Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-02
WICONsIN NEWS.

man in Madison digging in his garden
uneartied coffin containing an infant.
A piece of copper ore weighing eight
pounds has been dug up in Dane county.
| Fond du Lac glories in seven fires in one
night last week, all the result of lightning.
q. w. Phillips, prominent citizen and
business man of Delavan, hung himself the
| other day.
| George Smith, a prominent merchant of
Pierce county, died last week at the Madison
insane asylum.
Since August last 41I tons, or 66,447
quarts of blackberries have been shipped
from Green Bay.
Blocki's large machine shop at Sheboygan
was burned to the ground on Monday last.
Partially insured.
The next annual reunion of the Thir-
tenth Wisconsin infantry, is to be held at
Clear Lake, Rock county.
The Smithville postoffice in Wauwatosa,
near Milwaukee, was burned last week. The
contents were saved.
night attempt was made by some scoun-
drelly, unhung incendiaries to burn the
| village of Mazomanie.
| Columbia county farmer lost eight fine
hogs by giving them too much meal in an
| unfermented condition.
The German Agricultural fair of Sheboy-
gan county was not a success financially,
owing to the bad weather that prevailed.
| In Burnett county cranberries are being
| sold at $1.5O to so bushel. Nearly 5000
| barrels were gathered in Burnett county.
| The value of improvements made in the
village of Juneau, this year, aside from the
new court house, amount to over $25,OOO
man, Leonord by name, of Milton,
Monroe county, lost valuable team of horses
by driving them off a bridge on dark night.
The Jefferson county fair was attended by
| 10000 on the great day of the fair, and 5, 900
people sat down to picnic dinner on the
grounds.
| Among the attractions of the Central Wis
consld fair at Watertown was a free fight, in
which about twenty men participated, Civ
| ilization run mad!
The Milwaukee dailies are crying ssring''
| in reference to the board of public works,
and one of them wants said board abolished,
to stop swindling.
Robert H. Wharton, cashier of the German
savings bank, of Fond du Lac, has abscond
ed, stealing all the available funds of the
bank, amounting to $4,000.
Leopold Aschman, a baker, doing business
at No. ls72 Fourteenth street, Milwaukee,
swallowed arsenic, last Thursday night, and
| went che way of the discouraged.
| Mr.. Christian Mink, one of Racine's old
est citizens, left for visit to Germany about
ten days ago. Last Friday telegram was
received from New York to the effect that
be had fell into North river and drowned
and the body will be forwarded to Racine
for burial.
A book agent in Milwaukee allowed his
customary ''cheek'' to run away with him
last Friday. A West Side lady not desiring
to buy book, was grossly insulted by the
scamp, and on complaint of the lady was
gathered in by the police, and it is to be
hoped he will get his just deserts.
The summer season at Oconomowoc, one
of Wisconsin's many pleasure resorts, was
closed Thursday with brilliant fashionable
wedding. The contracting parties were DR..
Chas. N. Dorion and Miss Clara Townsend.
The published description shows gorgeous
l1st of toilets and brilliant array of pres
ents.
AtWatertown junction train on the Mil
waukes & st. Paul road struck the North
western train amidships, and knocking two
freight csrs off the track, passed through.
No one VAS injured. The engineer of The
st. Paul thin, when he saw that collision
was inevitable, jumped off, but the fireman
stayed at hispost.
Aman namsd Daniel Hall has just placed
on record in tie proper Dane county office
an instrument Whereby large tract of the
best property in the city of Madison was
transferred, Mard1 8, 1889, by Daniel Web
ster to Daniel Han, in consideration of the
sum of $4,000 to Nthe said Daniel of the
first part in hand pad. The Daniel Webster
referred to is thelold lion of the United
! States Senate.