Daily globe., 1880-04-28
WISCONSIN NEWS.

For judge of the Fourth circuit Col. Gil
sons majority is 8,252.
Influenza prevails to very uncomfortable
degree in Fond du Lac
The Wisconsin river is reported to be hish-
or than for twenty years before.
A a-year-old son of Isaac I'll. Rose was
drowned recently by falling into creek.
DR.. A P. Peck, of Beloit, is going to
North China as missionary physician.
man in Waterloo committed suicide by
poison last week. Cause domestic trouble
Wisconsin, during the past year, has OK
pended on her public schools $2,513 ,3O1. 49,
The Wisconsin Sunday School convention
will be held July 26, on the shores of Green
Lake.
The sash and door factory of White &
Childs, of Ashland, was totally destroyed by
fire.
Several prisoners escaped from tho Apt,le-
ton Jail the other night by digging through
the wall.
A. L. Glaze, of the Waupaca Repu6lican,
has inherited $4,000 and been admitted to
practice law.
John Ward, of Newton, committed suicide
the other day by jumping into the river at
Manitowoc.
Burglars entered the store of Wright Bros.
on recent night and stole considerable
amount of goods.
Last week John Herman, of the town of
Union, Eau Claire county, aged 60 years,
perished in prairie fire.
The insane asylum in Milwaukee county
is about ready for that county's quota of pa
tlents (1OO) now in the asylum at Oshkosh.
The house of Mrs. Warden, of Grand
Rapids, was entered few nights since and
cash and watches taken to the amount of
$128.
The annual general assembly of the Pres-
byterian church will convene in Madison
May 70, and remain in session for the rest of
the month.
The capacity for manufacture at the Bay
View rolling mills, as they are at present
run, is 100000 tons of all classes of iron
per annum.
A meeting of prohibitionists was held in
Oshkosh last week to elect delegates to the
national convention, to be held in Cleveland,
O., June II.
w. Il. Sill has been appointed receiver of
the Black River lumber company, to man
age Its affairs until its indebtedness shall
have been paid.
The Jail at Black River Falls had locked
up within its walls, last week, nine bows
charged with larceny, their ages ranged from
eleven to fourteen years.
A. j. Bennett, one of the Oldest farmers
IN Rock county, dropped dead on Sunday
morning, April 25, at his home in Rock
Prairie. Cause, paralysis of the lungs.
The State conference of Seventh Day Ad-
ventists will hold a camp meeting on Silver
Lake, near Portage, the first or second week
IN June. A large attendance of clergymen
and laymen is expected.
Miss Ella Wheeler, the charming Wiscon-
sin poetess, is acquiring fame which ex-
tends to both continents. Her recent charm
ing poem Nothing New" is printed in the
Partisan, the organ of English society,
literature and taste at the French capital.
Diphtheria of a very malignant form is
prevailing west of Berlin, in the town of
Seneca, and in some parts of that city. Con-
siderable excitement pravails in the localities
Affected. There are few persons except
Germans and Poles who have this disease.
1t was brought there by laborers from the
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western railway,
at the terminus near Wausau. Quite a
large percentage of those stricken with the
disease, die.
The Chippewa Valley Telephone and TeIe
graph company has engaged to extend nine
miles of wire at Menomonie and five miles
at Chippewa Falls, and instruments will be
placed in nearly all the business houses in
both places, the connections centering at the
general exchange Offices. The company has
in operation in Eau Claire upward of 100
Instruments, and is rapidly extending their
enterprise to neighboring towns and villages.
The longest communications with Eau
Claire by telephone is to Meridian, fifteen
miles southwest, and Chippewa Falls, twelve
miles north, the lines working harmonious
and satisfactory.