The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-01-22
WISCONSIN Items.


1t is stated that the new courthouse and
Jail in course OF erection at Amigo, Lang
lade County, will cost from $4,000 to $685.,
600, and will be one of the finest buildings
of its kind in the State.
The travelling commercial men WHO are
residents of Madison, about sixty in mum
Der, held their first banquet few evenings
ago at the Park Hotel.
While I'll. j. Gould was digging in q mill
race at Boscobel, Grant County, few
days ago he met with very serious acct
dent. The earth caved in on him in such
way as to break his leg below and above
the knee, and also split the knee-cap. II
was thought by the attending physician
that the leg wcald have to be amputated.
Thomas Green, the religious faster, OF
Sullivan, Jefferson County, partook of his
first meal in twenty days few days ago.
Three girls aged respectively seventeen
fifteen and thirteen years, were recently
convicted at Eau Claire of pillagin&
clothes-lines. The Oldest one was fneG
fifty dollars and costs, and the others three
dollars and costs each
i p,
of Appleton, made an assignment few
days ago. Liabilities, $4,000.
Prosecutions have been begun in Wiscon
sin against several insurance companies
which have been doing business without q
State license, and the legal penalty fol
which is $500 per month during the time
such business is carried on. Fines in ex-
cess of 100000 are already due the State.
Joshua D. Parkhurst, an old soldier living
in Pepin County, recently had returned to
him Bible that he lost in Virginia dur
ing the war.
Frank Regal, fifteen years old, was
drowned the other day at Milwaukee while
skating.
In the case of Joel II. Kneeland, of Mil
waukee, for which the courts have been Pc
toned to app oint a guardian, KHeeland a
few days ago filed a protest in which he al
leges that his sister, who is the principal
mover in the proceedings against him. has
robbed him of $35, 900.
GAINESVILLE is great place for clubs. The
latest organization is what is known as the
"Angle Worm Club"
County, a few days ago for Kingston,
Can, with power of attorney to'look up
the family records relative to an inherit
ance of English property amounting to
IS, 100000. 1t is estimated that the direct
and indirect heirs in this country number
alb out seven hundred.
The annual meeting Of the State His
torical Society was held at Madison few
evenings ago The library has added 4,09S
volumes in the past year, making it's pres
emit size 1l3, 157 The binding fund amounts
to $4,000. The society is in a very flour
ishing condition. A large number of new
members were elected from all parts of the
State. DR.. John A Rice, of Wauk esha, was
reelected President.
Saber Gesley, of the agricultural ma
chinery manufacturing firm of. Gesley
Bros at Beloit, died the other morning,
aged forty-four years.
A test case of some Importance was re-
Gently decided by the Supreme Court of the
State. 1t was called to pass upon the val
idity of will written in a language tina t
the testator himself could not understand
he being German and the will in English
and being contested on that ground. 1t
was the first case of the kind in the State,
nor could a precedent be found elsewhere
but the court sustained the will, deciding
that it was necessary only for the testator
to be correctly informed Of the contents Of
the will he signed.
The First Baptist Church built in Mil
waukee was erected in 1874. 1t was subse-
quently sold and converted by the new
owner into billiard hall. The gentleman,
being of practical turn of mind, severed
the baptismal font in twain, leaving a
semi-circular arrangement which he used
as o cue-holder.
The Indians on the Menominee reserva-
ton held their annual "d0g feast" recently
at Keshena, Shawano County, and had a
large turnout and good time generally.
The dog was served up iii grand style, and
large and liberal layout spread for all
corners. A large number of white people
attended the feast.
The other night dwelling-house in tAe
town of Onion, Eau Claire County, be-
longing to James McCann, was fred by in
cendiaries involving a total loss of 81, 300,
on which there was no insurance.
The largest hardwood log ever banked
on the Yellow River was put in recently.
1t was a sixteen-foot red oak, measuring
fourteen and half feet around the largest
end, scaling 1913 feet.
William Roescf, of Elm Grove Waukesha
County, recently left for Milwaukee, to go
20 New York, where he had inherited 1900.
With him he took horse and buggy be-
longing to somebody else, tried to sell them
at Milwaukee and was arrested.
The Catholic population Of Wisconsin is
said to be 1880.
In the United States District Court at
Madison few days ago Henry Waterman,
of Milton, Rock County, secured verdict
Of S22 800 for damages for personal injuries
against the Chicago & Alton Railroad De
cember %, 1882
The prevalence of CHAMBERS among horses
and bronchitis among calves is reported
from Clark County.
The hennery and incubators belonging to
Rivard & Co, in the town of Osseo, Trem-
peleau County, were badly wrecked by fire
few DAYS ago Two men sleeping in the
building narrowly escaped suffocation
Nearly a thousand chickens, many Of g
valuable breed, were suffocated by the
smoke. The property was uninsured.
The house of John Gunderson, at Bald
win, ST. Croix County, was burned few
evenings ago, and his youngest child, a
babe, persisted in tue flames. The mother
was very badly burned trying to rescue
the baby. DIR. Gunderson was away from
home.