Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-29
WISCONSIN NEWS.


day.
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Waupnn penitentiary has ffty-one inmates
who are sentenced for life.
Hon. D. M. Kelly has been nominated fer
State Senator in Brown county.
An unusually large number of cases of diph-
iberia are reported in Oshkosh.
In Fond du Lac the colored people are organ
iziug lodge of Good Templars.
thousand people we're present at recent
temperance demonstration in Waupaca.
The brick manufacturers of Milwaukee have
advanced their prices twenty per cent.
Fred Stephens, Milwaukee burglar, has
been. sentenced to two years in the house Of
correction.
On the farm of Mr.. Rulsch. in Greenfield,
petrited trees fifteen inches in diameter have
been found.
daughter of joe Peake of Osceola, was
kicked in the head the other day by colt, and
severely jured.
Four prisoners escaped from the Brown
county Jail in Green Bay the other night by
overpowering the turnkey.
The veteran soldiers reunion to be held in
Milwaukee next year is to be made the greatest
one yet known in the Northwest.
Last week $50 emigrants passed through
Milwaukee. or these nearly two-thirds were
bound for new homes IN Wisconsin.
Thirty thousand feet of liberated gas suffus-
ed the town of Eau Claire the other night, oW-
ing to some damage to the gas works.
A memorial in behalf of bestowing suffrage
upon women is in circulation, and receiving .
good many signatures in Fond du Lac.
A fatal case of abortion occurred recently at
Oshkosh. Lottie Koenig was the victim, DR..
NJ. A. Shaw of Combria, the operator.
The Democratic convention which met at
Milton Junction the other day nominated Miss
Mary Ann Cuckoo for county superintendent
of schools.
Miss Fanny Cundall, h Neenah school teach.
er, has been appointed missionary to Trpoli,
AT lea. and left for her new labors on three
days notice.
w. b. Leonard, one of the editors of the
Daily Recorder, at GAINESVILLE, slipped on a
frosty walk, on a recent morning, and broke
his right leg at the ankle.
John Mornland, an employe of a planning.
mill in Racine, had has hand caught in ma
chlnery, and bis arm and hand to the elbow
were cut into shreds. The arm was imme-
diately amputated.
Henry seigbert, a leading merchant of Prai-
RE du Chen. attempted suicide the other day
is doubtful. No cause is assigned. He made
his will the day before the shooting.
Gov. Smith has appointed George R. Gardner
to succeed Henry Hayden as judge of the Wood
county court. Hayden, it will be remem bered,
was shot by Cochran at Grand Rapids for al
legged criminal intercourse with his wife.
The old man McCarty, who was vigorously
pushed off from sidewalk at GAINESVILLE last
week by smart young man named Patrick
Carroll, Jr.. has died from his injuries. A
warrant has been issued for CAROLS arrest.
b. W. Morrison, of New London, who sud-
denly disappeared last spring, by whom sever
al business men lost considerable sums, was
recently discovered in Minnesota. q raving
maniac He has been taken to the asylum at
Oshkosh.
Eau Claire Free Press: The Chippewa river
has risen two feet. From 40 to So men are
driving between Eau Claire and Sioux Falls,
and will: undou btedly, get down few million
feet. The Eau Claire rise comes entirely from
the ponds.
Simon Burlingame of Ripon has just taken
to his home his fifth wife. Three wives have
died of consumption and one ran away. In
Mr.. BIS lot in the cemetery there are fourteen
tom bstones, all the same size and design,
marking the graves of his children and wives
Viroqua Censor: terrible accident occurred
in the town of Coou recently which will result
fatally to three year old daughter of Matheis
Thiege. Her little brother in some manner got
hold of gun, pointed it at her, when it dis
charged, the charge entering the side of the
head.
A bartender in Eau Claire, going by the
name of Foster, was arrested the other day on
a charge of burglary, committed ten years
ago at Stevens Point. he was arrested at the
time and some of the stolen property found in
his possession, but he made his escape. and has
not been seen in that region of country until
short time before his late arrest.
A few evenings since young man in La
Crosse named John Bowling made what ap-
peared to be an attempt to commit suicide by
drowning in Black river near McDonald's boat
yard in the Fifth ward. He rushed into the
water, but there witnesses to the act pulled
him out, and it is suggested by some that he
took care that there should be witnesses before
venturing on his freak. Unhappy love was what
allied him.
The Appleton Crescent has the following list
of accidents: Mr.. Chas. Rogers, working for
Thos. Butler. town of Center had the misfor-
tune to sustain the breaking of his leg, below
the knee, by the kick of horse. While at play
year old daughter of Joseph SINNERS.
Fourth ward, fell from fence. and broke her
arm at The elbow. Henry Vert. working at
Clark's pull mill, struck his axe into his foot,
instead of stick of wood, on Tuesday, making
a severe cut.