The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-06-20
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

-flslGors are arriving daily at Wau-
kesha for the summer.
There are 362 shoemakers at the
Wisconsis penitentiary.
Two boys in Rushford were bitten
by rattlesnakes the other day.
There will be an immense yield of
straw with the grain this year.
-"De cullud church in Oshkosh has
"aone" split itself up in two pieces.
Last week 1000 boxes of cheese
were shipped from Sheboygan to Liver
pool.
-Sheboygan county farmers have
100000 deposited in the Sheboygan
banks.
Palmyra is to indulge in an old
fashioned celebration the coming
Fourth.
George Etherdge, of Argyle, La
fayette county, was drowned in a pond
recently.
Father Marquette discovered the
Mississippi 2O5 years ago. The date is
June, 1878.
The Dodge county Treasurer, Tray
nor, alleged defaulter, not being able to
furnish $50, 900 bail, languishes in jail.
The Black River Falls contested
election case has been decided in favor
of Cheney, the Temperance candidate.
The Appletonians rang their fire.
alarm bell so loud over the burning of
an old shed at hme-kiln that the bell
cracked.
-Old-fashioned logging bees and
"whistle hops are in fashion in Pierce
county. Many new Lighthouses are be-
ing raised.
The Wisconsin State Homeopathic
Medical Society held it's fourteenth an
nual session at Milwaukee last week.
The attendance was good.
"A call is published for District
Convention to be held in Madison, July
4, by the Greenbackers and Labor Re-
formers, to nominate a candidate for
Congress.
"A young man named Frank Foster,
son of one of the best-known citizens of
Appleton, committed suicide recently by
taking laudanun. No cause can be as
certained.
Carl Prange, German resident of
Watertown, aged about 45 years, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself in his
barn. Alteration of mind is assigned
for the rash act.
The Chippewa Falls Herald esti-
mates that $50, 900 bushels of wheat will
be raised in Chippewa county this sea-
son. Last year 20, 900 acres of new land
was prepared for cultivation.
In 1916 the total population of La
Crosse was twelve-seven men and five
females. To-day, period Of thirty
three years, it has grown to beautiful
little city Of some $4,000 people.
Capt. Herman, of the Chippewa
line OF steamers, reports that the Gov
eminent appropriation at the mouth Of
the Chippewa, amounting to $4,000,
has been expended, and the work sus-
pended.
The Sturgeon Bay Eaoositor says
the canal will not be cut to sufficient
depth On the Fourth of July to allow the
water of the lake and bay to mingle.
The date of opening will be considerably
later.
The boiler IN Ferguson Bros. saw
mill, at Colby, blew up the other day,
carrying away most of the building.
Some pieces of the boiler were thrown
nearly half a mile from the spot. Fort
unately no one was seriously injured.
The steamer Dell Queen caught fire
at her landing at Kllbourn City, and IN
short time was burned to the waters
edge. The machinery was saved in a
damaged condition. The loss is about
$1,000; no insurance. The fire was
probably of incendiary origin.
As an evidence of the prolifcness
of bees, Mr.. Daniel Thurston, of Trim
belle, states that he had three swarms
from one hive within eight days, and
within thirteen days fourth swarm
came from the same hive. They were
the common black bee.-RjVer Falls
Press.
AT the recent session Of the Grand
Lodge of Masons, the project of build
ing temple was tabled, and the work
of the Grand Lecturer largely reduced.
q F. Collins was elected Master: w. @.