Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-03-26
WISCONSIN NEWS.

A new Catholic church was dedicated at
Chiffon on St. Patrick's day.
j. 81. Parry, prominent merchant of
Bangor, Wis.,, has made an assignment.
Hiram Cooke, of Racine, has been sent to
the State prison for three years for larceny.
A large number of horses are reported to
be dying in Racine from what is regarded as
a new disease.
There we're IA deaths, SO marriages and SO
births in Fond du Lac county during the
month of February.
George Lackner, of Milton, had a stick
strike and enter his ear the other day, por-
ton of it remaining imbedded therein.
Oshkosh lumbermen estimate that 2OO,-
100000 feet of logs have been skidded on
the Wolf river and its tributaries this winter.
The Milwaukee brick-makers have con-
tracts for over 100000 of brick this sea-
had.
A Wausau item is to the effect that the
loggers are nearly all out of the woods, and
the streets are lined with ldlers awaiting the
spring freshets.
It is feared that the many cold snaps has
seriously injured the winter wheat in some
sections of Wisconsin. More than usual
quantity was sown last fall.
Over 100 menshave loft Lafayette county
within SIX weeks for LeadviIle, Colorado, be-
ing smitten with mining fever. Numerous
others are likely to be carried off by the same
epidemic.
At Waupaca, a few evenings since, about
one hundred of the leading citizens assem-
bled at the residence of Mr.. and Mrs. Rant.
The reception was a great social event in the
history of that section.
A great deal of sickness has prevailed in
Wausau during the past few weeks. Many
little children have died and many more are
sick. The schools were closed for week on
account of sickness among scholars.
Racine lady with mania for looking
under beds for robbers, was so frightened
the other night by the discovery of sus-
picious-looking rag bag under her bed that
she ran screaming from the house, fell down
stairs, and was very nearly killed.
From Is to 100 men and a large number
of teams have been vigorously at work on
the dalles at Eau Claire during the past four
weeks, and the booms now extend some five
or six miles up the river. Every convenience
is now almost perfected for the handling, as
sorting and storage of logs.
Last week at Fond du Lac, F. II. Rondo,
alderman of the Sixth ward, went into the
iron room of the La Belle wagon works just
as some of the machinery gave out, piece
of which was plunged through one of his
eyes into his head. The eye was removed,
but the piece of steel could not be extracted.
At last accounts he was alive.
Arson Eldred & Co., of Milwaukee, have
put Corliss engine of $50 horse power into
their planning mill and sash factory at Fort
Howard. The firm is making arrangements
to ship lumber into Iowa via the Green Bay
& Minnesota railroad to Winona, and barges
down the Mississippi to Muscatine and
Lyons, also via the Wisconsin Central &
Western Union railroads, to the same des-
tination.
The Green Bay ADVOCATE says concerning
the reported existence of gold and silver in
the iron mines of the Menominee range
''The lowest assay that we have heard of
showed "a trace of silver and Judge Ingalls,,
one of the three owners of the Emmett mine,
informed us last Friday night, the 18th, that
the precious metals had been found in the
tailings from the mine pumps. The Judge
is not man to wilfully hoodwink the peo-
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