Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-01
WISCONSIN NEWS.

snow signs OF breaking up.
Two residences were destroyed by fro the
other night in Fond du Lac.
Diphtheria prevails to great extent in the
| northern counties of Wisconsin.
There are III men and eight women in the
house of correction at Milwaukee.
Robert Lumpkins, of Bloomington, Grant
county, died recently, aged 102 years.
Samuel Henry, of Neenah, has beer
offered $4,000 for his racing trotter, Brown
Billy.
Two hundred car loads of hogs per week
cross the river at Prairie du Chen, going
east.
The editor of Danish paper in Milwau.
kee was formerly member of the Danish
parliament.
The wife of Rudolph Wendt, German
living in Ripon, was badly gored by a COW
the other day.
Hon. E. H. Ellis, Judge of the tenth ju
dicial circuit, has sent in his resignation to
the Governor.
octon was destroyed by fire the other day
while the family we're absent visiting.
They have soup-house in full blast in
Milwaukee. The originators of it are fully
satisfied of the wisdom of their action in
starting it.
The other night, woman on Villa stree
in Racine, was seen chasing her husband
with club. He being the most fleet o.
foot escaped.
The railroad commissioner reports that
there are 1884 miles of railway in Wiscon-
sin that cost $18O,023,683, an average OF
$42,379 per mile.
Frank Dickerson, the partner of Mrs
Mack in the murder of her husband, has
been granted change Of venue, and will
stand trial at Elkhorn.
Sunday, Jan. 26, some Menasha bows
speared sturgeon which weighed 24(
pounds. It was feet 9 inches long, and ~
inches in circumference.
Owing to falling off in business the Wis
consin Valley Railroad company have taken
off one freight train, and hereafter are ia
have only tri-weekly freight.
A young daughter of George J. Rogers. OF
Milwaukee, fell from rocker few days
ago, and had her throat pierced by darning
needle. She will recover.
Matthias Johan, of New Berlin, Waukesha
county, fearing he would harm some one
while his mind was inAamad by liquor,
placed himself in custody.
The Postmaster general has changed the
name of the postofice now called Frank
vile, In CLARK county, to Hatfield, and APP
dointed G. A. Ecker postmaster.
In 1873, the GAINESVILLE cotton factory man
utactured 1854, 901 yards of cloth, the cash
value of which was $31O,993. Price paid
for labor during the year 1878, $7O,217.
William Purdy, who was working in
Woodruff & Pafft's logging camp near Chip
pewa Falls, few days since, was Instantly
killed by log rebounding and striking
him.
A bill has been introduced in the State
legislature to build State fish hatchery at
Milwaukee-the State to appropriate $4,000
for the purpose and Milwaukee to denote the
site.
The receipts of grain and -four at Mil.
waukee during the year 1878, reduced to
bushels, we're 3O,000,000 against $4,000, 900
the previous year. The receipts of hogs
were more than double.
Steel rails to the amount of $50 tons have
been purchased in Milwaukee for the Green
Bay d Minnesota railroad. This iron is
sufficient for six and one-half miles of track.
and will be laid in the vicinity of Plover.
The Catholics of Milwaukee are maxine
preparations to celebrate the fiftieth ami
versary of Archbishop Henni's ordination
to the priesthood. Twenty bishops and zoo
priests will be at the festival. Feb. 6 is the
day.
George Durham has discovered that tim
per thieves have been cutting large quantities
of pine logs from his lands in TAYLOR and
CLARK counties. It is estimated that logs to
the amount of $1,000 have been cut and
skldded to creeks. The parties will be pros
ecuted.
The college authorities at Ripon have been
officially notified of the decision of the
Judge of the.s9preme court relating to the
Dodge will case. By this decision the en-
dowment fund of the college is increased
$4,000, making in all now $4,000, besides
nearly $1,000 interest on the first amount.
Recently the dead body of a man, appar-
entity ~ years old, was found in an alley in
Racine, which proved to be the remains of a
German named Bernhardt Hochstein, who
was for number of years. employed at Ra-
cine college. From the facial distortion il
is supposed he must have died in conyul-
sions.
The Oshkosh common council has adopted
a resolution declaring James Freeman a
common drunkard, and absolutely forbidding
the sale of intoxicating liquors to him by
any licensed vender therein. freeman was
at one time one of the foremost lawyers in
the State, but intern perance has dragged
him down to the gutter.
Menasha has had frst-class sensation
and the gossippers have enjoyed it hugely.
Willie Bates, young druggist Of Ahnapee,
came to Menasha, his former home, few
Gays since to meet an engagement there,
that is to say he was to be married to an
estimable and highly cultured young LADY of
that quiet burg, and arrangements were all
made by her for the nuptials. But on the
wedding morn, young Bates proposed ITO
the lady's surprise) for an extension of the
time until spring. The father of the sswould-
be bride" said "no, young man, and sconsider
yourself released-go thy way thus proving
the truth of the old adage, there is manv 3
slip 'twixt the cup and the lip.
An Idiotic Idea.
Boston POST
1t appears that Senator of the United
States is really in earnest in proposing sep
arate territory for the negroes. If the ne
groes are ever going to be educated and fitted
for self-government it is not by sending them
of by themselves to lapse into condition
only little superior to barbarism. but bv
keeDinp them with tho white. ,,,l..-. \, -