Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-01
WISCONSIN NEWS.


Shawano county is to have a new court
house.
The other day the wheat buyers in Sparta
paid $l a bushel for wheat.
cofined corpse arrived at Racine the
other DAY and no one claimed it.
The Fond du Lac air line railroad operates
twenty-eight miles of narrow gauge.
The house of man named Endmiller, of
New Cassel, has been destroyed by fire.
J. & A. Stewart g. Co.'s mill at Wausau.
has cut 5000, 900 feet of logs this season.
About one half of the tobacco crop around
Milton junction is cut and secured unde,
roof.
$4,000 paper mill, which will employ
fifty men. is to be Immediately built at Mar.
inette.
The railroad has been completed to Viro.
qua, and the people of that village are
Happy.
The Eagle house at Eau Claire was de.
stroyed by fire August "a. Loss $50, 900; in.
sured 81, 500.
Irempeleau village boasts of q public
park, which is one of the finest places of re-
sort on the river. ~
John Proell, register Of deeds Of Mantle.
voc county, died Sunday, August "a, OF
cholera morbus.
Ripon's underground river has at last been
proved to exist. The stream Is shallow, bu,
sparkling and cool.
Sylvester Leach, of Ecu Claire, suicided
last week by cutting his throat. Cause,
trouble with his wife.
Col. A. H. West, of Madison, died OF
paralysis August &c. He was proprietor OF
the Tonyawatha hotel.
AT Monroe, the other night, burglars blew
open the safe of lumber firm, and secured
for their booty $40 in cash.
running stream of water eighteen
inches deep has been discovered in Ripon
while excavdting for a building.
Up the Chippewa, the rains of July SO i'm
peded the securing of the hay crop, that that
product will be unusually scant.
Two harvesters entered the house of jacob
Stsin in Stockton. the other day, and stole
numerous articles. They were arrested and
imprisoned.
young girl of Racine named Louisa
jacobson has mysteriously disappeared
from home, and no one knows what has be
come of her.
In the southwestern portion of Waupac ca
county the corn crop has been nearly ruined
by the drouth, while in tho northeastern Dor.
ton the yield will be heavy.
James Stewart. of Milwaukee, committed
suicide on Sunday, May "a whisky the
cause. He was thirty five years old and
leaves wife and five children.
Hon. Charles p. Soper, of Darien, died
last week. He was one of the oldest resi-
dents of Wolworth county, successful far
mer, and prominent in local politics.
The other night Norwegian named
Dohl was run over and killed BY freight
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway near Bangor, sixteen miles east OF
La Crosse.
George Foster, of Racine, the other night
discovered burglar trying to gain entrance
to his house. Before he could get his shot
gun to bear on him, the rascal took the
alarm and fled.
The very fine court house at Sheboyean is
sinking. It was built on planks spread on
quicksand, and the planks are now rotten
A speciel meeting of the county board will
consider the matter.
Gov. Smith has appointed Mrs. Binda Ell
bridge, wife of Charles B. Eldridge, of
Tomah. notary public for four years. This
IS the first woman who has secured the ap-
polntment in Monroe county.
A book agent called on farmer named
Kent in Mt. Pleasant to collect nav for
book. Aquarrel ensued; the farmer set his
dog on the citizen, who was badly bitten. A
suit for damages will be the result.
A German girl near the north pier. Ra-
cine, named Lizzie Houser, in some way with
open mouth let grasshopper into her
throat 'and came near choking to death.
hastily administered emetic by physician
relieved her.
Workmen engaged in repairing the bridge
crossing the river from the Milwaukee depot
to the junction at Watertown, unearthed a
lot of jewelry and trinkets, which prove to
have been the articles stolen from the resi-
dence of Gustavus Werlich last June.
On recent Sunday, man and woman
(names not given) went from North Prairie.
Walworth county, to Hartford to have their
infant child baptized at the Catholic church.
When they presented the infant to the priest
it was found to be dead, having been smoth.
cred by being wrapped SO close.
In the town of Hartford, two strangers,
named Cook and Owens, lay claim to the
same wife. Owens and the woman came
there together few days ago; Cook fol-
lowed, and on Saturday entered the house to
get his wife to come home with him. He
was driven out by stoning, whereupon he
drew revolver and shot Owens. Cook was
arrested. Owens is not expected to recover.
The other day, in Racine, a gill, Nettie
jackson, being driven out of doors by her
drunken father, and having no place to 90
to rushed to the bridge with the intention
of drowning herself. Two mon seized her
just as she was about to take the fatal
plunge, and she struggled vigorously to get
awsy from them. They fnally took her
home and she was looked up in a room.
The dDnken father and brother in-law
had gone to the river to look for her.
At the present time the only talk around
Racine, is Of grasshoppers, for the simple
reason that the woods, lake, beach and fields
are full of than, and myriads of them are
flying in the air. The beach on the north
side of the river is literally covered with
them, and as soon as they get out of the
wates aud dry, they ayof westward, and
the fields and gardens along the lake shore,
and for miles back, are being ruined by the
pests, and corn and cabbage are eaten very
fast.