Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-23
WISCONSIN NEWS.

There are 1920 patrons of the public
library in Milwaukee.
1t cost $500 to entertain and feed the
Presidential party in Milwaukee.
The GAINESVILLE people are considering the
subject of constructing water works.
Not less than eight boys were seen drunk
on the streets OF Racine on late Sunday
night.
An incendiary fire occurred at Oshkosh
the other night, which destroyed an unoecu-
pied residence.
The Waukesha fire company say that if the
project of purchasing fire engine is de-
feated they will disband.
81. LOOMS, boot and shoe dealer, of Col
umbia, Columbia county, made an assign
ment to Michael Adams, Esq.
There are reports of numerous depreda-
tons by ''gang of tramps'' that have
squatted in the vicinity of Berlin.
Hop picking is nearly completed in Wan
poce county. The quality is good and free
from lice, but not half the usual crop.
The Limbergher cheese factory on Kin
nickinnic avenue, Milwaukee, is said to emit
odors offensive to the average inhabitant.
Jackson Vickerman, of Milton, dug fifty
of an acre of land. They are large and fine.
The lowest bid for the erection of the new
assembly hall at the State university was that
of j. Bently d Son, of Milwaukee, which was
$4,000.
The members of the M. E. church at Ra-
cine lately gave peach festival at their
church, and are reported to have had a
splendid time.
An attempt was made one night last
week by one of the young men of Horizon
to relieve l.. Wolpom of his loose change,
but the thing did not work.
A little boy between five and six years old
was drownded in cistern in Milwaukee,
which WIS left not only carelessly, but Grim
lnally open and unprotected.
j. L. Frocher, of the town of Fort Winnie
bago, has been arrested on the charge of
wife-beating. He had pounded his wife
tearfully, and came near killing her.
fire in Racine broke out in washer
woman's shed. and but for the prompt or
ganization of o bucket Brigade disastrous
confagration would have been the result.
hardware merchant in Milwaukee has
been robbed of goods to the amount of
$1,000. On being detected, the thief confess
&c. his crime, and returned some $500 worth.
The merchants of Racine are refusing to
take the trade silver dollar for more than 80
cents, whereat their customers are vastly in
censed, and'the result will be the loss of
custom.
The work for the erection of new hotel
IN Waukesha, on the ruins of the Fountain
house, lately destroyed by an incendiary fire,
has been commenced. The new hotel is to
be 44O feet front.
An electrical bolt fell upon house in
Milwaukee the other night making things
lively for short time. The inmates were
stunned badly but none seriously, however
The house was but slightly damaged,
New Wisconsin PATENTS: Gun sights, H,
Rowell, Columbus; Ratchet wheel and pawn
mechanism for rotating shafts by treadle
power, F. j. Ribble, Campbellsport; clothes
drlers, j. Benstine and G. III. Osborne Ocon
OmOwoc.
Between two and three hundred gypsies
are camped near by Racine. They spend
their time in roaming through the city and
vicinity, trading and dickering with every
one who will trade with them, telling for
tunes, etc.
The Columbus Democrat says: sNot a
bushel of No. 1 or No 2 spring wheat has
yet reached this market, and there is prob
ably none of these grades of this years
growth in this vicinity. The receipts are of
No. 3 and No. and rejected, in about equal
quantities.
The house of William Gaulke, in Mil
waukee, was burglarized the other night and
robbed of 800 in bills and $1 in change.
Subsequently, the burglar was found to be
Anna Metrelfeld, IA years old daughter of
a neighbour. On being arrested she confess
ed the crime, and told where she had buried
the money, which was found as indicated.
A yong girl, the daughter of farmer liv-
ing in Coon valley, was walking to neigh
boris, when she was set upon by tramp
She made a desperate resistance and cried
Justify for aid, which fortunately arrived and
| frightened the villain off. A number of
farmers then took their guns and searched
for him the entire day, but without success.
John Wise, of Knapp, ten miles west Of
Menomonee, who four months ago was ar
rested on the charge of assault with intent
to rape his 12-year old daughter, was acquit-
| ted Friday, the jury remaining out only
short time. The evidence clearly shows
that it was a put-up job on the part of his