The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-09-20
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

-Madison's personal property foots
up 81, 1897, 100.
Plymouth authorities have ordered
property-owners to destroy all noxious
weeds.
The Willow River Mills, in Hudson,
have been sold for $50, 900 to Comstock.
Clarke & Go.
The display of live stock at the State
Fair is reported the best ever witnessed
in the State.
During a recent thunderstorm, G..
@. Keech, of Marcellon, lost a horse and
barn by lightning.
The Wisconsin Merino-Sheep Breed
ers' Association met at the Court House
in GAINESVILLE last week.
Fire damaged the Fueldener estate
planing-mill at Milwaukee SO, 900 worth.
It is thought to have been incendiary.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth
comes out strong against appropriating
money to buy jack-kniyes for Legisla-
tors.
The annual meeting of the State
Firemen's Association and Life Insur-
ance Company was held at Green Bay
last week.
Some of the lumbemen have paid
$4OO for the privilege of using thewater
in the dams at mills on the Little Wolf
to start their RATS.
An oil lamp exploded in the resi-
dence of Joseph Lesage, Green Bay, last
week, and the house was burned to the
ground. Loss, 81, 800.
Wilbur F. Paine, a farmer of the
town of Fitchburg, aged 81 years, while
building a shed, dropped dead, from
hemorrhage of the lungs.
Olive P. Quincy, only daughter of
the celebrated Indian chief, John w.
Quincy, died Monday, the 9th ult,
aged SO years, at Stockton.
"A young man at Prescott had his
nose shot off, one eye put out, and sus-
tanned other injuries lately at night, by
the discharge of a spring gun that had
been set in q melon patch.
"A gentleman from a down-river town
reports that the banks are lined with
sliffs without owners, stolen probably by
tramps who deserted them and moved
inlandward. La Crosse Republican.
-Walther & Wiseman's stables, at
Waterloo, were burned recently, fred
by an incendiary. The man was seen to
run from the place. The prompt work
of the Fire Department saved the city
from large fire.
"A fire broke out few nights since
in the west end of Oconto, in the large
hotel owned by Mrs. Early. The en-
gines we're promptly on hand, but the
building was totally consumed. Loss,
$4,000; insured for $500.
Door and Kewaunee counties have
been formed into mission district Of
the Episcopal Church by Bishop Brown.
The mission church is to be located at
Ahnapee, at cost Of from $1,000 to
$4,000. Already both the land and a
good amount Of building material have
been donated.
One day last week the engineer of the
passenger train going north on the Wis
consin Central railroad, four miles north
of Chiffon, discovered the body Of a
man, whose head lay on one side of the
rail and his body on the other. The re-
mains were recognized as those of
Welch, civilized Stockbridge Indian,
about 40 years old, who leaves a wife
and eight or ten children.
-Ex-Ald. DR.. Charles A. Orion, ar
rested in Milwaukee year ago for man
ufacturing and uttering counterfeit coin,
mOlds and batteries being found III his
office, who jumped his bail, was taken
back by United States Marshal Fink
last week. He was arrested at Fort
Wayne, where he was practicing his
profession under the name of DR.. Cham
bers. He is now in Jail to await trial.
AS the State election is soon to be
decided, the following table, giving the
vote for Governor of Wisconsin from the
election of the first Governor, in 1848, to
that of Governor in 1875 will be Of in
terest:
1848. Ferguson, D........45,4 56
Dewey, D..........19,875
Tweedy, Wing IA, 62l HarYey's maj -. 1921
- 1868.
Deweys mai ..... 5,254 Lewis, R........., .72,71T
1849. Palmer, D.. 49,053
Dewey, D..........16,7 Oll
Collins, Wing IL BIT Lewis maj ,664
Dewey's maj 1894 Fairchid, SO, 232
1851 Hobart, D. ........ .48,330