The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-12-13
WISCONSIN ITRMs,

About 2, 1000, 600 more salmon-trout
eggs have been placed in Geneva lake.
A Stockbridge Indian raised 800
bushels Of corn from six quarts of seed.
Wolves are getting to be very
plenty and very ravenous about River
Falls.
The store of DR.. Howe in Oregon,
Dane county, was entered, and $50 in
cash taken.
The Milwaukee Young Mems library
has lost 1000 books during the last
eight years.
C. F. Goodall, for several years AS
sistant Postmaster at Beloit, died recent
" in Colorado.
There were 11,1843 acres of hops
grown in Wisconsin in 1877, Sank coun-
ty having 3, 118 acres.
In Omro are the relics of a patent
medicine factory, glass factory, a wool
en- mill, and two bursted banks.
Dorsey and Sullivan, of GAINESVILLE.
have been sentenced to six years in
the Waupun prison for burglary.
The new system of water works just
inaugurated in La Crosse was quite re-
Gently completed, and is satisfactory.
The Wisconsin House barn. at
Watertown, owned by Louis Kruger.
was destroyed by fire recently. Loss
about $500.
The young men of Jefferson to the
number of sixteen or twenty have formed
a reading club under the name of the
" Model Boys Society,""
The Universalist churchesof South
ern Wisconsin will hold q conference at
the village of Stoughton, on the 18th,
10th, and Goth Of the present month.
The total receipts for trespass on
the st. Croix land grant received during
the past year, as shown by the Secre-
tary of States report, are 1928, O43.4O.
Green Bay Is still deluged with
counterfeit silver quarter and half dol
lars gang of counterfeiters are sup
posed to have taken up their quarters in
that city.
"A horrid old aunt prevented a young
man from marrying her niece in Green
Bay. The couple had all the prelimi-
naries arranged, but she vetoed the mar
riage and the minister refused to unite
them. They will try it again.
DR.. @. FL. Orion, who was arrested
at Fort Wayne, Ind, some months ago
having jumped bail in Milwaukee q year
ago, charged with passing counterfeit
silver coin, in the United States Court
pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to q
year in the State prison and fine Of
$500. A petition, signed by several
prominent citizens, was presented TO the
court asking for leniency. Orion was
once proprietor of the Daily NeaO8, has
been President of The Common Council,
and candidate for Mayor.
The Grand Encampment of the Odd
Fellows of the State was held in Mil
waukee last week. The Treasurer re-
ported that the receipts were 81, 346.19,
and the disbursements 81, 134.42. The
election of officers resulted as follows:
Grand Patriarch, George e. Wetherby,
of Schullsburg; Grand High Priest,
L. W. Haight, Of Waukesha; ". Grand
Senior Warden, R. d. Torrey, of Osh-
kosh Grand Scribe, L. B. Hills, of
Madison; Grand Treasurer, David Ad-
Ter, of Milwaukee Grand Junior War
den, A. T. Smith, of Beaver Dam;
Grand Representative to the United
States Grand Lodge, 7. B. Elliott.
In Neenah there is band of gyp-
sizes numbering ten men and ten women
(no children), who have rented two
houses and located for the winter. They
have number of good wagons and car
riages, also about twenty horses. The
women are good looking and quite
dressy, and are engaged in enlightening
citizens of the future by telling their
fortunes, charging from so cents to So.
The men are slovenly dressed, and
hard-looking lot, often seen drunk.
They occupy their time in Grading"
horses, and generally get the best Of the
bargain, as they are sharp iockies.