The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-02
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

La Crosse has a Greenback Club.
Portage county hasn't prisoner in
it's jail.
-Neenah gets butter-frkins from
Vermont.
Portage is also going to have mill
tia company.
Crop reports are excellent from all
! quarters of the State.
The aggregate value Of all property
in Kewaunee is $443, 900.
Portage county gives promise of the
heaviest crops for many years.
The cranberry marshes of this State
promise to yield abundantly this year.
-Ripon is in fair way to secure the
location of large glass factory at that
place.
The loss by fire in Neenah, result
ing in the destruction of several stores.
is estimated at 5000.
The bankers and county officers of
Fond du Lac played a game of baseball
for the benefit of the Home for the
Friendless.
Mr.. L. S. Cohen has built new
lumber mill one mile north of Wausau,
on the west bank Of the Wisconsin river,
this season.
While blowing on his farm, near
West Bend, Matthias Regner brought to
the surface lump of pure copper weigh
ing twenty-six pounds.
Rev. George G. Haddock, of Apple
ton, has been presented with an elegant
gold watch by his parishioners, to re-
place the one stolen by burglars.
AT the Madison baby-show there
we're thirty-one entries, five being COL
ored babies. Clarice Ada Cook took
the first prize for being the popular in
FAINT.
The wooden mills Of Wisconsin are
a very large item in our manufactures
and a source of pride to the State. Wis
consin woolens take high rank in the
market
Another warning to boys who Jump
on and off moving trains was furnished
at La Crosse by lad named wheel,
who was severely injured by getting I'M
der the wheels.
AT meeting Of the Neenah Yacht
Club the Regatta Committee decided
that the Fourth Of July race must be
run over considering the misunderstood
ing relative to sailing around the course
twice.
"A man named Young, at work for G.
Hazen, of Ladoga, fell upon pitchfork
in such way as to drive the handle sew
eral inches into his bowels. He fingered
along for few days, when he died from
the injury.
"A crazy man who had been setting
SHARES and spring guns in his neigh
bors' fields was captured near Ripon
and taken to the asylum. One of the
neighbors ran into one of the guns while
moving in his bayfield,.
"A large pickerel sprung from the
waters Of Lake Winnebago into the sail
boat Neptune, which was being sailed
by the Rattle boys. Catching fish by
this method is not recorded in the pisca-
torial works. Fond du Lac Common
a0e0lth.
"A statute of Wisconsin requires at
tendant physicians to file with the Reg
lister of Deeds record of births. In the
absence of a physician the father of the
child must make this report. A penalty
of $50 is fixed for noncompliance with
this law.
"A chandelier in a Catholic church
hall at Oshkosh fell with crash one
evening last week, and the oil imme-
diately took fire. The audience was
panic stricken and Miss Amber Hay and
others we're injured. The fire was ex.
tinguished quickly.
"A new kind of wheat has been
grown at Mcfarland this year. The
stalk is large and tall and the grain very
large. 1t is evidently new variety Of
the old mammoth wheat grown SO ex-
tensively.n 1870, 1871 and 1872. The
owner Of the new wheat claims that it