The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-02-11
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Business Enterprise.

Business Enterprise.
/ A PROTECTIVE Horse Society has been organ
lied at Vernon, Washtenaw county, numbering
over 800 members. The value of the stock in
sured is $40, 900.
CHARLES E. DYER has been appointed United
States Judge of the Eastern District of Wiscon-
SIM to succeed j. II. Howe.
Casualties.
EIGHT wooden buildings were destroyed by
fire at Fond du Lac few days ago. Loss,
500, OOO insured for $1,000.
A FIRE at Charlton, few days ago, de-.
stroyed the residence of G. r. Brant dentist.
valued at $1,000. The furniture and contents
we're saved. The building is reported partially
insured.
DURING the services in st. Johns Cathedral
at Milwaukee, few days ago, large stucco
ornament fell from the ceiling, distance of
forty feet, and crashed through one of the
seats. 1t happened that the occupants of the
slip, five in number, were kneeling at the time
and thus escaped the terrible results that would
have entailed had the piece fallen at time
when the family were off their hassocks. Tn
ornament weighed about ten pounds, and was
solid enough to cut through the seat and indent
the floor. The crash startled the worshipers,
but the cause was not ascertained until after
the SERVICE when the family pointed out their
providential escape from injury and death.
Statistics.
THERE is S8735, 600 belonging to the State Nor
NAL School fund now on hand, with about
$3.50, 900 accommodating and appropriated, not in
cluded in the above
THos. MALLEY and John McCarty, two boys,
were sentenced to one year each in the State
prison recently, for highway robbery commit
ted in the streets of Madison.
THE parents of Peter Peterson, of Manito-
woo, induced good-looking girl of Is, named
Mary Tegge, to spend few evenings at their
house, as an allurement to their wayward son,
and the good-looking girl now brings suit
against the wild young man, charging him with
the parentage of an Legitimate child.
Railroads.
THE Directors Of the Dubuque and Milwaukee
Narrow Gauge railroad have received guarantees
from towns along the proposed route amount
ing to $15O,000, and expect $250,00O from the
city of Milwaukee. They have determined to
commence early in the spring. They own the
old Beloit road
miscellaneous.
PARTIES living near Menasha state that the
thermometer indicated At degrees below zero on
the morning of the 9th inst.
BLANCHARD & LECLAIR, grocers of Fond du
Lac, have made an assignment to their credit
ors. Liabilities $10,000 assets $4,000.
SOLDIERS of this State engaged against Black
hawk are pressing for pensions.
THE Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
held session at Madison last week The at
tendance was large, and several interesting
papers were read-one by Charles Caverno of
Illinois, on 1.-The People and Railroads" He
justified the present rates of transportation by
railroad in this State, and claimed that the
power of the Railroad Commissioners should be
enlarged. The subject of Industrial Educa-
ton" was taken care of by Rev. NJ. Holland, of
Baraboo. The most interesting paper was read
by Capt. Nader, on the subject of 1.-The I'm
provement of the Mouth of the Mississippi
River" This paper is engrossing the attention
of scientific men,, as it is an entirely new method
of improvement of the Mississipprs mouth.
THE Green Bay fishermen are doing well this
winter. One dealer shipped twenty tons in ten
days.
SPARTA, 1.-The Saratoga of the West, has had
the coolest weather known so far. A special to
the Milwaukee Wisconsin, dated February 7th,
says CAT Shutdown, last Saturday night, the
mercury stood at zero at 8 p. m. it was 10
below; at p. M, 20 below; at 10 p M, so
below at 1 o. NJ, Sunday morning, 40 below
at daylight, Sunday morning, it varied in differ
ent spirit thermometers from 48 to 50 below
zero at a. M, 40 below; at a. M, 80 below;
at IL, noon, below"
J. B. SMITH, an old resident of Fox Lake,
has failed with 500, 900 liabilities, and $4,000
assets.