The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1872-09-26

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du Lac jail.
The foundations Of Amory and Weeks
new block, Fond du Lac, areicompleted, but
the walls will not be commenced until next
spring.
Fond du Lac now boasts of two heads to its
police department. Swineford, who has been
chief for several years, was removed by the
Council, and Emmerson appointed in his
place. Swineford, however, refuses to give
up his place, and both are acting as chief.
About 1000 bushels of wheat are being re-
ceived in Princeton per day.
The seventh term of Green Lake County
Normal Institute in the village of Makesan
Comm enced september 18th and will close
October oath.
The whipping of his own wife was so hort
a job that a man in Summit went over and
beat his neighbours, the other day.
Last week, says the Mansion Star, a lot of
the workmen at the tunnel on the W. w. r.
R. extension ASA ulted and beat two Norwe-
gians so seriously they remained for o long
time insensible and for while their lives
were despaired of.
Since April II. 5000 traders have stopped
at the International Hotel, La Crosse.
Capt, j. s. Bantam, superintendent Of the
lakewood TroGting Park in La Crosse, has
announced two days races, with 81, 800 in
purses, to come off the 10th. and nth of Oc-
tober.
James Allen, we'll to do and highly re-
srcted farmer of Hamilton, was taken Mon
day, Sept Is, to the Insane Asylum at Mad
ison. Business troubles.
KATRINA Kalms, of Manitowoc, mettwith a
horrible death on Sunday of last week, from
the effects of the explosion of a gasoline
lamp.
A mason named Dyer fell from new build =
ing in Green Bay, on Friday, and sustained
serious injuries.
The Manitowoc Tribune says: "One oil
the employees on our Western Road got his
head seriously injured last evening by being
damned between two cars. He was taken
home bleeding profusely, and doubts are en-
tertained about his recovery"
The fall term of Lawrence University, APP
pleton, opened with over 800 students.
A stone Touring mill owned by Charles
Mory, at Appleton, was burned on the 18th.
Loss $4,000, ongwhich there was oil insur-
ance of $500.
Erie Baker killed three bears one morn
ing last week near Stevens Point.
Extensive marble works are about to be
established at Stevens Point.
A new observatory has been erected near
Lisbon, Waukesha county, from which the
higher portion of the outskirts of Milwaukee
may be seen also the rolling mills. The
view it gives is almost equal to that of the
Delafeld tower.
At Sharon, on Saturday, fire broke out in
the warehouse of j. K. Powell, northeast of
the railroad track, and consumed five build
ings. Loss 5000 as follows: j. K. Pow
ell $500, A. Giles $4,000, r.. Shepherd $500,
Arnold & Co. 81, 900, others $500.
Two wolves have recently been killed in
the neighborhood of Silver Lake, Wsukesha
county.
The Hudson Star and Times says that the
late rains have done immense damage to
the wheat that is not stacked. In some fields
the shocks are literally rotten.
The Green Bay Gazette learns that q fiend
in human form, resident oEFort Howard,
has decamped, leaving his wife and five help
less children without the slightest means OF
sustenance.
Normal School will be held in the village of
Plainfeld, commencing on Tuesday, septem-
Der Gath.
Stevenson, the Oshkosh wife murderer, has
recovered sufficiently to warrant his removal
to the county Jail. q.
Thomas Farrell was struck by a train and
severely injured, at Oshkosh, on Friday.
The last regatta of the season of the Madi.
son Yacht Club took place on Saturday after
| noon. The boats came in as follows: Poca-
hontas, Lady of the Lake, Idler, Phantom,
Maid, Jessie, Marion.
Mill men at Fond du Lac find 1t difficult to
| find men enough to run their mills.
2. N. Bovee writes from Eagle that he
recently plucked at random from field OF
three acres of corn, four ears which weighed
four pounds and twelve ounces. The whole
field he pronounces equally as good.
At Woodman, Wis.,, on the Milwaukee and
Prairie du Chen road, broken switch threw