The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-01
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

| Madison has been made a signal
service station.
-Whsat has begun to crinkle badly
in some places.
The average assessment per acre of
Outaganie county farm lands is about
$25.
An unknown but fatal disease is COM
uniting ravages among the cattle in
Winnebago county.
-Tilbel & Egleff, grocers of Fort At
kinson, failed lately. Liabilities,
So, 500; assets, 81, 800.
The trustees sale of the Union Lum-
Der Company's property at Chippewa
Falls has been postponed to Aug. 16.
The immense bog, which has for so
long blocked the entrance to the lower
part of Fox lake, has broken loose and
| foated off, much to the satisfaction of
boatmen.
| john Kidric, an old citizen of Black
River Falls, was cut Thursday evening
in the upper part Of one of his thighs.
It was done with cradle scythe in the
hands of another man.
The body of Albert Peeler, who
left GAINESVILLE as driver with Burr
Robbins show, and was killed by the
overturning of his wagon, was taken
back to that city and buried.
John Powell has cut eight acres of
winter wheat which experienced judges
say will yield forty bushels to the acre.
Our land is this year fat with good
things. -Baraboo Republic.
-Matronly housewives have appre-
ciated the luxury Of having cheese fac
tories in their midst during the torrid
weather of the past two weeks. Butter
making has been an impossibility.
The following shows the total acre
age of wheat, oats, corn, barley, rye,
hops and tobacco in Rock county for
the three last years, showing steady
increase: 1876, 19O,337; 1877, 191, 1876;
1878, 192,34O
Belinda W. Mack, wife of George
Mack, whose brutal murder has been the
chief topic of interest at Beloit, has
been committed to the county Jail to
await trial at the Circuit Court. Frank
Dickerson, Mack's hired man, also went
to jail, having waived examination.
The equalized assessment of taxa
BILE property in Wisconsin, this year, in
Guiding all kinds, is $413, 102,976. OF
this, the farming lands are set down at
$3.50, pa, 9O3; horses, 1913, 500, 400; neat
cattle $12,273, 1888; mules and asses,
1920, 800; sheep and lambs, 81, $50, 637;
swine, 81, 572,478. The sum of IS, 1885,
O85 is given as the value of wagons, car
riages and sleighs.
A couple of sharp old women played
it upon the upper-crust ladies of Fond
du Lac last week by selling them COM
mon lace, bought at the city stores for
rs or 80 cents per yard, for So to So per
yard upon the claim that they had made
it in Canada, and finding sales slow
there had come over here, evading the
custom-houses, for the purpose of dis
posing of their wares.
Says the Fond du Lac Common
aOealth: GA fight between hen and
two robins on Fourth street recalls an
interesting fight between the boy who
sweeps Laughlin & Casey's store and a
dozen martins, few days since. The
birds perched above on the cornice,
were angry at his motions with broom
while sweeping the walk, and one after
another, with fierce squalls, few at his
head for some minutes. The boy struck
at them with his broom and hat, which
on y increased the anger OF the plucky
little fellows. A large crowd gathered
to watch the strange BATTLE"
There is man up in Wisconsin who
seems to be getting rich because he is
funny. His name is George W. Peck,
and the W. stands for Washington. He
is editor of Pecks Sun, and his business
of joke-making is SO remunerative that
last week, one hot day, he chartered g
steamboat and took all the Milwaukee
newsboys down to Racine for days fur
and frolic. A good many rich men in
Milwaukee never thought of making 6
lot of poor boys happy in that way, and
are too mean and stingy to do it if they
had thought Of it. We shall read the
Suns humorous items in the future with
an increased relish. = Chicago Tribune
The July quarterly meeting OF the
Board of Trustees Of the State Hospital