Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-08-12
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The blackberry crop mill be very large, |
and prices will be very satisfactory.
A fatal and unknown disease is raging |
among the cattle in Winnebago county.
The Chicago Il Northwestern railway is
now steel tracked as far north as Depere.
The house of Mrs. Webster, at Point
Bluff, was totally destroyed by ire the other
day.
A number of Indians are working in the
harvest fields near Ripon. They are Me
nomoneeS.
They have got up frst-class ghost scare
in hilbourn city. veracious young man
has seen two.
A house was burned at Oshkosh, Sixth
ward, the other day, by the upsetting of
kerosene lamp.
Burglars robbed the house of Mrs. Per-
kins, in Waukesha. few nights since of a
watch and other valuables.
In the town of Hartford, 5-year old child
of Mr.. Weaver had its thigh broken, by be-
ing tossed up by vicious COW.
One of the lady swimmers in Milwaukee
swan, the other day, seventy-iye minutes at
the Rohn school above the dam.
Two men walking over the Main street
bridge in Racine saw boy struggling in the
| water. They rushed to his rescue and saved
him. He had accidentally fallen in.
! The penalty for killing prairie chickens in
| Wisconsin, before Aug 20, is $40 a bird.
Do as many editors in Wisconsin as in Min
nesota connive at the slaughter before the
time set by law?
There were between 1000 and 5000 peo-
pie in Waupaca, one day last week, to see
Forepaugh's great show. There were sever
al fights, good many pockets picked, and
hundreds swindled out of their money.
The Baraboo Republic says the other day
a human arm was found in barn at thai
/ place at the bottom of NOV of old hay.
| The discovery produces considerable excite
ment and enquiry, but no clue has BET n
found.
In Milwaukee, the other day, Morris
Michelstter entered complaint against DR..
Meinrod Risch, a prominent physician, for
debauching his (Mlchelstters) wife. Risch
was arrested and gave bail. The affair,
from the position of the parties, causes no
little excitement and comment in Milwaukee.
A Mrs. lille, residing on Division street,
Milwaukee, committed suicide by taking
poison August Z. She had been married
since last March. The husband stated that
his wife had been subject to mental aberra-
| ton, and that the warm weather of the last
few days had had very depressing effect
upon her. The occurrence produced much
local excitement in the neighborhood of the
accident.
An infatuated bull rushed through the
streets of Milwaukee the other day, scat
ing the people right and left in coHsterna-
ton. One woman less fortunate than
others, was attacked, and tossed by the en-
ragged animal six feet into the
air, and came down, striking OF
her shoulders. At first it was thought she
was killed, but she will recover, though be-
injuries were very painful.
Wisconsin has recently made some grea
changes in her laws relating to marriage ant
divorce. Formerly it was unlawful for an,
person to solemniZe a marriage excep
'slnagistrates and ordained ministers of tGt
gospel" but now Jewish Rabies are author
lied to perform such ceremonies. The di
vorce law is SO amended that If man de
serts his wife in another State and goes t,
Wisconsin, she may follow him and sue fo
divorce at once; but the husband must hav,
a years residence 1t man and woman
agree to live together as man and wife, ant
do SO, without any ceremony performed
the law of Wisconsin recognizes the union a
legal.