The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-29
Wisconsin Items.

WISCONSIN ITEMS
The following are the Milwaukee grain
| quotations: Wheat-No. 2. 71150nsIc.
Corn-No. 2, S411lCd3411c. Oats-No 2, 256
@254c. Rye-No. 1, 5O19c Barley-No 2,
54114@541Ic.
Mellen has been adopted as the name of
a new station on the Wisconsin Central
The sales of lumber at La Crosse will
amount to third more than last year.
| The amount oflumber shipped from that
city this season has been enormous, and
the stocks in the lumber yards have been
| greatly reduced.
j. R. Bergman, State Librarian, has
| examined the numerous volumes of law
periodicals in the law library from 1882 to
date, and made a subject card index of all
articles of general interest therein, and
also of notes appended to important cases.
Peter Robbeault, convicted ct the recent
term of the circuit court in Eau Claire of
assault with intent to murder Officer Ell
lott was sentenced to two years in the
State prison, one day of each year to be
| solitary confinement.
About nine o'clock the other night,
when off Sheboygan, the steamer John
| Pridgeon, Jr., collided with and sunk the
steam-barge Selah Chamberlain, the sec
ond engineer, fireman and three deck
hands of the latter boat being drowned.
The Chamberlain was valued at $50, 000.
| The Pridgeon was not badly damaged
Johnnie Hermes, three-year-old boy
resident at Ashwaubenon, Door County,
was run over by a construction train and
LillaJ far Jox l. Il
ing along the track.
While assisting in molding in foundry
the other afternoon at Watertown Her
man Dahlke, young man, had his eye
sight completely destroyed by the splat-
tering of molten iron into his face.
Logging firms at Eau Claire have con-
cluded some very heavy contracts with the
Indians on the upper Chippewa. The lat
ter have lately built seventy comfortable
dwellings on their reservation, and each
male has eighty acres from which to cut
timber.
Julius and Clark Jalmke, farmers near
Rockland, La Crosse County, were recent
ly fined forty dollars for skimming milk
before they delivered it to a Rockland
| creamery.
Acres of ssines are set in Fox river near
STROKES Island.
News reached Milwaukee a few days
ago that Captain Nat D. Moore, one of
the pioneers of the Gogebic iron range,
and Patrick Meehan James Meehan and
A. Eaton had been successful in exploring
for iron ore in Wood County Mr.. Meehan
stated that the assay of some of the speci-
,Ir, 81
1t was stated that iron ore had also been
discovered in Marathon County.
John Welch, of Janesville, was recently
descending into a we'll when the rope
broke and he fell sixty feet into four feet
of water He received a bad cut on the
head, but would recover.
Rev. DIR. S. W. Eaton closed pastorate
of forty years in the Congregational
Church at Lancaster a few days ago. AS
chaplain of the Seventh Wisconsin he was
present at the surrender Of General Lee.
Henry Kimberley, an old and highly-re-
spected resident of Brodhead Green
County, died a few days ago, aged seven
ty-six years He was a native of En-
gland, and came to this country in 1850.
Jared T. Bowen, prominent and we'll
known farmer of Decatur, Green County,
was found dead in his bed the other morn
ing. He was sixty -three years Of age, and
had lived in that county since 1916.
fire, probably incendiery, broke out
about midnight the other night in Beloit
and destroyed William Rilley's barn, near
the gas works, and three hoTses and other
>ool~nts. Total loss about 1000; not in
suTsd.
Cashier Balch, of the Rock County Ma
tionaI Bank of Evansville, was found at
his home unconscious the other morning,
the result of escaping coaI-gas The
speedy application of restoratives saved
his life.
A woodman who arrived at Eau Claire
the other day reported having piloted the
Ashland bank-robbers for twenty miles,
and that they had large amounts of coin in
their possession.
A mining town in the NEW south range"
Of Ashland County has been named Agen-
da.
Two robbers entered Wilmarth's Bank,
at Ashland, the other morning, compelled
Mr. Wilmarth to enter the vault at the
point of their revolvers, and then robbed
the safe Of $1,000 in cash and made their
escape.
The new directory of Madison, issued a
few days ago. places the population Of
that city at IS 800.
Samuel Dale. foreman of the railroad
shops at EIroy, Juneau County. wa; acct
dentally shot in the leg by hunting COM
oanion in the woods fewdays ago. His
eg was amputated.
The Thompson House. at New Rich
,nond, st. Croix County, owned by George
AicCabe, was burned the other day. Loss,
"A, 900; insurance, s., SOD.
barracks near Beloit containing about
150 tons of hay, owned by j. F. Chamber
lin and ]. r. Adams, was set on fire thu
other night and burned. Loss, 81, 900; fully