The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-04-01
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Business Enterprise.

Business Enterprise.
| A LATE dispatch from Stevens Point says
lowing to the disadvantages of the winter, the
cut of logs in the Wisconsin river and tributa-
ries, above this place, will be as follows accord
ing to the closest reckonings Tomahawk river,
100000 600 feet New Wood river, 100000
Prairie river, 100000; Pine 2,000,0 900;
| Trappe 100000; Rib, 4,000,000 Eau Gale,
5000, 900 Main Wisconsin, Is, 200, 00O Total,
30, 400, 600. This is a considerable falling off
from last year. and not quite half the cut of
1873"
WISCONSIN patents recently issued: Folding
extension table, j. F. Orchard, Milwaukee
slip teeth for seeders, G.. D. Rowell Appleton;
weed cutters and Killers, J. Robson, Osceola;
windmills, A. and W. Graf, Burnett Junction;
wheels for havesters, G. g. Rowell, Appleton
Reissue-Sail swagging machines, L. W. Pond
Eau Claire.
Political.
Hon. MORGAN L. MARTIN has accepted call
to become candidate for County Judge of
Brown county. .a.
ELECTION prospects in Green Bay are being
talked up vigorously, and warm time is eX-
pected. The usual complement of candidates
for municipal offices is announced. As regards
the Mayoralty, DR.. c. E. Crane, the present in
cumbent, has published card in response to a
numerously signed call, accepting the cand-
dacy for second term The main interest CEN
ters upon the Judgeship of the new court Gre
ated for this county, and the strife Of words
and action is already hot. J. J. Tracy, the
present District Attorney, was unanimously
called out by the bar at an early day. He ac-
cepted, and resigned as District Attorney.
Later, Morgan L. Martin, whose name headed
the bar call given to Mr. Tracy, came into the
! field.
Casualties.
| DESTRUCTIVE fire at Whitewater recently
consumed the postofice and the Register print
ing office. Total loss, about $4,000.
Mr.. BENZ. F. BROWN an old farmer of Fitch
burg, Dane county, was recently gored TO death
by Durham bull which he was leading to
| water. After being heavily struck by the bull
and knocked down, he managed to wrap the
rope around the tree and hold the bulls nose to
the ground, where he himself was found lying
dead, having received fatal blows in the chest
causing, it is thought, paralysis Of the heart
Legal.
EVANSVILLE has a sensation. A dancing
master from Beloit, named Louis Bager, under
took to induct the denizens of GAINESVILLE into
the mysteries of ''hands across and down the
middle" A more diigent class never pranced
I.
them to balance all meaning, in ordinary
language to come down with the stamps
they didn't balance at all. Then he danced
hornpipe down to the justice shop, procured
warrants, and had the constable waltz the of
Tending dancists down to the Justice, where
they all joined hands and stepped to the music
of cross examination.
AN officer was lately sent to Union Grove,
from Racine, to serve a subpoena on man who
has been dead nearly two years.
A LAW of the last Legislature for the revision
of the statutes gave the appointment of re-
visors to the Supreme Court Judges, who have
agreed on David Taylor, J. P. G. Cottrill and
COL William F. Villas. The former is lawyer,
legislator and Judge of experience, who a few
years since made revision en- his own respon-
sibility. Cottrill is a leading lawyer of Mil
waukee, and Villas young man, one of the
ablest lawyers in Madison.
Crime.
ONE day last week a prize fight occurred on
Lake Bluff, near Milwaukee, between two
roughs named John Long and Michael Zwoster
About 200 were in attendance. The police we're
on the lookout and bounced upon the crowd
during the fight. All tumbled over the bluff
and rolled to the lake shore to escape the po-
| lice, but the chief actors have since been ar
rested. Zwoster came out ahead.
AN interesting murder trial was recently de-
cided at Osceola. 1t appears that, about year
ago, Dane, working for lumberman in Polk
county, learned that his wife had been very
! grossly insulted and assaulted by his employer.
The prisoner borrowed gum and meeting his
victim in path made his accusation, and said
he was going to shoot him. The man put his
hands up to his breast, and said, 'Shoot away,
Cap" Thereupon the prisoner raised his gun,
| and shot the man through the body, the bullet
entering directly between the mans hands,
killing him instantly. The case for the defense
was conducted with such ingenuity, power and
eloquence, that the jury, after being out some
time, returned verdict of "not guilty, on ac-
count of temporary insanity" We believe this