The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-06-11
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

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A citizen of La Crosse has several hens
that have succeeded in laying eggs which
| weigh seven ounces.
| Willie Hutchings aged twenty, son of a
| prominent farmer residing four miles south
| of Neillsville, Clark County, was drowned
few days ago while bathing in Black riv-
or with several companions.
The ninth annual banquet of the Mer-
chants Association of Milwaukee was
| given the other evening at the Plankinton
! House The association numbers two
hundred members including all the lead
| ing business men.
Chief Justice Cole, of the Wisconsin Su-
| preme Court. left Madison few days ago
for trip to Europe. He will be absent
1 several months.
The lake revenue cutter Andrew johnson
has gone into commission at Milwaukee.
under Captain Baker.
A mob attacked the Salvation army at
| Beloit the other night, smashing their
drums and instruments and assaulting their
members. The captain was placed in the
| jail to protect him from violence.
| Patrick Malloy, farmer from the town
| of Morrison, Brown County, was thrown
from a load of hay the other afternoon by
his team running away. He struck on his
head and remained insensible some time.
| man named Goumalski, in attempting to
| stop the runaway team, was struck on the
head by the wagon pole, thrown down and
run over. He was badly cut, and possibly
fatally injured.
| Constable Ryan, of GAINESVILLE, was re-
| Gently arrested on the charge of attempt
| ing to bride juror in the case of the State
against Corcoran.
| The cornerstone of the First Congrega-
| tional Church of Eau Claire was laid wit
| appropriate ceremonies a few evenings
| ago. The edifice when completed will cost
in the neighborhood of $25, 900.
The residence of Karl Frank, farmer in
| the town of Oak Creek, Milwaukee County,
was totally destroyed by fire at an early
hour the other morning. Loss $4,000; par
| TALLY insured.
At the recent session in La Crosse of the
State Eclectic Medical Society the old Of
| fcerS were reelected.
Land Commissioner Sparks in decision
tie other morning rejected the claim of
| the Wisconsin Railroad Farm Mortgage
Land Company to about $4,000 acres of
| indemnity. lands selected in 1882 and 1853
under the act of June 8, 1856.
The board to examine applicants for
| State certificates as teachers will meet in
| the Senate chamber at Madison June 30,
| at nine O'Clock a. M, and will continue in
session four days. It will consist of Prof.
| Albert Hardy, Of La Crosse; President
| George S. Albee, of Oshkosh, and Prof. J.
w. Stearns, of Madison. On Monday July
| 5, the board will determine the standing of
the applicants, and will make report to the
State Superintendent.
j George II. Hopper, H. F. Highly, John
Donahue, S. W. Tanner and F. W. French
filed articles of association a few days ago
with the Secretary of State as incorpora-
tors of the Birmingham Iron Company of
Ashland. The capital stock is Sl,000,000.
| The three days convention of the dele
gates of the lodges of Good Templars Of
district No. 2 embracing the counties of
Eau Claire, Pepin, Dunn, Chippewa and
Buffalo closed its session the other night at
Eau Claire after accomplishing some use
| full and important work. Five new lodges
| were instituted and one old one reorganized
| since the last convention, three months
| ago. The total membership of the district
is over four hundred.
| Adam Guckenberger, of Mansfield, Wood
County, was recently sentenced to ten
| years at hard labor in the penitentiary for
a criminal assault upon Mrs. George Kun
dert, in that city, February last.
The Adventist congregation whose mis-
sion church is located on Truax Prairie
five miles west of Eau Claire, is growing
| quite large, and number of converts
have been made of late.
There are more boys from Wisconsin at
tending Rush Medical College at Chicago
than from any other State in the Union,
not excepting Illinois.
At the recent annual meeting of the Wis
consin Central Railway Company, in Mil
| waukee, the old Board of Directors was re-
| elected, with the exception of E.. P. Phil
| lips, in whose stead Fl. r. Spencer, of BoS-
| ton, was chosen.
The Salvation Army, ninety strong, ac-
companied by four prominent clergymen
| of Beloit and large crowd, paraded the
| streets few days ago for the first time
| since the recent riot Several banners
were carried, but no drums, and the army
| proceeded quietly singing. At promi-
nent street crossing they halted and held
! religious services, in which the ministers
| took part
| The frame house. barn and outbuildings
belonging to Valentine Reichel, situated
about three miles from Appleton, were to-
tally consumed recently, entailing loss
| Of $1,500; no insurance.
| Determined upon suicide, Blanche
Miller, a sixteen-year-old girl living near
| Union, Rock County, recently swallowed
| matches, took horse medicine, tasted
aconite, made way with spoonful Of
| paris green, and drank bottle of tincture
of iron, yet there was possibility of her
recovery.
| William Salentine, the twenty nine
| year-old son of Matthias Salentine, prom
| inent Milwaukee merchant, dropped dead
the other day while playing baseball A
blood vessel burst in his heart.
| News reached Eau Claire recently of the
destruction by fire of upward of one mill
| ion feet of lumber and the houses on the
| Corbett premises, located couple of miles
| from Shell lake. The entire loss of lumber
and other property, all belonging to the
mill company at Shell lake, was placed at
/ $4,000. 1t was insured
Governor Rusk has reappointed Lewis A.
Proctor, of Milwaukee, member of the
State Beard of Supervision for the term
| of five years from June 1.
Leaders of brass bands at Milwaukee
have been notified by the mayor that in
future, if engaged for Sunday parades,
they must not play while passing churches
in which services are being conducted.
| George King was recently caught in the
act of firing Dancy's furniture store at
| Palmyra, Jefferson County, and promptly
lodged in Jail He was under the influence
of liquor at the time.
| The State University of Wisconsin has
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