The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-10-22
Wisconsin Itauna

Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations.: Wheat-No. 2 71A@1115c.
Corn-No q 331149331Ic. Oats-No. 2, 24155
@2414c. Rye-No /, size. Barley-No.2 2,
53H(G5319c.
Rev. George G.. Carter has accepted the
Seminary.
The Department of Education at Mad
ison affords employment to six persons.
The trial at Eau Claire of the notorious
Martin Cannon, who enticed Nellie Gold
smith, girl of fourteen, into a house of
ill-repute several months ago at the point
of a revolver, ended recently in verdict
of guilty.
A ffty-pound coon was recently killed
on Elk creek, near Eau Claire.
A bank with capital of 100000 has been
established at West Superior, Douglas
County.
Chippewa Falls farmers report large
yield of potatoes.
The safe in the store of Stanley Brothers,
at Chippewa City, was blown open by bur
glars few nights ago and S1G0 taken.
E. Fox Cook died at his residence in La
Crosse few days ago. He was pi oneer
lawyer of the State, represented Sheboy
gan in the State Legislature in 1878,
and subsequently practice1 law in Mil
waukee. lie was nearly ninety years of
age.
There were 500 patients at the Northern
Hospital on October 1. At the State Hos
pital there were 531.
The lumber mill of the Northern Pine
Land Company, of Minneapolis, located at
Washburn, Grant County, was burned the
other day. Loss, $4,000; partially in
sured The mill would be rebuilt.
John w Guest committed suicide the
other day at the residence of his son in
Rock Elm, Pierce County. He was seventy
three years old, and had been resident
of Hartford for over thirty years.
George A. Baldwin, foreman of lumber
camp on the Oconto river, was brushed off
his buggy by the branch of a tree few
days ago and fatally injured.
The fifteen-year-old son of Mrs. Stafford,
of Neillsville, Clark County, was drowned
in the mill-pond few afternoons ago.
The body was recovered after life was ex-
tinct.
The other morning the large barn in the
town of Wheaton, north of Eau Claire, be-
longing to Richard Murphy, was fired by
supposed incendary. This years crop of
hay and lot of farming implements were
destroyed. No insurance.
Over 5000 pounds of fish were shipped
from Green Bay during the month of Sep
tember, an increase of Is, 900 pounds over
the same month lastyear-
Hon. Thomas B. Scott died at Merrill,
Lincoln County, few evenings ago, aged
ffty-seven years. With the exception of
Satterlee Clark, Mr.. Scott was the only
man ever elected for five successive terms
to the State Senate. He had been a resi-
dent of the State thirty eight years.
While CHARLES Thomas and man
named Owens were out in the bay at
Marinette the other day their boat cap
sized and Thomas was drowned. He was
single man about twenty-one years of
age.
In quarrel at Eau Claire few nights
ago Michael Hadley killed Douglass Tay-
lor with a carpenters anvil. The murderer
escaped.
Hon. James Weaver, of Sussex, a pic.
neer Of Waukesha County, died at his resi-
dence the other morning Mr.. Weaver is
said to have been the first to introduce the
hop-growing industry in Wisconsin. He
served in the Legislature Of 1856, and fire.
quently held offices in his town.
Willard Chamberlain, an inmate of the
Wisconsin Northern Hospital for the In
sane, made his escape a few days ago and
eloped with a woman of a neighboring
town
Jacob Appleman, of Bloomingdale,
Vernon County, committed suicide the
other night He was found with bullet
hole in his head, No reason for the act
farmer.
D. S. Soles obtained over five thousand
pounds of honey from his apiary in La
Crosse. He has one hundred colonies of
bees.
The skating-rink and thu stores of Win
gate and Dickinson & Cook, at Eagle
River, Lincoln County, were destroyed by
fire few days ago, together with Wasla-
nack's blacksmith-shop. The losses ag-
gregated about $4,000 Dickinson &
Cook were the only ones insured.
Earl Roberts, of Jefferson County, re-
ceived fifty dollars on his poultry at the
State fair, twenty dollars at the inter-
State fair at Madison and thirty dollars |
at the Jefferson County fair.
constable at Unity, Marathon County, |
was arrested a few days ago on a charge |
OF having released prisoner for a bride of |
forty-five dollars.
Madison has raised $483 in cash to send !
to the Charleston sufferers Commander !
in-Chief Fairchilds home G. A. R. Post
was the first to inaugurate the labor of !
love.
Isaac Wander Bogart died at Monterey |
Waukesha County, few days ago, aged
ninety-nine years.
A prisoner in the Hurley Jail attempted
to escape few days ago by setting fire to
the door of his cell. He was nearly suf-
located with smoke for his pains.
A colt near Depere, Brown County, was
recently struck by spent rife bullet,
which passed through It's body just back
of its ribs. The animal went on grazing
as if nothing had happened.
Robert Cummings, who was arrested at I
Wausau for stealing horse from Thomas
Walem, pleaded guilty the other day and
was sentenced to State Prison for seven !
years,