Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-19
WISCONSIN NEWS.

Hay is reported very scarce in Price
county.
The recently burnt district in Sparta is to
be rebuilt.
A boy at Kickapoo played at hang ing, with,
to him, fatal results.
There are 1887 scholars in the public
schools of GAINESVILLE.
Leap year parties are being held quite
generally throughout the State.
Revival meetings are being held nightly,
in the M. E. church in Palmyra.
Thomas Dey was accidentally killed in a
Logging camp near Oconto last week.
A young man named John McMullen was
killed in logging camp near Marinette
last week.
George Davenport, of Delavan, broke
through the ice and was drowned last week
while skating.
DR.. I. H. Mahan has resigned his posi-
ton as Indian agent of the Chippewas of
Lake Superior.
Col. G. II. Gill, of Watertown, has been
awarded a pension of $50 month, with ar
rears of $1,000.
The hardwood region of Barron county is
rapidly filling up with settlers, who are fast
cultivating fine farms.
The Port Washington people are moving
for Congressional appropriation of $40, 200
to improve their harbor.
While stoning up a well in Racine last
week, man named Martin was killed by O
stone falling on his head.
Late rains raised Turtle Creek and Rock
River very high in few hours. Third
Street, Beloit, was overfowed.
Gov. Smith has appointed DR.. Palmer of
GAINESVILLE, surgeon general of the State in
place of DR.. Wolcotl, deceased.
Tom. Jones, of Trappe, near Wausau, las t
week, in falling tree, was caught, and his
spine very much injured if not broken.
The engine house and buildings attached
to the Linden mine, near Darlington, were
recently totally destroyed by fire. Loss
$4,000.
Daniel McMullen had one of his hips dis
located last week at one of the logging camps
on the South Fork by being crushed beneath
falling tree.
Postmaster Cravoth, of Whitewater, has
been removed, at which the people are highly
indignant, claiming that the removal was
the work of spite.
Elias Kennedy, of Waupun, lost a COW
the other day by the tipping over of straw
stack. Three cows were buried by it, but
two were got out alive.
A drunken lumberman attempted to break
into house at Phillips, Ashland county, 8
few days since, and was killed with club in
the hands of the proprietor.
The Oldest member of the Wisconsin leg
islature is B. s. Wells, member of the house.
He was born in 1902. The youngest mem
Der of the house was born in 1851.
On late evening Simon Kusterer, of Bea-
children, slipped on the ice and broke one
bone of one of his legs below the knee.
A party of ladies and gentlemen, univer-
sity students, while ice-boating on the
Fourth lake, at Madison, last week, jwent into
large hole in the ice and came near being
drowned.
A little child three years old, belonging to
Bohemian family in Racine, last week
fell into cauldron of boiling water, which
was being used for scalding hogs, and was
scalded to death.
At Appleton, last week, while Mrs. Mar
garet McCoghery was washing, she fell dead
upon the floor, supposed from heart disease.
Her husband had left her but few mo-
ments before in apparent good health and
spirits.
The Supe rior Times gives an account of
the shipwr eek of two tugs near Duluth: The
crews of the abandoned vessels were fifty
four hours going distance of eight miles
through the deep snow to Beaver Bay, where
they were taken in and cared for. Their
suferings during their long exposure were
intense. One of their number is very badly
frozen.
The well-known Jewish rabbi, DR.. Epp-
stein, of Milwaukee, has rendered his resig-
nation to the Congregation B'ne Jeshurum,
to take effect the first of March. DR.. Epp-
stein has been elected to the charge of the
spiritual affairs of the Jewish residents of
Kansas City for term of five years, and will
make that thriving western town his future