Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-02-17

Summer visitors are already engaging
rooms at Wisconsin watering places.
Lancaster boasts Of the finest churches and
school houses of any place of its size in the
State.
A resolution before the Milwaukee council
requiring saloons to be closed at midnight
has been defeated.
Ann Eliza Young, the sixteenth wife of
the late Brigham Young, lectured at Bosco-
bel the other night.
The treasurer of Buffalo county has con-
veyed to the State treasury So, sol. 70 as State
tax, school loans, etc.
There were thirty-four deaths in Mil
waukee last week, and five marriages. Nine
we're from diphtheria.
The personal property Of D. G. Tiffany, Of
Ripon, who recently became insane. is being
sold off under chattel mortgage.
Of total of 500 meals served at the
Friendly Inn in Milwaukee last week, forty
three were paid for at five cents each.
Buffalo county has seven insane persons
IN the Mendoza insane asylum-the full
number allowed from any one county by
law.
The Wisconsin chronological institute has
q membership of 1874, and the ladies' auxil-
larry of the institute numbers more than 200
members.
Lyman Rumsey and family, of Oshkosh,
mourn the loss OF bright and interesting
boy Of four years. The little fellow died Of
diphtheria.
The venerable Vicar. General Kundig, of
Milwaukee, was stricken with paralysis Feb
ruary -, and but little hope of his recovery
is entertained.
Muscova is determined to have q new
bridge across the Wisconsin river at that
point. 1t is backed by the Chicago, M1lwau-
kee g. st. Paul railroad.
During the masquerade at the Academy of
Music in Milwaukee, few nights since,
Herman uhardt had the arteries of one of
his wrists severed by the accidental explosion
of champaign bs,ttle.
The location Of the postofice is the all
absorbing topic of conversation in Ripon
People up town want it in the old Ford
building, while those doing business on the
square would prefer to have it remain in
Greenway's block.
Joseph Otter, of Green Bay, aged about
IS, elsped with Louisa Supler, aged l6. Dit
ter has wife and five children; he took two
of the children with him, and all the avail
able money he had, leaving nothing to SUP
port the family. The deserted wife has
sworn out the necessary papers, and the
sheriff has started in pursuit of the guilty
pair.
Honorable Sam Ryan, president of the
State Editorial association, announces that
the next Editorial State convention will be
held at Oshkosh, June II. There is album
n oof t<o%o hot
thorities and citizens generally will exert
themselves to make the occasion pleasant.
An excursion on Lake Winnebago and Fox
river will be added.
In officiating at the funeral of the late
Hon. John Potter, member of the Assembly,
at Menasha, the Rev. Orson p. Clinton took
occasion to deliver temperance lecture at
the expense of the character of the deceased.
The leading citizens of Menasha and num-
Der of his legislative associates are out in a
gentlemen and generating the deceased
from the imputation cast on his memory.
The body of John Gillis, of Racine, the
young man who died from the effects of
tumor on the thigh, was exhumed at the re-
quest of the family, and the leg to which
the tumor was attached taken off. This was
done to prevent the body from being stolen
DR.. John G. Meachem has the tumor in his
possession. As this is the only tumor known
of such immense magnitude, it is exciting
great interest in medical circles. The medi-
cal name of the tumor is an osteo-cephalonia
It first made its appearance about two and
half years ago, and what was remarkable the
whole thigh bone was involved at once. Its
growth had been steadily increasing ever
since. At the death of the patient the
tumor exceeded the weight of the body.