Daily globe., 1879-03-24
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Hudson is to have Scandinavian COL
lege.
The making of maple sugar is now in
order.
The English sparrow has appeared in Ap-
pleton.
A Lutheran college is to be established at
Hudson.
John Flood, cripple, of Fond du Lac is
to get 81, 900 back pension.
Hersey is one of the growing owns on the
line of the West Wisconsin.
Trout are dying off by the thousands at
the fish hatcheries south of Madison.
Gen. Fitzpatrick has been lecturing at sew
eral points in the State very acceptably.
DR.. G. Aufn, of Chicago, was knocked
down and robbed of $50 the other day, at
River Falls.
Oshkosh against Rornon Grom for brutally
assaulting his wife.
There were nine marriages aad two deaths
recorded in the Office of the register of deeds
in Oshkosh last week.
A freshet has washed some of the bridges
away over the creeks on the road leading
from Eau Claire to Mondovi.
But one passenger was killed, and not an :
other injured on any of the lines operated
by the Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad com
| pany.
Father O'Malley, q Catholic priest, deliv-
cred a temperance address at Oshkosh the
other night, in the pulpit of the Presbyterian
church.
There have been five mills erected in Bar
ron county, and frames are up for eleven
more on the line of the North Wisconsin
| railway
One of the passenger locomotives of the
Wisconsin Central railway makes the re-
markable mileage of 800 miles every week.
or 81, ,4S0 miles year.
keepers are favorable. The workers come
out of their long sleep saucy enough, and
generally report pleasant winter.
Immense focks of wild geese, number
ing many thousands, have been passing over
points in Fond du Lac county OF late. They
are flying southwark, which is very singu-
lar fact at this season of the year.
The new town of Cumberland on Beaver
Dam lake, on the North Wisconsin railroad
gives every Indication of being rapidly built
up. Last week fifteen lots were bought for
business purposes, with prospect that many
! more WILL % SpooQlly CdKon up.
An infant son, aged 1o months, of Mr.. and
Mrs. Spurbeck, of Palmyra, choked while
eating his supper Friday night, by swallow
ing some hard substance that could not be
dislodged, though medical aid w~s i'm
mediately summoned, and died after great
suffering.
The Green Bay Gazette says it is reported
that $500 were found secreted in lounge
in the residence of the priest who
died so suddenly in Preble. It was one he
constantly used to rest on, and before bis
death he had given his housekeaper instruc
tions, that in any case of accident by fire
during his absence, to save the lounge. as he
was particularly attached to it.
James Ryan, who lived one mile and 6
half from Hanover, got off tie train at the
latter place on his return from GAINESVILLE
the other night, and started through the
darkness to go to his farm. He did no
reach his home, and after day or two hi:
unacconntsbl absence led to a search, anl
his body was found at the edge af a POND
not far from the Hanover station. He had
lost his way and had probably died from colt
and exposure.
Last September the schooner Arcturus ar
) rived in Racine with load of wood. The
captain could not hire men to unload tn
vessel at reasonable price, and accordingl,
he sent to Milwaukee for force to do th,
job. They arrived, but when they attempted
to unload the craft the dockwallopers her.
pitched into them and compelled them tx
abandon the work. Now Capt. Cheyne and
) Newell, of Milwaukee, have served papers
upon the city to recover damages amounting
to $500.
Waupun Leader: Fred. Wellhouse, lso1
of Martin Wellhouse, of Alto, ACCIDENTAL,
shot himself while hunting near the ston,
church, on Wednesday afternoon. His com
panions, Mike Brezer and Adolph BarkeIaar
were few rods away at the time, ard hear
ing the report went to him and found hin
dead, the charge from his shotgun having
entered under the right ear. The deceased
was about "a years of age, promising young
man, and highly respected by all who knew
him.