The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-10-07
WISCONSIN NEWS.

stituted novel feature of the Outagamit
county fair.
The remains of another victim of the
fire of October, 1871, have been discov
cred near Peshtigo.
ANOTHER land excursion in Iowa,
Nebraska, Kansas and the Western Ter
ritories will start on the 10Th inst. from
GAINESVILLE.
Mr.. ISAAC ELLIOTT, residing near
Wells mill, eight miles north of Oconto,
while out hunting one day last week shot
five lynx and one deer.
Mr.. N. E, RIscELL has resigned his
position as Uniteds States Engineer in
CHI urge of the improvement of the Lower
Fox river, to engage in other business
pursuits.
Mr.. Tony SCHNEIDER, an old resident
of New Berlin, Waukesha county, acct
dentally shot and killed himself while
out hunting, last Sunday.
IT is said that the late Prof. Marsch-
ner, of Sheboygan, had let his insurance
policy for 1900 lapse only few weeks
previous to his sudden death.
GABRIn AULTsoN is in custody at Esca-
naba. He was arrested on the charge of
being accessory to George Robinson in
- a1Joo.ol Ioor1, ~ A,1or or
CARL E. SCHULTZ is famous individ-
ual of Oshkosh, who, being arrested for
bigamy, escaped and tried to marry a
third wife. He has been shut up again.
PosTMAsTERs who have recently been
appointed in this State: Forest Junction,
Calumet county, Thomas Flatley Hell
vetia, Waupaca county, Ashman t. Ste
vens.
The prisoners in the Dane county Jail
got restless last Sunday night and tried
to escape. After tearing things to pieces
awhile they were discovered and placed
in irons.
1T is estimated that in Jackson county
alone fully $50, 900 worth of cranberries
have been destroyed by frost. In Wau-
lesha ounty, however, the crop of cram
berries his been a success.
MIR. JOHN BAILEY, of Center, has
lately commenced a suit against the
town of Black Greek to recover damages
for injuries received on account of the
bad condition of the road. He claims
$4,000.
JEHU H. LEWIS, resident of Madison
since 1910, lifelong Democrat, and
tonspicuously connected, as United
States Marshal under Buchanan, with
the famous Fugitive Slave law case of
Sherman M. Booth, died at Madison
last Sunday, of consumption.
The State Journal says: " We learn
that there has been great loss of grapes
during the week past in various parts of
the State. At Milton, several tons have
been destroyed in the vineyards of
Messrs. Plumb, Greenman and others.
We hear similar reports from Sank
county and elsewhere. .
NUMBERING will be carried on further
up the river the coming winter than ever
before. The Oconto Company has crew
of men engaged clearing out McCausln
brook, situated some sixty miles up the
north branch of the Oconto. They are
also erecting a dam on it, preparatory
for spring driving.
THE Hon. E. D. Holton, of M1lwau-
kee, writes from Stockholm, Sweden, to
the Milwaukee Wisconsin,: CT have
had the pleasure of meeting Gen. An
drews, our Minister here, and his wife,
and find them excellent people. Gen.
Andrews is we'll spoken of by all whom
I have heard speak of him. Several in
teIigent Swedes, whose acquaintance /
have made, speak in complimentary
terms of the American Minister"
A SHOCKING murder occurred in Osh-
kosh few nights ago. A man named
Henry Roman visited the house of John
Magill, and, enticing him into the yard
on pretext of buying the house, cut
his throat, and left him dead on the
ground. Going into the house, Roman
to kill Magill's wife, but,
losing his knife, failed to fully accom-
plish the deed. She will recover. Ro-
main escaped.
A YOUNG man, Is years old, named
George Chandler, living six miles from
Madison, in the town of Burke, went out
into the brush near his house hunting
last Sunday. Not returning at dark,
search was made and he was found dead
in the brush, his gun by his side, his
clothes partly burned off, and the body