The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-30
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

The muscalonge have commenced
biting.
No German taught in the Oshkosh
schools.
Trinity Church, Oshkosh, has fine
new organ.
Robert Nixon, of Viroqua, has lost
his residence by fire.
Prairie chickens are legally shoota-
BILE now, in the State.
The country press can't say enough
about the splendid crops.
=" Harvest home" picnics are now in
order throughout the State.
The cranberry marshes of Wood
county will employ 1000 pickers.
The young men and women of La
Crosse have formed an archery club.
The tobacco crop in the vicinity of
Broadhead is almost total failure.
"A brother of dime-novel Beadle
died in Plover, almost destitute, lately
Madison wants people to believe that
o monster has been discovered in Lake
Mendoza.
IN. O. Powell, of Sparta, died very
suddenly of heart disease, at his place
of business.
The First National bank of Chippe-
wa Falls has declared dividend of s per
cent. without tax.
The United States engineers will
assemble at La Crosse to determine
about the river channel.
"A fire at Watertown, few days
since, destroyed property to the value of
$4,000, partially insured.
-Libby's mill at Chiffon had to shut
down last week. The men struck and
went to the harvest fields.
Some despicable thief broke into st.
Joseph's church at La Crosse, and stole
the money from the alms-box.
"A farmer named Piske, residing in
Bostwick valley, near Lacrosse, was late
~ run over on his farm and killed.
Mrs. Warren Smith, of SheboYgan,
who attempted to step on train, fell be-
tween it and the platform and broke her
arm.
William Rossitor, of La Crosse, was
engaged in removing shingles from
wet roof. He slipped, fell and broke two
ribs.
Rock Point is praised as camping
ground. It lies two and a half miles
west of Pewaukee, on the south shore of
Pewaukee lake.
d. P. Lane, the "King Bee" of Mil
ton, has 1874 stocks of bees this season,
and they have made large quantity of
white-clover honey.
William Lindo and Bartholomew
Mesick, Changers living near La Crosse,
have been firing shot-guns at each other
without serious effect. An old feud.
Madison is the place for workmen.
D. K. Tenney, who is building new
block there, gave his workmen a fish
chowder party, the other afternoon.
The Eau Claire Lumber Company
has taken the contract for building
boom 1,13O feet in length, at Rock
Island, to protect the Government
bridge. ......
John Dyer, of GAINESVILLE, rowed
thirty miles in five and one-quarter
hours, including twenty-five minutes
stoppage- then repeated the feat
the same day. s..f.. a..
Moses Strong, Assistant State Geol
ogist, aged 81, son Of the Hon. Moses
M. Strong, of Mineral Point, was drowned
in the Flambeau river last week while
engaged in his geological explorations.
The body was recovered.
Reports from all quarters state that
harvesting and stocking is being pushed
forward very rapidly, the protracted dry
weather being favorable in this respect.
Small grain Of all kinds will be an album
dant yield throughout the Chippewa
valley. Corn in some locations has been
injured more or less by the drought
DatrG7d Times.
While A. Graft and NJ Retchpaw
were out shooting near Elkhorn, lately,
Graft was shot in the face accidentally
by Retchpaw and was quite seriously in
iured. Graft will probably recover with
the loss of one eye. Several shots en-
tered his face and one entered his alb
domen. Graft was in the brush and
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