The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-07-18
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

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-Chinch-bugs have made their appear
ance in Waupaca county.
The Nationals have nominated Over
King for Congress in the Third district
Archbishop Henri (Catholic) lately
visited GAINESVILLE and confirmed over 6OC
persons.
Corn and tobacco are the only crops
IN Eastern Wisconsin that do not look
remarkably we'll.
Mr.. Cuddlebach, OF West Bend, has
two COWS that give fifty pounds of milk
each per day.
The Wisconsin Dental Association
met in annual session in the Senate
Chamber at Madison last week.
The fountain in the Capitol Park,
Madison, played on the Fourth for the
first time. 1t is an elegant affair.
A 9-year-old girl in GAINESVILLE has
walked six miles in l hour, minutes
and II seconds, and wants to come out
as professional.
Fred. Schmidt was fatally stabbed
in the left breast by Peter Banasezinsky,
in Milwaukee, a few days ago. The feud
grew out of love affair.
The Sportsmen's Club, of Beaver
Dam, pay reward Of SIS for information
leading to the conviction of any person
for violating the Game laws.
The special committee of the mem
bers Of the Wisconsin Academy of
Science have appointed July "a as the
time to hold the annual meeting.
"A new cheese factory is soon to be
established near Mr.. J. A. Parsons, in
the town of Aurora, meas Berlin. The
milk from $50 COWS has been engaged.
A destructive tornado is reported to
have occurred in Columbia county,
north of the city of Madison. No lives
were lost, but much damage was done.
During a heavy wind-storm, the
roof of the old Court House at juno
ton, Dodge county, was blown off, and
other buildings more or less damaged in
that village.
The Beaver Dam Agricultural, Me-
chanical and Stock Association sold
their grounds, with the buildings there
on, to John S. Rowell, the price paid
being $2,025.
IS. B. Trip, the notorious horse
thief who gave the people of st. Croix
county so much trouble not long ago,
was recently sentenced to term of six
years and ten months in the Minnesota
State prison.
August Root, a single man about
30 years of age, was drowned on the 9Th,
while bathing near North street bridge,
in Milwaukee. The same afternoon a
boy named Francis Rosa was drowned
near the dam.
The pipe connecting the tank in the
top of the Capitol with the well burst
recently, deluging the upper hall with
water, which ran through the floor into
the Historical rooms and damaged a
large number of volumes.
"A girl 10 years old, the daughter of
William Ryan, living two miles north of
Omro, was burned to death the other
evening, while trying to kindle the fire
with carbon oil. The oil took fire and
exploded, bursting the can to pieces.
The Public Library, the gift of the
Young Mems Association to the city OF
Milwaukee, was thrown open to the
citizens recently. There is great de-
mand for books, and the institution
bids fair to become popular with all
classes. ..#
The Iowa State officers were enter
tanned by the Business Mems Committee
of Milwaukee. After a carriage ride
about the city, the party dined at the
Newhall House. Speeches by DR.. Wa
ternan of the party, and J. A. Brown,
of the Chamber of Commerce, and 6
series of complimentary resolutions by
the excursionists, embraced the formal
ties.
"A special from Beloit says -.
tramps took possession of a freight trai1
there the other morning. The train me1
succeeded in putting the train on side
track, and, while the tramps were of
getting breakfast, backed out of the
switch and went through the town at s
high rate of speed. The tramps are or
the way to Minnesota, and much trouble
is anticipated from them.