Daily globe., 1880-06-03
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The ground for the new Eau Claire opera
house cost sc, 500.
| There are ninety telephones in Eau Claire
| and twenty in Chippewa Falls.
| Palmyra will be fully represented at the ap-
| preaching soldiers reunion in Milwaukee.
| Ex-Governor Fairchild, minister to Spain,
has written that he will not be able to attend
| the reunion at Milwaukee.
| a Mrs. E. 81. Jackson and son, of Palmyra
| have sailed for Italy, for the purpose of con-
tinuing their musical education.
DIR. Hamilton, of Mcmillan, has been arrest
ed at the instance OF Mrs. Rietz, charging him
| with rape while visiting her professionally.
John Dillon, an employe of the Hamilton,
Luco mills, had pile of timber fall on him
the other day and was quite seriously injured.
The water in Rock river fell twelve inches
May II, occasioned by the excessive drouth and
the consequent drying mp of its supply chan
nels.
In the town of Genoa recently, team be-
longing to James Powell ran away, throwing
Mr. and Mrs. Powell and child out, killing the
child instantly.
Abraham Payne, of Marietta was ousted and
brought to Prairie du Ohien by Sheriff Shelver
last week, charged with ravishing Kate Steph-
ems, girl 10 years of age.
W. T. Van Pelt of Racine tried on charge
of embezzling funds of the Taylor Orphan Asy-
lum, was acquitted by the Jury, and he was con-
graduated and serenaded.
Madison Journal: The other evening, David
Holt, we'll known old resident of this city,
fell out of hammock in which he was resting
and dislocated one of his knees.
May IL occurred the death of one of Wau-
kesha's oldest and most respectey citizens
Rev. Reuben Morly. He was born in Tiabins
Onondaga county. New York, Feb. 81, 1906.
In default of $4OO bail each John Keits and
Henry King, of Palmyra, have been sent to the
county Jail to await trial for burglariously en-
tering E. Agon's meat market. King is an old
offender.
1t is reported from Palmyra that wheat, oats,
rye and other small grains bid fair for heavy
crop, while fruit of all kinds never promised
better yield. Farmers are jubilant in conse-
quence, and business of all kinds is brisk.
short time since Joel Straton, of Dayton,
killed the boss wolf, and the wolves in re-
turn few nights afterwards visited his prem
ises and killed eight lambs within few rods
of his house. They were on the lambs too
hard.
Louisville Recorder: 1t is stated as an Incl
dent in the death of Oracle Williams that, as
her heart stopped its pulsation, she placed her
finger upon her pulse at the wrist, and ex-
claimed, sit has stopped and shortly after
expired.
The case of the State VS.. o. L. Reynolds, con-
fined in Jail at Prairie du Chien, on a chafge of
incest, when called for trial the other day, an
application was made for change of venue to
Richland court, where it will be tried at the
next October term.
The contract for building the branch of the
Northwestern railroad from Janesville to Af-
ton, has been let and the work of construction
begun. Messrs. Shaw & McGavitt, of Beloit
are the principal contractors. and it is expected
that track laying will begin within four weeks
from this time.
J. L. Boardman and family, living in the
town of Thorp, Clark county, has just been
terribly afflicted. Within forty-nine hours
their four children, the oldest ten years and
the youngest two years old, have all died.
The children were taken sick on Thursday, and
before one o'clock on Sunday morning they
were all dead. The oldest, Lydia, died of
diphtheria in great agony; another died of Ca
tarrh in the head, and one of the others had |
some kind of fever.