Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-12
st. Paul, Mimi, April 10, 1880.
WISCONSIN NEWS.

gang of burglars have been operating in
Juneau county.
The dredge has commenced work in the
river at Racine.
No liquor will be sold on the Lake Geneva
steamers this season.
Winter wheat in Winnebago county has
been entirely destroyed.
A new line of railroad between GAINESVILLE
and Baraboo is talked Of.
The mill owners along Rock river are in
favor of restoring the Horrican dam.
company has been formed to build q
railroad between Baraboo and Portage.
Widow Van Colt, the evangelist, is soon
to hold series of meetings in New Lon
don.
The Wolf river line boats have commenced
their regular trips between Oshkosh and
New London.
G. w. Dipemon's saw mill, near Kewau-
nee, has been destroyed by fire. Loss 3d.
900; no insurance.
The william who set fire to Sherwood's barn
and robbed the Mount Sterling postofice is
in Jail at Prairie du Chen.
1t is calculated that no less than 10000
northwest during the present season.
April Z, the machinery at Mitchell, Lewis
& Co.'s shops at Racine was started and
now the shops are in almost as good running
order as before they were burned.
barn and contents was recently burned
g.. Itica, near Oshkosh. Loss, $4,000. The
saddest part of the calamity was the burning
up in the barn of thirty COWS and young
stock.
On the morning of April Z, George r.
Powers, of the village of Fairchild, was SEN
fenced to two years in States prison, for as
saulting A. L. Eaton, last October, with in
tent to kill.
The Rev. Arthur Rose, late of Oxford,
Wisconsin, has accepted the invitation of
the Cottage Grove and Pierceville churches,
in Dane county, to serve them as their min
lister, and on Sabbath, April 4, began regu-
lar work in the field.
Some unknown scoundrel spiked the
compass of the schooner Kewaunee, of the
port of Racine, on her last trip, and the YES
sell was run about 200 miles out of her way
on that account. She was bound for Manis-
tee and brought up near the Manitou ISL
ands.
Orange Brown and wife, of Delton, Sank
county, have brought suit for $4,000 against
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad
for damages, because, following the notifica-
ton of the brakeman, they got off the train
at the wrong station and had to walk three
miles through a storm, injuring Mrs.
Browns health.
One night last week, the store of p. Row
den, of Angelo, with all its contents, was de-
stroyed by fire, the work of an incendiary.
The building was on the site of one burned
exactly three years ago to day, and in al
most precisely the same manner. There
was an insurance on the stock of 81 1000; on
the building of $500: furnitura and fixtures,
1925.
Neillsvllle Republican says: By PROPOSE
tons recently submitted, the Wisconsin and
Minnesota railroad company asks $4,000
from the town of Hixon and $4,000 from the
town of Thorp. If it is true that the people
of northern Clark county are eager for the
the road, the company will get the required
aid. The people of Neillsville are not less
eager for railroad than the people of the
northern towns.
An aged couple by the name of Carman,
living about six miles south of Strong's
Hrahle, Iowa county, Wor6 tno 5uDloctS VI d
terrible accident a short time ago. Their
house took fire In the night and Mr.. Car
man got on the roof to try and put out the
flames, when he fell, breaking leg. He
crawled away from the fire, where he remain
ed two days and nights, living on half
dozen eggs. His wife having gone for help
fell and froze to death.
Dodge Center voted against license last
week.