Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-05
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Fond du Lac is to have paid fire depart
ment.
A COW at Appleton recently swan eight
miles.
The amount received in Oshkosh for retail
liquor licenses is 50, 800.
A lady in Appleton has rose of deep
green color in her conservatory.
The police of Oshkosh made forty-three
arrests during the month of July.
The Oshkosh steam wagon made POI
miles in thirty three hours and twenty seven
minutes.
Henry Hayden has sued the Wood County
Reporter for libel, laying his damages at
$4,000.
The bank of GAINESVILLE, the other day, was
done out of 5000 by swindler on a
forged draft.
The stone foundations of the new Jail
being erected at Mauston are finished and
ready for the brick.
Suspicious looking and acting tramps are
still prowling about the cities, large towns
and villages of Wisconsin.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth men
tions the names of nine candidates for Con-
gress on the Greenback ticket in that dis
trict.
The Wisconsin Central railroad company
pays out upwards of 100000 per annum at
Stevens Point for labor in their machine
shops.
The report that .'Old Abe," the renowned
eagle that accompanied the Eighth Wiscon-
sin volunteers through the late war of the
rebellion, is dead, is contradicted.
The Fond du Lac Commonwealth says.
Ripon man has just received patent for a
wind engine. He took candidate for Con
gress in charge and had him patented.
A young man of Milwaukee recently ap-
piled to the courts for an injunction restrain
ing his girl from marrying another fellow.
Why is not this better than a suit for breach
Of promise?
Steps are being taken in Oshkosh to pre-.
vent the use of firearms within the city lin.
its on the Sabbath "Shots'' are in the
habit of trying their skill in the shooting
park every Sabbath.
The Wisconsin State fair will be held il
Madison September 9th, 9th, 10th, 18th
18th and 18th. The exhibition will be ope1
to the world, except in the cattle, horse
sheep and swine departments.
Capt. Young, of Oshkosh, filled his pip,
i W4uN tOOdCCO 1lOtu LIS IJOChoG Ill WHICH, GlloIt
were some revolver cartridges, and one o
these he unconsciously put in his pipe. Hi
nose had narrow escape, but the pipe il
beyond surgery.
The Juneau County Argus says: A Grove
of Winnebago Indians, numbering nearl
TWO hundred persons, including squaws an,
pappooses, are camped near New London
the female portion of whom are actively en-
gagged at picking huckleberries.
| On farm three miles southwest from
Jefferson q team ran away with reaper
throwing off Miss Campbell who was driv
ing, and the raker, Mr.. Campbell. They es
capped with slight injury, but the reaper wa
badly broken up.
The lightning struck barn near Mort
Point, Racine county, last week, demolish
ing it generally. Although the thunder an
lightning were very heavy in that section Q
the country, and considerable rain fall, thi
is the only accident reported, with the ez
ception of uprootlng trees and blowing owe
haystacks.
Three boys went out into the lake q
Racine, August l, in an old scow, and whe
half mile from shore it capsized, thrown
them into the water. They chung to th
boat. A gentleman on shore seeing the
peril, took row boat and went to their res
cue and took them off in an exhausted col
dition. They could have held out but fe
, minutes longer. The wind was blowing vel
hard