The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-02-07
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

The Wisconsin poultry show was
held all last week in Milwaukee.
-Fifteen-pound fishes are being
caught in Spring lake, near Palmyra.
Petitions for Local Option Liquor
License law are being circulated through
out the State.
Woodward & Stones bakery, at
Watertown, burned out, the other day,
with loss of S., 1000.
DR.. Judd and Judge Conger, of
GAINESVILLE, will make tour of America
during the spring and summer.
Thirteen moose were seen last week
on the line of the Wisconsin Central
railroad, near Butternut station,
The students of the Milton College
are organizing stock company for the
purpose of publishing college paper.
jackson county is to have new 800
600 Court House and $4,000 Jail, pro-
vided the money, or portion thereof,
can be borrowed from the State.
The Board of Supervisors of Winnie
bago county investigated the Superin-
tendent of the Poor Farm, Mr.. Smith,
and found his accounts $3.50 short
The thief who robbed the bank at
Menomonee, short time ago, has been
captured at Pensaukee. A farmer named
Martin concealed him in his house at the
rate Of $40 week.
Joseph Schaefer, prominent citi-
zen Of Columbus, formerly Register of
Deeds of Columbia county, suicided re-
Gently by shooting. Deceased was COM
paratively wealthy, but had fits of
dependency, during one of which he
committed the deed. He leaves wife
and seven children.
The directors of the Chippewa and
Red Cedar railroad have received a
proposition from English capitalists to
build and stock the road the coming
summer, provided the counties of Eau
Claire, Dunn and Pepin subscribe
$500, 000in bonds. There is great proba-
bility that this will be done and the road
built.
Railroad corporations in this
State, according to the annual re-
port of the Railroad Commissioner.
number sixteen. Eight OF these roads
are wholly within the State, the others
passing into or out of other States.
Fifteen of these roads present reports,
and represent total length Of 4, 995. 26
miles, of which 2,559.06 are within the
confines of the State. These roads rep
resent an aggregate capital of $1OO, OOO,-
900. The total aggregate earnings for
the year ending Sept. 80, 1877, were ::
Whole line, $21, $3.50, 427 in Wisconsin,
$50, 159, 535. The statistics, so far as re-
ceived, indicate a decided falling off in
freight and passenger traffic for the year
largely attrihuts BILE to the riots-and
more meager profits for the companies
than they usually obtain.
"A meeting of gentlemen, represent
ing the various militia organizations in
Wisconsin, was held at Madison last
week, and largely attended, the object
being to secure more efficient organ
ization of the military interests of the
State by proper Legislation. Gen. E. S.
Bryant presided, with Col. E. A. Calkins
Secretary. A committee was appointed
to draft an address to the Legislature
and bill for presentation, including the
views of the convention. The plan pro-
posed is for twenty-four companies of
infantry, to be formed in two regiments,
with two independent companies of cav
airy and one battery of artillery, the
State to furnish money allowance for
uniforms, dnll-rooms Or armories, and
to pay each man the expense of battalion
encampments at $1.5 a day for five days
in each year.
The five lawyers appointed by ex-Gov.
Ludington, Of this State, under a reso-
luton of the last Legislature, to prepare
a plan for redistricting the State for
judicial purposes, equalizing the labors
of the Judges, and determining their
salaries, have finished their work and
made their report to the present Legis-
lature. It recommends an amendment
to the constitution removing from Office,
on June 81, 1880, all Circuit Judges Of
the State; also authorizing the Legisla-
ture to red1strict the State into ten judi
cial circuits, and providing an election of
Judges in such changed circuits at the
spring election in the year 1880. They
! also recommend tbat +b. oo1a7ios Of Tho