The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-16
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

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| SIxTY-sIx La Crosse men have banded
together and taken an oath not TO treat a
man or let man buy their drinks.
Mrs. N. f. LUND, wife of Gen. Lund,
of Madison, an estimable lady, died in
that city last week from heart disease.
On Tuesday of last week little son of
the business manager of the Eau Claire
Free Press fell into well and was
drowned.
A GREEN BAY family discharged the
hired girl for impudence, and she poured
kerosene over liz pounds of nice butter
in the cellar.
A HORSE funeral was one of the feat
rlres of last week in Oconto. A band of
music, a procession ard twenty wagon
loads of fc@ls.
The trial of Anton Buckart, the de-
faulting Treasurer of Brown County,
will. come off at the presens term of the
Circuit Court at Appleton.
The new lecture association at Osh
kosh has been negotiating with George
Francis Train to deliver lecsure there
some time during the present winter.
JOHN l.. NORTH has been elected City
Treasurer of Green Bay by the City
Council, to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of John d. Williams.
GARDNER HEWLETT, ESQ.,, am old and
highly-respected settler near Union
Grove, dropped suddenly dead on Thurs
day last, while attending an auction.
A CONSIDERABLE amount of contribu-
tions have been made for the proposed
House of Refuge at Milwaukee, under
the leadership of Bishop Welles, and the
building will be Immediately COM
menced.
THREE persons engaged in passing
counterfeit money were arrested at Be
lott, one day last week. One of them, a
boy, was sent to the poor house,; the
other two were committed to Jail at
GAINESVILLE.
MISS HATTIE LOCKWOOD, of Iowa, has
obtained judgment for 81, 800 against
Alex. Webster, of Richland County, who
drove her out of this State by starting
stories as to her relations with minister
named Rev. Enoch Prouty..
THm City Attorney, City Clerk, and
number of the Aldermen of Green Bay
were arrested the other morning for fail
ure to- comply with the ordinancerequir-
ing walks to be cleared of snow. They
appeared before the Municipal Court,
plead guilty, and paid fines.
The schooner G. B. Windiate,. owned
by Cornelius B. Windiate, Of Mantle
voc, recently foundered in Lake Mich
gan, carrying down with her all on
board. The schooner belonged to the
canal style of construction, and should
have been laid up in port month pre-
vious to- her loss.
A lady tourist in Europe sent news
paper to Madison, and folded up nicely
in the sheet were several pieces of choice
silks, representing the style, etc. The
paper fell into the hands of an attorney
by mistake, and he, to play a joke,
frightened certain individual not lit
tie, on the question of smuggling. Oys-
tiers, etc., fixed the matter up.
IT is estimated by resident Of Fort
Atkinson that the loss to property hold
ers-on the banks of Rock River-be-
tween that place and Lake Koshkonong,
will be 100000, If the right of water
power at the mouth of the river be pur-
chased by company organized for that
purpose. Should this right be secured,
and the dam be built, the rise in the
water will be sufficient TO inundate nearly
the whole of some of the farms on it's
banks.
WHILE man with child in his arms
was crossing from the smoking to the
ladies' car, on the Northwestern Road,
she other night, he slipped and fell be-
tween them. The conductor caught
him by the coat-collar as he was going
down and thus saved his life. In the
fall tho father let go the child, and it
fell upon the track. Strange to say,
though the ladies' and sleeping coach
passed over the little one, it escaped
with but few scratches. IT had fallen
between two cross-ties, and was so
stunned that it never moved until taken
up.
ABOUT one month since, young lady
went to Oshkosh with her parents, and
her fine appearance and lady-like man