Daily globe., 1879-04-07
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Milwaukee claims population of 13l 900.
military company is being organized at
Appleton.
Maple sugar sociables and dances seem to
be the order of the day at present at Ripon.
Otto Craige, of Milton, has gone mad, in
sane, and will be taken to the Madison in
sane asylum.
Ferry boats are running between lacrosse
first trip March 26th.
During the present season Oshkosh and
Portage City will be connected with Buffalo,
N. Y, by water route.
Mrs. Manila Paine, widow of the late
Gen. James H. Paine, is dead. She died at
the family residence in Milwaukee, March
%.
The severe northeast snow storm which
prevailed at Racine April 2, made things
lively about the river, but no damage re-
suited.
Nearly all the stock for the new street rail
way in Racine has been secured, and the
friends of the enterprise regard its success
as nearly assured.
The dairy interest of Clark county has
reached point of very considerable import
ance. county Dairyman's association is
now under consideration.
Capt. Joseph Hoult, of Green Bay, died
few days ago at Kaukana, aged, as he claimed,
123 years. Those who were best acquainted
with him admit the correctness of his claim.
Mrs. Scott, widow of the late Ezra Scott,
of Racine, has received a check for $4,000
of the Syracuse treasurer of the knights of
Honor, the amount for which her husbands
life was insured in that order.
Rev. Mr.. Stein, of Racine, was pounded
the other day in very remarkable manner
by his friends. He received pound of al
most every conceivable thing under the sun,
among them pound of silver dollars.
From seventy-ive to one hundred men and
large number of teams have been vigorous
ly at work on the dalles at Eau Claire during
the past four weeks, and the booms now ex-
tend some five or six miles up the river.
! At the United States pension agency in
| Milwaukee, during the month of March, the
amount paid to invalids, widows of soldiers,
and survivors of the war of 1912 was $685.
272.75, which was paid to 8,787 persons
Saba Atwood, soldier of the war of 1912,
is dead, and was buried at Waupun. He
was 96 years old, and had been a citizen OF
Wisconsin for more than quarter of CEN
tury. He was native of Massachusetts.
Sheboygan county has met with serious
loss in the death of the late Julius Wolf OF
Rhine. He was man of wealth and in
fuence, much esteemed and loved by his
townfolks and large circle of friends in the
county.
John Jacobs, of Milwaukee, the possessol
of pretty wife, in fit of jealousy the Other
night, stabbed Anton Hasenclever with 8
pocket knife in the shoulder. The wound is
not dangerous one. Jacobs was arrested
and bound over for trial.
A year ago, Mrs. Margaret Garrity, O.
Fond du Lac, fired her neighbours house, in
petty revenge. Monday she was sentenced
to the State prison for arson for four years
She is woman of considerable property
and has good bank account.
The other night, as lady in Green Ba,
was on her way home alone, she was seizet
by the throat by well-dressed stranger, VIII
choked her until she had stabbed him severa
times in the arms and hands with pair o
scissors which hung at her side, when th
pain compelled him to let go, and he the1
ran away.
The colored people of Milwaukee, wit
others from towns about the State, latel
held meetings at the African Methods
church in the interest of western colonies
> ton. It was resolved, before the meetin
; ended, to organize State colonization asse
citation, and the following executive boar
was elected: Rev. w. 81. Brown, chairman
8. B. Bell, treasurer; A. F. Hunt, secretar,
= j. E. Gleissner and A. Jones.
, A girl in the town of Hustisford died in
!. peculiar manner one day last week. he
J lover went to Woodland, and she desired t
accompany him, but her parents would nc
allow her to do 80. A short time after he
q disappointment, while engaged in washin
windows, she fell down dead. A post MOI
! tenn examination revealed heart disease q
! the cause of her death, which was no dout
augmented by grief at her disappointment.
A draft for 5000 forins ($1, ,26O) has bee
sent to the Vienna Free Presse, to be fol
!, warded to the Hungarian minister, for di,
;, !. tribution among the sufferers by the recer
floods. This money was all donated b
citizens of Milwaukee with the exception {
y twenty-five dollars received from Manitowo
The committee having the matter in chars
report balance of sixty dollars in the ban
t and the work of canvassing not yet compile
3 ed It is expected that about $500 mo-
viii be sent,