The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-18

by bull the othet day, and died in an
hour from the injuries received. The
unfortunate mans bowels were torn out
/ by the Infatuated beast, and he, knowing
that death must ensue, requested that he
be not removed from the field where he
fell until he died.
The other night as the steamer Dia-
mond was steaming from Clifton to Me-
nasha, and when midway in the lake.
one Of thedeck-handsn named John Peter
son, went to lean against one Of the
benders, and the bender swinging out
preeipitated him into the water. de
was drowned before he could be reached.
Peterson had been hired that day.
Robert Stone, OF Fulton, Rock
county, breathed his last at IL o'clock
noon on Sunday, Oct. z, at his farm
residence. Mr.. Stone was one of the
Oldest inhabitants of Rock county, hay
ing located in the town Of Fulton forty
four years ago. Mr.. Stone came to
Wisconsin from near Potsdam, n. Y,
in 1888, and was about 26 years Of age at
that time, which would make his age
about 70 at the time Of his death.
"A sad and somewhat peculiar sui
eide occurred in the town of Lima. Mr..
John Hieden, a young man Of steady
and industrious habits, a farmer by oc-
cupahon, one day recently went into the
field and commenced plowjng, and about
9 o'clock unhitched his oxen, went to his
house. got a rope and went into a grove
near by and hung himself. Mr.. Hieden
was newly-maried, and domestic trouble,
it is rumored, was the cause that led to
the rash act.
During a thunderstorm the house
of Dennis Corcoran, in the town of Bue-
ma Vista, was struck by lightning and
one of his girls instantly killed. The
family, consisting of five or six persons.
were all sitting in one room, with the
exception of their invalid daughter, who
was in bed. The bolt that struck the
house burst up through the floor of
the room in which the family was sit
ting, throwing one of the boys up to the
ceiling, but none were seriously affected
except the girl in the bed. She was in
stantly killed.
On Tuesday there was an Indian
outbreak in this county. VIM. Klump-
ner, of Necedah, found a lot of bucks
and squaws picking his corn. They
forcibly resisted his efforts to eject them,
but after lively tussle, in which the
squaws proved themselves to be good
fighters, he, with the aid Of his hired
man and shotgun, drove them off. The
Indians, however, carried off all the corn,
and all that KIumpner had to show in
proof that he had a crop of corn and d
fight is a barred field, little blood and a
piece Of an Indians ear.-1fau8ton Star.
The Green Bay advocates says: "In-
dian Agent Bridgeman last Friday paid
the Oneida Indians their annuity under
the treaty of 1894 with the Six Nations.
The payment was made at the council
house, on the reservation, and amounted
to 1000. A census of the tribe was
also taken, so that each individual
should receive an equal share, by which
it appears that the tribe numbers ], 4O5
individuals, of all ages and both sexes.
Agricultural statistics were also taken.
The reservation consists of 64, 900 acres,
OF which 5000 acres are cleared and
1000 under cultivation. The crops this
season were very good. There were
800 acres in corn, and it is estimated
that %, 500 bushels of grain and 4, 800
bushels of vegetables of various kinds
were raised. They own $50 head Of
cattle and 800 hogs and sheep. This,
we are informed, is the best showing the
ribe has ever made"