The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-12-11
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

| No. = 4U1Et91Ac OdbS-1No. z, SotI2S16C
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| Spring, SIC.
A fish-freezing factory has been estab
lished at Green Bay.
Near Schlesingerville, Washington Coun
| ty, a few days ago the caving of earth in {
cut on the new line of the Wisconsin Cen
trail Railway killed George Schaeffer, anG
| probably fatally injured fellow workman
In the Circuit Court at GAINESVILLE the
other day a jury awarded lad named
Hemingway damages of $4,000 for the
loss of his left hand by being compelled tt
leap from st. Paul train at a regular sta
ton, no stop being made
A lad in Milwaukee who was recently at
tackled by hydrophobia was taken to {
Turkish bath for treatment, but too late t.
save his life.
The citizens of Eau Claire are earnestlS
considering the offer Of the State Agricult
ural Society to hold its fair at that place
a tract of ore hundred and twenty acres o.
land, owned by Mr.. Cousins, lying between
that city and the village of Altoona, ha.
been offered to the city for that purpose.
The Sault Ste Marie Road through North
ern Wisconsin, it is said, will open up one O
the finest sections in the State.
Eastern capitalists propose to establish
blast furnace at Ashland next season.
Town Clerk John Regain, of Eagle, Wau
kesha County, was run over by a train OF
the st. Paul Road, Aear North Prairie, tn,
other night, and instantly killed. Rega1
was forty years old, and leaves a wife ant
three children.
The village of Seymour, near Eau Claire
is petitioning for a post-office.
Men were recently leaving Eau Claire fol
the logging districts on the Chippewa, Blacl
and st. Croix Rivers, at wages ranging
from SIG to $2S per month, payable next
March and April
During the year just closing the brewing
interests of Milwaukee have added i'm
provements TO the amount of S675,GOO. pht
present capacity of the breweries of that
city is 1858, 900 barrels, annually.
William Palmer, an employment agent a
La Crosse, has been arrested for crooked
work.
Andrew Cragness was accidentally, anC
it was feared fatally, shot by bartender
in Johnson's saloon at Menomonee few
evenings ago The bartender was exam
lining revolver and jokingly pointed it a
Cragness, when it was discharged.
The State Board of Health and Vita
Statistics met in special session at Madison
a few days ago, and the time was devoted
to consideration of reports received from
over one thousand boards of health estab
lished throughout the State. The board wa
convinced that owing to precautions takei
the past summer to prevent the cholert
gaining foothold, the State generally wa
in much better sanitary condition thar
had characterized it in many years.
D. D. Merriam, one of the Oldest lumber
men Of La Crosse, made an assignment
few days ago. His liabilities were S55,0O
and assets nominal.
The La Crosse Cremation Society was in
.corporated the other day.
John Regain, an official of Eagle Town
ship, Waukesha County, was run owe
and killed by Milwaukee & ST. Paul trair
the other night
A new opera-house is to be built at Wa
tertown to cost $4,000
The Wisconsin River is so low at presen
that it is difficult to navigate it with
canoe. A boy can wade it at the mouth be
low Prairie du Chen.
A Toboggan club at Florence has beer
formerly organized with nearly one hun
dred members.
Wisconsin has another practicing lady
lawyer, disciple of Kate Kane. She i
very pretty, and the average juryn1al
gives up at the first smile.
While building fire in the kitchen stow
recently by the use Of kerosene the cloth
ing of Thomas Beech's six-year-old daugh
ter, at Monroe, Green County, caught fir
and she was burned to death.
Nellie Bailey, the Wisconsin girl who hac
mania for marrying rich men, and whc
was tried for the murder Of wealthy Kan
sas banker with whom she was travelling
to Texas last spring, is said to be back q
her old haunts in Waukesha.
A sale of $50 acres of pine land on th,
Red Cedar was fhade at Eau Claire d few
days ago by Thomas Carmichael to H. C
Putnam, the consideration being $4,000
Four years ago Carmichael bought til,
property for $4,000.
Joseph S. Payne, formerly of Fort Atl1in
son, Jefferson County, but now of Iowa
has brought suit for 900 damages agains
the Chicago & Northwestern Road for in
juries sustained by the explosion of boil
er used by the company
1t is reported that G. II. Moller, d dry
| goods dealer in milwaukee,, elopcd the othe
| day with his servant girl, leaving his fanli
ly penniless.
Elmer Witter, farmers boy living nea
Marshfield, Wood County, had his thumb
| torn completely from his hand few day.
| ago by vicious horse.
Several horses in the town of Lafayette
| north of Eau Claire, were recently dis
| covered to be ailing from CHAMBERS, ant
were shot, and much apprehension was fel
| by farmers that the disease would spread
Mrs. Marnell and her daughter, society
| ladies in Milwaukee, were found in thei1
| room a few mornings ago nearly deat
| from the effects of gas from a coal stove
| The United States revenue cutter Andy
| johnson has gone into winter quarters a
Milwaukee. Her crew of the past season
was paid off and discharged.
Thomas Che ieke, merchant and post
master at Sherbrook Station, Langladt
| County, attempted to kill his wife tn,
| other day, and then committed suicide
He fired four shots at his wife He ther
| placed the revolver in his mouth and blew
out his brains. The cause was alleged in
tinacy of his wife with another man
Mrs. Chadeke would live
Mr.. Alexander Anderson, an old and
highly respected citizen, aged eighty-si1
years, who emigrated from Scotland tx
Palmyra, Jefferson County, thirty fly,
years ago, died few nights ago.
The store of Max Mayer, the largest jew
elry dealer in Appleton, was closed the 9th
er night by the Chief-of-Pol on a chattlt
mortgage of $500. His Indebtedness wa!
said to be large.
A valuable deposit Of mica has been dis
covered near Florence, Florence County
The specimens are large and of the pures
quality.
The six-year-old son of John Lane, Of
Eau Claire, was drowned in the Dells Cana
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