The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-22
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Business Enterprise.

HIGH authority on the subject says tina
Wisconsin is going to beat the Union in it's dis
play of butter and cheese this year. The State
Agricultural Society has offered the largest
premiums for these products ever given in any
commonwealth heretofore.
The County Board Of Monroe county has
prohibited the expectation of speckled trout
from that county for the period of three years.
THE amount of logs put in on the Oconto
river and it's tributaries during the winter
reach 60,000,000 feet, close figures much more
than was expected.
THERE are prospects of lively time on the
Fox river route this season. The steamer Wes-
ton is to be run in opposition to the Diamond
REPORTS from Oshkosh state that the outlook
for the lumber trade is anything but brilliant.
None of the saw-mills, and but few of the shin
gle-mills, have started up this season. The
sash, blind and door factories are running on
short time, and have reduced the number of
men claim that the logs are worth more than
the manufactured article.
@PATENTs recently issued to Wisconsin invent
ors: Bag holders, M. Olson, Eau Claire saw
mills, D. G. Prescott, Marinette; filter wells
W. P. Powers, Lacrosse; jig saws, G. S. Will
Jams, Madison projectiles for riied ordnance
w. H. Van Giesen, Whitewater
Personal
DIR. ]. w. ST. JOHN, the Mayor elect of James
vile, Wis, was, curiously enough, the first
o1o ol1. Io..N fl>a IL IL
been popular.
W. w. YALE, who has been elected Justice of
the Peace in Milwaukee traces his genealogy
back to Eli Yale, of Yale College fame. Lieut.
Gov. Yale of Minnesota and the present JUS
tice are the only members of the family who
ever held any public office.
Gov. TAYLOR has reappointed DR.. J. B. Whit
ing and appointed Arson Rogers Trustees of
the Institute for the Blind at GAINESVILLE, the
latter in place of Rexford.
BUSINESS man in Watertown is named
Tubbs, and every time he slips down on the ice
the little boys begin, every tub must stand
ON it's -" and then Tubbs gets up and the
boys run.
Gov. TAYLOR has reappointed the Hon. An
drew E. Elmore on the State Board of Charities
and Reform.
Casualties.
THE large chair factory of Croker. Bliss &
Co., at Sheboygan has been destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
EDwAItD BUTTERFIELD, @ wheat operator,
jumped into the river at Milwaukee last week,
and would have been drowned had it not been
for two sailors who were passing in boat and
who rescued him. He had lost he avily in Mil
waukee and Chicago in grain speculation, and
being depressed in spirits, he attempted to COM
NIT suicide.
Legal.
AMONG the civil cases at the present term of
the Winnebago County Circuit Court at Osh-
kosh, is one against Allen & Hicks publishers
of the Oshkosh Northwestern, for libel
brought by Mrs. Florence A. Beckwith 1t
grew out of the Howard defalcation at Omro,
last spring. In May last, the defendants in
noticing the departure of Mr.. Howard, stated
in the Northeastern that among the many ru-
mors afoat was one to the effect that Mrs.
Beckwith had gone away with Howard. Suisse
quently, paragraph was published contradict
ing and retractng the statement. Last No.
vember suit was brought damages being laid at
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