The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-08-21
Wausau, Marathon County.

Wausau, Marathon County.
The new Catholic Church in Beloit is to
cost from $4,000 to SIT, 900.
A boarding house, known as the Eastern
Mems Home, with all its contents, was de-
stroyed by fire at Eau Claire the other
morning. The house was owned and &C.
cupied by Mrs. Charles Smith, and valued
at $4,000. The guests and boarders lost all
of their effects, and the total loss would be
upward of S., 900; covered by $500 insur-
ance.
The only oatmeal mill in the State is in
operation in Green Bay. Its capacity is
ten barrels day.
1t is said that seventy two of the women
of Marathon County who petitioned the
Legislature for suffrage own 100000
worth of property on which they annually
pay $4,000 of taxes.
The Wisconsin Central Railroad Com
pany has begun the construction of line
from Schleisingerville, Washington Coun-
ty, it's present southern terminus, to Chi
cago, to be completed January 1.
During the month of July the two lead
ing brewing companies of Milwaukee pro-
duced, respectively, 1882 barrels and 3d.
074 barrels of beer. This was the largest
product for any one month yet recorded.
A case of remarkable fasting recently
occurred in Florence, Marinette County.
Albert Newman locked his house and went
! out on his homestead. He missed his dog,
! but thought he had strayed off. Imagine
his surprise, then when he returned the
other day, after just twentysix days alb
sence, and found he had locked his dog in
| the house, where he had remained all of the
time without mouthful of food, drop of
water, and with very little air. When
found the dog could barely crawl. The
| poor brute refused food at first, but drank
water ravenously, and is now as good as
| any other dog
| e A coin dated 1915, found at Branhau,
Bohemia, and probably siege piece OF the
Thirty Years War, has been donated to
the museum of Milwaukee by Mr.. A.
Minski, resident of Omaha.
The golden wedding of Samuel T. Smith
| and wife was celebrated at La Crosse a
few days ago.
| The President of the Germania mine in
Hurley, Ashland County, in a recent let
ter announcing the first shipment of ore o
| Ashland, writes as follows of the new en-
terprise: "The mine is now being worked
from an open pit, and will produce from
| this on through the season about $50 tons
of ore daily. The ore is a mixture of soft
hematite and blue specular, hard ore, very
high in iron and very low in PHOSPHORUS,
the essays averaging about sixty -four per
cent. of metallic iron and ops per cent. in
PHOSPHORUS. The extent of the deposit is
unknown, but it is believed by competent
experts to be very large. The mine GER
tainly looks well now"
Near Appleton the other day log being
put on top of a log cabin fell seventeen
feet. Ludwig Wolf was killed and William
Bruck fatally injured.
William Kalbow, wealthy farmer OF
lakewood, Milwaukee County, was found
on the st. Paul track a few days ago, the
body mangled by train of cars.
A note FROM Mr.. ]. r. Berringer, at Hur.
ley, Ashland County, states that the bust
ness prospects in that region are good, and
that the iron mines which are now being
lopened and developed look and promise
well.
Peter Lamps brass foundry at Milwau-
kee was damaged by fire the other even
ing to the amount of about $1,000; insured.
Two or three hundred men who left Eau
Claire few weeks ago for British Colum-
bia, in hopes of obtaining work on the
Canadian Pacific Road, have found the
representations of employment agencies
incorrect, and were a few days ago lying
at Winnipeg, penpiless, and waiting for
friends to send money for their transpor-
5ation home. At least eight hundred left
hat city within two months for that Sec
ion of country. A resolution offered at a
meeting of the council to furnish s., 900 for
:elief and transportation from the city
general fund was voted down.