The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1886-11-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


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Large crops of hickory and hazel nuts
/ are reported from all parts of the State.
Philip Flint, of Pepin, had hive of bees
on his wagon few days ago, when the
horses started suddenly and upset it, and
/ Flint and the horses were stung nearly to
| death.
One GAINESVILLE firm manufactured 300
900 pairs of ladies' shoes last year.
A loss of 5000 was occasioned by the
burning few nights ago of DIR. w. Or
nond's barn and outhouses, located few
miles south of Milwaukee The property
was insured for 81, 500.
Farmers are cutting hay on the Wolf
river this fall where they were fishing last
year.
A fire in Sturgeon Bay the other after
noon totally destroyed the Cedar Street
House. Insured for $4,000.
George Gray, of Appleton, has sold to
Henry Sherry, his partner, his numbering
interests in Vesperi consisting of several
hundred acres of pine lands, saw and plan
ing mills, etc, for 500, 001
The work of turning logs out of the On
alaska boom, received from the recent
drive, has been finished, and the amount
of the run will foot up to $4,000 600 feet
which is much larger amount than was
calculated. The total amount of the runs
| during the season is 155, 900, 900 feet, which
leaves from 25,000,OO0 to 100000 feet
back to come down with next springs
| freshets
The propeller W. L. Brown, valued at
So, 900, loaded with coal for De Pere, was
sunk off Peshtigo the other night The
crew escaped in small boats.
A painter named Holgeson fell from the
new Catholic Church in La Crosse the 9TH
er day and was killed. This was the third
fatal accident that had occurred at that
| church.
A number of Scotch granite workers of
Berlin, Green Lake County, have pur-
chased a third quarry near that city, and
! will conduct the same on the cooperative
plan,
The disease known as ''pink-eye" is
prevalent to large extent among horses
at Milwaukee.
An unknown young man, found dead re-
Gently in the town of Marion, Juneau
County, wore a gold ring marked &c. l..
| to j. A."
The Common Council of Madison has
| passed an ordinance granting IA right of
way through the city to the Illinois Cen
trail Railroad Company, thus settling a
gexed question.
| A man near GAINESVILLE was out hunting
a few days ago when a shower came up
| He put his hand over the muzzle of his
| gun to keep the powder dry when, heavy
clap of thunder coming he involuntarily
| jumped his knee struck the hammer of
the gun, and his hand was blown TO pieces
| by the discharge which followed.
John Powell's farm residence in the town
| of Brunswick Eau Claire County, was
struck by lightning few days ago, and
with most of the contents destroyed by
| fire, involving total loss of s., 500. I'm
| insured.
A large tobacco shed on the farm of
| Beaumont De Forest, near GAINESVILLE and
| ten acres of fine tobacco, raised in Rock
| County, and just ready for shipping, were
destroyed by fire the other morning. Tho
| fire originated in the stripping build
| ing and its contents were totally d.
Stroyed. The loss was about 50 600 The
| fire was supposed to have been the work of
| an incendiary, as no one had been working
| about the building.
Isaac League, one of the earliest set
| tiers of Rock County, died at the home
of his son, George League, near Beloit, the
other day. at the age of eighty-fVe years.
He arrived in Beloit in 1885
| A De Pere Brown County, physician
recently removed shot from the face of
a lady. 1t had been thrown from rub
Der sling, and was imbedded in her cheek
At Appleton the other morning &.
| Helmroch, who killed his brother-in-law,
John Bauer, was convicted of man.
| slaughter in the first degree. The penalty
| is eight years in prison.
By the capsizing o. a row-boat at Be-
| lott few days ago A. C. Thompson and
Jacob Flack were drowned.
The railway pontoon bridge launched at
! Prairie du CHEN for the use of trains of
| the st. Paul road is four hundred feet long
and forty feet wide.
The Law and Order League at La Crosse
| has begun the prosecution of saloou-keep-
ers for keeping their places open on Sun
| day. Recently the league interfered in
the intention to give notice that BARRIERS
| confectioners, etc, who were found doing
business on Sunday would be subject to
arrest
Judge William II. Horner, of the st.
Louis (Mo.) circuit court, died few days
ago. The deceased was born in Green
Bay March 81 1915 and removed to st.
Louis when twenty-one years of age.
The health officer at Lake Mills, Jeffer-
| son County, recently closed the schools and
churches on account of the prevalence of
diphtheria.
A farmer near Fairfield, Rock County,
raised sixty bushels of sunfiower seed this
season.
A ffty-pound raccoon was killed near
Eau Claire a few days ago.
The people of Green Bay are paying
about one dollar ton less for coal than
the Chicago price.
One year ago W. 7. Rice, prosperous
farmer near Peterborough, Grant County,
was killed.in quarrel with young N. B.
Cannon. Shortly after his widow died Of
sorrow over his death. Two weeks ago
Harmon Rice, the youngest son, died OF
typhoid fever, and a few days ago Kay
Rice, the Oldest son, died from the same
disease. All that remained Of a once
happy family was girl in delicate health.
Joe Morgan, of Merrill, Lincoln County,
was walking along the road with his hands
full of fence nails recently, when bullet
from some hunters rife struck the nails
and was flattened.
Wages are from twenty to thirty dollars
per month this year in the logging camps
near Green Bay. Last year the highest
wages paid was twenty dollars.
A farmer at Luxembourg, Kewaunee
County, took piece of float copper TO
Green Bay few days ago that weighed
eighty-six pounds. He found it on his
farm.
CConrad Tnrner, aged thirty-two years,
well known in Eau Claire, fell dead the
other morning from heart-disease.
Lightning during a severe storm the
| other day struck the Lutheran Church at
Meridian Mills fifteen miles west of Eau