The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-12-31

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The neghbors are intensely excited over the
| tragedy.
MONROE j. WEATHERwAx, an esteemed
young married man, committed suicide at
Geneva Lake, last week, by taking laudanum.
| No cause is assigned for the rash deed.
| AT Oshkosh, the other day, VIM. Coleman
was arrested, locked up over night, and fined
the next morning, for using obscene language
on the stage.
| Casualties.
The recent terrible explosion in Laird &
Co.'s saW-mill at Angelica, Shawano county
| by which six precious lives were sacrificed,
was the result of gross care,essness. The en-
gineer was absent at the time, and the run
ing of the engine was intrusted to blunder-
ing stoker, who was carrying about 1875 pounds
of steam, when 20 or 80 pounds were sufi-
cient. One of the employees called the atUen-
ton of the fireman to the high amount of
STEAM and the fireman on his own RESPONSE
bility, Immediately shut down In about two
minutes thereafter the explosion occurred.
The scene that ensued was q dreadful one.
| The entire building was reduced to q total
wreck and six men killed instantly. TO the
fact that, upon shutting down, the men
moved from their accustomed stations, is due
the comparatively small loss of life. There
were thirty men engaged in the building, and
had they all been at their posts when the ex-
plosion occurred the destruction of life
would have been more than doubled The
steam drum, weighing about ton, was hurled
a distance of 200 feet. La1ge timbers were
splintered and broken, boilers were reduced
to scraps of iron, and many pieces thrown 500
or 600 feet
| Business Enterprise.
PATENTS have lately been issued to the fol-
lowing Wisconsin inventors: Corn cutter
James W. Parker, Palmyra; carbonic acid
gas generator, Herman Peitsch, Milwaukee !;
track clearer, J. W. Hodges, Grand Rapids !;
angle-iron for boxes, Nathan L. Holmes,
Racine; windmill, VIM. H. Wheeler, Beloit
| The GAINESVILLE shoe factory is nearly ready
to begin operations.
THERE are over 100 logging camps on the
Wolf river.
COLONIES of salmon and other trout are
about to be planted in Green Lake.
| OCoNoMowoC is to have factoryfor the
manufacture of all kinds of rubber and
elastic goods.
THE poultry fanciers of Rock county have
decided to hold an exhibition of poultry and
domestic pets in GAINESVILLE, from January II
to 81.
| ALEXANDER MITCHELL is building block in
Milwaukee to cost quarter Of a million dol
| lars.
| AN incident Of bravery worthy of record is
reported from Sank county. Two girls were
approaching the railroad where 6y-road
crosses the track, when they saw stick of
wood lying across the rails. They heard the
express train coming around the curve and
sprang in front of the engine and removed
the stick just as the train swept by.
THE late Congressman Rice, Of Chicago,
built the first theater ever erected in Mil
waukee.
| OSHKOSH has an Enoch Arden case. A man
named George Johnson left his home and
family twenty-three years ago, at Sheboygan,
and went to Utah. For few years cor
respondence was kept up, but finally he
ceased to hear from home or his family from
him. Having made a handsome fortune. he
returned to Sheboygan to look up his family
| He found no trace of them, but learned that
a man named Johnson had removed from
Sheboygan several years before, to Fond du
Lac. He supposed that this was his brother,
and accordingly went to Fond du Lac. His
surmse proved correct. Here he learned that
Foster, and was living in Oshkosh, whittier
he repaired, and called on his wife. Her
feelings, CD seeing her husband, whom she
supposed dead, can be better imagine than
described. After remaining in Oshkosh for q
few days, Johnson took his departure, leaving
behind his much-married spouse.
ONE Of the 'brignt," sweet little fools of
the Grote family Of Milwaukee-Melia, aged
| 9-offered up on the altar of the kitchen stove
81, 100 in greenbacks, few mornings since.
She had been told to light fire, and seized
the first thing handy. Mr. Grote, when he
|
shed th3 joys and privileges of the old plan
tation. He even wished he were dead, but,
upon reflection, wished he had not been such
an idiot as to leave the money about.
In wrapping his exchanges in his I'D bills,
the editor Of the Oshkosh Northwestern "gave
himself away" painfully, The Berlin Journal
received his druggists bill-total Bill 80;
total for whisky, $1C63O; total for drugs,
$500. This revelation, however, speaks we'll
| for both branches of the claim. If he could
| drink $1O6.30 worth Of whisky, and then get
cured of it's effects by $500 worth of drugs,
| it shows that the whisky isn't very bad, or
that the drugs are first rate.
Political.
The President has appointed Levi Hubbell
United States Attorney for the Eastern Dis
| trict Of Wisconsin.