Daily globe., 1879-03-20
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Preparations are being made to rebuild the
! Warner house at Sparta.
| A large number of English sparrows have
made a lodgment at Fond du Lac.
Ex-senator Howe and wife are sojourning
now quietly in their home at Green Bay.
A Brodhead man sold the monument
over his first wife's grave, at the instance of
his second wife.
| Perry Smith, of Rec dsburg, while hunt
ing the other day, accidentally shot himself
in the face, inficting dangerous wound.
| Polish families near Arcadia spent their
time the past winter in making baskets, and
have just shipped car load to the eastern
markets.
| In a number of the villages of the State
young men are making preparations tortry
| their fortunes in the new Ell Dorado, Lead
vile, Colorado.
Rev. Father Gontlyn, of the town of
| Preble, Brown county, died suddenly last
Sunday. He was preparing to go to church
| to celebrate mass, when he dropped to the
floor and died in half an hour.
The Grand Rapids Tribune says: Yellow
river is full of logs. It is estimated that
75,0OO,O00 were put in this season. Loggers
! are all breaking camp and getting out as fast
as possible, we'll satisfied with the winters
work.
The breach of promise suit of Mary Mey-
ers against Edward Nj. Hamilton, tried in
the Milwaukee circuit court, has resulted in
verdict for the plaintiff, the jury awarding
damages to the amount of $4,000. An ap-
peal is talked of.
The Oshkosh Times says: A resident of
Winneconne, while in Oshkosh a few days
since, applied for an insurance policy on bis
house in Winneconne. In answer to the
question, "What are the facilities for putting
out fres?" said, 'It rains sometimes
The will of the late Vicar General Kundip
has been filed in the probate court of Mil
waukee. It bequeaths all of the property of
the deceased, after debts and funeral ex-
penses are paid, to the Rev. Kiiian Flasch, q
professor in st. Francis seminary Owing
to the shape in which the affairs of tile late
vicar gen eral were left, no definite ideas of
the value Of his estate ean be formed.
Seven years ago Louis Mogren was en-
ployed by Knapp, Stout & Co. on the drive.
He disappeared so suddenly that it was sup
posed he had been drowned. The other day
he appeared, was identified and drew bal
ance of $24Q due him on the books of the
firm. His mysterious conduct was not ex-
planned to the Dunn County News, which
tells the story.
The other day Anthony Rohmer, a copper
smith, while engaged upon some repairs at
the Menominee distillery, Milwaukee, fell
from an elevated scafolding to the basement
floor, distance of forty feet; his spine suf-
fered fracture, and he received other in
juries that caused his death two hours later.
Rohmer was AZ years old, and leaves wife
and four children.
The people of West Prairie in Trempe-
leau county, have been enjoying fright for
the past week by the appearance Of some
strange, unknown and unaccountable object
about the bluffs in that vicinity. 1t makes
its appearance in the forenoon and remains
standing in one place and position until
upon being approached, when it vanishes
as phantom, leaving behind it no visible
signs by which one can ascertain what the
strange being is, or the object Of its mis-
sion.