The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-07-27
Short but Newsy Items.


Ella Beckwith, of Berlin, committed sui
eide the other morning by taking NOR
phine.
Oscar Girron, employee of Murphy's mill
at Green Bay, was killed recently bya fly
ing board, which passed through his head.
John Wentlands brewery at Boomer
was consumed by fire a few days ago.
Loss, 900; insurance, IS, 500.
The engine-house of the Florence mine
was burned early the other morning, caus-
ing loss of $4,000, covered by insurance.
William Guse was found dead recently,
hanging to tree, near GAINESVILLE. No
cause for the suicide was known.
The Inter County Medical Association in
session at Eau Claire recently elected DR..
+. s. Hayes as president
Burglars opened the safe at Willott's
axle factory in Manitowoc few nights
ago and stole small amount The job was
done by experts.
Captain Nat D. Moore intends to leave
the Geogobic range where he has made
and lost million, and to begin anew at
Kingston, Can.
A Florence youth found hairpin in a
cigar he smoked the other day, and he has
been worrying ever since for fear he has
cremated girl.
A H. Hadfeld, of Waukesha, and
George Hiles, of Milwaukee, have pur-
chased fifty thousand acres of land in
Liberty, Fla. Ii is estimated that the tract
will yield about one billion feet of lum-
Der.
A boy named Clouder was drowned at
Manitowoc recently while learning to
swim.
The GAINESVILLE shoe factory has been sold
at auction for $500.
The corner stone for new Congrega-
tional church at Appleton vas laid a few
days ago.
Henry N. Dixon, eldest son of ex Chief
Justice Dixon, of the Wisconsin Supreme
Court dropped dead the other night at
Madison from heart disease
The June pay-rolls of the lumber mills
at Merrill aggregated about S45, 600.
Over thirty-five thousand barrels of beer
were sold in the Green Bay revenue dis
trict during the fiscal year ended June 80
At Manitowoc recently Robert Clauder.
twelve years of age, was drowned while in
bathing. His father was trying to teach
him how to SWIM when he slipped from
the parents grasp and was swept out of
reach.
At the home of Pauline Scheiber, in Mil
waukee, the other night Charles Krause,
aged tweuty-six years, shot himself be-
cause the young woman refused to marry
him.
1t is estimated that this seasons crop of
ranberries in Wood County will be worth
fully $500, 000 This is an exceedingly large
yield.
The following Wisconsin inventors re
Gently received patents: w. Blatchley,
Fox Lake. thrashing machine; Susan S.
Fracketton, Milwaukee, apparatus for
firing china; c. E. Parks, Watertown, box
or crate; J. D. Rasey, Oshkosh, boiler set
ting
The saw-mill of D. j. Spaulding, at
Withee, was burned a few days ago. Loss
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Rev. F. Fusseder, who was chaplain of
the Seventeenth Wisconsin Infantry DUR
ing the war, and had been pastor of st.
Peters Church at Beaver Dam from 1865
to 1886, died in that city the other night.
The commissioners appointed by Judge
Sloan to investigate the Muskego and
Wind lake project near Waukesha have
reported favorably. The canal will drain
two thousand five hundred acres of land.
Max Spiegen hanged himself in the House
ing. He was serving thirty days for drunk
enness and became respondent He left a
family.
The two-year-old son Of William Dean,
of Madison, was drowned in cistern on
his fathers premises the other afternoon.
Gonion & Gosin, agricultural implement
dealers at Green Bay, made an assignment
recently. The absence of the senior mem
Der of the firm, coupled with reports that
he had eloped with farmers wife, caused
the trouble.
A homesteader living near Florence says
that deer were never more plentiful than
they are this summer. He says he has
seen more deer this summer than during
any summer for the past three or four
years. The animals are becoming great
nuisances to the farmers.
Sixteen men were poisoned recently by
eating corned-b beef hash in railway con-
struction camp near Superior. One of the
victims was very i'll The cook had fed
from thu camp.