Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-31
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Several Chicago people are erecting large
houses at Sturgeon Bay.
The EpiscopaIians of ere about to
build rectory at Wausau.
The local papers Of Wisconsin are geuer-
ally speaking of scarcity of wood.
E. H. johnson, editor of the Wausau
Central, has been appointed postmaster at
that place.
Ex-senator Howe is writing book cover
ing his eighteen years service in the United
States Senate.
been singing and garden pansies blooming
in some places.
George Jess, the Waupun banker, invested
$500 in Leadvilie miue and sold out his
investment for $25,000.
The house of Michael Leahey, of Frank
lin, Manitowoc county, was robbed while he
was at church of ) POO.
81. E. Webber, of the Dunn County News,
has been reappointed printing clerk in the
secretary of states Office.
A. w. Hall, trackmaster of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad dropped dead
from heart disease the other day.
I'D. King, of GAINESVILLE, has been ap-
pointed by the postmaster general special
agent of the postofIics department.
The mail route in Clark county, between
Greenwood and Longwood, discontinued
several months ago, is to be re established.
A daughter of G. B. Ingram, of Fond du
Lac. has fallen heir 70 an estate worth 5000,
900 Ly the death Of relative in England.
Miss Carolina Herman, of Ellington, while
in her fathers barn, accidentally stepped
into hole where hay is pushed through and
broke one of her legs below the knee.
The commissioners of Pine county have
decided to issue bonds to the amount of
$4,000 to be used in erecting q new court
house.
George Green, of Alto, reports an income
from flock of 1877 merino sheep, from wool
sales, of $770.and the flock is left as good as
at the spring of the year.
Rev. I. NJ. Craig's II. E. church. in
Ripon, has been transferred to the Winnie
bago presbytery and will hereafter be of the
PRESBYTERIAN denomination.
Oscar Shay, porter at the Beckwith hotel,
Oshkosh, had an arm and leg broken the
other day by being thrown from hack by
careless driving of the hackman.
Fishermen of Peshtigo Point have recent
" lost their nets. The late soft weather ami
the winds caused the ice to drift away from
shore, carrying the nets with it.
The proposition to incorporate Bay View
into the city limits of Milwaukee is receiving
much attention. It would add some thou
sands to the next census of Milwaukee.
Three farmers in Winnebago county,
neighbors, have within a year become in
sane, and have died within a short time
after being committed to the asylum.
Two boys of Thomas Dale, of Rose, Wan
shara county, left the house on late Sur
day afternoon to slide on the ice, where the
water had settled in kettle hole in the field
near the house. When night came on they
did not come, and search was made. They
were found drowned IN six feet of water.
Quite an exciting shooting affair occurred
at Shiocton the other day. Two men were
discovered loa6ng near building, the up
per story of which was occupied by family
named Burlington. Mrs. B. and her two
sons were at home. She ordered the loafers
away, but one of them refused to move.
She got revolver and attempted to shoot at
him, bat the weapon would not 90 off. A
son then blazed away at him with shot
gun, filing his clothes full of shot, but not
iniuring BIN much. Ia the excitement
Mrs. BIS revolver subsequently went of,
the bullet lodging in the hip of airs. Sweet,
who was spending the evening at Mrs. BIS
house. The wound is painful but not
danperous