The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-08
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Business ENTERPRISE.

ONE hundred thousand young whitefish have
been placed in the little lakes about Keshena
on the Menomnee Indian reservation.
A CIRCULAR saw-mill is to be erected on the
Embarrass river in the town of Grant. Shawano
county.
EVANSVILLE is looking up as manufacturing
city. During the past week E. G. Bailey and
G. W. Storey have bought the large building
and water power formerly used as basket fac
tory, and will commence the manufacture of
cotton batting, warp, and Irvine within three
weeks. Bailey formerly operated mill at
North Adams, Mass. Twenty thousand dollars
have been subscribed within three DAVIS for
starting pickle and canning factory, which
will be superintendent by Mr.. Russell, now SUI
perintendent at the Crystal Lake. A building
is to be erected at once.
CITIZENS of this State have recently secured
patents on inventions and improvements. as
follows: Harvesters, c. D. Shrader. Lancaster:
breech-loading firearms, j. Lee, Milwaukee /;
barrel barrows, j. Fl. Brown, Porter's Mills !;
windmills, A. and G. Raymond, Waupun paper
clips, w. V. Ferry. Beaver Dam.
The Neenah Gazette says: ''No place in the
State offers such golden opportunity for the
establishment of machine shop as does the
city OF Neenah. With four large paper-mills,
eight tiour-mills, shingle-mills, woolen-mills,
planlng-mllls foundries, ETC.. all of which are
constantly in want of machine-shop work, still
we have not place where this class of work is
DONE"
Personal.
The Governor has appointed under the law
OF last winter, as the Board of State Centennial
Managers, the Hon. Eli Stilson of Oshkosh,
the Hon. J. L. Case, of Racine, Prof. J. P.
Parkinson, of Madison, Col E. A. Calkins, of
the Milwaukee NeoS, and T. C. Pound of
Chippewa Falls. The Legislature appropriated
So, 900 to facilitate their work.
The Hon. A. s. McDill is to take charge of
the State Insane Asylum, which position he
resigned two years ago to take his seat in the
Forty-third Congress-
Gov. TAYLOR has appointed the Hon. An
drew Proudft, of Madison, Trustee of the
Madison Insane Asylum, in place of Gen. S.
Mills, whose term expired april l. Gen. Mills
has been member of the Board since 1860,
and has been Treasurer for a number of years
Casualties.
A YOUNG man by the name of r. Babcock,
who resides with his parents at Mill Center.
Brown county, was found in his room Wednes-
day evening in dying condition, from the
effects Of gunshot wound. When discovered
he was too far gone to say anything, and the
mystery, and one that probably can never be
explained. The young man died soon after the
occurrence. He was about % years of age.
Deaths.
GEORGE FLATN1AN was drowned on Tuesday,
near Waunakee while at work lowering the
water in Catfish creek at Packham's mill. He
was poking large cake of ice when he lost his
balance, fell in, and was carried under the ice.
Mr.. THOMAS STANLEY, of Hurricane Corners,
Grant county, died recently after long period
of sickness, aged about IS years Mr.. S.
s. was one of Grant county's oldest citizens,
having settled in the lead mines in 1926 He
was member of the first Legislature of Wis
consin, which convened at Belmont, and Of the
! second, which convened at Burlington (now
Iowa.
Legal.
SUIT has been brought in the Circuit Court
at Milwaukee for q Receiver to take charge of
the Academy of Music and other property of
the Musical Society.
Railroads.
AT the last session of the Legislature some
notifications were made in the existing railway
law of this State, whereby it was presumed more
favorable rates would be allowed the railway
companies for carrying freight At recent
meetings of the officials of the Chicago and
Northwestern and Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
ways to determine upon distance tariff, as
provided by the statute, they came to an under
standing as to the charges that should be made.
The following is the tariff agreed upon, which
entered into effect April /