The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-18
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

OCuiS OoA LAY LUIS mlH0fdl spring.
Medford is to have a large grist
mill.
Lincoln county has 100 inhabit-
ants.
The colored population of James
vile want church.
The Omro cheese factory has com.
menced operations.
Rev. w. r. Manning was burned
out by fire il Oshkosh.
The Oshkosh Yacht Clubs annual
cruise will take place May Is.
La Crosse is importing sparrows
and encouraging their propagation.
The Adventists will hold weeks
session in Madison, beginning May 20.
The annual meeting of the Board of
Charities was held in the Capitol last
week.
AT Green Bay, fisherman captured
1000 pounds of fish with two hauls of
his seine.
Large quantities of ducks are being
shipped from Milton to Chicago and
New York.
"A man at Hudson is advertising for
10000 ties for the Hudson and River
Falls railroad.
Brown county offers for sale
100, 900 acres of land at from $3.50 to
$500 per acre.
Parties who have been looking over
the Menominee iron range are excited
over the prospects. a
An eighty-seven pound sturgeon
was caught in the Wisconsin river at
Sank City last week. 81
--Rarus will trot against time at Mil
waukee, June 6. He will endeavor to
beat the Maio's 2.14. aL ~
Nearly all the wheat is sown in Wis
consin, and the farmers say they never
got it in in better shape. a.aa
"A cousin of the rebel Gen. r. E.
Lee lives in the town of Green Valley.
His name is Elmore E. Lee.
Fred Chapleau, young Oshkosh
base balIst, was knocked senseless late
ly by the bat slipping from striker
hand. @ Ht
Fred Monte, La Crosse fishers
man, caught an eel in the Mississippi
lately which measured three feet in
length. 80 >
Madison has two scandals, one of
which will terminate in a divorce case,
and the other in an action for breach of
promise. 80.
The manufacture of cheese in She
boygan county during 1878 will, it is ex-
pected, exceed that of former years by
at least 26 per cent.
"A grain of pure gold found in the
gizzard of chicken at Shiocton makes
the people of that section believe that
there is gold mine not far off. f.
In the village of Stoughton the wo-
men secured the vote against the issuing
Of licenses. Twenty or thirty of them
staid at the pools all day and worked.
Last week Paul Painter, Of Albion,
took to marketthree hogs, which weighed
TO, $40 and 645 pounds;
also pig ten months old which weighed
40 pounds. 1}a5 -'"@1 L741
A family of eight persons, residing
in Sheboygan, were all afflicted with
scarlet fever, and, when visited by the
nothing to eat could be found
in the house. .a8U 4
Mrs. Hammermuller an old lady of
70 living near Sheboygan Falls, was
feeding pair Of young horses when one
of them kicked her in the stomach, in
ficting injuries from, which she died.
Miss Ida Suchs, a school teacher of
the town of Dunn, Dane county, is
charged with cruelty and numerically
beating one of her pupils, Inger John
son, a little girl Of some 7 years of age.
% In the Circuit Court at Madison, last
week, o lot Of suits brought under the
notorious Potter law were dismissed
from the calendar by Judge Stewart,
thus ending all the suits Of that character
in this circuit. Il
Half a mile of steel rails per day re
place the iron ones on the river division
Of the Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
road. The entire distance is to be SO re-
layed, after which the schedule time is
to- be materially reduced STE es] - +
!. Mrs. J., R. Shepard, Of Depere, was