The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-02-10
IOWA.

If Iowa gets from Uncle Sam what he
owes her as direct war tax it will amount
to $452, 0SS.
Anton Heebe, who died in Dubuque re-
Gently, was the owner of the first brewery
building in Iowa He established himself in
Dubuque in 1847.
The Agricultural Institute closed a two
days session at Mason City recently Res
olutions were adopted fndorsing Governor
Larrabees message recommending that the
Legislature appropriate funds to build and
repair the necessary buildings on the agri-
cultural farm at Ames, and indorsing the
Dairy law.
George Knapp's little child, at Waterloo,
drank some washing fluid containing con-
centrated lye the her day and died.
The State fremen's tournament will be
held in Ringwood Park, between Lyons and
Clinton, June II to 10 Committees have
begun active preparations, and some entries
have been made. Five thousand dollars in
prizes will be given
The Warren County grand jury adjourned
the other day without finding single in
dictment This was something new in the
history of the county.
The jury in the second trial of Barney
Kennedy, at Dubuque, for the murder of his
wife, reported verdict of guilty recently,
and fixed the punishment at death.
Judge Kline, of Dubuque. recently fined
violators of the Prohibition law So, 400 in
the aggregate, and the saloon-keepers were
greatly excited
The question of changing the county seat
of Sac County from Sac City to some other
point is being agitated. Wall Lake wants it.
At meeting OF the Old Settlers Associa-
ton recently it was resolved to celebrate
the centennial OF Dubuque The first white
settlement in Iowa was made in 1888 on
the spot where Dubuque now stands
The alcohol works at Atlantic are to be
converted into a starch factory the coming
season.
Benjamin McClain, gen eral merchant and
stock-dealer at Rose Hill, failed few DAYS
ago; assets, $4,000; liabilities $lS, 600
Several farmers who Endorsed for him would
suffer severely.
snow is twenty inches deep on an average
in the timber where it is not drifted
Perry Osgood, a Mitchellvlle farmer,
returned recently from California, and has
since come down with malignant case of
smallpox Many people in Ottumwa and
Dubuque having met him and being ex-
posed to the contagion after the rash broke
out, the State Board of Health was taking
precautions to prevent a spread of the dis
ease
WISCONSIN.
j. Fl. Hover committed suicide at the
Swain House in Washburn few days ago,
owing to unrequited love.
The Secretary of the Treasury at Wash
ington has awarded life saving silver
medal to Captain G. W. Johnson, of Winnie
come, for services rendered in saving lives
during the past two years.
Appleton has organized an Orphans
Home Association
St Agnes Convent at Fond du Lac is the
mother house for thirty-nina schools To-
Gated in the States of Wisconsin, Illinois,
Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Da-
kota, Kansas and Texas. Sister Mary Ag-
mes, the mother superior, is superior gem
eral over all these States She has borne
her title for about eighteen years past She
took the white vail twenty-five years ago
A preliminary course in medicine will be
given hereafter at the State University.
Diphtheria has become epidemic in Bur-
ington.
Recent reports from the Asylum for the
Insane show that in the State Hospital,
Northern Hospital and Milwaukee Asylum
there are 1,485 patients; in the fifteen
county asylums there are 1920; total in
sane population, 2, 7O5.
The trustees of Ripon College have de-
cided to undertake the raising of $50, 600
to be expended in the erection of the pro-
posed dornitory for ladies and gym
naSum.
Robert Chambers who persisted in the re-
cent Dakota blizzard near Huron, was once
farmer at Little Prairie, a short distance
from Palmyra
J. Fl. Bauer, aged twenty-eight years.
shot himself at Washburn the other day,
had gone to dance with another man
Freight-CondHctor f. w. Lewis. of Bara-
boo, was instantly killed at Evansville re-
Gently by being knocked from the top of a
train.
John Traudt, retired merchant of Mil
waukee. recently closed dry-goods store
run by his two sons. George and Albert.
The debts aggregated $4,000
Mrs. B. F. Ricksler, furniture dealer at
Ashland, failed recently for SIG, OOO
The deep snow in the vicinity of Eau
Claire has been the means of discriminating
large numbers of patridges prairie chick
ems and grouse of late, and scarcity of
this game may be expected by the sports
Hen next fall