Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-09-16
= WISCONSIN NEWS.

The fall term of Milton college opened with
100 students. s@ 81 s.e f,.5~. =. Z. E. s.--
Many Wisconsin farmers are busy sowing
winter wheat.
Wisconsin village merchants are reporting an
increase of trade. r-- =. - gA. -
A sorghum mill, near Milton, is busily on
gagged in making syrup. e.5
A German socialistic Newspaper il about to
be started in Milwaukee. -,
In Milton $4,000 have bsen paid out for wool
during the past thirty days. 81. z.a.s
By the late school census Ripon is reported to
have 900 children of school age.
The cool weather has largely thinned out the
visitors at the Springs in Waakesha.
The Fret National bank building in Racine
is nearing completion. 1t is q handsome
structlre. 4z H., .... :. - ~ 9
Choice butter is scarce and high at some
points in Wisconsin, owing to the drouth,
which spoiled the pastures. :
Mrs. Kinskis, living near La Crosse was fatal
~ injured the other day by being thrown vio-
lently to the ground by runaway team.
Miss Mamie Miner, aged 16, swan, the other
day, across Lake Geneva from Howard's park
to Camp Collie, nearly two miles, in little less
than half an hour. =
Pat CORR, farmer of Middleton, was found
unconscious on the whifletrees of his wagon,
carried homo, where he died. :.
Two prairie schooners, having on board two
families from Seymour, passed through Osh-
kosh, the other day, bound for Kansas. One
of the party WAS a man over IS years old.
The sheriff Of Milwaukee county, Sept. 10,
turned into the county treasury 81 600 delin-
quent personal taxes, making SiO, 600 collected
thus far out of total of 4l2, 400. He hopes 10
get another thousand. -
Ugly COWS are bad to fool around. James
White, living in the town OF Mount Pleasant
did not think 80, and because his COW kicked
over q pail of milk yesterday morning he pro-
coed to beat the beast. The result was he was
hooked under the right eye, inflicting fearful
wound.
Advices from Baraboo state that crops in
that section are being greatly damaged by
drouth. There has been no rain here worth
mentioning for the past six weeks. Late corn
has been considerably injured. Very few of
tie late potatoes will be worth digging, and
pastnrsge is almost entirely destroyed.
: A Racine shoemaker named Gray had mar
row escape from being shot few evenings
since, in very strange way. He was sitting
in JohnsOn's saloon at the foot of Main street,
smoking a.pipe. In some manner he put a
loaded cartridge in the pipe instead of Tobacco,
and it exploded, the bali smashing the pine to
pieces aud grazing one of his ears =
Frank Waldo, OF Oshkosh, had a narrow cs-
cape from death. the other day. He went into
an clubhouse, and soon after heard the report
of q revolver. followed by the whizsing Of
ball overhead. The leaden pellet n it passed 4
through one side Of the house Clipped off
piece of the wood. which struck Mr.. Waldo in
the cheek. Had his head been q trife higher
the bali would have struck him and penetrated
the brain. The shooting was done by boy
named Bailey, who had found the clubhouse
suitable target. :.
A farmer by the name of Willard Ellis, who
lives in the town of New Haven, Adams county,
was buried alive Wednesday in q we'll sixty feet
deep. He had descendedt to clean the sand and
rubbish that had collected there, when the sides
suddenly caved in. Help was summoned ut
once aud gang of men commenced to remove
The earth from the we'll with all possible speed.
There is hardly chance that he is alive. At |
latest accounts they had not reached depth of |
forty feet, and it would be several hours before
they could possibly reach him. ls1s5as SCI
Late advices from Fond du Lac state that |
some one has blundsred," seems to 10 the I Ii ]