Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-23
WISCONSIN NEWS.

There was $4,000 Dire in Princeton the
other day.
Eau Claires new Opera house block is to
cost 100000.
The affairs of the Madison insane asylum
are to be investigated.
barn with six horses was destroyed by
fire in Fond du Lac last week.
A depth of twenty-one feet furnishes good
water at Clear Lake, Polk county.
The silurian springs improvements in
Waukesha are rapidly progressing.
The license question in Necedah was late
ly voted on and resulted in 125 votes for and
and lit against.
st. Patrick's (Catholic) church at Mansion
was damaged to the extent of $500 on late
Sunday morning.
There is report that three men, drivers,
have been drowned in Yellow river, at the
Slap Jack rapids.
Favorable reports in regard to winter
wheat continue to come in from various
parts of the State.
Alma is to have bank. The preliminary
steps have been taken. 1t is to be styled
the Buffalo County Bank"
Columbia county is having quite an .ex-
element over the discovery of gold-bearing
quartz in the town of CORTLAND.
A general snow storm prevailed through
out the State on Friday, April 16. In the
northern part of the State snow fell to the
depth of six inches.
La Crosses pork packing season shows
the following figures: Number of hogs
packed, 5000; total weight, 2,091, 700; tota
cash disbursed, $4,000.
Two boys in Madison were feoling with
loaded pistol when it was discharged, the
bullet going through the head of one of them
and wounding the other in the breast.
One day last week the bridge across the
slough below the landing at Weysuwega
caught fire and three spans were burned. Its
timely discovery prevented an accident.
gang of burglars robbed store near
Green Bay the other night. Two of them
watched the owners who were sleeping in
the store, while the others rifed the safe.
Two German farmers near Racine got in
to an alteration in saloon about the pay
ment for glass of beer, when one cut the
other in the arm with knife, making bad
wound.
A man named Charles Indy was robbed
of $172.60 while crossing the bridge from
Grand Rapids to Centralia, by two men who
threw a shawl over his head and went
through his pockets.
In the United States circuit court, Noah
Shaw, of Eau Claire, has commenced suit
against E. P. Allis, of Milwaukee, to recover
damages in the sum of $4,000 for alleged
infringement on q patent improvement of
head block for aaWmillg.
5-year old son of Mat. s. Cofman, of
Fond du Lac, fell into an open cistern the
other day in which was four or five feet of
water. Fortunately the accident was wit
messed, and the cries of the women brought
assistance, aud the child was saved.
The residence of J. r. Collin, of Lodi,
Wisconsin, was destroyed by fire the other
day, with most of its contents. Three men
rushed into the burning building to save
property just as the roof and chimney fell,
two of whom persisted in the flames, and the
third was so badly burned that his recovery
is hardly expected.
Wisconsin River Pilot: A lively row oc-
Cured at Mosinee on election day. A party
from the settlement west of Mosinee went
to tearing things up generally around and
about Poison's saloon, and In the fracas
SON Of VIM. Hayes was shot through the leg.
Seven of them were arrested upon civil
action against them for damages.