Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-07-23
WISCONSIN NEWS.

new Republican daily paper called the
DAILY Neaos, has been started in La Crosse.
Racine people have been alarmed by ru-
mors of poisoning by eating pressed corn
beef.
All the pinery papers bring accounts of
fingers and hands cut off at the various saw
mills.
The Beloit Free Press publishes ell the
names enrolled by the census taker in that
city.
A young lad named Frick, of Manitowoc,
was drowned on an evening of last week in
the river at that place.
There was smashup at La Vale, on the
Chicago d Northwestern railroad the other
day. Nobody hurt.
Recently, Avingo Lombard, residing near
Retreat Vernon county, was instantly killed
by the accidental discharge of gun.
A son of D. Spinger, of Edgerton, eight
years old, was drowned in mill pond at
that place while bathing, July 10.
Charles Hoffman, farmer of Oshkosh
township, committed suicide the other day
by taking Paris green. Temporary insanity.
There is to be meeting in Sparta, Au-
gust 4th, to consider the feasibility of
organizing West Wisconsin agricultural
society.
On the evening of the 18th of July Fred
N. Gurton, young man of Madison, was
drowned while bathing in lake Mendalia, at
the foot of Henry street.
Rock county draws S5,s232O from the
State school fund on basis of 40 cents per
scholar. Of that sum the city of GAINESVILLE
takes 81 ,423.20.
Ayoung German working in saw mill at
Wausau fell into the fire and his feet be-
came SO wedged that he could not be exricat-
ed, and ne was burned to death.
Amund A. Dahl, q Norwegian, at work in
the Eau Claire Manufacturing company's
mill, the other day, had his right arm sawed
into to the depth of three inches.
Rev. j. s. Jones Of Janesville, and his
wife and two children, was thrown from q
carriage the other evening. Mrs. Jones had
her nose broken and was otherwise injured,
and the others were more or less injured.
The team of John Taylor, of Lagrange
became frightened at Whitewater, and were
unmanagable, throwing Mr.. Il. from the
wagon, breaking his collar bone and other
wise bruising him severely.
The other day two little boys named Dyer
and Cahill, 10 Whitewater, were set to fight
ing by the urging of a man brute, and the
little Dyer boy soon after died. The coro-
nor's jury returned verdict that death was
caused by heart disease brought on by over
exertion.
DIR. Kempster, of the Oshkosh insane asy.
lum, will bring suit against the Milwaukee
Sentinel, and Freie Presse, and against A..
y. Wright, member of the State board of
charities, for statements to the effect that
woman patient was put into delicate con-
dition while at the asylum.
An old inmate of the Kenosha county,
Wisconsin, poorhouse, with long and keen
knife in his hand, crept into the room of an
other ancient pauper, against whom he bore
a grudge, and undertook to make mince
meat of him. The fight YVES q long and
bloody one, but assistance arrived in time
to prevent a murder.
The New London Times brings the news
Of the finding of three dead bodies in that
vicinity within week. One, James Nc
Laughlin, was the son of we'll known resi-
dent, and probably died of neuralgia of the
brain; another was man named Kiester.
who probably committed suicide, and the
other was the decomposed remains of an
unknown man.
Webster d Lawson's saw mill at Menasha
was totally consumed by fire Sunday, july
1S, about noon. The origin of the fire is en-
tlrely unknown. The flames secu. ed such
.aeadway before they were discovered, that it
was impossible to check them, and all efforts
were directed toward preventing a spread of
the fire to the pail factory. The fire was
confined entirely to the mill, which was
wholly consumed. No lumber of conse-
quenoe was damaged.