The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-08-06

Rlchland, Ithaca. sept. 151T
Rock, GAINESVILLE ....................Se Sept. l4-11
Sank, BaraboO. Sept. $3.50
Sheb0ygan. Sheboygan Falls........Sept. 2l-24
St. Croix, Hudson. ..................S sept l2-la
Vernon, Viroqua ...................Se Sept. l5-I7
Walworth, Elkhorrl Sept. 2S-0ct L
WaukeSha, WaukeSha. Sept. 1-lO
DISTRICT FAIRS.
Boscohel. BoScobel. Sept. 2S.Oct.
Central Wisconsin,. Sept. 1917
Inter State Agri. & Mech. Madison. Sept 1918
Northern Wisconsin. Oshkosh. Sept. 1917
Wisconsin Items.
The following are the Milwaukee grain
quotations. Wheat-No. ?, 744@14$4c.
Corn--No. ., 44@A14c Oats-No. ?, 271{
02S14c. Rye-No. 1, 5415c Barley-No. ,,
6l1S@5l4c.
Two daughters of Rev. Mr.. Rehwhinkle.
of Marathon County, were killed recently
by the falling of tree. They were berry
ing where man was chopping trees, and
had wandered near so quietly that the
woodman was unaware of their presence.
There is talk of connecting Green Bay
and Fort Howard by street railway.
There are 45S inmates in the prison at
Waupun. Thirteen are women.
Albert Hanson, of Milwaukee, is said to
have been arrested recently in Denmark
for writing a newspaper letter rejecting
upon the Government.
Miss Maud Bowerman, at Patch Grove.
Grant County, a few days ago identified
the vagrant George Jobling as the man
who assaulted her. Jobling entered de-
NAL, and the people, before resorting to
harsh measures, would give him an oppor-
tunity to prove an alibi.
The first fair in her history will be held
this year by Dunn County.
La Crosse has q new city detective force
of three men.
The Big Marsh" near Palmyra, Jeffer-
son County, containing thousands of tons
of No hay, just saved, was on fire few
days ago, spark from a locomotive cans
ing the confagration. Unless heavy rain
speedily fell the entire crop would be de-
.troyed
A large new school building will shortly
be erected at Montfort Grant County.
Cranberries are abundant in the marsh
lands near Berlin, Green Lake County.
B. G. Plummer, a prominent lumber
man and ex-member of the Legislature, of
WARSAW, Marathon County blew his brains
out with shotgun at Wausau the other
day. Heavy losses by recent fires inspired
the act. He was fifty years old and a
bachelor
The eighteenth anniversary Of the Moth
odiSt Church society at Oconomowoc was
recently celebrated.
A daughter of Wenzel Halada, of Mani
towoc, was drowned few days ago by be-
ing caught in the draw of bridge as it
was closing. She was crushed and then
fell into the river. Her body was recoy-
cred soon afterward.
The contracts for the building OF the Eau
Claire street railway has been let.
An omnibus-driver of Oconomowoc was
once a leading educator in Michigan.
Four hundred Milwaukee masons and
brick-layers, who struck two weeks ago for
a continuance of the eight-hour system for
three years, causing suspension of build
ing operations in the city, returned to work
a few days ago. The boss masons wanted
the men to return to ten hours work day.
The return Of the men TO work leaves mat
tiers as before, the eight-hour day contin-
uing, but without any agreement as to
when it shall cease.
A party of pleasure-seekers recently at
GAINESVILLE were voyaging Rock river to
Lake Michigan in canoes.
One hundred and fifty tents are being
put up at the Monona Lake Assembly, tho
largest number ever put up there.
A Lacrosse building and loan association
hoe Nc to In ofG
A Sheboygan farmer is raising this year
twenty-five acres of ensilagc corn. He has
been experimenting with silos for years,
and is firm believer i'll their utility.
A team of horses at Eau Claire recently
hauled load of ten thousand pounds of
coal distance of one mile.
Several of the family of Andrew RowelI,
a farmer living near Eau Claire, became
violently i'll the other evening after par
taking of ice-cream. Where the poison
came from was mystery.
Black flies cause much annoyance to fish
ermen in the neighborhood of Appleton.
The Illinois Central road is making con-
tracts for bridge material for a line to
Madison from Freeport, Ill.
A Taylor County farmer explains the
cause of his horses being SO poor. He says
he thought it necessary to rest their diges-
ton, as they had been fed high while
working in the woods the past winter
Rev. s. w. Eaton, who will soon have
completed his fortieth year as pastor OF
the Congregational Church at Lancaster,
Grant County, has formally rendered his
resignation, to take effect at the close of
the present year.
The water is very low on Wolf river,
near Shawano, and occasions much trouble
to the men who wish to float their logs.
Henry Dunkel hanged himself few
days ago on a farm near Waukesha. He
left note stating it was too hot to live.
1t is reported that the shops of the Wis
consin Central will be moved to Wau-
kesha.
The recent Saengerfest at Milwaukee
concluded with street parade and picnic
which was attended by thirty thousand
people, who witnessed an elaborate pyro-
technic display. The receipts were $4,000
less than expenses but the deficit would
be covered by guarantee fund
recent census at Appleton shows a
population of 1000. The school popula-
ton is 400, an increase of 1877 over last
year.
The barn of Joseph Maxwell, near He
bron, Jefferson County, was struck by light
ming the other morning and, with its con-
tents, burned to the ground. Loss, $SO0;
insurance, 800.
Captain N. ID. Moore, the iron king of
the Gogebic range, recently purchased the
Wright House and adjoining property at
WauseG. The price paid for the hotel was
$4,000
4 wo hundred head of sheep were recently
shipped to the Southern market by Two
Rivers buyers.
An imported st. Bernard dog which cost
$500 arrived at Eau Claire the other day
from Belfast in good condition. The ami
NAL weighed 100 pounds.
At Beloit a few days ago the Second Ma
tional Bank attached the property of the
Halcomb Bros. & Sterne Manufacturing
Company to satisfy claim of SO 700.
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