The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-11
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

The band convention in La Crosse
letted $500 for the Deutscher Verein.
The Jefferson Wool Factory has
received $4,000 pounds of wool this sea-
,on.
The canker-worm is committing raw
ages among the apple trees OF Walworth
county:
-Wonewoc, Juneau county, by vote
Of SO to 4, has decided to incorporate as
a village.
The State prison has 364 inmates,
the largest number ever confined in that
institution.
Thomas Rose, German living at
Princeton, has been arrested for running
an illicit still.
-Traynor, the defaulting Treasurer
Of Dodge county, has secured bail. He
is held for trial in the sum of $4,000.
The cheese manufacturers of Jeffer-
son county have organized Board of
Trade, which represents fourteen facto-
ries.
"A GAINESVILLE steamer landed at JEFF.
ferson, on Rock island, the other day,
and was taken over Indian Ford dam On
rollers.
Excursions on the Lower Fox are
very popular this year with the people
of the various towns along this beauti-
full stream.
The Lodi valley cheese factory has
sold Of this seasons make, 288 oheeses,
$4,000 pounds, at and Y
cents per pound.
The people of Green Bay will petit
ton the next Legislature for law for
the protection of whitefsh. The fish
ers now cast away all they catch.
The Jail at Sturgeon Bay was set on
fire the other night by one of the occu-
pants, and entirely destroyed. A pris-
oner named John Wood was burned to
death.
Lieut.. Gov. Bingham, who has
been spending some months at Hot
Springs, Ark, for his health, has returned
to his home in Chippewa Falls, compare
lively we'll.
w. @. Coup, late partner in Bar
NUNS show business, and protector of
the New York Aquarium, was formerly
a farmer and resided on a farm near
Delavan, in this State.
R. M. Bostford, young lawyer,
formerly editor of the Madison Demo-
crat, has been appointed clerk to the
commission for supervising the printing
of the Revised Statutes.
"A fine specimen of the northern
black eagle was captured the other day
at Seymour, and has been purchased by
Appleton parties, and made one Of the
of Telulah Park.
"A man named Dickson, of the town
of Lafayette, near Sparta, was arrested
for catching trout with a net. He had
his trial before Justice Royt, of Sparta,
and it cost him 1928 fine and costs.
Edmund Lemieux was drowned in
the East river, at Green Bay, the other
night, while bathing. His body was re-
covered. The Coroner's jury rendered
q verdict of accidental drowning. De-
ceased was aged 10, and painter by
trade.
The steam wagon contest will start
from Green Bay on the 18th, going via
Fond du Lac, Oshkosh, Jefferson, Mil
ton Junction, GAINESVILLE, Beloit, Evans
vile, to Madison, where the award of
$40, 900 will be made if any of the half
dozen competing machines prove sue
cess.
. z@ Mrs. Belinda Adams, of Boice,
committed suicide last week by cutting
her throat with a razor. She was SO
years of age, the mother of several chill
lren, and an old and much respected
resident. The cause was temporary
alteration of mind, the result of chronic
The train from Milwaukee to APP
pleton was ditched few days ago, fatal
y injuring the engineer, James Davis,
formerly of GAINESVILLE, and severely
wounding the fireman, al Cate, of Osh-
zosh. The spikes evidently had been
pulled from the rails by some fends,
whose intention it was to demolish the
whole train. The mail car, baggage
,ar, tender, and engine we're smashed
% atoms.
The county is doing an immens bust