The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-01-21
WISCONSIN NEWS.
PERSONAL.

standing is in dispute. The clergy say he is
High Church, and the lsity that he is Low
Church.
A WASHINGTON telegram says: " 1t is ad-
mitted that Charles E. Dyer. Of Racine, will
be appointed to the vacant Wisconsin Judge
ship
WOMAN living in Wood county recently
presented hel husband with four babies, two
girls and two boys. Tae neighbors are rails
ing money to buy him a COW.
Casualties.
The residence Of John Kelevanc, q German,
living near the northern line of Marathon
county, was destroyed by fire last week, and
two children burned to death. The father
had gone with load of hay to one of the
lumber camps, and in the afternoon the
mother went to the watering-place, about
eighty rods from the house, to open the ice
and water the stock, leaving the three young
est children in the house. Before the mothers
task was done she saw her house in flames,
but could not reach the spot to save any
thing, not even to rescue her children.
A HORRIBLE story Of two children being de-
voured by wolves comes from Dane county.
On the 18th inst. twenty miles northwest of
Madison, in rough wild country, two Ger
man children went to Steele school-house
distant only half-mile from home, by o
shortcut through the woods. Not return
ing at the usual time, search was made, and
the scarf of one of the children was found
and traces of blood, while the bowling of
wolves was heard not far away. Following
up the bloody trail, both children were found
dead-one horribly mangled and the other
nearly eaten up.
EDWARD VENNE, an old gentleman, aged
more than 60 years, met with a dreadful ca
lamity at the A. D. Mihills Manufacturing
Company's factory in Fond du Lack, last week
He was showing some boys how to manage a
machine when the saw suddenly started, and.
catching his right arm, cut it off just below the
elbow.
The Commercial Block, at Sparta, was des
troyed by fire last Saturday. Loss 800, 1000.
Mostly insured.
Deaths.
The man who was found frozen to death
lately in an old lumber camp near the Shoe
proves to be David Brainard, of Marquette
county, and a brother to E. Brainard, prom
inent business man of hartford
MRS. GEoRRE MCQUEEN, of Oak Grove,
Dodge county, while disrobing preparatory
to retiring, one night last week, fell dead in
of IF dropov of boor+
Business Enterprise.
IT is estimated by those who have been
among the lumber camps, that there will be
cut this winter, on Wolf river and it's tribu-
taries, 121 500, 900 feet of logs. There are now
on hand old logs to the amount of
$4,000, 900 feet.
Patents have recently been issued to the
following Wisconsin inventors: M;ddlings
purifier, Daniel H. Buckwalter, Chippewa
Falls; shingle machine. Warren A. Durrin,
Wilson; lubrcating car wheel, S. & s. L.
Hall, Ahnepee; yielding teeth for cultivator,
Corydon P. Hewett Kingston; oats separa-
tor, Hiram Moore, Green Lake.
Railroads.
PRESIDENT KEEP, Of the Northwestern road.
has addressed letter to the Wisconsin State
Board Of Railroad and Warehouse Comm is
sioners, stating that the operation of the
State laws would decrease the earnings of
that road Is per cent, virtually compelling
the company to do business at loss, and re-
specially asks relief
The Railooay Gazette gives the following
record of railway construction in Wisconsin
during 1874:
Chippewa Falls and Wtstern-This road was
constructed from the line of the West Wisconsin,
at Eau Claire northeastward II miles up the Eau
Clair river to Chippewa Falls.
Galena and Southern Wisconsin, About te
mics of this three-feet gauge road is in Wisconsin
North Wsconsin-This company, to which the
Wisconsin Legislature voted part of the land
grant of the st. Croix and Superior road extended
it's road from New Richmond northeastward
twenty-five miles to point forty miles northeast
of Hudson.
Wisconsin Valley-This road, which at the clos
of last year extended from the La Crosse division
of the Milwaukee and St. Paul ct Tomah north
westward forty-seven miles to junction with the
Green Bay and Minnesota at Centralia, was ex-
tended in 1874 northward forty-fve milest
Wausau. -
Statistics.
RETURNS of the Milwaukee brewers for last
year give 301, 849 b. rrels brewed, 298, $40 bar
rels sold, and 81, 578 barrels in store, of which
Best brewed 1852, Schlitz 70, 7O4, and Blatz
81, 463, the balance being distributed among
six others.
Crime,
HUGH HIGGINS, lad IA years Of age, re-
Gently convicted of stealing Is cents from
Milwaukee saloon-keeper, was sentenced to
the Reform School at Waukesha until he is
81 years old. When the sentence was pro-
nounced he fell into fit which lasted several
ours. Efforts will be made to get him per-
doned.
A SINGULAR suicide occurred at De Soto, on
Tuesday of last week. A Norwegian carpenter