The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-09-16
WISCONSIN NEWS.

A LARGE bear was killed few days
since in the vicinity of Spring Lake.
The agent OF the Menomonee Indian
reservation offers over 100000 logs for
sale.
MILWAUKEE has increased her popu-
lation from II, 440 in 1865 to 100, IT'S in
1876.
/ A DEAF and dumb man by the name of
Larcen committed suicide by hanging
himself to- tree, near the Oconto
Falls.
PECK, of the Lacrosse Sun, isn't over
four quarts when you come to see him.
He weighs ninety eight pounds, and is
happy over that.
TIE school census of GAINESVILLE, just
completed, shows 3,572 children over A
and under 20 years of age, against 1888
last year, gain of 684.
The Oconto Lumber Company ship
ped last month 2,7OO,O 900 feet valued at
$4,000, and said to be the largest
months sold during the season.
MILWAUKEE, has rifle club with the
following officers: John Nazro, Presi-
dent Gen. Hincks, Vice-President !;
John Johnston, Treasurer d. B. Fran
kenburger, Secretary.
WISCONSIN postal affairs Discon-
tiaaated- Howe, Brown county. Post
masters Appoiated - Bergen, Vernon
county, John Flick; Deansville, Dane
county, Ransom P. Smith.
The body Of Larry Burns, killed in
the recent smash-up at Aliens Grove
bridge, on the Western Union railroad,
was. found two nights afterward, nearly
two miles from the place of the accident.
WHILE Mr.. Shirmer, of Depere, was
attempting to draw load from his gun,
it, in some unaccountable manner, was
discharged, and one of his hands was
torn to pieces, rendering amputation
necessary.
THE Central railroad, from Ashland
to Madison, has now 20 miles or track
laid out of Ashland and 10 miles more
nearly graded. There is one iron
bridge 1900 feet long and 100 feet high.
The company has spent ST., 100000 on
that end.
F. w. RHINELANDER, President of
the Milwaukee, Lake Shore and West
ern railroad, has been appointed Re
ceiver Of that road by Judge Dyer of the
United States Circuit Court, under fore
closure proceedings, brought by the
Union Trust Company, of New York.
JOSEPH Dixon, of Mount Vernon, was
driving across his farm on Tuesday of
last week, when the team took fright
and ran away, throwing him to the
ground and breaking his skull, from
which injury he died the same evening.
Mr.. Dixon was an exemplary young
man, and greatly respected by all who
knew him.
G. HALvoRsoN, of Palmyra, a lad of
16 years, was seriously and probably
fatally injured by the accidental dis
charge of gun on Wednesday last.
He rested the gun upon stump to help
a comrade to ammunition, when it
slipped down SO as to strike the ham
mer, causing the accident. Mr.. Peck
ham, who was with him, had his face
burned by the same discharge.
SOME young men in Dane county, =
few miles south of Madison, had dance
one night last week, and needed just a
little more whisky to wind up the fes-
tiyities. So John Thornton, with two
others, rode to saloon three miles off
to procure liquor, rendering spurious
five-dollar bill in payment. When the
party left, Mr.. Zwerg, the saloon-keeper,
discovered that his bill was a bad one,
and rsn after the buggy with a shotgun,
threatening to shoot unless recompensed
for his wet goods. Thornton took hold
of the gun, and in the struggle it went
off, as Zwerg says, accidentally, the con-
tents lodging in Thornton's neck, sever
ing the principal veins, causing instant
death. Zwerg is quiet German, and
claims that he only intended to brighten
the young man, who had cheated him
once previously.