Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-02
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Marathon county Is to nave new jail.
LOGGING is brisk on of the Wisconsin
river.
Neenoh millers have paid a. high as $1.35
per bushel for wheat.
Col. O. d. Gill, of Madison, has received
$500 arearages of pension.
A corset factory, with q capital of $40, 600,
has been started at Oshkosh.
The Sank County Republican is the name
of new paper just started at Baraboo.
There are now 80 convicts in the State
prison at Waupun, ten of whom are females.
ALewis Valley party of hunters have re-
GENTLY killed fourteen deer in Trempealeau
county.
A young son of George Beck, of Platte
vile, had leg broken and On ankle joint
dislocated last week.
With the exception of one house, and two
poor shanties, there is not an unoccupied
house at Stevens Point.
A convict in the State prison at Waupun
committed suicide, the other day, by hang
ing himself in his cell.
The Primitive Methodist church in Dodge
Vile has been destroyed by fire. Loss &c.
600. 1t will be rebuilt.
Christmas night, the dwelling house Of
Ira Noyes, near Eau Claire, was destroyed by
fire. Loss, $4,000; insured.
A project is said to be in contemplation
for the erection of mill at West Bend for
the manufacture Of straw paper.
There is movement on foot to abolish the
State board of charity and reform at the ap-
preaching session of the legislature.
Ex-Gov. Washburne has rendered the
Southwest Wisconsin Industrial association
a gift of five acres of land for q fair ground.
Bishop Henni, of Milwaukee, has so far
recovered from his late, severe and danger
GUS sickness as to be able to sit up and re-
ceive his friends.
At Mcmillan, the other day, car of the
Green Bay & Minnesota railroad, loaded
with rags, took fire from spontaneous COM
bustion, and was destroyed. Loss, 800.
The heaviest tax payers of Fond du Lac
are making movement to lessen taxation.
A meeting has been held and committee ap-
pointed to suggest appropriate legislation.
A Frenchman in Chippewa county shot
and killed Desperate, the other day, who
was laboring under delirium tremeDs. The
verdict of the coroner's jury was justifable
homicide.
It is reported that Depere merchant last
fall, in the abse nee of his wife, seduced their
two female servants, each of whom is about
to become . mother. His wife has sued for
divorce.
Detective John Barry, Of Milwaukee, has
been in the neighborhood of Grand Rapids
for four weeks investigating matters pertain
ing to the recent incendiary fire and supposed
existence of kuklux organization, the al
legged object of which is to work against
Cochran, the bank cashier, who shot Judge
Hayden.
1t is reported that the Oneida Indians, at
their reservation near Green Bay, have con-
cluded to change their system of govern
ment, by dispensing with chief and adopt
ing representative form of government, to
consist of board of councillors and lower
house-in essence q republican form ct gov
eminent.
On Christmas night boy II years old,
named Alex. McCammond, residing in Osh-
kosh, was badly frozen and narrowly escaped
death. The boy had been out with another
boy named Haywood, and both had become
intoxicated. In endeavoring to get home in
the evening, McCammond was 80 drunk that
he dropped down on the sidewalk and went
to sleep. He will lose few fingers but will
recover.
Samuel A. Stone, keeper of the new light
house at Two Rivers, member of the Four
teenth Wisconsin regiment during the late
war, had extracted from his person, on the
oath inst, . piece of rebel bullet weighing
two and ene-half drachms, which he received
at the siege of Vicksburg. Mr.. Stone has
suffered untold misery. more than many
deaths, for years.