The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-11
WISCONSIN ITEMS.


Green Bay the other night.
st. Croix oounty's wheat will bring,
at low estimate, $1,85O,O
The First National Bank of Green
Bay has changed its name to ''Strong's
Bank.
The Necedah Cranberry Company
has had 500 Indians in its employ this
season.
-Oiyet Church, at Columbus, a new
building costing $4,000, has just been
dedicated.
Charles Hardwick, prisoner in the
Sank county jail at Baraboo, escaped
the other night.
"A German farmer at Crystal Lake,
named Luchme, stole a sheep and then
committed suicide.
Mr.. Lewis Gapin, of Monroe, came
very near killing his own son one night.
installing him for a burglar.
The Dells of the Wisconsin have
been visited by over $4,000 pleasure
seekers during the past summer.
The La Crosse Democrat announces
the death of John Bosshard, one of the
pioneer settlers Of La Crosse county.
Mrs. Thomas Mccain was fatally
burned few days since, at Milwaukee,
by the accidental upsetting of a kero-
sene lamp.
People throughout the State will re-
greet to hear that Henry Cordier, ex-State
Prison Commissioner of Wisconsin, is in
sane in Pennsylvania.
The Ashland Press announces that
explorations for iron ore on the Penokee
iron range have been vigorously prose-
cuted during the past season.
A man named William Showers took
poison at Winneconne recently, with
fatal effect. Domestic trouble is thought
to have been the cause of the act.
Daniel Croft was killed at Eau
Claire last week by a discharge of cleo
tricity, as he was standing by an engine,
with his arm resting on an iron rod.
"A young colt belonging to John
Masse, of Sturgeon Bay, attempted to
jump over a picket fence, when one of the
pickets entered it's breast and killedit.
Three years hard labor in the peni-
tertiary, with one days solitary confne-
ment, was the sentence upon the boy
burglars, Boyd and Fox, in Madison.
At Fosters mill, near Fairchild,
man named David Golf was struck and
killed by lightning. He was 35 years of
age, and leaves a wife and child in poor
| circumstances.
The deaths in Milwaukee during
last week numbered forty-seven. Ofthe
whole number, twenty seven deaths
were Of persons under 5 years Of age,
and twenty over years.
Ed Harris, Of Bay View, near Mil
waukee, who was with others the other
night charivaring a newly-married
couple, was shot by Patrolman Frelson,
but not dangerously injured.
AT Juneau, the Dodge County Board
met and offered $4,000 reward for in
formation that will lead to the convic-
ton of the person or persons who set
fire to the court house in that place.
Beaver Dam offered the Dodge
County Board $4,000 if it would locate
the county seat there. But the board, at
its session last week, indefinitely post
pened consideration of the proposition.
The Menomonee NeaU8 has been in
formed that Edward Goodrich, of Elk
horn, an employe of the West Wiscon-
sin railway, while il. an intoxicated con-
dition, was run over and killed by a
freight train.
"A fire at Bay View, just outside Of
the city of Milwaukee, recently de-
stroyed the residence of S. Fl. Seaman,
foreman of the carpenter shops of the
Milwaukee Iron Company. Loss,
So, 800; fully insured.
Bonds Of Shawano county to the
amount of $4,000, voted in aid of the
Green Bay and Superior railway project,
have been signed and deposited in the
Kellogg National Bank, in Green Bay.
The Directors announce that they will
begin operations and grade some fifteen
miles this fall.
News was recently cabled from
TRENT, Austria, of the death there of
Baroness Juliet B. D'Lepel, aged 25,
daughter of R. N. Austin, of Milwaukee.
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