The great West. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1889-18??, 1890-04-04

A motion for new trial 10 being argued
at Black River Falls, in the case OF Hugh
Per kins, Of Neilsville, convicted of tho muir
der Of Hugh Meddaugh in 1884. He 10 un-
der sentence of Ave years at hard labor.
Abner Hammond, of Vernon count y, plead
ed guilty to horse stealing and was sentenced
to Waupun for term of five years. He has
already served two terms for stealing horses.
Ward Russell removed the body of R
Baird from Clintonville to. Spripgwater,
Waukesha county, having mistaken Baird's
grave for that of his flasher, Lee Russell. The
oversight has since been rectifed.
Henry Cartwright, a conspicuous colored
character of Racine for many years, has been
arrested at Chicago on a charge oil bigamy.
de has wife and several children in Racine.
and, it is alleged, has two wives in Chicago.
Edward Jones, of Fl. Atkinson, was acct
dentally shot while hunting. His gun was
discharged in an attempt to lower the ham,
mer, the charge passing between the first and
second toes OF one foot, wounding both.
At a meeting of the Racine Business Mems
Association proposition was received for
the erection OF 500, 900 hotel The may
or appoints committee of three to solicit
funds in aid of the project.
Pat Farrell, while en- route to the peniten-
tiary from Ashland, in charge of sheriff Mat
son, made desperate effort to escape He
tried to leap through a car window while the
train was in motion, but was overpowered
and handcuffed after desperate struggle.
julius Martin, Of the town of Hustisford,
Dodge County, after taking out several search
warrants to recover a steer that he supposed
was stolen, found the animal on his own
prem lses Embedded in q straw stack and still
awe. The animal was missing thirty days.
syndicate of several gentlemen interest
ed in shooting and fishing has been formed
with view to purchasing all the salabe
land bordering on Lake Butte DIES Morris a
few miles north of Oshkosh, looking toward
tho establishment On q large scale of a game
and f sh preserve.
The Rev. H. D. Porter, his wife and three
children have left Beloit for Pang Chung.
CHINA, to resume their missionary work I'M
der the direction of the American board af-
ter vacation of two years. Mrs. Porter is
a daughter of DR.. Chaplin, OF Beloit.
Shortly after Brakeman John Fitzpatrick
was killed by the cars at Rhinelander, a moth
er brakeman, George Livingstone, of the
Lake Shore road, was swept from his train
by the storm, and instantly killed He was
single man about % years OF age
The South Superior improvement Compa-
ny has completed the pure base ofall the stock
OF LaBelle Wagon Works, OF Fon du Lac A
new board of directors has been chosen, and
steps will at once be taken to remov ethe plant
to Superior.
George Barnett, a lieutenant in the navy,
who is on the Iroquois, resides at Boscobel.
do sends a letter home giving an account of
the vessels voyage from Samoa to PIT.
Townsend, WASH, which lasted eighty-two
days. the story being similar to that wired
TO the press at the time the vessel arrived.
The Salvation Army barracks at Ashland
were destroyed by fire. The cause of the fire
was the explosion of lamp. They were hold
ing meeting at the time, and the barracks
were crowded, but all got out uninjured. It
was large wooden building Fireman John
Berg had his leg broken by falling WALL
The defunct Pierce County Agricultural
Society has sent to the secretary of state q
check for $11O, this being the amount of it's
finances remaining on hand, and is returned
to the state for monetary aid rendered by it.
This is the first instance on record where
an association receiving state aid has ever
made return OF any balance left in it's ex-
chequer.