The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-03-14
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

| line IOggers on the Eau Claire are
coming out of the woods.
The Oshkosh Asylum has cost the
State over 1926, 900.
The steel works in Appleton are now
under full Roadway.
Taxes in Chippewa Falls are pei
cent. of the valuation.
| A license at Columbus to sell liquor
costs from $25 to $3.50.
Gold has been discovered near Cam
Eria, Columbia county.
The soundings in the channel at
Green Bay have been finished.
Salmon are being caught in the Mis-
sissippi below Prairie du Chen.
"A temperance revival has been in
progress in Albion, Buffalo county.
Eleven hundred persons are en-
ployed in the saw mills at La Crosse.
The faculty of Beloit College will
not permit students to attend dancing
school.
The river at La Crosse is now with
in a few inches of the lowest mark last
summer.
About 800 Indians are having big
| pow-WoW at the Bad river reservation.
near Ashland.
The State Horticultural Society will
hold the annual summer meeting at Bar
aboo in June.
-Neenah has water enough for double
the mills and manufactures that are now
in operation.
The Sheboygan and Fond du Lac
railroad is to be extended from Prince
ton to Markesan.
The house of Luther Lehman, of
Lebanon, Dodge county, was burned re-
Gently. Insurance, $500.
Last year Plymouth, Sheboygan
county, was incorporated as city. Now
it wants it's charter repealed.
One hundred hens yielded George
Dennet, of Milton, for nine months of
1877, a net revenue of $1O7.50.
Judge Conger and DR.. S. s. Judd,
of GAINESVILLE, are now on their way to
the West Indies and South America.
The West Wisconsin railroad was
lately purchased at Madison by FL. Fl.
Porter at foreclosure sale for 81, 500, 900.
"A Winneconne special says an incen-
diary fire destroyed property to the
amount of So, 400 one day lately; insur-
ance, 81, $50.
"A man named Richter, Of Highland,
recently fell into a shaft ninety feet deep,
and struck upon the rocky bottom with
out serious injury.
The Town Clerks office of Glencoe,
Buffalo county, was totally destroyed by
fire the other night, incluJing all pa
pers, records, etc.
The Mississippi, at Lacrosse, is
now one inch above low water of 1872,
which is the zero of the gauge in use by
the signal service.
Jacob School, a Lacrosse saloon
keeper, has been seriously burned by
escaping gas from meter which he ap-
preached with light.
james Gassman, formerly of Wey.
auwega, was killed recently by being
thrown from and run over by his wagon
near Plum Greek, Neb.
The family of Mr.. Arnold Wagner
of Sturgeon Bay, was poisoned a few
days ago, and had narrow escape from
death, by eating cheese which had been
made in brass kettle.
1T is reported that Philip Hulburt,
County Clerk of Chippewa county, is g
defaulter to the tune of about $4,000,
and that an extra session of the County
Board has been called to investigate his
accounts.
Judge S. A. White, for the past
seven or eight years prominent and
highly-respected member of the Demo.
cratic Central Committee, and at one
time Assistant State Bank Comptroller
died at his home st Whitewater recently
He was about 81 years of age.
The ice-harvest has been suddenly
stopped on Lake Winnebago, at Osh
kosh. The wind has carried the ice Out
into the lake. The Washington Ice
Company gofin about 5000 tons, the
Eugene Ice Company about 1000 tons
and the Kankakee about 6, 900 tons. The
concerns have all "pulled up"
The sharpshooters of La Crosse
Winona Wahashe Alma and FountaiT