Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-17
WISCONSIN NEWS.

The house of j. B. Glenn, at Waupaca, was
destroyed by fire the other day.
4 daily mail route is to be established be-
tween Green Bay and Kewaunee.
Charles ]. Kraby, county register of deeds
and city clerk of Neenah, died recently.
The Union furniture factory in La Crosse
was destroyed by fire last week. Loss $11 900.
Willie Chester, af Kenosha, eight years old
was killed last week by being run over by
horse cart.
The Twelve Mile house, twelve miles from
Eau Claire, was burned the other night. Loss,
$1,000; insurance, 81 200.
The Milwaukee Touring mills are shutting
down because it does not pay TO make flour nc
the present price Of wheat.
Look & Berkly's box factory and the German
Methodist parish school building at ShebOy-
gan were destroyed by fire last week.
The property known as the Masterson House
at Prairie du CHEN was destroyed by fire the
other day. Loss, 8 1920; no insurance.
Prairie wolves have been committing great
ravages. Nine Whelps were brought iu from
La Grange township and secured the county
bounty.
The John Grund brewing company, of La
Crosse, last week filed articles of association
with the secretary of state. Capital stock
100000.
Walter Cox, of Whitewater, was killed on his
farm last week by having large stone fall on
him while he was digging hole to settle it in
the ground.
A saloon row occurred at Coopertown few
days ago, in which one Joseph MairskOsh re-
ceived injuries. from the effects of which he
has since died.
The other night an old veteran from the Sol
diers' Home fell into the MenOminee river at
Milwaukee and, before assistance could be rem
dered, was drowned.
The Chippewa river is very big5. The log
jam extends from the big eddy To- Eagle Rapids,
distance of Eve miles, and is estimated at
from one hundred and fifty To two hundred
million feet.
Gen. Brewster Randall, highly respected
citizen of GAINESVILLE, died recently. He was a
lawyer by profession, and at one time
prominent in public and political lite in Ohio.
He studied law with Joshua Il. Giddings.
The jam of logs at Chippewa Falls is gain
ing, and defying present attempts at breaking
1t Is estimated that l00, 900, 600 feet are clog
ging the run. ALI available labor is being
called into Tequisition to remove the Obstruc-
tiOn.
Green Bay Gazette: The other evening, as
the draw of Mason street bridge was opening
for the passage of the schooner Morning Star,
towed by the North Star, man walked off the
Fort Howard end of the bridge and was
drowned. His body has not been recovered and
no one Knows VINO ne was
Rev. M. 4. Wood, principal of Wsyland uni
versity, at Beaver Dam, has resigned, to take
effect at the close of the present term. His
resignation will be received with regret by the
Baptists of Wisconsin. Prof. r. K. Manning
has also resigned, to take effect at the close of
the term. The school will continue under an
entire new faculty.
The main circular saw, in Corbie Bros. saw
mill, at Oshkosh, burst one day last week, and
produced havoc. The breaking of the saw
sounded like the report of a cannon, and the
pieces few out of the front of the mill and up
into the roof. There was precipiteus scatter
ing among the employees of the mill, but for
tunately no one was injured. The damage
was about $50.
An old resident of CintOnville, near Osh-
kosh, named Joseph ellis, died suddenly on
the afternoon of May LIST from an overdose of
aconite He was feeling unwell, and resorted
to doze of this medicine. Instead Of taking
an ordinary dose he swallowed enough for six
doses. Everything that medical aid could do
for him was resOrted to, but without avail, aud
he died in a short time.
The examinatio of Joseph Hetig of Mani
towoc, charged with shooting with intent to
kill, failed to sustain the charge, but he was
held in $500 bail to answer tn the charge OF
shooting with intent to do bodily injury, at
the next term of the circuit court. Hetig, it
will be remembered, nfed into cbar1vari
crowd, severely wounding one and slightly
wounding two of the number.
A Young man named George Martin one day
last week met with an accident ut Mueller'A
mill, in Wrightstown, which nearly cost him
his life. While the machinery was in motion
he attempted to run the feed belt on to the
driving pulley, when he was thrown over the
latter and carried through the floor in the base
ment of the mill. When picked up he was
ynora dead than alive auafaininO aeveral aevere
Commissions about the head and shoulders and
breaking leg just above the ankle. How
ever. he was promptly cared for and is now
feeling unite com Portable and doing we'll.