St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-29
Badger State Brevities.

| the United States in session at Eau Claire
| completed a constitution for the proposed
| United Scandinavian Lutheran churches of
America, to be presented for ratification at a
| meeting in November, at which the 1,OOO
congregations and 5000 COMMITMENTS will
| be represented. The meeting will probably
| be i'll Milwaukee.
Two Brotherhood men, probably former
employees of the Burlington company, as
| s;ulted fireman named Hulburt at La
| Crosse, and after calling him ''scab, with
| great variety of photographed accompanl-
ments to the word, knocked him down and
| pounded him. The assailants, John Buckley
ana Richard . 'Brien, were arrested.
| Reports from the cranberry region are to
the effect that the vines are now in blossom,
| while some berries are as large as peas. The
! moth that infests the cranberrIes is doing
| considerable injury, but the growers are
| fighting them by keeping hundreds Of fires
| at night which is said destroys them.
| While out hunting near Kenosha on Thurs
| day with party of three others, Henry King
accidentally shot three young boys, who were
| playing at a distance of about 203 feet They
are ffCm eight 10 twelve years of age and the
children of Mrs. Talki, of Chicago, who is
| visiting ct kenOSha.
The Select Knights of the Ancient Order
Of United Workmen viii hold their biennial
| c0nclaye at Madison, Sept. 12-14 The ter
ritority which will be represented in the
| gathering is Iowa, Illinois and Wisconsin,
About 7G0 knights it is expected, will be
! present. =
An Eau Claire man slipped heavy iron
| washer on one finger q few days ago. The
Iaember swelled so that the ring could not be
removed, and in order to save the finger
| jeweler under direction of a physician, was
! obliged to saw the heavy piece of iron in two.
At the annual meeting of the State Gram
| berry Growers association a summary of
| statistics shows the present crop estimate of
the state to be about 1O,0}0 barrels more
than were harvested last year. or about half
| as large crop as was harvested in 1875.
hn olnar Dff fropo Fo1 in tTa6i
son during the last eighteen months was co..
A large number of these were allowed to
leave town, but it cost the taxpayers OF the
city of Madison $500 per month the year
| round to support them.
Fred Kuhn and Frank Klein were arrested
on the belief that they are the parties who
stole two horses from Albert Trapp and
August Zeil, of Milwaukee county. They
| had just sold horse when arrested.
Mrs. August Radiant was bitten on the
ankle by a rattlesnake while she was tossing
Fay on marsh near Portage. With copious
| draughts of whisky as an antIdote she is
slowly recovering
One day last week ninety rattlesnakes were
killed OIL the farm of l.. c. Stanley, in Cook S
Valley. This includes number of young
ones, some sixty being found i'll two nests
Chippewa Herald.
Miss Jennie Sheridan. living near Gala
mine, was badly burned about the face by
powder that she had thrown into the stove,
having mistaken the small grains for onion
seeds.
Benjamin Mast, a dairyman on the Dewey
place, near Cassville, was killed by Chi
cago, Burlington Il Northern train while he
was returning from night reyel at tave: n.
The sheriff is in possession OF the Miners
Cooperative company, dealers in general
merchandise at Hurley. The liabilities will
foot up nearly $50, 600; assets not yet known.
DR.. c. d. Spalding, of Rice Lake, the sep
tuagenarian who about three weeks ago mar
ried young miss of sixteen, has OR is about
to apply for a divorce.
total of 750 bushels of blackberries was
picked and shipped at Ripon. Wednesday,
the largest amount ever handled in that city
i'll one day.
S. X Stone has bought $50, ,O0O pounds of
wool at Ripon this season, the most ever
shipped by single party from that place in
one year.
Mrs L. P Dearborn, of GAINESVILLE, lost
pocket-book containing $3.50 and a diamond
ring while changing cars on the st. Paul road
at Beloit.
Storr's Lake, near Milton, is without fish,
it having been iced over SO closely last winter
that all the finny ones were suffocated.
The Ideal Yeast company is putting up q
large building in Waukesha. The establish
ment will employ about fifty hands.
Seth Phelps and wife, of Western Union,
Racine county, recently celebrated the fiftieth
anniversary of their marriage.
Charles Smith has been bound over for trial
ct Neenah on a warrant charging him with
the theft of a livery team.
Waukesha insurance rates are to be re-
duced 25 to 40 per cent on account of the
new water works.
P D. Wigginton. the California leader of
the American party, ts visiting at Dodgeville,
his former home.
Fire destroyed the barn and grain on John
StephenSons farm, near Waukesna, causing
a loss of $4,000.
Frank CadmGn. thirteen years old, was ac-
cldentally shot at Appleton while hunting.
He cannot live.
1t is reported at Fond du Lac that Rev. DR..
Fiske may accept the bishopric of the Fond
du Lac diocese.
Charles ole fell from a spring-board at
Racine and received injuries which may re-
, suit in death.
Mr. and Mrs. Seth Phelps, living near Ra-
cine, celebrated their golden wedding on
Thursday.
The new shoe factory at Watertown is now
in operation. Nearly seventy hands are en-
ployed
} The output of the Gogebic range to date
is ahead of what it was last season at this
date
A party of 100 Chicago business men and
their families are encamped at Trout Lake.
) Over 800 bushels of blackberries were
shipped from Ripon one day last week.
Mrs. Eva Klein an aged lady of Prairie du
CHEN, has mysteriously disappeared.
, two years from Madison for burglary.
The crops gathered in Rock county this
season are the largest ever known.
Condensed Iowa Notes.