The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1890-11-20

ESTIMATED.
THE Secretary of States office has
prepared statement of the principal
farm products raised in the State in 1889,
taken from the assessment rolls of the
several counties. From this statement,
says the Madison Journal, it appears
that Wisconsin raised, in 1889, of wheat,
| 9, $685. 1922 bushels; corn, %, 4S5, 749 BUSH
els; oats, 40, 1919, 27O bushels; barley, 12,-
| 524, 757; rye, 1926, 895; potatoes. IL, 534,-
| 892; root crops, 1916, 998; cranberries,
4S, SOC; apples, $50, $50; Strawberries,
! 13, 118, raspberries, 10, 118; blackberries,
10, 700; currants, 1,90S; grapes, 1880;
clover seed, 139, 1873; timothy seed, So, 494.
The State also produced 921, 1913
pounds of flax, 337,819 pounds of hops,
15,522,411 pounds of tobacco. There
were grown 1,965,518 tons of Gull
dairymen also produced 1904, 147
pounds of butter and 45,726, 573
pounds of cheese. This year there were
planted in the State 726, 458 acres of
wheat, 1,O16, 344 of corn; 1852, 1888 of
oats, 459, $50 of barley, 1872 of rye,
LAT, 500 of potatoes, S,467 of root crops,
and 8,568 of cranberries. There are
1,1S4,515 apple trees in the orchards of
the State. The small fruit holds it's
own in acreage. OF strawberries there
are 1865 acres; of raspberries, IA;
blackberries, sol; currants, 252; grapes,
$50; fax, 1887; hops, 1920; tobacco,
1850. There are also 626, 796 mich
cows, valued at So, O57,272
APOLOGY, a Milwaukee pigeon, made
1875 yards per minute in a 100-mile fly
from Green Bay to Milwaukee. +. T.
Towers, of the latter city, owns the
bird which has thus beaten the record.
The best previous speed for the distance
was 1,343 yards per minute, and was
made in 1883 from Cumberland, Md, to
Baltimore.
MADISON Journal: John Johnston, the
Milwaukee banker, is now spoken of as
O. candidate for the United States Sen
ate Johnston is the man who nomi-
mated Peck for Governor. He is neph-
ew of the late Alexander Mitchell,
thorough-going Democrat, and an able
man.
PERHAPS the most curious bet of the
campaign was made at Ashland. Ru-
dolph WALL editor of the Ashland Her
old, bet 100 head of cabbages with Au-
gust Metzdorf that George W. Peck
would be elected. The condition was
that Metzdorf was to deliver the cab
bages at the office of the Her0ld accom-
panied by a band of music.
SEVERAL hunters who killed deer in
Wisconsin and attempted to take them
into Michigan, and who were fined for
violating the game laws, have decided to
bring test suit, on the claim that the
law is not q valid one.
THE election of John L. Mitchell TO
i io
ance as resident manager of the Soldiers
Home, says Milwaukee dispatch. Mr..
Mitchell will also probably continue to
act as the Worlds Fair Commissioner for
Wisconsin.
DER HERoLD of Milwaukee has can
didate for United States Senator. In a
leading editorial it says that the victory
of the Democrats in this State is due
chiefly to German votes, and that, there
fore, it would be peculiarly appropriate
for the Democrats to elect German to
the Senate. This German, it claims,
should be E. w. Won Cotzhausen.
THE cranberry crop for this season in
Wood County amounts to 10000 barrels,
and they are selling at 81 per barrel.
A THREE-YEAR-oLD son of John Full
ton, of Eau Claire, was choked to death
by a piece of boiled cabbage getting
stuck in his throat at the supper table.
NEARLY all the northern saw mills
have shut down, and men are being sent
to the pineries to commence work there.
BRAY & CHoATE, of Oshkosh, have
purchased from Ring & Youmans Of
Neillsville, $1,000. 900 feet of pine in
Oneida County. The consideration was
about $35, 900.
AN old resident of Appleton named
Merritt recovered his eyesight the other
day after having been totally blind for
twenty years. The most remarkable
fact is that he never received treatment.
Some time ago an oculist pronounced
him incurable.