The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-03-23
IOWA.

IOWA.
Great activity was recently reported in
the repair shops of the Milwaukee & st.
Paul Railroad Company in Dubuque All
the men procurable were being hired to re-
pair cars, and Dubuque is hereafter to he
made an important station for this class OF
work
The new Pottawattamie County court
house was dedicated at Council Bluffs re-
Gently. The building is of stone, four
stories high and cost 1856, 900.
In the Carroll County qll) circuit court
OF Mount Carroll recently Judge Richard S
Tuthill, of Oh cago sentenced Albert A
Spalding, of Fort Madison, this State, ar
rested at Savannah Ill, for bigamy to pay
q fine of fifty dollars and to serve three
years in the pententiary.
The State Supreme Count has decided
that it is not crime under the law to give
drink OF Intoxicating liquor to man if
he is not minor or in the habit of getting
intoxicated
In the case of Chase against the Burling-
top, Cedar Rapids & NorJhern Railway Com
pany, tried at Montezuma $40, 500 dam
ages We're awarded Chase few days ago
He was injured while switching
The Eight-Hour law with ten hours paw
in local labor circles at Sioux City, such as
stonemasons, brick-layers, carpenters, etc,
by the decision of the Trades Union went
into effect few days ago.
Atwo-year-old son of John s. Black, CASH
ier of the States Savings Bank at Creston,
died the other afternoon from the eff ct of
drinking a solution of concentrated I've.
In the case of Wells and Champlan,
charged with assaulting Miles Sweeney, of
Dubuque, knocking him off moving pas
senger train and robbing him of ST., 600,
the jury at Manchester, where the case was
tried, returned verdict the other day of
acquittal
The trial at Davenport of Toby Alexan-
der (coloreD for murder was closed the
other day, the jury returning verdict of
granddaughter.
The last wholesale liquor store in Sioux
City moved it's stock a few days ago to
Covington, Neb. which is on the opposite
shore of the Missouri river
After fifty days of difficult work the Gals
son of the third pier of the railroad bridge
reached it's foundation the other day The
caisson weighs six thousand tons and the
foundation is one hundred feet fellow the
bottom of the river
The Julien House, one of the leading
hotels in Dubuque, was recently sold to f.
D. Stout for about $40, 600.
WISCONSIN.
The Burkhardt -four mill at ST Croix
Falls, which was burned a year ago, has been
rebuilt, and the new mill is said to be the
finest in the St Croix Valley.
Owing to the great depth of snow in the
vicinity of Wausau, wolves have been very
troublesome of late In several ms ances
the fierce beasts have followed sleighs for
miles waiting for an opportunity to attack
tie inmates. Sheep, swine and poultry
have been preyed upon. Poison was being
resorted to with good success by the farm
ers.
Mrs. Laura Ann White, widow of the late
Asa White, OF Beaver Dam, died Of paralysis
recently, aged seventy years She was one
OF the first settlers in Dodge County
St. Paul freight train was thrown from
the rack by a broken rail at Middleton
Station the other morning and some live
stock were killed and fourteen cars derailed
but no person was injured
At Berlin the other night the Emmett
block, occupied by G. TruesdeH and A
Ford, clothing dealers was burned, the loss
being S22,0 600; insurance $4,000
j. ID. Mugrey was burned to death in a
lumber camp On Peshtigo brook the other
night George McCar ney, his partner, es-
capped from the shanty, but WIS probably
fatally burned.
j. 5 Barrier, of the Northwestern Lumber
Company at Eau Claire, recently bought
the plant of the Sterling Lumber Company
in Clark County; consideration, $1,000
Dr. A. ?. Coryrell, formerly Surgaon-Ge
eral of the Wisconsin militia, died OF hem
orrhaga of the lungs at Janesville the other
afternoon.
Sixty thousand brook trout W II be plant
ed in the streams of the northwestern md
southwestern portions of Fond du Lac
County
The seventh annual convention of the
officers of the Wisconsin National Guard
was he recently in Madison It was de-
cided to hold the next annual encampment
at Men nominee January IL. The Wisconsin
Guard now consists of thirs y-three infantry
companies, one cav; Try and one artillery,
aggregating in ali 2, 100 drill ed men.
81. z Crossett, Of Tomah, was working
about saving machinc recen " when
some part of the gearing broke an The en-
CINE overturned upon Mr. Crossett, scalding
him to death.
Loggers in Northwestern Wisconsin are
having the best of weather for their opera
tions and the Chippewa cut will reach 60O,-
600, 600 feet.