The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-16
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

~ $1,000 y ROA ONhOs
taxes.
GAINESVILLE has 1858 public-achool
scholars.
Logging bees are still common in
Pierce county.
Eggs are selling for cents dozen
| in most Wisconsin towns.
Young pigs are SO plenty in Ell Paso
that they sell for 25 cents apiece.
There was a jam OF logs near Green
wood, Clark county, last week, ten miles
long.
-Exilda Lachapelle has been aston
fishing the GAINESVILLE folks by walking
100 miles in twenty-six hours.
The First National Bank of James
vile has declareda semi annual dividend
of 7 per cent on their capital stock.
Monticello is to have huge lottery
on the Fourth of July. The Opera Hall,
and numerous money prizes, will be
rafned.
DIR. w. Sem, of Milwaukee, has
been elected President of the Wisconsin
State Medical Society, recently in ses-
sion there.
Mckenzie & TayIor's large Touring
mill, two miles north of Sparta, was to-
tally destroyed by fire the other day.
Estimated loss, $4,000.
Mrs. Viola, wife of a Bohemian
shoemaker in Kewaunee, recently fell
down stairs, striking her head on fiat
iron, which crushed her skull, killing
her instantly.
An ovarian tumor weighing forty
eight pounds was taken from the alb
domen of Mrs. Dame, at Baraboo, the
other day, by four doctors. She died
shortly afterward.
Hon. Charles G.. Williams, member
of Congress from this State, has accept
ed an invitation to deliver the grafton on
Decoration day at Arlington Heights,
near Washington.
"A hunter tried to palm off seven fox
scalps for wolf scalps on the Clerk Of
the Court of Juneau county, the other
day, but the clerk knew better, and
would not pay the bounty.
The Wisconsin State Sheep Breed
ers' and Wool Growers Association did
not hold it's annual fair and shearing on
account of rain. The association vii
meet at Whitewater, August s.
A boy at Berlin owns a Shetland
pony, which has given birth to a colt
that weighs only ten pounds. It is
said to be the smallest piece of horse
flesh in the country, and little
beauty.
"A fire recently broke out in Mar
shall & Co. s large organ factory at Mil
waukee. The building and contents
were totally destroyed. Several large
organs were on hand awaiting shipment.
Loss, $25, 900 to $4,000.
The new Board of Trustees for the
Wisconsin State Institution for the Edu-
cation of the Blind met at GAINESVILLE a
few days since and elected the Hon. B.
r. Hinckley as President, FL. S. Hogo-
boom Secretary, and Cyrus Winer Treas
urer.
1t cannot be repeated too often that,
under the law of 1873, every piece Of
property must go on the assessment roll
at it's full value, or the assessment will
be void. And the Assessor who fails to
discharge his known duty is amenable
for perjury.
The stores of A. Crone, and Fl. KEEL
lerman, the County Treasurer's office,
and the residence of E. G. Lewis, at
Juneau, were entirely destroyed by fire
the other day. The loss will be about
$4,000. Insurance, $4,000. This is
the second time within the year that the
County Treasurer's Office has been
burned. INA
1T is now probable that the extra
session Of the Legislature will begin
early in June. The session will have
for it's object the acceptance and confirm
alton of the new revision of the statutes
The Revision Committee, appointed at
the last session of the Legislature, will
complete it's labors, it is thought, by the
last of the present week. -
Andrew J. Kellogg, of Detroit, was
in Milwaukee last week agitating the
necessity of memorials to Congress re-
questing that laws for the preservation
of the whitefsh in the great lakes be
Immediately enacted. An effort will be
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