The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-15
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

| 'SOVNS1N 1IEMSs
Polk county farmers comn1o;n 90
smutty wheat.
They have an Angel at Sparta. He's
IN Jail for stealing a set of harness.
Reports from the Burnett county
cranberry marshes are very encouraoino
this year.
st. Croix county farmers offer from
S3 to s. per day for harvest hands and
can't get them.
Mrs. Belinda Mack, the Beloit mur-
deress, was Palmyra girl, some twenty
i've years since, named Belinda Gates
daughter OF Ambrose Gates.
-Ex-Postmaster Chase's residence at
Eau Claire, and contents, with the ex-
ceptlon of small armfuI of clothinp
grabbed in fight, were burned to the
ground from an exploded lamp.
"A Wisconsin man has secured 6. $40
names to petition for State law to
prevent any Wisconsin female who has
taught school for three years from mar
rylng any resident of this State.
-Sportsmen are warned against shoot
ing prairie chickens in this State until
the 25th of August. The law which
permitted the shooting of chickens on
the 10Th of August was amended last
winter as above, and a penalty of $40
for each bird killed before the time men
toned added to the law.
Bids for doing the State printing
for two years were opened at the Capi-
tol, as follows: Democrat Company.
Madison, 49, per cent. off maximum
rates; David Atwood, Madison, IS per
cent. Off; Ed. Keogh, Milwaukee, 551
per cent. off; E. B. Bolens, Madison. IS
per cent. off; J. Cantwell, Madison, 331
per cent. off. Atwood, of the State
Journal, was awarded the contract
The "Orchard farm of 668 acres.
the property of Fl. P. Hall, situated in
the town of Burk, Dane county, two and
half miles from Madison, was lately
sold at auction, being bid off byJ. G.
Gregory, of the latter place, for himself
and Messrs. M. E. Fuller, J. W. Hud-
son and Timothy Brown, the purchase
price being $50 per acre, or 500, O4O for
The whole.
The following communication, is
sued from the Executive Department
to each member OF the Governors staff.
explains itself:
STATE OF WISCONSIN,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
MADISON, Wis, Aug. 5.
Colonel: The Governor directs me to inform
you that he has received an invitation for him.
self and staff to attend field reunion of the
veteran soldiers of the counties of Dunn.
Pepin and Buffalo, to be held at Durand on
he 4th, 9Th and 9Th of September, and has
agniied his intention to be present on that oc-
'aslon. Should the staff, or any member
hereof, fnditconvenient to accompany or meet
1im there, he will be much gratiied, and will
esteem it q favor to hear from each one. at an
Early day, as to the probabilities of attendance.
Respectfully, your obedient servant,
The jury in the case of Russell
for the murder of Theo-
lore Renderer, at Milwaukee. re-
turned verict Of manslaughter
n the fourth degree. It had
oeen expected that verdict of not guilty
would be entered. On the first ballot
Tx were for conviction of murder, and it
s supposed that the verdict ultimately
'eached was the result of compromise.
\ motion for new trial was immedi-
stely made by counsel for defense, and
viii probably be granted. Wheeler de-
'lares that the stigma shall not rest
lpon his family. Under the statutes of
his State, manslaughter in The fourth
legree is punished by Imprisonment for
wo years, or in the county jail not ex-
seeding one year, or by fine not exceed
ng 81 900, or by both fine and impris-
,nment
Railway Punishments and Rewards.