The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-10-04
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

-Ihe Mutual Baseball Club, Of
GAINESVILLE, is no more.
"A tract colporteur has been arrested
at Juoa, Green county, for horse-steal
ing.
A pickerel weighing twenty-three
pounds was caught in Lake Monona.
Madison.
The premiums which will be paid
by the State Agricultural Society will
amount to $1,000.
Large loads of sorghum are being
drawn into Whitewater for manufacture.
The quality is good.
Thirteen of the nineteen prisoners
who recently escaped from the Wauke-
sha jail have been recaptured.
Henry, infant son of Israel Polver,
a prominent citizen of Watertown, was
choked to death, recently, while eating
an apple.
Hon. William Tisch, of Nishicott,
committed suicide by shooting, while
laboring under insanity produced by
sunstroke
Edward Goodrich, a section hand in
the employ of the West Wisconsin, was
run over by a freight train and killed at
Elk Mound.
The third annual conference of the
Wisconsin Free Methodists was held at
Beaver Dam last week. The attendance
was good.
The people of Lincoln county are
agitating the subject Of building rail
road from Wausau to Jenny, on their
own account.
-Four children in Wausau, by the
name Of Whitaker, have received notice
that SIS, 900 has been left to them by an
uncle in England.
The following additional money
order postoffces are established in Wis
consin: Arcadia. Aliens Grove, Maiden
Rock, Medford, National Home, Mil
waukee.
The body of an unknown man was
found in the river, just above the upper
dam, in GAINESVILLE, the other day. It is
thought he committed suicide. The man
was evidently German.
"A State convention of the Congre
gational ministers of Wisconsin, together
with the lay delegates from each church
and members of the Ladies' Missionary
Board, was held in Lacrosse last week.
"A man named Fl. F. Pelton, Of
GAINESVILLE, was found dead in his room
at the Occidental Hotel, in Boonsboro,
Iowa, last week. It is supposed his
death was caused by an overdose Of
morphine.
Lewis Foss, aged Is, while engaged
in driving horses for a thresher at the
Firing farm, on the Green Bay road,
near Milwaukee, fell into the horse
power and was badly crushed. He died
a few hours after.
The Baraboo Republic relates that
J. B. Maloy, an old man of SO years,
left his home in Fairfield, lately, intend
ing to go to his daughters home in
the woods, a few miles off; he lost his
way and starved to death, his remains
being accidentally found by some hayl
makers.
AT an early hour one morning last
week a mob rescued a prisoner from the
police at house in the Second Ward,
Milwaukee. The latter, reinforced, ar
rested twenty men, were followed and
stoned by a crowd of over 100, and used
revolyers freely, wounding one Of the
rowdies severely.
= The State Firemen's Association,
which held its annual session in Green
Bay, last week, elected the following
officers for the ensuing year President,
F. W. Kickbush, of Wausau; Vice
President, II. J. OFT, of Green Bay
Secretary, G. J. Smith, of Jefferson;
Treasurer, L. F. Stowe, of Fond du
Lac
"A short time ago miserable wretch
named John Kelly turned switch on
the Central railroad, near Auburndale,
and ran passenger train off the track.
Fortunately no one was seriously injured,
but the crime was none the less afro
cious, and for committing it Judge Park
last week sentenced the villain to eight
years Imprisonment in the State prison.
"A man by the nam of John Lalrie
of Edgerton, Rock county, while trying
to get on a moving freight train at that
,,1ooo tho o+bnr dow lost his baIarao