The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-12
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Corn-No. 2, 36}3sad364c. Oats-No. 2, 26]S
Q2614c Rye-No. /, 5214c. Barley-No. 2.
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circus has gone into winter quarters
near GAINESVILLE
In 1860 Wisconsin had 50, go farms. Now
there are 1874, 322
An inquest held recently at Evansville,
Rock County, on the body OF stockman
named Hamilton, showed that his spinal
cord was broken by a fall from car and
that he survived his injuries for week.
The best evidence attainable fixes the
number of the lost in the railway horror
at Rio at twenty. c. H. Wells, the brake
man alleged to be the cause of the disas-
ter, had surrendered himself. He placed
all the responsibility upon Conductor
Hankey
/ Sourbeck, the circus man, who robbed
his companion at GAINESVILLE, was a few
days ago sent to the penitentiary for seven,
months. The money that he stole was
some he was promised to help him start in
| business.
| Fishermen about Sheboygan are having
| better success than they had earlier in the
season. The average lift from a gang of
| gill nets in fifty to eighty fathoms of wa
ter is about eleven hundred pounds, One:
man recently took seven hundred pounds,
of trout from gang in eighty fathoms.
Gen. Lucius Fairchild, Grand Com.
mander of the Grand Army of the Repub-,
/ lie, announces the appointment of the fol4
| lowing staff: Adiutant-GeneraL E. B..
/ - .
John Taylor, of Philadelphia; Judge
Acknowledgement, Henry E. Taintor, OF
Hartford Conn; Assistant Adjutant-Gen-
eral, F. W. Oakley, of Madison; Senior
Abide Camp, Phil. Cheek Jr., of Baraboo.
Walter Demmons, one of the early set
| tiers of this State, died recently at West,
Bend, Washington County, aged seventy
one years. He came to Wisconsin in 1886.
Malignant diphtheria has recently taken
| five children from the family of Gustave
| Zoemish, of the town of Polk, Washington
| County.
Mrs. Catharine L. Follett, OF Green Bay,
recently celebrated her sixty-ninth birth
day. She has lived in the same house
forty-three years. There is a peony on the
premises that has bloomed there all thsss
years.
Large stocks of provisions are being for
warded from Green Bay to the lumber
camps north of that city.
Two boat-houses, belonging to Ira Bing-
| ham, OF KoshkonOng and Henry Bunk,
Of GAINESVILLE, were destroyed by fire on
he shore of Lake KoshkonOng few days
ago They were valued at So O0
At an early hour the other morning the
graded school building at Montford, Grant
County, was destroyed by fire. The loss
is about 5000. There was no clue to the
origin of the flames
Milwaukee brewers expect to use large
! quantities of foreign hops during the COM
ing year. as the crop in the country was a
| partial failure. 1t is said that over one
thousand bales of hops will be imported
from Bohemia for Milwaukee consump-
ton.
| Thomas McDermott, an extensive logger
| of Eau Claire has made a sale of vari )us
| tracts of standing pine located north of
there, embracing an estimate of 81, 100, 900
feet, for the consideration of S3l, 800 cash.
| The tracts were sold in a single deal, and
JHG lILlDSI IdlhS buS AAiOoG fdiutiDAC
to be found in Northwestern Wisconsin.
A pair of clever thieves made a descent
on the residence of Christian Helms, at
Milwaukee, few days ago and secured
| jawery and other plumber to the amount
| of $3.50. Members of the family were III
the house at the time, but heard nothing
| of the thieves. The latter effected an en-
trance through window, and escaped in
the same way.
Toboggan slides are being built in many
Wisconsin towns.
The hequest OF T. B. Scott for the estab-
lishmept of q free library at Merrill Lin.
coin County, makes it incumbent upon
the city authorities to provide a suitable
room or building. In case the city neg
lects such provision, the $1,000 will go to
residuary legatees, parties named in the
will.
The propellerS Neef has been sold to A.
W. Lawrence and others, of Sturgeon
Bay, for $500.
The other night burglars entered the
dry-goods store of the G. w. Lamb Mer-
camille Company at Green Bay, and took
from the safe $500 in cash. The sale was
opened by the combination. There was no
clew left by the thieves
Chambers is prevalent among the horses
near Seymour Outagamie County.
Rugby Junction is the name of a new
station recently founded five miles east of
Schleisingervilie, Washington County.
A gigantic hotel is being erected on
Madeline Island, near Ashland, for sum-
mer-resorters.
The new brewery at La Crosse, when
completed, will have a capacity for TWEEN
ty-fige barrels day.
A Green Lake County cow is said to
have given sixty pounds of milk every
day during the summer.
Melvin Searls Wautoma youth, re
Gently secured eighty dollars bounty by
killing four wolves.
An advance of fifty cents per ton on
coal has been made in GAINESVILLE.
Sales of tobacco in Rock County con-
tinue slow. This years crop, however il
curing out well, and gives promise of ex-
cellent quality.
A fast train on the Wisconsin Central
ran over and killed a deer near Medfor1,
Taylor County, few days ago.
A union of manufacturers and jobbers
has been formed at La Crosse.
While several young men were amusing
themselves recently by rolling powders
down bluff at Woodman, Grant County,
one of the stones, weighing several hun
dred pounds, dashed through the side of
building, seriously injuring an old lady.
AS train started out from Beloit the
other day a baby in a passenger coach &C
ciientully fell out of car window and
rolled down an embankment 1t was
picked up uninjured.
Mrs 6. a. Ludington died recently at
Neilsville Clark County, Of catarrh of the
stomach. She was at the head Of the
Womans Relief Corps of Wisconsin.
During the progress of an incendiary
fire at Milwaukee early the other morning
thieves broke into engiD e-houss No. and
style money and watches to the amount cE
$500
Thieves raided all the hotels in Appleton
the other night and secured considerable
booty from the guests.