Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-01-26
WISCONSIN NEWS.

town.
Plover is enjoying the conveniences of u tel |
ephone.
The people arc making loud complaint of
the dog-tax.
The Tomah Temple of Honor is talking of
disbanding.
Over 1000, 900 bushels of wheat in store in
Milwaukee.
Last years income of ithe State University
was $50, $50.
An Episcopal church edifce is being erected
at Medford.
Lumbermen in the pineries report the roads
in tip-tOp condition.
Four women in the State hold the office of
school superintendent.
An ice house in Bayfield, contains ice put in
there sixteen years ago.
The new Presbyterian church edifce in APP
pletun is nearly completed.
Accounts are given of protracted religious
meetings all over the State.
The State tax for Brown county this year is
$12, 413, against SIT 900 last year.
In Barron county, in 1879, there were thirty
two marriages and forty-three births.
1. 81. Wing has been reappointed receiver of
public moneys at the Bayfield, land office.
1t is expected that two steamers next season
will run on the Green Bay and Oshkosh route.
In Dunn county, during the year 1879, there
were 153 marriages; 173 births and 81 deaths.
G. 81. Hale. of Augusta, had one of his legs
broken few days ago by being run over by his
team.
Dnring the year 1879, Madison manufactured
SIS, $50 cigars and brewed IL, 500 barrels of
beer.
Preparations are already being made for a
soldiers grand reunion at Richland Center,
next July.
The Berlin Courant has glowing notice of
a coffin factory in that place-rather CHASTITY
subject for puff.
Ed. McCarty, Of Milwaukee, erected the
first building where Fond du Lac now stands.
He is 68 years old.
1t is estimated that 5000 loggers are at work
in the Immediate vicinity of Phillips, on the
Wisconsin Central.
The last building of the old Fort Crawford
proper, at Prairie du Chen, was destroyed by
fire few days ago.
The Washington Ice company, of Chicago,
is gathering ice from WATERFOWL, instead of
Oshkosh. as heretofore.
A. H. Alban, who has been register Of the
land Office in Wausau for twenty years, has re-
Gently been reappointed.
Peter Lee, who committed rape on Ida Pom
tier, - years old, at the Lowhian mine, is in
Jail in default of $500 bail.
s. Bard we'll has sold the Plainfeld Times to
j. Ct. Ellarson, and it will hereafter be con-
Quoted as Republican paper.
There are thirty-fve Catholic mutual benefit
associations in Wisconsin. with a membership
Of 5000 and capital of $4,000.
Judge Orsamus Cole recently took the oath
of Office and entered on his fifth term as as
sociate judge of the supreme court.
The Kelly tannery in Racine is the largest in
the State. 1t has been idle for several years.
There is now talk OF starting it up.
A horsethief. named Borgwerdt, who has
been opei ating near Columbus, has come to
grief by being arrested near Watertown.
The Oshkosh branch of the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore d Western railroad is completed SO that
trains could run the entire length last week.
The Mississippi logging company has about
40 camps on the Chippewa river, and has al
ready contracted for 115,OOO, 900 feet of logs.
W. B. Leavitt, confined in Jail at Waupun,
for murder, is about being set at liberty, owing
| to insufficient testimony to secure conviction.
The new city directory of Eau Claire con-
tains 4, 644 names, which, according to the usu-
al mode of calculation, gives population Of
| $4,000.
l.. G. Stanley offers to build Chippewa
Falls city hail. in consideration of its rail
road bonds. The council have the proposition
| under advisement.
The Chicago & Tomah railroad earned from
February LIST, 1879, to September LIST, 1879, the
sum of SIG, 053.21. The expenses during that
time amounted to $7,7I3.5O.
At the January term of the circuit court of
Bayfield, county there was not single trial,
and court was not held, the judge instructipg
the clerk not to draw jury.
Archbishop Henri, of Milwaukee, who has
been dangerously sick, is slowly improving and
| 80 Ia TIE fau, nut IT,
| illness has been a protracted one.
An enterprising expert in figures has ascer.
tanned that it costs Milwaukee "a, 00030 to
cast IL, 154 votes, an expense of thirty two and
one-eighth cents for each vote cast
One Snowder, of Oshkosh, and fellow
| named Gates, of Marinette, have been arrested
for the death by abortion of Annie Koenig, of
Portage, who died in Oshkosh some time ago.
| Wisconsin wool sold in Boston, Massachu-
sets, last week for As cents a pound. The
only wool quoted higher than Wisconsin was
Pennsylvania, which sold as high as IS cents.
Texas and Colorado brought AZ cents.
The Waunakee justice, who, with his con.
stables, was tried on charge of inhuman con-
| duct in taking an old man to Jail in dying
condition, was discharged in the Madison court,
the evidence not being sufficient to show any
| improper action.
| w. T. Van Pelt, one of the Oldest and most
| respected citizens OF Racine, has been arrested
on charge of embezzling $3.50 from the
funds of the Taylor orphan asylum while serv-
| ing as treasurer of the institution. He has
given bail in $1,000 to appear.
The other day the wife of John Siclow, of the
| town of Bear Creek, left her house, when one
of the children, girl of three years, set fire to
its clothing and was burned in terrible man.
ner. The little unfortunate fingered in dread
| full agony for few hours and died.
| At the GAINESVILLE cotton factory there were
manufactured during the year 1879, 5,1S7, ola
yards of cotton cloth of the cash value of 1928,
3S9.15. The production has been sold at full
market prices as fast as it was ready for market
without dollar loss to the company,
River Falls Press: The local stockholders in
the Hudson & River Falls railway are no
more, all having sold to the st. Paul capitalists
1t is agreeable to know that they were not
'scooped," as is generally the case with new
builders of the ronds. On the contrary it is
said that they realized very handsomely on
| their new venture.
| On an afternoon of last week two prisoners,
Otto Jansen and Lewis Deligo, both sentenced
five years for burglary, attempted to escape
from the Milwaukee house of correction. The
men broke from the ranks and made for the
fence, and succeeded in getting on top of it.
The guards fred five shots, and finally halted
| the convicts and secured them.