The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-26
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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The Law and Order League of La
| Crosse recently caused the arrests of
seventy violatOrs of the Sunday law.
| Saloon-keepers obeyed the orders of the
| league, and closed during church hours,
but opened in the afternoon, and over fifty
were arrested. Other arrests include
actors at Germania Hall, BARRIERS, confec-
TONERS, hvery-men and railroad men.
Members of the Personal Liberty League
would plead not guilty and lest the cases
| in the higher courts.
Chief Justice Orsamus Cole, of the
| Supreme Court has returned from six
months tour in Europe
| The second annual entertainment given
| by the Milwaukee Press Club took place at
the Academy of Music few evenings ago.
| Simon Peterson, a wealthy farmer living
five miles west of Eau Clare, was thrown
| from his wagon the other afternoon with
such force as to produce injuries that would
prove fatal.
Russell Blackstone, aged seventeen
| years, whose father, prominent citizen of
Berlin, is engaged in the grocery business,
| hanged himself the other morning in the
cellar of his fathers store. Young Black
stone had been subject to fits of despond-
ency, and it was thoSght he took his life
| during spell of depression. The fatherO
the suicide was fifteen years ago editor of
| the Berlin COWrant, and has since been
| superintendent of schools and mayor
There seems to be an organized body Of
| incendiaries in Clark County, judging
from numerous barn fires that have lately
| occurred in that locality.
The Knights of Labor at Menominee have
| organized cooperative association for the
purpose of starting a general mercantile
establishment, with capital stock of S10,-
600. The stock is held by members of the
| order exclusively.
A De Pere Drown County, farmer has
| twenty-four hens, from which he last year
obtained go dozen eggs. He also raised
forty chickens. The cost of keeping the
hens was S21, while he received SIS for the
chickens.
The First National Bank of Ashland has
| been authorized to commence business with
a capital of $4,000
1t is authoritatively stated that the rev.
enue cutter Andy Johnson will go into Win
ter quarters at Milwaukee
The WEIGH House and eight other struct-
ures at Necedah, Juneau County, were de-
| stroyed by fire early the other morning.
| The total loss was less than $4,000, with
about one-half insurance.
A portion of NJ. H. McCord's logging
crew left Merrill Tor the woods the other
| day. He will have camps on the Big and
Little Some and Little Rice The intended
cut is 100000 feet. The three camps will
employ eighty men and twenty-seven
| teams
Two large catamOunts are creating a
great deal of excitement in Crawford
| County by their nocturnal prowlings.
The estate.of the late o. J. Hale, of Mil
waukee, estimated at nearly S1,000,000, is
bequeathed to the widow and two daugh
tiers.
The constitutional amendment conferr-
ing the rights upon women to vote at cleo
tiOns for school officials met with but little
| opposition at the recent election. Few paid
any attention to the matter, and at many
voting-places no tickets were to be found.
An amendment to this effect does not apply
to cities in which the authority to appoint
members of the School Board is placed with
| the aldermen.
A thief threw pepper in the eyes of
Charles III. Upmeyer, Milwaukee jewel
er, few days ago and made good his
escape with watches valued at $3.50.
Cecil Cheesbro, two years old, recently
swallowed strychnine from a phial at his
home near Monticello, Green County. The
frightened mother called to her husband,
who was husking corn in an adjoining
field. The parents sprang into the wagon,
partly filled with corn, and began a race
with death. Soon after they reached the
Doctors Office the little one fell into
spasms and died
A beaver dam was recently discovered
| on O'Neill's creek, near Neillsville, Clark
| County. The animals gnawed down hard.
| maple trees, telling them skillfully so as to
avoid lodging and cutting them into suit
able lengths for use in the framework of
the dam. The dam forms crescent, curv-
ing down stream, the frame is braced with
posts set at regular intervals, and the fill
ing is most advantageously placed. The
dam gives head of three feet of water.
Green Bay fishermen claim to have capt
ured recently pure white OWL
Manitowoc County is running successful
ly without a sheriff.
Thirty odd acres of French Island, at La
Crosse, have been plated and form the be-
ginning of what will be known as West La
Crosse.
The date for the commencement of the
next State fair has been fixed at September
IL, 1887.
The total loss in thirteen fires in Beloit
since the waterworks went into operation
a year ago is s., 400, covered by s., 800 insur-
ance.
There is a man in Marinette who has
been married and divorced four times. He
was recently married for the fifth time.
Hereafter when tramp strays across
the border into Rock County he will be
locked up over night and sent away in the
morning with ''pocketful of crackers"
A sailor, believed to be John Rousk, son
of wealthy ship-builder at Quebec, Can,
was found dead in bed in a cheap lodging
house at Milwaukee the other morning.
The town of Rib Lake, Taylor County, at
the recent election polled pa straight Re-
publican votes out of total of 265.
There is a demand in Eu Claire for oxen
to be used in the pineries which is greater
than the supply.
The supervisors of La Crosse County
have purchased farm of $50 acres, forty
of which is timber, for 5000. 1t will be
used as poor farm.
There is little activity in the tobacco mar
ket in Rock County Many are holding the
crop of 1885 for better prices, but the pros
pect Is not good.
A humorous street-car driver in James
vile believes in preserving the unities, SO
he gives his children such names as Caro-
| line (car line) and Oscar COss carr.
Mrs. John King, Of La Grange township,
Jefferson County, aged seventy-nine years,
| died the other day from injuries received
by falling down her cellar stairs.
| In the recent storm on the lake the schooner
Pathfinder was wrecked near Twin River
| Point. She was ore laden from Ashland
| for Chicago. The Pathfinder was owned
| by J. H. Pauly, of Milwaukee, was valued
| at $4,000, and was insured for $4,000.
The death of Joseph Giles, ex-sheriff of
Jefferson County, occurred at Watertown
| recently. He was leading Democratic
politician, and was well known in various
parts of the State. HIS age was sixty-six
years.
A carload of carp, twenty-five thousand
| in number, arrived at Madison for distribu-
| ton few days ago.
The barn and granary of Charles Everett,
| near Waterville, Waukesha County, was