The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-02-20
WISCONSIN,,


William Thompson, who took poison in
the Reedsburg Jail, died a few hours later.
Will J. Walther, of Fond du Lac is under
bonds OF q charge that he robbed the mails.
William Witzel, an Oshkosh teamster, has
CHAMBERS. He contracted the disease from a
horse.
Judge Briggs, of Ipswich, S. D., is at Sparta
soliciting aid for the suffering people of his
county.
The draw of the bridge across the river at
La Crosse is the longest on the Mississippi,
and the third longest in the United States.
VIM. B. Shaw, q native of Amigo, has gone
from Johns Hopkins university to New York
state as state librarian.
The warm weather of the past few days so
honeycombed the ice at La Crosse that the
icemen were obliged to suspend operations.
Mrs. Rudolph Kinsley, an Sd resident of
Palmyra, fell dead while preparing a meal
1t is supposed that her death was due to
heart disease.
Phelps Perrin is to be arrested at Hurley
I foTr embezzling 1900. He is the chap who
| is supposed to know more than he will tell
:. Shout the theft of SAL 900 of express money
Il oiA - -'',-lev bank
After digging we'll through drift forma-
ton, twenty five feet deep, on the farm OF
John Crawlay, at Little Prairie, Walworth
| county, the workmen struck pieces of cedar
that were in a good state of preservation.
g. Auwater, an old resident of Eureka, left
| ostensibly to visit his sons in the West. No
information being received of him, it was sup
posed to be q case Of mysterious disappear.
| ance until the family learned indirectly that
| he had recently been seen in Germany.
While E. L. Perry, a dentist at Springfield,
Marquette County, was heating his vulcaniz-
er in the kitchen stove at his residence it
exploded, and blew the stove to fragments
There were four persons in the room, but nc
one was injured.
l. Congressman Caswell, who has returned tc
Washington from Fl. Atkinson, is accom-
panied by Miss May and Harlow Caswell, his
daughter and son, who will remain in Wash
ington during the remainder of the term o.
Congress.
The Racine Journal says that Jacob Lar
son. of that city, had a narrow escape from
being killed. He was down in a we'll twenty
feet deep, out near the Rapids road, when al
eight pound stone became dslodged, and fell
striking him upon the nose. He escaped I'M
injured.
1t is now stated that Ed. Bither, the Racine
driver, has been engaged by st. Louis parties
to take oh arge of an immense stock farm II
Pennsylvania, at a salary of $1,000 PEI
year. On this farm. it is said, there are som,
of the most promising steppers in the coun
try.
Capt. fainter, of Menomonie is fitting uI
his memorial building at that place regard
less of cost. He has let the contract for
pipe organ for the auditorium that is to cos
over $4,000. 1t is expected that it will b,
one of the very finest in that section of Wis
consin.
1t is learned that Frank Crawford, who il
wanted at Racine on a charge of stealth.
sheep, and who is in Jail at Muskegon, Mich,
for horse stealing, eloped from Michigan t,
Racine with Maggie Ripper. Crawford let
wife and three children. An officer has takeI
the girl back to Michigan to testify agains
Crawford, as she was with him when the hors
was stolen.
David Greenway, proprietor of the popuIa
lakewood resort, on Green Lake, writes a
follows to friend. eve have been fearfu
that Green Lake will not freeze over this win
ter, and thus disappoint us in the finest ice il
he world; but it is now entirely frozen over
the ice being abont six inches in thickness
and SO very clear that to know that it is fro
zen you have to actually get onto it to con
vince yourself that it is not open water"
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