The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-06-27
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

line GAINESVILLE shoe factory is run
ming with full force.
-Manitowoe county claims to have
the best barns in the State.
Several barrels of salt washed ashore
recently near North point.
Black River Falls will excursionize
to Devils lake on the Fourth of July.
There are 1852 prisoners at Waupun.
larger number than ever before con-
fined there.
AT a meeting of the Eau Claire
county Agricultural Society it was de-
cided to hold county fair at Eau Claire
this year. Date not yet determined.
Baxter Randall, a prominent far
mer, living ten miles north of Water
town, was shot in the neck by burglar
the other night. He will recover. The
thief escaped.
About $50 prominent citizens OF
Milwaukee, members of the Merchants
Association, and their guests, left that
city recently on an excursion to Mime
sofa and Iowa.
A little son of Carl Kuhn, of Au-
gusta, was poisoned by eating a flower
commonly known as the "yellow war
rior," or "painted cup" By prompt
medical attention his life was saved.
Senator Angus Cameron has intro
duced a bill appropriating $65, 900 to
erect a new postofice building at La
Crosse. The city will furnish the site
if the Government will put up the build.
ing.
The Dane county Board of Super
visors have appropriated Sd, 900 for the
benefit of the tornado sufferers in that
county. The money will be expended
by the County Superintendent of the
Poor.
Winnie Ream was born in Madison.
and her mother says that the child
looked so much like an Indian baby at
first that her parents were ashamed to
exhibit the little one in the neighbor-
hood.
"A pedestrian named Smith, at Ber-
lin, attempted to walk 10 miles in
twenty-four hours last week, but failed.
At the eighty-eighth mile he gave up
the race, his legs refusing to propel him
any further.
W. E. Spencer, who has been
chosen Chief Clerk of the United States
Senate, is resident of Madison, and
has long been known as one of the most
efficient of the Senate clerks. His pro-
motion is well deserved.
Order received by rustic Wiscon-
sin dentist, which says: "My mouth
is three inches across, five-eighthH inches
through the jaw. Sum humoky on the
edge. Shaped like hoss-shew, toe for
rard. If you want me to be more par
tikler I shall have to cum thar
The annual meeting OF Walworth
county old settlers was held at Delavan
few days ago. A pleasant day and
good roads conspired to make it grand
success, and about 1900 of the old
settlers of the county, including very
many of the prominent citizens, were in
attendance.
"A company of gentlemen from
Pennsylvania have lately been examin-
ing the oil regions few miles northeast
of Animation, in Grant county, with a
view of boring for oil. The "indica-
tons" are so favorable that they have
decided to put in the necessary ma
chinery at once.
The young men of Omro are seri-
ously contemplating raid on Oshkosh
to recover a cannon lent several years
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the second city. In 1871 the cannon
was taken to Oshkosh and nothing has
been heard of it since. Every year the
men of Omro growl over the lost instru-
ment of war, and now intend to capture
the article for the coming Fourth.
La Crosse was made wild the other
evening by a party of Winnebago In
dams, headed by their chief, Little Da-
Ko-Ree, who paraded some of the
streets, hooting and yelling hideously,
and followed by an army of children.
After marching around for some time,
the Indians went to the Armory Hall,
where an exhibition war and wedding
dance was given. The father of Da-
Ko-Ree was the chief who captured
Black Hawk.
The stage-driver arriving Chippe-