Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-06
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Oconomowoc is to have new hotel built
The hop fields have now actively at work
an army Of pickers, male and female.
1t is reported that the corn crop Of Milton
will be immence in quantity and quality.
Gen. John Mcdonald has been granted di-
vorce from his wife, the court sitting in Ri
pom.
1t is stated that 95 per cent of the goods
baught by Milton merchants came from Mil
waukee. .. D.
Chief Justice Ryan and daughter arc at
Oconomowoc. His health is slowly but surely
improving.
Patrick Judge of Janesville, has just been
sentenced for the third time to Waupun for
COW stealing. ... . -.
The new light house being built at Racine
Point is to be ia feet high. It is to have a
tower light about IS feet high. &C..
Farmers report that the recent rains have
rendered the ground in splendid condition for
blowing and the sowing of winter wheat
Young Haywood, a Fond du Lac medical
student who killed Chicago saloon keeper,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary for
life.
The publishers Of the Ward county Reporter,
and OF the Grand Rapids Tribune have been
arrested on a charge of libelling Judge Hay
den.
Sauer, the man who walked off bridge in
Racine the other night had cash nine inches
long and three inches deep cut in one of his
legs.
By the whole enumeration in Oshkosh lust
completed it appears that there are in that
city 1856 youth between the ages four and
twenty years.
Rev. Lorenzo Tabor, of Kansasyille, Racine
county, who has been on trial before the cir
cult court with Miss Ellen Foster, has been
acquitted.
Mrs. George Aldrich, while walking in Fond
du Lac the other night, on account of the Slip
perry walk, fell and broke one of her arms The
fracture was bad one.
A stranger named Abraham Luker died at
the house of a mill employee the other night,
suddenly after drunken debauch. He was a
German, and about thirty five years Of age.
The amount of logs in the Dells reservation
is estimated at 35000O0O feet, belonging to
owners in the vicinity Of Eau Claire Between
the Dells' dam and Little Falls there are esti
mated to be 10000.
Fred Grunenwald, town clerk of the town of
Shelby, while oiling a horse-p power threshing
machine slipped, and was caught in the ma
chinery and had his neck dislocated, an arm
broken and foot taken off.
The Oshkosh jury impannelcd by the coro-
ner, in their verdict say that the fire in which
Thomas Gibson and the little child lost their
lives was the work of incendiary. There is a
slight clac to the murderous perpctrator of the
act.
William Edwards, the johnson Creek bur-
glar, who was so seriously wounded in the
store Of George Mansfield, several months
ago. has been sentenced to nine years in the
state prison at Waupun. He was recognized
as an old prisoner at Waupun, going Under
the name of Durfey.
Ainsworth Bowers, son of the mayor of
Fond du Lac, caught while burglarizing Tay-
lor's hardware store confessed that he had
committed the crime several times, and point
cd out about $500 worth of stolen goods. The
matter was compromised, and the young man
went east.
The large warehouse Of the La Belle Wrgon
Works Company at Oshkosh is nearly COM
pletcd as far as outside mason work is con-
cerncd. 1t will make an imposing structure
when completed, though of tie three corncred
square kind. 1t covers large area, and will
make storage room for about 1000 wagons set
up and kept in stock. It is an entirely fire
proof building, and the best of its kind in the
State.
Eau Claire Free Press; We have in our
midst one Of the most wonderful BOYS in
America He is the son of James and Ellen
O'Shea, residing on North River street. in this
city. They have lived in this and Dunn conn,
ties for the past twenty three years. The bow
commenced life fifteen pounds avoirdupois;
ne IS now eleven years old, 5 feet II inches in
hight and weighs 224 pounds.
Robert H. Wharton, cashier of the COLLAPSED
Encking Savings bank of Fond du Lac. who
was accused Of carrying off some $4,000 of the
depositors' money has come home. He does
not deny little crookedness but saws the
thing was rotten from top to bottom, that the
he ran away to avoid getting farther involved
IN transactions whose end was easily
forcseen, and that he does not owe the defuncf
concern moro than $780,
At Milwaukee the other night while MAKING
up freight trains in the yard of the st. Paul
railway, Isaac Niskern, foreman of the night
gang, was Frustrated and run over bv q car
that had moved down on him unobseryed on
the curve between Grove and Greenbush
streets. Except that the flesh on one of his
arms was nearly stripped from the wrist ta
the elbow, he sustained little injury, though
the men in his employ feared that he world
De horribly mangled, when they saw the car
move down upon him.
The other night George Denkin, farmer,
who had been in Racine disposing of produce,
started for home drunk. His horses acted
bad, and he whipped them in a most shame
tut manner Result they ran away, throw
ing the drunken brute out Of the wagon.
knocking out two teeth, cutting AIlarge cash
under one eye and breaking two ribs and
smashing the wagon to pieces. He was
picked up in an insensible condition and car.
rled home, and seems to be slowly recovering.
but it is thought he is injured internally.
DR.. Steel assisted by Dr. Russell, last week
amputated the right leg two or three inches
above the ankle joint, of 70 year old bow
named Austin Gill, living in the town of Algo-
ma. The boy met with an accident some four
or five weeks ago, by being struck in the foot
with the handle of spear, and being affiict-
ed with scrofula, scrofulous inflammation set in.
The boy has suffered great pain and it was
decided by the physicians that ampuuation
must be resorted to to save the boys life. The
little fellow at last accounts was doing we'll
A sister Of the lad suffered the loss of a leg
several years ago.
a Singular Trogedy..
A very curious and melancholy incident
happened on one occasion in q church in
India during service. The windows and