The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-05-13
WISCONSIN NEWS.

n. FL. WOOD, farmer at Pacific, lost
35 sheep and lambs in two nights last
week by dogs.
MADISON has sent 81, 800 to the Osh-.
kosh fire sufferers, and is still collecting
funds for them.
A NEW boat, the Ka-negh-ta-ra- gra-rat,
will pillow the bosoms of the lake at Mad
ison this season.
CONCERTS for the benefit of the Osh-
kosh fire sufferers are being given III
many parts of the State.
MISS G. A. PERRY, Of WATERFOWL, has
been selected to read the poem before
the next State Editorial Convention.
Gov. S. J. TmDEN, of New York, has
been invited to deliver the annual adj
dress before the Northern State Fair, in
Oshkosh, Sept. %.
VERNON, Muskego and Mukwango,
in Waukesha county, are talking about
voting aid to the Milwaukee and Du-
buque Narrow uage railway.
CHARLES Il. SPAUvENBERa, once edi-
tor of the Milwaukee Journal, and
known as "Count Charley, died recent
ly at lis home in Wauwatosa.
TIE old county jail, at Eau Claire.
was burned last week. It had been long
disused, and no one lived there. The
fire was the work of an incendiary.
T. D. KANoUsE, ESQ.,, the head of the
order of Good Templars in this State, re-
ports the progress of the order as -four
ishing. His great point is to stop
drinking liquor.
IT will interest Wisconsin people to
know that Judge Thomas Hood, former
" of Madison, has been appointed
Auditor of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia.
PATENTS have recently been secured
by Wisconsin inventors as follows: Piles
for bar-iron, William f. Durfee, Mil
waukee; sled-runner, Robert r. Bird,
Madison; harrows, George FL. Founder,
Fort Atkinson.
AT Chiffon, on Saturday, a one-armed
soldier named George Miller shot John
Namis, proprietor of the New Holstein
Hotel, and Henry Kuehls, hostler, and
then proceeded to the cemetery and shot
himself. Of the three, only Kuehls can
recover. The cause was quarrel about
a board bill.
TKE officers of the Milwaukee and
Dubuque Marrow Gauge Railroad Com
pany are holding meetings in the villages
through which it is proposed that the
road shall run. They are received every
where with enthusiasm, and they may
expect substantial aid from the farmers
along the line.
The Congregational Society at James
vile resolved to rebuild it's church as
soon as the money can be raised for that
purpose, and not before, as they will
have no more mortgages on the church,
as was formerly the case. The prospects
are that the church will be ready for oc-
cupation by winter.
The wheat receipts along the eastern
line of the Southern Minnesota Railroad,
last Tuesday, reached 10000 bushels,
being the largest one days receipts on
this road since the fall of 1873. The
seeding is all completed, and in many
places the farmers are compelled to sci
to meet the pressing demands upon them
A BED of gypsum has been discovered
on the farm of Mr.. Thomas Lannon,
Menomonee, Watlkesha county, which
is said to be superior in quality to that
found in Michigan and New York States.
The discovery was made by Mr.. J. Nc
Dermit, of Rochester, who has worked
in gypsum quarries for u number of
years.
negro deck-hands occurred the other daH
on the steamer Northwestern, a few
miles above La Crosse. Razors were
the weapons used by both, and one
was almost entirely disenboweled.
When they arrived at La Crosse the
naerine surgeon was called, who dressed
the wounds, butreports no possible hope
of his recovery.
A SAW MILL in Cass county recently
had its roof nearly destroyed by Walter
Marsh, who, while at work, tainted and
fell on the balance wheel, and went up
sky-wards like a rocket. The roof was
made Of nnn-innh oak boards hattanad