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WISCONSIN STATE NEWS. The following are the Milwaukee grain quotations: Wheat-No. 1, 95@95 No. 2, 87@87Mc. Corn-No. 2, 55@56c. @79 'I 6 02 1/2. Barley-No. 2 Spring, 59@60c. Two children in Milwaukee, in endeavoring the other day to hide from their playmates, sprang into a chest with a spring ock. Before their place of concealment We discovered one had died, and the other was saved only after the greatest exertion. Near Pleasant Ridge, Green County, a boy named Edward Selves chased a bear with an ax a few days ago. The animal retired in good order until he had lured his enemy to a stritable place, and then feil upon him, tooth and nail, and was tearing the shirt from his intended ban. quet, when the boy's dog arrived, and the bear was eventually laid low. Mrs. Ellen Long pleaded guilty the other day at Dartford, Green Lake County, of the murder of the boy Harvy Whittemore, agedeleven years, and was sentenced to life imprisonment. Mrs. Long is thirtyfive years old, good-looking, and a daughter of Judge A. H. Myers, one of the most prominent men in the interior of the State. The body of C. A. McGiver was recently fished out of the Feaver River, near Leakez's dam, in Grant County. McGiver left home on the 28th of May in search of employment. As he was greatly discouraged at the time, it was supposed that he committed suicide. He left a family of them- .10J battle 04 children eight pus and selves. Henry Strong, President of the now defunct Strong's Bank at Green Bay, Brown County, recently wrote to some friends in that city from Montreal, saying that he lost the bank's money in speculations in wheat, pork and stocks. He borrowed the money from the bank on various securities and on the notes of his brother. No other person, he said, was concerned with up out min stanl The Ryder Brothers, of Otter Creek, Eau Claire County, lost a fine span of horses and a lot of farm inachinery by the burning of their barn a few days ago. The loss was about $1,200 above insurance for $900. Charles Deller,a farmer, of Manitowoc County, while riding in a wagon with five companions a few days ago was struck by lightning and killed. The others escaped. A wheat statistician of Milwauke estimates the spring crop at 141,000.000 bushels, and the winter yield at 375,000,000. At noon the other day the extensive planing mill situated at Kelly, Marathon County, on the Lake Shore Road, was completely destroyed by fire, which originated in the engine-room from sparks in shavN L one JO Amedoad the SEM 4I isSup Kelly estate. Loss, $10,000; insurance, *000'9$ A watch nearly two hundred years old was found on the body of an unknown man, killed by a train recently at Milwaukee. The time-piece was from the manufactory of one Benna Hoebela, Nuerenberg, Bavaria. The number was 562. The watch had a tortoise shell back lined with silver. It will be turned over to the public musetim unless called for. Receiver Elmore, of Strong's Bank at Green Bay, Brown County, reported a few days ago that the total liabilities were $296,878.42, while the fairly good assets were about $75,000. Strong was at Toronto, and was liable to remain there. The recent tragedy in the town of Popple, Clark County, was the result of a quarrel in the presence of several ladies the day before. After Isaac Meddaugh received the fatal wound he said to Perkins: "Hugh, what have done that you should shoot me down like this?" Perkins replied: "Ike, I warned you to keep away from me; I could not be whipped; have shot you and it can't be helped now, but I wish had not done it. amsorry for it." Reuben Adams, who had been acting as postmaster at Hersey, St. Croix County, for the last four years, was removed from the service a few days ago. His successor had not been named. Adams had settled his account with the Government. Two sons of William Gætzenberger, of Ashland, strayed into the woods the other day, and would have died from hunger and exposure had not a mill-owner kept his steam whistle in full blast. The little fellows toddled in the next night in an exhausted condition. Finding they were lost, soaked to the skin and nearly frozen, the eldest boy at night laid his little brother beside a fallen tree and covered him with his own body, thus keeping him from perishing with cold. # The hay-sheds of the Superior Lumber Company at Ashland were destroyed by fire early the other morning with nearly SBM ere The bay. JO suot perpuny ouo started by tramps, one of whom had been arrested. Loss $2,000; no insurance. Mrs. A. F. Warden, wife of the editor of the Plymouth (Sheboygan County) Reporter, died the other afternoon, aged twenty-eight years. The School-land Commissioners at Madison the other day apportioned the school fund of the State, amounting to $213,092, among the 507,362 school children of the State for the ensuing fiscal year, the amount per capita being forty-two cents. SUM children JO requinu the oNe years V 493,498 and the per capita allowance forty. A town site has been laid out at Bad River, on the line of the Wisconsin Central Railroad, by the Bad River Lumber Company, which have already put up a large hotel. The large saw-mill of the company is running better this year than ever before, having been refitted during the past winter. With an immense stock of logs on hand the company expects a 'uns steedy Scores of saloon-keepers at Madison were arrested the other day at the instance of the Law and Order League, for selling liquor on Sunday. The evidence was obtained against them by two strangers, who narrowly escaped violence at the hands of the aggrieved saloonists when the fact became known. William Case Peart and George Tognette, the two lads convicted of burglary at Waukesha a few days ago, have been sentenced by Judge Sloan to three years each in the State Prison. William Kearns, who escaped from the county jail at Kenosha November 4, 1833, and who had been at liberty ever since, *038 safs few B Chicago up arreetted SUM He would be sent back. The State Treasurer reports the total balance in the State Treasury to be $1,172,618, of which $970,144 is in the general "punj Prairie du Chien people will ask Con
