer while blowing on
his farm a few days ago unearthed an in
strument which proved to be mold for
making counterfeit money The iron was
| OdOif IuSOOu3 Ju0 Aduut6S D6luR gone,
the stamps which are made of brass re-
tanned all their original clearness On one
side is a head of liberty, surrounded by
thirteen stars, and the date, 1881" on the
| other the eagle with the darts, the inscrip-
] ton united States of America and the
value, '25c" The edge is smooth and the
coin trife larger than the coins now in
| circulation. The workmanship is good.
J The new grain storage rates at Milwau-
quarters of cent per bushel
for the first ten days, reduction of one
| half cent-has gone into effect.
| Walter Campbell, young man living at
Brodhead, Green County, was fatally in
jured by a freight train in that city a few
nights ago. Campbell was married man
He fell from the caboose.
| A block of granite from the Berlin gran
ite quarry, fifteen feet long, six feet wide
and fifteen inches thick, was recently split
so as to form two pieces each seven and
| half inches thick.
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