The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1885-06-05

The eighty year-old mother of Ernest
Dalgo, noted Milwaukee craftsman, now
doing time in prison, crazed by the dis
grace, took to drink in Milwaukee and
threw herself in front of a Chicago train a
few days ago. She was severed into three
pieces.
The wife of Henry Croft, of Edgerton,
Rock County, was recently arrested on the
charge of bigamy, it being alleged that she
married Croft without first getting a di-
vorce from George Stephenson, her first
husband. Both men want the woman.
The pioneers of Jefferson County will
meet at Fort Atkinson on June II. Hon.
L. B. Caswell will deliver the address.
There are three inmates of the Northern
Insane Asylum at Oshkosh, all of whom
came from Wausau, Marathon County,
and whose insanity was discovered only
after each had committed murder.
Carroll College, at Waukesha, will be
rebuilt the trustees already having ten
thousand dollars to begin work with.
A woman was recently found wandering
about the streets of Eau Claire with dead
baby in her arms. She was from Chip
pewa County, and had lost her husband
and was destitute.
The brick-yards at Menomonee are turn
ing out about 100000 bricks day.
Charles Oldenburg, President of fur
nituie company at Milwaukee, died sud-
denly a few days ago.
Charles Gregory, of Sheboygan Falls,
while jumping on a moving freight train
the other evening was run over and
killed, the top of his head being taken off
and his brains strewn on the track.
The annual reunion of the Thirteenth
Wisconsin Infantry will take place at AL
bany, Green County. June II.
A large pigeon-roost was recently dis
covered north of Shawano. One mar
killed nine hundred of the birds in one day.
The title of Slower City" was given tc
GAINESVILLE in 1857, when the town site was
mostly a wilderness.
A species of fish five feet long was the
other day found petrified in a quarry al
Rock Prairie, Rock County.
1t is said that farmers in the vicinity Of
Eau Claire have found carbolic acid 6
speedy remedy for hog cholera.
J. E. Follett, President of the Milwau.
kee Civil-Service Reform Club, has beer
appointed Deputy Revenue Collector.
Mrs. Elite Mccoy, of Elroy, juneau
County, wife of Conductor John Mccoy
who was killed in a railway accident al
Bayfield, about a year ago, has received
$1,000 and a one-thousand- mile ticket
from the Omaha Company.
Phil Miller, the heaviest man in the
State, died at Richford, Waushara County
a few days ago. He weighed four hun.
dred pounds.
DR.. Fl. Morrow, postmaster at Gilling-
ham, Richland County, having some time
ago sent in his resignation, and the Gov
eminent not having acted upon it, he a
few days ago peremptorily refused to re-
ceive the mail and closed the office.
A large bald headed eagle was shot re.
Gently at North Bay, Door County. 1t
measured eight feet from tip to tip of its
wings.
AT the recent session in La Crosse of the
Circuit Court twelve divorces were
granted.
Contagious measles have appeared to an
alarming extent at Wonewoc, Juneau
County.
Mary Ann, wife of Christopher Smith
of WATERFOWL, landlord of the American
House, died the other evening somewhat
suddenly of congestion of the stomach, in
her forty fifth year. She leaves four sons
and four daughters, all unmarried.
An infant daughter of William Plaster
was burned to death recently while play
ing around burning brush, near her home,
in Shawano County.
The corner stone of a new Catholic
Church was laid at Manitowoc the other
afternoon with impressive ceremonies.
The church will cost about $4,000.
The Dells Improvement Company's force
is turning out between from 100000 to
100000 of logs per day, mostly owned by
lumbermen along the Mississippi. A gem
tleman who arrived at Eau Claire recently
from the Beef Slough works said scene
Of activity seldom witnessed prevailed at
the company's works, the half thousand
force at work brailing and moving the
logs about as rapidly as they foated
in. About 140,000,000 had been RATED,
which is about third of the amount of
work calculated to be done.
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