The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-08-16
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

Madison begins to talk about water
works.
The insane asylum at Oshkosh is
crowded
The Wisconsin harvestyield exceeds
expectations.
There are twelve cheese factories IN
Columbia county
Lumber RATS are hung up all along
the Chippewa river.
Ernst Klink, a Hudson horse-thief,
has been captured.
They ship lumber direct to Boston
from Winneconne.
Edward o. Brown, of Stevens Point,
has been appointed to West Point.
Fred Kuntz was drowned last week
while bathing in the Kinnickinick, near
Milwaukee.
The Eau Claire Free Press reports
the boating business on the Chippewa
remarkably dull.
"A new artesian well has been sunk
at Appleton Water was struck at
depth of eighty feet.
Work has been commenced on the
new iron bridge across the Wisconsin
river at Stevens Point.
George Choate, son of Leander
Choate, of Oshkosh, was drowned at
Monistique, last week.
- Gov. Ludington is announced to
deliver an address at the State Fair TO be
held at GAINESVILLE in September.
-Breuchle Bros. tannery at Green
Bay, was destroyed by fire, last week.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Henry Beekerly, farmer at Cold
Springs, hung himself last week. Cause,
discouraged by sickness.
Hiram Stewart, son of James
Stewart, of Oconomowoc, returned home
last week, after an absence of seven
years.
The pine timber on hundreds Of
sections Of land in Barron county has
been blown down by this seasons tor
nadoes.
Several pieces Of pure copper, rang
ing in weight from two to six pounds,
have lately been found in Lincoln
county.
Bertha Wallin, 70 years old, living
in the town of Milford, in trying to start
a fire with kerosene, was most horribly
burned.
Joseph Hickey, an orphan boy
years old, at play at st. Joseph's con
vent, in GAINESVILLE, fell into a cistern
and was drowned, last week.
Wisconsin's Republican State Con-
vention is called to meet at Madison,
Sept. II, and the Democratic State Con-
vention at Fond du Lac, Sept. 26.
Arrangements are being made to
have a race at Oshkosh during Septem-
Der. Smuggler, Mazomanie and Mann
brine Gift have been engaged to trot.
The sea-lion in Lake Winnebago
has turned up again. A party of Fond
du Lac yachtists caught sight of the
animal, and offer afidavits on the iden
tity.
Dewitt G. Thompson was instantly
killed the other day atthe Bending works,
Milwaukee, by the fall Of pulley
hanger, it striking his head and crushing
the skull.
The failure Of A. B. Meeker & Co.,
of Chicago, produced bad results in
many places. At Depere the National
Iron Company has suspended. Mr..
1eeker was its President.
News from every quarter, relative to
the great regatta, to be held in Madison,
Aug, 22d, 23d and oath, is encouraging,
and all prospects point to overwhelming
crowds and brilliant contest.
The train on which were Earl Duff
FERN and his wife came near being
wrecked near Rudd's mills, Monroe
county. A bar Of iron had been placed
across the track. A woman discovered
it and tagged the train
"A gunsmith named E. Glea, while
going home, near the outskirts of Water
town, was knocked down and robbed of
$40 by a tramp. Twenty-Five dollars in
an inner pocket escaped the highway
mans notice. The thief escaped.
Joseph Gilbert, a brakeman in the
employ Of the Northwestern railway,
while engaged in switching cars at Ona-
Iaslza recently. was run over by an east