The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-22
WISCONSIN ITEMS.


down. No logs.
The State Universalist Conference
vas held at Whitewater last week
Fifteen inches Of snow fell in Yer
non county during the late storm.
Beaver Dam is to have a musical
convention, November 90 "a.
Frank Parish, who was killed near
Brooklyn recently by railroad accident,
was resident of Madison.
The dwelling of Mr.. Demanded. in
Tanktown Green Bay was DESTROYED by
fire the other night. Loss 81, 500.
The number of State banks doing
business in Wisconsin is twenty-six. en-
ploying capital amounting to 81. 1885,
232.
Thomas 7. Shoals, who came to q
premature end (of a rope) in the Black
Hills region, formerly lived in Green
Bay.
The Wisconsin State Board of Char
tiles has taken a tour among the CHART
able institutions of Illinois, commencing
at Elgin.
A serious gashing affray between a
negro named Harris and another "cul-
lud brudder took place in La Crosse
recently.
Within week five children of
Martin Donahue, of the town of Dunn.
Dane county, have died, all from the eff
fects of diphtheria.
The brick dwelling-house of John
Baumann, in Watertown, was destroyed
by fire recently. Cause a defective fiue.
Insured for 81, 800.
"A train was wrecked on the Madi-
son and Portage road the other DAY,
causing considerable damage, but no
loss Of life or severe injury to persons.
The Governor has issued his Thanks
giving proclamation, giving Thursday,
Nov. 20, as the date of that feast, the
same day as that appointed by the Pres
ident.
Mr.. Valley, residing in Crawford
county, has passed his Tooth birthday
anniversary. The old gentleman is
hale and hearty, doing the chores about
the house, and milking five COWS.
The Circuit Court at Madison has
about twenty railroad cases before it of
alleged violation of the Potter law. One
has been selected as a test case and been
sent up to the Supreme Court, the others
dismissed.
"A proposition to amend the consti-
tuition increasing the number of State
Supreme Judges from three TO five,
which was submitted to a vote Of the
people at the recent election, was carried
by large majority.
The prisoners in the GAINESVILLE Jail
run a paper of their own. Their last is
sue consists in frantic appeals to the
County Board to clean out the rats,
which are becoming so numerous that
jail life ceases to be a pleasure.
The County Board of Supervisors Of
Rock county have very appropriately
presented splendid Smith & Wesson
pistol to Mrs. S. G. Colley, wife of
Sheriff Colley, who SO bravely kept at
bay the prisoners that tried to escape
on the evening of Nov. 5.
"A young man named Charles Mey-
ers, living on w. James farm, two miles
southeast of Beloit, was found dead the
other evening, his face partially buried in
the mud of the road. He was thrown
out Of buggy by runaway horse.
Meyers was 10 years old.
George I. Jones & Co., well-known
grain and commission firm of Milwau-
kee, have fled voluntary petition in
bankruptcy. Their liabilities are 1000.
The firm secured an extension two years
ago. The principal creditors outside Of
that city are in New York and Liverpool
On last Sunday evening, asaload of
young people were returning from
church at River Falls, the wagon
in which they were riding received jolt
which threw one of the young ladies,
Miss Lena Robey, aged 10 years, out on
the frozen ground, instantly killing her.
Definite returns from every Assem-
bly, and Senate district have been re-
ceived. These bodies will stand: Senate
-Twenty-one Republicans, twelve Dem
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