The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-11-15
WISCONSIN ITEMS.
Green Bay has /, 500 voters.

Green Bay has ], 900 voters.
| Hunters shoot many ducks at Lake
Mills.
Ten inches Of snow at Madison the
other night.
-Sheboygan has beet that weighs
over fifteen pounds.
The gas-works in Appleton are now
in successful operation.
shawanO county this year produces
25O, 900 bushels of wheat.
= Tobacco, sugar cane and peanuts
are grown in Wisconsin soil.
The corn crop in Winnebago county
IS excellent, and nearly all harvested.
Andrew Mason, of Oshkosh died
lately OF Deadwood, in the Black Hills.
Oshkosh lumbermen are making ex-
tensive preparations for logging the
coming winter.
The catalogue of the University of
Wisconsin for 1877-78 contains the names
Of 388 students.
Hugh Stevenson, a leading Osh-
kosh lumberman and inventor. has gone
into bankruptcy.
-Leonidas Richardson. of the town
OF Wyoming, was lately crushed by
falling building.
The late rains are bringing down
the logs in the Wisconsin and Wolf
river lumber regions.
"A firm at Marinette have shipped
275, 600 cedar posts and about Il, 600
cords of tan-bark this season.
Barron county is receiving a large
number of new settlers this fall: nearly
all come well provided with farm stock
The narrow-gauge railway has been
sued by the village of Mayville. on what
the people of that place allege is viola
ton of contract.
-Lumbermen who take tobacco to
lumber camps to sell their employees
have to take out United States license
or suffer the consequences.
The bark Constitution is ashore at
Little Sturgeon, and nearly q total
wreck. She is loaded with $500 barrels
Of coal oil. The beach is rocky.
The St. Croix Lumber Company re-
Gently received an order for 100 cars of
lumber on Government contract. to be
shipped to the new Spotted Tail Agency.
"A "shover Of the queer was ar
rested at GAINESVILLE, recently. He had
succeeded in passing So or $40 worth of
a well-executed silver-plated half-dollar
when detected.
"A Milwaukee boy named John Dore
fell under train of the st. Paul road
and had one leg cut off below the knee.
Dore had attempted to board the cars
while they were in motion.
"A GAINESVILLE cat got into register
IN church Sunday, and after the fires got
well under way there was music by
| singed cat, sure. One of the brethren
extricated the impromptu choir after
much trouble. ..-.
"A veteran of the National Home. at
Milwaukee, Sidney Roberts by name.
who served in the Sixty-fourth Illinois
Regiment during the war, was run over
and killed by train of the st. Paul
road, the other day.
The wife of William Van Voorhees,.
who had been deserted with three chill
dren by her husband, killed her off
spring, took poison herself, and then set
the house on fire burning the bodies.
See lived at Wilton, Monroe county.
The Oconto Circuit Court was ocou-
pied nearly all last week with the case Of
the State Of Wisconsin against Ferdi-
nand j. Frankhart, charged with the
murder of Charles Don Levy, in the city
of Oconto, on the Sd day Of August. The
| jury acquitted Frankhart
The Latin & Rand powder-min, at
Plattsville, was blown up the other day.
The building was badly wrecked and the
machinery damaged, but no lives were
lost. The operator was injured, butnot
seriously. Loss, $4,000. This is the
second explosion that has occurred at
these mills during the year.
The teams have been taken off the
work on the Sturgeon Bay canal for the
winter, and the men will probably be
discontinued shortly. The dredges will
be kept at work as long as the weather
will permit, and before the weather