The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-04-11
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

mandatory.
Eggs sold at West Bend, the othe
day, for $1.92 per bushel.
One firm in Green Bay received fiv,
tons of fresh fish in one day.
Immigrants from the Eastern State,
are coming into Brown county.
Appleton is going to own the big.
gest paper-mill in the Northwest.
Spring creek, near Lodi, has been
stocked with 10000 California salmon.
| AT Montpelier, forty-ive out of six
ty school-children are sick with the
measles.
Martin Melville has been nomi-
mated by the President Postmaster of
DeIavan.
Two dealers in fish in Ashland lost
three tons of fresh fish lately, by the
warm weather.
A French woman in GAINESVILLE is
about to attempt to walk 100 miles in
twenty-six hours.
Plymouth, Sheboygan county, is
doing a very large business this spring
IN cheese-faetory outfits.
The West Wisconsin Railway Com
pany will soon lay sixty-fve miles more
of the road with steel rails.
The Odd Fellows of GAINESVILLE will
go to Whitewater April 26, to celebrate
the anniversary of the order.
"A lumber firm in Oconto is credited
with manufacturing the finest grade of
deals which reach Great Britain.
"A dissolute fellow, named Tom
Mills, was lately drowned while cross
ing the river at New London in ferry
boat.
R. W. Rumrill & Son, of Fulton,
Rock county, packed 1900 pounds of
tobacco, last week, the product of 81
acres.
Invitations will be extended to Mil
waukee, Chicago and st. Paul aquatic
clubs to unite in the contest at Madison
in June.
The freight earnings of the Green
Bay and Minnesota railroad are $1,000
per day, and the monthly payroll
to $4,000.
Eau Claire has been sued for 3d.
600 by man named Gormley, whose
horses were killed by bad streets, and
who sustained injuries.
Thomas FL. Bramhall, Milwaukee
grocer, committed suicide the other day
by taking two ounces of laudanum. An
incurable disease had affected his mind.
"A great many of the hop-growers CT
Wisconsin are blowing up their hops
from conscientious scruples. IF hops
were 80 or 40 cents pound how would
it be2
"A fire broke out the other night in
the Georgia House, at New Lisbon, and
it and five adjacent buildings were
burned. Loss $4,000; insured for 49,
900.
The Madison boat and yacht clubs
will have rowing and sailing regatta,
on Third lake, in June, during the
meeting of the extra session of the
Legislature.
Nearly 100 men are employed cut
ting channel between Black river,
above La Crosse, and what is called
Onalaska lake, through which to float
out the logs which are in the latter
place.
The large three-story brick school
house, at Lodi, in Columbia county,
valued at $40, 1000, was totally destroyed
by fire one day last week. The fire is
supposed to have caught from chin
ney. Insured for $500.
The first raft of the season of 1878
passed down the Mississippi river, by
the city of Lacrosse, on Thursday of
last week. It came out of Black river,
and is the earliest navigation Of raft
on record in that region.
The officers and Board of Trustees
Of the State Insane Hospital at Madison
having been invited by the managers of
the North Wisconsin Insane Hospital at
Oshkosh to pay visit of inspection to
the latter institution, the invitation has
been accepted.
Business men on Change at Mil
waukee, the other day, resolved to OBJ
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