The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1875-06-24
WISCONSIN NEWS.

THE State Prison contains 245 cor
victs at present.
MADISON has gypsy camp in the out
skirts of the Third Ward.
GRAND RAPIDS, in Wood county, is
putting in its claims as summer resort.
A "B1G June rise" is anticipated on
the Chippewa river, and lumbermen are
happy.
HOPS are looking poorly in the Bara-
boo Bluffs, cutwornls going for them to
q very great extent.
The census of Prairie du Chen has
been completed. It shows the popula-
ton of the place to be 1912.
THE Wisconsin State Turner's Asso-
citation will assemble at Appleton the
10Th of July, which is about month
earlier than usual.
The weather is cool, but the Geneva
Lake people are constantly receiving ac-
cessions to the society of the place by
the arrival of summer visitors.
Elk PRESIDENT DEMoTT, of the Illinois
Female College at Jacksonville, has been
rendered, and has accepted, the Superin-
tendency of the Wisconsin State In
stitution for the Education Of the Deaf
and Dumb.
WHILE a party Of laborers at Green
Bay were excavating for a culvert, a
bank of sand caved in upon them and
buried one named Komisky. He was
promptly extrica5ed and. his life barely
saved. He escaped with one arm
broken.
The Appleton Crescent states that four
of the new cribs in the Cedars Dam
went out few days ago. This break
will prevent a dozen steamers from
making trips already contracted. Work
on the new dam will probably COM
mence in July.
A SECOND case of dislocation of the
neck in which the injured man recovered
is reported in GAINESVILLE. A few days
ago Mr.. Davis fell down stairs, broke
his neck, and was carried home APP
parently dead, but he is now SO nearly
well that he will be out within week.
SOME one having said that the Ice
landers were about to migrate in body
to this country, Mr.. Murat Halstead
hastens to deny it, and says that a party
of them who settled in Wisconsin some
time ago have written to their friends at
home complaining that the weather there
is too cold
CONSIDERABLE anxiety is felt at Fort
Atkinson over man named Bernard
Beck, who mysteriously disappeared on
Monday last. He has been out of en-
ployment all winter, and his wife has
been sick for some time. It is thought
that he got discouraged and committed
suicide. Men have been in search of
him, but no trace can be found.
The Rev. F. Hof, for two or three
years past rector of st. James Episcopal
parish, of Green Bay, has resigned to
accept call from his former charge at
Oshkosh, where he preached twelve
years. Mr.. Hof is one of the prominent
clergymen of his diocese, having been
advanced as a candidate for Bishop in
the late election.
PATRICK KANE, resident of Prescott,
and an employe on the steamer Jim
Watson, committed suicide at La Crosse
the other day while the steamer was ly-
ing at the dock. He has been suffering
for two years with chronic disease, and
it is supposed this method was adopted
to alleviate his sufferings and misery.
An empty two-ounce laudanum bottle
was found in his room.
The fiery young men of Madison,
have a hankering after gold and sill
yer lace, buttons, sword-belts, and
other military trappings, and they have
organized Governors guard of about
60 members. Of that number, IL were
elected officers at the first meeting.
They commenced with Colonel, and,
after electing ten more, they rested from
their labors for time. It is supposed
that when the list OF officers is complete
there will be as many as nine or ten who
will be disappointed high privates.
The Green Bay Gazette has been in
formed that two-year old colt, belong
ing to JAS Corner, in the town of Ash
wabenon, about three miles from Green
Bay, was literally dsvoured BY wood
ticks few days ago. The colt had been