The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-06
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The Wisconsin State Educational AS
ISOLATION will meet in annual convention
at Milwaukee this year.
In view of the late destructive fire in
Eau Claire, it is proposed to organize a
paid fire department..
A CHUNK Of drift copper, weighing III
pounds, was picked up on farm in the
town of Calamus last week.
THE golden wedding of John w. and
Mary, Arndt Cotton took place at their
homestead just south Of Green Bay, on
Saturday, May l.
Gov. S. J. TIDEN, of New York, has
been invited to deliver the annual adj
dress before the Northern State Fair, in
Oshkosh, Sept. %.
Col. ISAAC ToMpK1Ns, one of the old
est citizens of Fond du Lac, committed
suicide recently by throwing himself in
the river. He had been low-spirited for
several months.
The Wisconsin State Board of Chair
ties and Reform have reelected the fol-
lowing officers: II. Fl. Giles, President;
E. E. Chaplin, Vice President; A. G.
Parkinson, Secretary.
REPORTS from the northern country
say that the maple-sugar crop will exceed
that of any year since 1866. The
weather has been very favorable, and
the yield is immense.
ALL those men who in the course of
their existence have had occasion to 90
sup to Oshkosh to see the boys" will
now have chance to come down with
their stamps and help the "boys" out
of their present elk. -
AN application has lately been made
to the Supreme Court for all injunction
restraining the construction of dams at
the Dells of the Chippewa river at Eau
Claire, authorized by the last Legisla-
ture, the argument ON which has been
postponed until May IA.
SPECIAL mission services, under the
direction of the Rev. P. Hennebery, of
California, have been in progress at the
Catholic Church at Beloit, for ten days
past. Asa result some $50 persons con.
nected with the congregation have taken
the total abstinence pledge.
The Northwestern Saengerfest will be
held in the city of Watertown this year,
commencing on the 18th of next June,
and closing on the 21st. This grand
union of national societies is composed
of some thirty different associations
in Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota and Iii
nois.
EVANSVILLE was recently visited by
destructive fire which consumed the First
Congregational Church, one of the finest
In the State, it having cost upward Of
100000. The binding snow-storm is
all that saved the city from confagra-
ton almost equal to the Oshkosh disas-
ter, and if the citizens of GAINESVILLE can
but see the narrow escape they had, am
pie protection will be made to protect
the city in the future.
Hon. ARMINE PICKETT, a pioneer of
Northern Wisconsin, died at Pickett's
Station, Winnebago county, on Sunday
evening, at the age of seventy five. Mr..
Pickett located in the town of Utica in
1916, when Wisconsin was wilderness.
He has been member of the Legisla-
ture, Postmaster, Chairman of the Board
of Supervisors, and was highly esteemed
by the community in which he lived.
The Catholics of Sheboygan have
completed one of the handsomest
churches in the State. It stands in the
center of square, is $50 feet long and
IS feet wide, of gothic design, and when
finished will cost $4,000, instead of
$500, 900, which it would have cost but
for the judicious management of the
pastor, Father Harder, who was his own
architect, superintendent and every
thing.
RECENT changes in Wisconsin postal
affairs: Observation-Disclosures Corners,
Columbia county, Jonathan L. Farr,
Postmaster. Postnaasters Appoioted-
Dacada, Sheboygan county, Peter De
peisse; Fox Lake, Dodge county, John
7. Smith; Fremont, Waupaca county,
Isaac N. Kinsman; Pheasant Branch,
Dane county, John Torch; Stockholm,
Pepin county, Paul Sandgresto; Wan
beck, Pepin county, E. G. Hopkins;
West Granville, Milwaukee county,
Henry Meibohm.