Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-18
WISCONSIN NEWS.

It is reported that there is a 100000 feet
log jam on the Chippewa.
Henry NJ. Mitchell, OF Rockford, died from
an overdose of Morphine last week.
The residence of Augustus Voss in Eau
Claire was destroyed by fire last week.
Miles E. Standish, former schoolboy in
Red Wing, is now wholesale merchant al
Memphis, Tenn.
| A daughter of Frank Smith of Caledonia,
| aged 10 years, had an arm broke the other
| day by falling down stairs.
The Democrats of Racine are highly indig-
| nant at the way Judge Doolitte was treated
| at the State Convention.
The case of Alphons s. Foote, Brick POM
eroy's late partner, has been continued until
| fall. and his bail reduced to 900.
| Mrs. Philetus Sawyer, of Oshkosh. will leave
for an European trip in June. She will go
with Mr.. Goodwin and wife, of Chicago.
Mrs. Geo. s. Kaine, of Ommo, recovered
| 81 200 from that village because of injuries
received by falling on defective sidewalk.
EEx-soldiers of Kewauuee have held meet.
ing to make arrangements for Decoration
Day, and also for attending the Milwaukee
| reunion.
Henry Pierson was very badly though not
| fatally injured last week by jumping from a
| freight train when in motion, on the aNorth-
western railroad near StObe's Island.
A Norwegian, at La Cross, named Thune
Mathesen, aged 26 years, STOPPING to get a
pail of water, from the Mississippi, fell in
where the water was twenty feet deep and
was drowned.
The family and relatives Of Mr.. Abram
Willsey, the missing farmer Of Jefferson, are
convinced that all The circumstances warrant
the conclusion that he either suffered fit of
sudden arrangement under the influence of
which he wandered away into the bluffs, and
has persisted, or that he has been foully dealt
with. The former conclusion seems the most
probable.
Recently in the town of Union, Rock coun
ty, a two-year-ol child belonging to Mrs.
Pinkham, widow lady, while playing in the
yard, fell into cistsrn and was drowned II
seems that unobserved by its mother, the lit
tie fodder raised the cover of the cistern and
lost its balance while peeping down. and the
lid falling again the child was not discovered
until too late to save its life.
A Milwaukee dispatch says; 1t turns out
that the woman Gabraela Nabersteck, ares
ted here Saturday for shopIifting, is Mrs.
Moderrow of No. So Barber street, Chicago,
and that she is large operator in her line.
Her trunk was discovered at a clearinghouse
on the South Side, and it contained several
hundred dollars worth OF valuable shawls,
dress materials, silver-ware, etc. A $3.50 shawl
belonging to Mrs. John Plankinton was iden-
titled among the stolen property.
Appleton Post: On late afternoon lit
tie after 8 O'Clock, Joseph Maislein, lad of
about IL years and son of H. l.. Maisein,
was crossing the track of the Wisconsin Cen
trail railroad in the vicinity Of the depot, having
a wash boiler over his head, when an engine
came up suddenly, and before the engine
could possibly stop the boy was under the
wheels. As soon as possible the poor fellow
was extricated from his terrible position, and
conveyed to his home. Boti legs were found
to be badly smashed, one Of which will pro-
bably have to be amputated.