Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-11-03
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The red ribbon movement is active in Berlin.
Lumbermen are preparing for winter work in
the pineries.
The Wisconsin Central railroad is overrun
| with freight business.
A strong effort ia to be made to secure an ap-
preparation for new court house IN Waupaca
county.
| A young lad in Two Rivers named Niquette
| was run over the other evening and had four
| ribs broken.
The M. E. church steeple in Waupaca. which
was badly damaged by lightning, is being thor
oughly repaired.
| Kelley, shot by G. E. Crockett at the noto-
rious ranch called Castle Diamond" near
Marinette, is dead.
Green Bay company have taken a contract
| to furnish 800 barrels for large manufac-
tory in Peoria, Ill. They are to be made Of
| Eastwood
Albert Mcdonnell, of Oconomowoc, promi-
| nent farmer. has been mysteriously missing for
several weeks, and it is feared he has been
| foully dealt with
| fall than it has been for years. Farmers are
| receiving good prices for their produce, and are
| paying their debts.
One hundred men employed on the mill race
| at Neenah, struck for higher wages the other
day, but after due consideration went to work
| at the old price, $l. 25 a day.
Frank O. Brien, aged II years, of Fond du
Lac, was thrown from load of stone the
other day, and the heavy load passed over him.
he was seriously injured, but not fatally.
Frank Hartmann, brakeman on the Chica-
go & Northwestern railroad, running between
Fort Howard and Escanaba, was thrown from
| the train under the wheels, the other day, and
terribly cut and bruised, but will probably re-
cover.
The corner stone of the mortuary chapel, OPP
posite Calvary cemetery. Milwaukee, which is
to be IN charge of the Cspucin Fathers, was
laid on Sunday, Oct. Is, with fitting ceremo-
MES, in the presence of a vast concourse of
people.
The Appleton Post says Mr.. Nelson, one of
the lock-tenders on the government canal was
recently caught by the sudden closing of one
of the massive lock gates, and had one thigh
broken and received other injuries of an alarm
ing character.
l.. g. Kinnes, of GAINESVILLE, was overcome
by escaping gasoline, the other day. When
found, he he had stopped breathing. A ply
sician quickly summoned succeeded in restor-
ing life, which in two minutes more would
have been impossible.
meeting If pioneer settlers was held in
Oshkosh last week in honor of John Durfee,
who has reached the great age of IS years.
About one hundred were present, including
nearly all the earliest settlers who could at
tend, with their wives
Fred. Swensko, of Eaton, Manitowoc county
returning home the other night. with his
brother, was attacked by highwaymen. The
one was robbed of 800, and the other of $25
The robbers are supposed to be prisoners es-
capped from the Green Bay Jail.
The killing of Hagan by Cochrane in Grand
Rapids, for alleged Intimacy with his wife, is
leading to disastrous results On a late morn
ing the Office of the Grand Rapids Tribune was
destroyed by fire, with its contents. A reward
Of $500 is offered for the discovery of the in
cendiary.
Charles E. Ingersoll, of De Soto, Vernon
county, shot his nephew, John Ingersoll, a few
days ag:. The trouble grew out of woman
scrape, both men seeming to be enamored of
the same female. The shooter is in custody.
He claims the nephew fred at him first. The
wounded man is in acritical condition, and
may die.
On Monday evening, Oct. 81, the State board
OF charities and reforms met in the Newhall
House, Milwaukee, and commenced an iavesti-
CATION Of the alleged atrocities at the house of
correction. They subsequently, visited the
county Jail and inspected the ward the women
are imprisoned in. They found six women and
four children crowded in narrow. fonl. ILL
ventilated apartment, the county board having
failed to honor the sheriff's frequent requests
| for better apartments. An infant child Of one
of the prisoners was found to be diving on &C
oount Of the fetid atmosphere of the ward.