The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-07-01
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Rev. SIDNEY CRAWFORD, formerly of
Green Bay, has accepted call from the
Congregationalists of Lyons, Iowa.
EVANSVILLE high-school boys fight
with knives. A boy named Holley has
been severely wounded by companion.
A HUGE vein of water was struck
while digging well at GAINESVILLE re-
Gently. The well-digger had a narrow
escape from drowning.
LA Crosse and vicinity were visited
by furious rain and wind storm few
nights ago. Crops, fences, and out
buildings suffered fearfully, and many
bridges were carried away.
OK Saturday, the 10th of July, the
revenue officers will sell, for the benefit
of the government, the confscated whis-
ky, commonly called " crooked, " lately
seized in Milwaukee. There are about
5000 barrels for sale. The stamp tax
on this crooked whisky amounts to
$16, 900.
RECENT Wisconsin postal changes
Horns Corners, Ozaukee
county, Herman Schellenberg, Post
master. Postnaosters ATpoimted-
Brookfeld Center, Waukesha county,
John w. Hancock +; Castle Rock, Grant
county, Charles, G.. Van Buren, Flint
vile, Brown county, Charles f. Kanute !;
Forest Junction, Calumet county, John
Scherff.
FOURTEEN additional money-order of
fees have been established in Wisconsin,
as follows Ahnepee, Kewaunee county;
Ashland, Ashland; Baldwin, Saint Croix;
Elroy, Juneau Hazel Green, Grant !;
Kewaskum, Washington; Marinette,
Oconto F; New Richmond, Saint Croix !;
Plover, Portage Rio, Columbia; Rose
dale, Fond du Lac Shullsburg, La
fayette; Spring Green, Sank; Wonewoc,
| Juneau.
A SAD accident occurred on Sunday
afternoon at Gates ferry, in the town of
Holland. Is miles northeast of La Crosse.
Three children of Norwegian farmer,
named Swenson, were playing III Black
river, when the youngest, girl aged 10
years, got into deep water. Her sister,
aged II, attempted to aid her, and she
too got beyond her depth. Then the
brother, lad of IA years, was similarly
drawn in, and all of the three drowned.
INFORMATION from North Bay Point,
on the east shore of Green Bay, states
that two daughters of man named
Marshall were poisoned there on Sunday
afternoon. The two girls, aged IL and
13 respectively, complained of feeling
unwell. Their mother, who was sick in
bed, told them to take salts. The
father was absent from home at the time,
and the girls made a mistake, and each
took strychnine instead. They went
out into the yard, where one of them
dropped dead. The other is not expected
to live.
AT Marinette, few days since, Nelson
Burr, Swede, who had for some time
past been paying attention to Miss
Hazard, and had several times been re-
fused, made some threats against Miss
Hazard and himself, and pointed re-
volver at the lady. Shepushed the pistol
to one side, when it was discharged, the
ball taking effect In the breast of Miss
Hazards father. Burr, who was intoxi-
Gated, then went off and committed sui
eide by hanging himself on pile driver.
The establishment of a Chair OF
Scandinavian Languages at the Wiscon-
sin University is an event of some i'm
portance to educators in the Northwest.
Prof. r. B. Anderson has been elected
to FL the chair. He is native of Wis
consin, % years of age, and said to be
competent for the position. There is 8
large Scandinavian population in the
Northwest, and the attempt of the Uni
versity Regents to promote the study o.