The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-08
Wisconsin Items.

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations. Wheat-No. 9, 721s(01214c
Corn-No. ?, 3614fCa3615c. Oats-No 2, 2514
@2515c. Rye-No /, 541Ic. Barley-No. 2,
5514f@551zc.
An Indians skeleton was exhumed in a
brick-yar at Watertown few days ago.
Hai!-stones FIVE inches in circumference
were picked up at Madison the other morn
ing after storm. Several thousand panes
of glass were broken and hundreds of birds
were killed. During a rain-storm at Mil
waukee at breakfast time the heavens were
almost as dark as at night.
Deer are numerous in the vicinity of
Glidden, Ashland County.
During the recent violent thunder storm
at Oconomowoc Mrs. Hans Hanson, the
young wife of a mason, aged twenty-five
years, died from fright.
A broken axle ditched a passenger train
on the Wisconsin Central railway, near
Schleisingerville, few days ago, two cars
being turned over so that they rested on
their top. Every one aboard was thor
oughly shaken up, but no lives were lost.
John Cameron has resigned the office of
Adjutant General of the Grand Army of
the Republic, and E. B. Cray, of Madison,
has been appointed to succeed HIM.
J. c. Burr. the oldest hardware merch ant
of Beloit, made an assignment a few days
ago, with liabilities of $4,000
Careful examination of the corn crop in
the vicinity of-Palmyra, Jefferson County,
reveals the fact that besides being small
and of poor quality it is dangerous to
feed to stock on account of being so smutty
as to cause the females to abort their
young
John S. Dean, formerly chief clerk of the
Wisconsin Assembly, died the other morn
ing at Madison, aged sixty years
John D. Harp died few days ago at his
home in Cassville. He was a native of
New York and had lived in Grant County
for fifty years. He was veteran of the
Mexican and civil wars.
Mr.. McDonough, the manager of the gas
works in Wausau, entered cellar with a
lamp recently and removed plug from
a gas-ppe. He was severely burned by
the explosion which followed.
At meeting of the State Agricultural
Society in Milwaukee few evenings ago
Casper NJ Sanger, of Madison, was elected
president for the ensuing year, and 7. l..
Newton, of Beaver Dam, secretary. 1t was
voted to hold the State fair at Milwaukee
for the next five years.
The log drivers on Yellow river, near
Eau Claire, suspended work recently, after
having accomplished all they set out for,
and have lefs about ten million feet of logs
back to be brought down with the next
springs freshet, to be sawed IN the new
mill to be built by the Chippewa Lumber
AMI Boom Company.
Albany, Green County, was visited by
burglars the other night. They were heard
at work in the drug of J. w. Hicks
and few minutes later it was found thai
the building was in flames. Murray's Op
era-House was entirely destroyed, besides
the stores of j. W. Hicks and B. j McAtee
The damage done was about $40, 600; in
surance, SIS, 800.
G. D. Robinson, once the Democratic
nominee for Governor, who founded the
Green Bay Ad0ocate in 1916 and in the
Union army rose from private to a Col
Onel, died the other morning from paraly
sis at his home in Green Bay, aged sixty
four years.
While riding from the field a few days
ago the ten-year-old son of Samuel Huff
of Magnolia, Rock County, placed the
handle of pitchfork at the bottom of the
wagon-box and stood leaning against the
tines. The team stopping suddenly, the
tines entered the boys lungs, and so in
jured him that he died the same evening
The post-office at Augusta Eau Claire
County, has been raised to the Presiden.
tial grade.
In the town of Lake, three miles south
of Milwaukee, Billy and Henry RAINBOW,
aged respectively eleven and four years
and man sixty years old were bitten by
a rabid dog the other night. The animal
was killed.
Clay-modeling has been introduced into
the La Crosse schools.
Counterfeit silver quarters are circulat-
ing in Milwaukee,
ago paying fifteen dollars ton.
Appleton's new knitting mill has COM
msnced operations About seventy-five
hands will be employed.
A GAINESVILLE committee is seeking a suit
able location for city hospital.
There are forty young and handsome
schoolma'ams in Langdale County.
Rev. DR.. S. W. Eaton, after a service of
forty years as pastor of the Lancaster
Congregational Church, will preach his
farewell sermon October IL, considering
himself unable to meet all the demands
upon his strength which his pastorate here
requires.
Fitty-one farmers Institutes will be held
ia different parts Of the State this winter.
The southwestern portion of Manitowoc
was the scene of confagration early the
other morning, which started in an old
barn and rapidly spread to adjoining
buildings until seven dwellings and three
or four barns were enveloped. The loss
was about 5000; insurance, $500. The
loss fell mostly on laboring men.
c. F. Dutton, of the Milwaukee & North
ern railway, reports the discovery of a
one hundred-foot waterfall on the new
Iron Mountain extension of his road.
The falls are on the Pemine Bouwan river.
Twelve artesian wells in Green Bay that
had ceased to flow, have commenced to
discharge water since the large welL~for
the water-works has been sunk.
The water in Lake Winnebago has not
risen since the recent rains, and few
days ago it was lower than ever before
since the country about the lake was set
tied.
The legal season for killing deer has
opened. The forest fires have driven the
game from many of its former haunts.
Oneida County will be organized jan
uary /. Rhinelander will be the county
seat. The county win be in the Tenth Ju-
dicial circuit.
The schedules Of G. r. Chapman & Co.,
of Eau Claire, Who recently failed, were
fled the other day, showing S100,000 liabil-
tiles and $4,000 assets.
Two little children at Rockville, Mara
thon County, found a revolver the other
day, and while playfully pointing it at
their mother discharged it, the ball strik-
ing her over the eye, inficting a severe
wound