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

There are 557 patients in the North
ern Hospital for the Insane.
"A little Fort Howard girl examined
a razor. Three fingers gone.
Farmers in the vicinity of Hart
ford are in need of harvest hands.
Joseph A. Johnson was drowned in
Black river while logging a few days
ago.
The recent freshet in Wisconsin
brought down $4,000, 900 feet of logs to
the Eau Claire booms.
There is more of a demand than sup
ply for harvest hands. And yet we hear
of tramps who can't get work.
The Wisconsin Society of Science,
Arts and Letters convened in annual
session at College Hall, Milwaukee, last
week.
Joseph Collin, of Benton, Lafayette
county, was drowned while swimming
with friend in East park, near Cuba
city. Collin was Is years old.
The Methodist camp meeting for La
Crosse district will be held at Brush
Hollow, seven miles northeast of Viro-
qua, commencing Aug. %.
Mr.. A. Darwood, of Neosho, Dodge
county, commenced harvesting winter
wheat July 9, which is the earliest cut
ting on record in thai section.
Howe and Cameron, the present
Senators, and J. R. Doolittle and Matt
FL. Carpenter are the only survivors of
the twelve men who have represented
Wisconsin in the United States Senate.
The Tomah Journal says "Wil:e
Bigelow caught pickerel with his
hands, on the flats on the farm of J. Ell.
Medd, yesterday morning, that meas
ured trife over three feet in length
and weighed thirteen pounds and one
ounce"
The State Board of Charities and
Corrections have been in session several
days, and have adopted plan for a
branch insane asylum in Milwaukee
county, the site to be in the, town of
Wauwatosa, and to cost, when complete,
about 100000.
j. Ell. Ward, Of Beaver Dam, died
recently from the effects of paralysis,
superinduced by heat on the 10Th. The
deceased was one of the first settlers of
Wisconsin, coming to Milwaukee in
in 1886, and to Beaver Dam in 1916.
He was well known throughout the
Northwest for many years as a hotel
man. He was Postmaster under Pierce,
and was Justice of the Peace at the time
of his death. His age was Sc years.
The wife of Ole Anderson, farmer
living about fifteen miles east of La
Crosse, was Instantly killed the other day.
The unfortunate woman was standing in
sronG of reaper. The horses became
frightened and ran away. She was
knocked down in front of the sickle,
which was in rapid motion. When the
horses were stopped, Mrs. Anderson
was already dead.
The following card has been issued
by the Fish Commissioners --..
The Fish Commission of the State of Wis
consin, having planted in our inland waters
several millions of the different varieties of
foolish, especially ask that parties interested
in fish culture give us early information re-
speeding their temperance in the different To-
calities where planted. We want this infor-
nation in reliable form for publication in our
annual report to the Legislature. Whenever
these fish have been caught Or seen, all the
particulars connected Herewith will be thank
fully received. Address, at Madison or Oshkosh,
the President or Secretary of the commission.
VIM. WEIGH, Madison, PRESIDENT.
MOSES HOOPER, Oshkosh, Secretary.
The Steam Wagon-Road Commits
sioners have made their report to Gov.
Smith. After giving history Of the
trip of the "Oshkosh " from Green Bay
to Madison, making trip of POI miles, at
an average of six miles an hour, at times
passing over grades 1,400 feet to the
mile, they come to the following conclu-
sions: The wagon has hauled loads,
plowed and otherwise accomplished in
successful manner every test mentioned
in the law or suggested by the commits
sion. They are not, however, satisfied
that this machine is, in the language and
spirit of the law, cheap and practical
substitute for the use of horses and other
animals on the highways and farms. AS