The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-12-02
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

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South African missionary, has located
on lonely island in the Sheboygan
River.
francis CRUGER, an old and wealthy
farmer of Juneau County, was found
dead in his bed the other night. Heart
disease, probably.
AN appropriation of $1,000 has been
made for the erection on the Poor Farm,
near Oshkosh, of a building for the con-
fnement of the incurable insane.
EDWARD WAIKIE, brakeman on the
Wisconsin Central Railroad, was in
stantly killed last Saturday night near
Chiffon. He was coupling cars, and was
crushed. Half of his head was taken off.
AT Knapp, few days ago, the Meth
odist parsonage was destroyed by fire,
together with all its contents, box of
books only being saved. The house was
occupied by Rev. DR.. Carter, who is left
homeless and penniless There was no
insurance on the building.
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Mr.. LANE, of Warren, is the possessor
of relic of revolutionary days in the
form of Sc bill continental currency.
The engraving is extremely rude, the
paper coarse and thick as two-ply Bril-
! tol card, and bears evident signs of the
corroding effect of it's hundred years ex-
istence.
ANDREW OLSON, of Milwaukee, b
boarder at the Oregon House, on the
South Side, walked out of third-story
window during spell of somnambulism,
the other night, and fell to the walk be-
low, a distance of thirty feet. He es-
capped without injury more serious than
fractured leg.
A BOY about IA years old, name
Thompson, living in the town of Arnne
MIA, Juneau County, was accidentally
shot and killed last Sunday, by COM
rade who was loading his gun, seven
buckshot having passed through his
body. His mother is @ daughter of old
John Brown, of Kansas fame.
Mrs. DoRwARD, residing in the town
of Caledonia, few days ago, cooked
some wild parsnips for her family, not
knowing their poisonous properties, and
after eating them the members were
seized with all the symptoms of poison
ing. All but one succeeded in vomiting
up TIE deadly vegetable. He died soon
afterward.
A MILWAUKEE dispatch says: "On
an order from Washington, Deputy Col
lector Payne has seized the distillery,
residence, and other private property of
Louis Rindskopf, on an assessment of
$49, 427. 45 unpaid revenue. It is charged
that Rindskopf shipped unstamped bar
rels of unstamped highwines from De-
cember, 1874, to June, 1876. Kinds
kopf was also arrested for contempt in
failing to appear to testify relative to
papers found in the garnet of his resi-
dence by Deputy Collector Payne, and
is in the custody of the United States
Marshal. Quite stir has been caused
among the revenue and whisky men by
the arrest of S. J. Conklin, ex-Revenue
Agent, on charge of accepting bride
and conspiracy against the Government.
The arrest was made by Deputy Col
lector Simpson. Conklin gave bail in
$4,000. The case of Kiewert & Wirth,
of the Menomonee distillery, is still on
trial"
THE capacity of the Northern Insane
Hospital at Oshkosh having been enlarg-
ed by the completion of new wing, on
the call of the Governor, under the law
of 1872, Gov. Taylor, President Atwood,
of the Madison Hospital, and President
Maxon, of the Oshkosh Hospital, met at
the Capital last week to readiust the
hospital districts of the State, and give
notice that all insane persons residing
within the following named counties will
be received at the Northern Hospital at
Oshkosh, after Jan. 1, 1876, SO far as it
can furnish accommodation Ashland,
Bayfield,, Brown, Calumet, Clark, Dodge,
Door, Fond du Lac, Green Lake, Jeffer.
son, Kenosha, Kewaunee, Lincoln, Man
itowoc, Marathon, Marquette, Milwau-
kee, Outaganie, Oconto, Ozaukee, Port
age, Racine, Shawano, Sheboygan, Tay-
lor, Washington, Waukesha, Waupaca,
Waushara, Winnebago and Wood and
that all insane people in the counties of
Adams, Barron, Buffalo, Burnett, Chip
pewa, Columbia, Crawford, Dane, Doug
lass, Dunn, Eau Claire, Grant, Green,
Iowa, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, La
fayette, Monroe, Pepin, Pierce, Polk,
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