The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-03-28
WISCONSIN ITEMS,

-Beloit's military company will soon
appear in new uniform.
-Beloit's military company will soon
appear in new uniform.
The track Of the Air Line railroad is
to be relaid with steel rails.
Ten prisoners in the La Crosse coun-
ty jail have donned the blue ribbon.
-Swamps and overdowed lands in
Monroe county sell for so cents per acre.
La Crosse has now ], $3.50 decorated
with the "Order of the Blue Ribbon. I"
Fourteen tramps aHghted from one
Western Union railroad train, at Beloit,
one evening last week.
The large clearinghouse kept in
connection with Joseph Herman's glue
works, in the town of Lake, Milwaukee
county, was destroyed by fire recently.
Loss about $4,000.
The contract for building the new
jail for Walworth county at Elkhorn has
been awarded to Nowlan & Shearer. of
Janesville for SO, 735. They will COM
mence work Immediately.
-Palmeter & Stever, of Ogdens-
burg, Waupaca county, are getting out
several carloads of ship-knees, which
will be sent to Boston. This is pay
ing business, as knees bring from 81
to SIS.
Reports from Superior state that the
ice in the Bay Of Superior broke up on
Sunday last, and the waters are now en-
tirely clear to Duluth, the earliest op-
portunity for navigation ever known in
those regions.
While playing on the banks of the
mill-race at Hartford, Saturday after
noon, young Julius PREM fell into the
water, Julia 10th, little girl, grasped
him by the hair and held him up until
her brother Albert came and pulled him
out.
The three Wisconsin exhibitors at
the Paris Exposition are the Philip Best
Brewing Company, of Milwaukee, whose
article is lager beer; J. I. Case & Co.,
Racine, who send agricultural nipple
ments, and A. P. Dickey, Racine, who
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-Ohinch bugs are found in innumer-
able quantities in the edges Of fields,
and under logs and leaves in the timber.
A man, while digging a well near Farm
ington, found them thirty feet below the
surface. Some farmers talk OF trying to
cremate them by firing the woods.
The great Dells Improvement dam
across the Chippewa river, at Eau Claire,
is now finished and the gates shut down.
It is 500 feet long and IS feet high. The
lock is $50 feet long, and 40 feet wide,
and 80 feet high. It cost $3.50, 900, and
will store 200, 100000 feet of logs.
Walter Lawrence, the farmer
charged with the larceny of 1915 from
a bank in Clinton, by the mistake of
young clerk, who mistook a $75 check
for $3.50 one, waived an examination
and was held over to the Circuit Court
for trial in the sum of $1,000. He
gave bail.
A man named Henry Hofmeister
was drowned off Green Bay bridge the
other night, while the draw was open for
the passage Of steamboat. He was not
dead when taken out of the water, but
there was a delay in applying means of
rasuscitation, and he died shortly after
ward. 1t is surmised that he was intoxi-
Gated when the accident occurred.
"A good deal of excitement was
caused last week at Hartford by the sus-
pension of j. 0. Kendall & Co., millers,
and Wheelock, Dennison & Co. ,dry-goods
merchants. It said that the failure of
the latter firm is due to the failure of
the former, and the other fact that FL.
FL. Wheelock, of the dry-goods firm, is
also one Of the principal partners in the
milling business.
"A careful estimate made of the logs
cut in the northwestern part of the
State is as follows: On the Upper Mis-
sissipppi and Rum rivers, 10000, 900;
st. Uroix, 100000; Chippewa, co.
100000; Black, 6O,OOO,OOO; Wisconsin,
5O,OOO,OOO. 1t is thought that the cut
on the Fox, Wolf, Oconto, Peshtigo,
Menomonee, and other small streams
will equal that above enumerated, MAX
ing an aggregate of 8OO,0OO,O 900 feet of
logs Add to this about 800, 900, 900 feet
of old logs hung up from last season. A
good spring food will bring them all
down.
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