The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-03-14
NUMBER AZ.



money order business of gill 900.
The Bayfield, Press understands that
bots will be able to pass through tina
Sault canal on the 4th Of May.
ST. Marys church, Kewaunee, has pur-
chased a handsome new organ at Milwau
kee.
Mr., w. D. Ranney is laying up large
supply Of ice at Washington Harbor, which
he will use this summer in shipping fresh
fish from that point to Cleveland.
Eau Claire has received a city charter,
and its election for city officers takes place
on the 10Th.
a man at Fond du Lac has been fined
500 by Justice of the Peace for selling
gift concert tickets.
The maple sugar crop this year, will
be much above the average.
The State swamp lands in Chippewa
and Barrow counties, not yet pre- empted
or offered ARE shortly to be sold at auction
| by the Commissioners.
| IneXhaustible beds of kaOlin exist near
Grand Rapids and Stevens Point. Eng
| fish manufacturers to whom specimens Of
the clay have been sent pronounce it equal
to the very finest Chinese porcelain clay.
A GAINESVILLE reporter says that the only
| signs Of life he detected in that city last
| Wednesday were three doctors horses
and one large dog.
! 1t is stated that the Chicago and North
western Company are still looking for q
connection with the West Wisconsin Rail
road at Tcmah and that, with view to
this end, the work of surveying branch
from the Baraboo valley to Tomah has
! been commenced.
The Wisconsin Valley Company are
now ready to commence the grading Of
their road from Tomah to Grand Rapids,
and as soon as spring opens large force
ot men will make the gravel fly right
lively. The contract calls for the COM
pletion of the road between the two points
on or before the first of September next.
The managers of the Mineral Point road
expect to make rapid progress with both
branches of their northern extension the
coming summer, and before two years
elapse the people of Tomah and La Crosse
| hope to celebrate the opening of that
road to their respective cities.
The Eau Claire LAUNDERING Company
have just completed Touring mill at %
cost of $4,000
Peter P0rten was thrown from a wagon
near Manitowoc Rapids, on Sunday after
noon last, and instantly killed.
The Green Bay Advocate says that the
surveying party for the Milwaukee and
Northern Railway are running two OK
three different lines through that city.
The completion of the Sheboygan and
Fond du Lac railroad from Ripon to
Rosendale has caused an advance in hay
at the latter place, of three dollars per
ton.
A bed of iron ore has been found in the
town of Green bush, Shsboygan county. It
is near the 8 & F. Railread, and is pro-.
nounced Of good quality.
A HolIander by the name of VIM. Kam~
phuis, Of the town of Waupun, hung him.
self in ais grAnery On Thursday evening
of last week. No cause is assigned fer
the deed.
| An ARRAY occurred in Eau Claire, last
Saturday night, in which rough named
John Pickett, shot at Christian Paulson,
II saloon keeper, and hit looker-On
named Isaac Olson, inficting a painful
and dangerous wound.
The GAINESVILLE Gazette says: "Captain.
Edward Kruger, of this city, has been en-
poyed by the managers of the Wisconsin
Central Railroad as Chief Engineer of
their road and to construct an extension
which they have determined to build at
once from Geneva in this state to Elkhorns
Whitewater and Jefferson, and ultimately
to Columbus"
The ceiling of the Senate chamber as
Madison, is in so dangerous u state that
It's fall is hourly looked for. a4ss y
The chief engineer of the Sheboygax
and Fond du Lac railroad is said to have
announced that it is the intention Of ths
company to push the road through tC
Neilsville, Clark county, this year. @
According to the Herald the prospect
now is that the spring of 1872 will be one
of the liveliest ever known In the history
Of Sheboygan. New docks, warehouses.
Elevators, depots, factories, business blocks,
ana residences will spring up with the.
springing vegetation. ea..
James WadswortE, an employe of the
mpile chair factory, Milwaukee, had
three fingers of his left hand taken off ON
the 9th, while running platform planer.
He lost the other finger, while running
the same machine at the East, few years
ago. &11t
The Stevens Point Journal says: PIKE
is only secondary among the timber re-
sources Of that portion of Wisconsin,.
The magnificent forests Of maple, butter
nut, ash, etc. must eventually prove of
:ncalculabls worth to all those having
the foresight and stamps necessary to-
secure hard woodlands
A Portsmouth On. H. paper says that
there is a dog in that city, only six
months old, that chews tobacco and will
take an Intoxicating drink whenever he