The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-07-23
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

| ion feet of logs so far this season.
| Miss Ada Sackett, of Chippewa Falls, has
been adjudged insane.
Heavy and destructive fires prevailed
few days ago in the pineries north of Eau
Claire, destroying an immense quantity of
standing pine. The loss had not been esti-
mated but would amount to thousands of
dollars.
| The reller-skating rink at GAINESVILLE will
be turned into a theater.
Reports from the Wisconsin lumber re-
gion are in the main encouraging.
Governor Rusk has appointe1 Thomas
Lambie Of Crandon, sheriff of Forest
County, vice j. II. Buelen, resigned.
Seventeen young men wers recently adj
mitted to practice at the bar at Madison.
A rare plant, known as the lotus of
Egypt is in full bloom at Appleton.
| Green Bay citizens will soon vote on the
water-works question
Seventy priests are spending their vaca-
tions on Beulah Island, near Milwaukee
Rev. NJ. L. Kern, pastor of the Episcopal
Church at Menofnouee, died of apoplexy
the other afternoon.
The blueber.y crop in the vicinity Of
Shawano is very poor this season.
Boating parties are the fashionable
thing at Appleton.
William Hallam was found dead in his
cell in the Jail at West Bend, Washington
| County, the other morning. On April IL
in firing at officers who had been sent to
| arrest him, he shot and killed his wife.
The proceeds of the Irish picnic held in
| Milwaukee, $4,000 in all, were telegraphed
few days ago to Father O'Reilly, of De-
troit, Mich, treasurer of the Irish NatiOnaa
Land League.
| Sparrows are increasing in number with
wonderful rapiditv at Manitowoc. They
are said to be crowding out the robins,
blueb1rds and blackbrds.
| Berlin authorities are considering tho
scheme of establishing a line of hacks be-
tween that city and Ripon in order to Sc
cure a more direct connection with the
railroads.
The water in the Wisconsin river at Mer-
| rill, Lincoln County, is said to be as low az
it was ever known to be.
The State Teachers Association at its
recent session In Madison elected W. E.
| Anderson, of Milwaukee, president for the
ensuing year.
In a recent spelling match at Kingston,
Green Lake County, little Ive-year-old
| girl came out the victor.
Thu noted "Cassody' rock in the riverat
Eau Claire has been removed. For years
it has been a source of annoyance to pilots,
as it was situated in the center of the cham
! al met for uoh to
| occasion many wrecks. The rock was
named "Cassody," in honor of Pat Cas-
sody, raft pilot of earlier days, who, liz
the engineering of his craft, never failed
to strike it.
Leonard Ross of Dayton, Green County,
was attacked few days ago by vicious
stallion and fatally injured. The animal
bit him and trampled him under foot.
Manitowoc citizen has a pair of white
crows which were captured near Kellers-
vile.
Curtis Reed, John Mcintyre and James
Maloney seamen, charged with piracy in
stealing the sloop yacht Minnie were dis
charged at Milwaukee a few days ago by
the United States Commissioner, but were
at once arrested by the State authorities,
and would be tried for grand larceny. If
conviction had resulted under the piracy
charge the punishment, under the statutes,
would have been death.
The knights of Labor talk of establish
ing a free night-school at Marquette.
A reunion of the ex-soldiers of the State
will take place September / and at Ocon-
omowoc.
Prof. Merriman, of Beloit, who was re-
Gently shot by a burglar and seriously
wounded, is now able to sit up and move
about his room.
Emil Stoinke, a teamster, fell under his
wagon at Milwaukee the other day, his
head being crushed to jelly.
A neck-yoke factory is to be established
at La Crosse.
The colored people of Wisconsin and
Northern Illinois will have an Emancipa-
ton celebration at Delavan on Tuesday,
August 3. An grafton by Rev. H. A.
Lackey, of Beloit free dinner and visit
to Delavan lake will be the features Of the
day, and in the evening jubilee concert
and grand ball will take place A brass
band will furnish music, and the indica
tions are that the occasion will be one Oh
great enjoyment. About five hundred peE-
sons from Wisconsin alone are expected to
be present.
The new Jail to be erected at Appleton
will have rotary cells. 1t will cost s25, 0Ol.
While party of boys were bathing III
the Mississippi river, three miles below
Glen Haven, Grant County, a few after
Moons ago two of them were drowned.
The other boys tried to float logs to their
drowning companions, but without snc-
cess. Anton Olafsen plunged in to the
rescue, but was himself drawn down by
one of the drowning boys. The bodies had
not been recovered.
NJ L. Youngs, of Milwaukee, has been
appointed Masonic grand lecturer for
Dakota, and holds like Office in Wiscon-
sin.
As the marshal of Hayward and the
sheriff and several deputies Of Sawyer
| County went to Sand Lake recently to ar
rest some Indians for selling liquor con-
trary to law, they were met with opposi-
ton by the Indians, who, with drawn
knives and loaded guns caused the officers
to make hasty retreat for their lives.
The officers would secure reinforcements
with stout determination to execute the
warrants with bloodshed if necessary.
A railway official predicts that by tho
end of next year the Wisconsin Central
road will have its own track in Milwaukee
and line along the Penokee range to the
iron mines of Gogebic.
Lightning struck the residence Of W. II.
Tears of Eau Claire, recently, and demol-
ished it entirely Those who have tears to
shed will please send the shed to Mr.. Tears
until he can build new house.
George Kramer, aged fourteen years,
while playing on a moving train at Wau-
kesha the other afternoon fell and was ia
tally injured.
Frank MilIheiser, an old resident Of APP
pleton, shot himself dead few days ago
on accoant of family troubles.
Twenty-Five young newspaper men be-
long to the State Amateur Journalists As
ISOLATION
Raft navigation on the Chippewa fvsr