The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-05-09
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

Madison policemen pass time fish
ing for pike.
The log-drive on the northern rivers
is progressing favorably.
The river and harbor appropriation
for Wisconsin this year is $4O9, 900.
The Madison Democrat cries "Let
us have a new clock if we have to get
trusted"
The Madison journal says grain
sowing in Wisconsin is month earlier
than last year.
The saw-mills on the Black river are
all at work again, the last freshet having
brought down logs.
Mr.. J. B. Rolph, of Fort Atkinson,
has had fifteen valuable sheep killed by
dogs within the past few days.
William Simon, a Milwaukee car
penter, was run over by team on
Grove street the other day, and killed.
The residence of D. E. Woodward.
at Hortonville, was destroyed by fire the
other night. Loss, $4,000; rnusured
for 81, 500.
Glover is the best fertilizer and the
best cultivator which the Wisconsin
farmer can use. Pillow it in after cut
ting off the crop.
The State Fish Commissioners have
written Hon. E. G. McFetridge that they
propose to plant 40, 900 lake trout in
Beaver lake, at Beaver dana.
The wagon factory OF Widmann &
Wandschneider, of Fort Atkinson, was
burned to the ground the other night.
Loss, $50, 1000; insured for So, 800
At the meeting of the new Common
Council of GAINESVILLE, the other night,
thirty-two applications for license to
sell liquor were made, and al were
granted.
An infant son Of ". e. Hare, atNew
Lisbon, swallowed small screw. He
became sick, and in two days after, IN s
violent fit of coughing, vozaited, and the
screw was brought up.
William e. Hewitt, Of Milwaukee
has gone into bankruptcy. Liabilities
rom O,OOC to $4,000 The creditors
are mostly Davenport and Atlanta
Gowa) bankers and business, men.
The Loyal Legion, composed of ex-
arnay officers of this Statey were hand
sonaely entertained in Milwaukee, in the
arcade of the Plankinton House the
other evening, by the Wisconsin Com-
nandery Of Knights Templar.
Lieut.. Gov. Bingham, Of. this Sta5eg
who has been confined to his home at
Chippewa Falls by illness since the
first of the year, has sufficiently recov-
cred to be able to take trip to the Hot
Springs Of Arkansas.
| -Adolph Graves, an itinerant book
agent, hung himself at his residence
near Pardeeviue the other day. Hewas
65 years Of age, ard leaves wife and
several children. Family difficulties
are said to have caused the rash act.
The other day, 100000 wall-eyed
pike eggs were shipped from Geneva
Lake to the Kentucky State Fish Com
mission. The eggs were taken in some
, small lakes near there, a4d were trans
| ported in water inclosed IN milk cans.
The rife match between tAe Mil-
waukee and Saratoga az " Clubs,
! each shooting at its own range, and tele-
/ graphing the four highest scores, result
L ed In favorof Saratoga bysixteen points.
: The Milwaukees had one point ahead at
500 yards, and Saratoga seventeen ahead
t at 200 yards.
: Col. S. v. Shipman, architect, of
| Chicago, has been awarded Sc, 800 by the
Circuit Court of Dane. county, in suit
against the State fer services as archi-
Q tect of the Northern Hospital at Osh-
d kosh, contract having been made with
; him, and his services being dispensed
: with before the completion of the build
9 ing. Col. shipman sued for $4,000.
Capt. M. M. samuels, formerly an
old settler of the Upper st, Croix valley,
and recently a broker in New Orleans,
= by the death Of his mother, in England,
|. receives large fortune. Capt. Sam
n uels came to the St Croix valley long
I before white settlers were numerous,
!, and was an Indian trader and lumber
IS dealer. He lived at ST. Croix Falls and
t, Balsam lake.
h "A destructive FIRE at River Falls
= has totally destroyed thirteen business
!. buildings and rendered six families
st homeless. A young man sleeping IN