The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1891-11-26
WISCONSIN,

Mrs. Jane Jennings, an old resident OF
Green County, died at her home in Mon
roe.
The body Of 4-months-old child was
found beneath heap OF stable refuse at Su-
perior. The case is being investigated by
the authorities.
The Board of Public Works, at Sheboy-
gan, has issued an order that the channel
in the draw of the Eight Street bridge shall
be dredged to depth of fifteen feet
The suit of Joseph Stringham VS.. the
Northern Pacific Railroad Company at Osh-
kosh, has been settled by the railroad COM
pany paying the plaintiff S., 600.
Joseph Hickey, young man living on a
farm near Port Washington, was so badly
injured in arunaway accident that he died
she rtly afterwards.
The Green County Board of supervisors
passed measure approprating 800 for use
in connection with the states appropriation
for the Worlds Fair.
kl the circuit court, at Madison, the jury
in the case of Mrs. Slaughter against the
town of Middleton-action for damages by
reason of an alleged defective highway
| disagreed.
Mayor Jackson l. Case has been elected
treasurer of the new hotel company at Ra-
| cine, and R. T. Robinson secretary. Work
| will be commenced on the structure in the
| spring.
The new we'll at the blast furnace in
Ashland has been completed. 1t is 1906
feet, over half a mile in depth, and is the
| deepest we'll in the Northwest. The boring
cost $14,OOO.
A farmer living at North Cape was held
up by three masked men near Franksville
and robbed. The highwaymen are sup
| posed to be those who robbed the train
recently at Western Union Junction.
The York Iron company of Black River
| Falls, since starting up last January, have
manufactured about %. 900 tons of iron with
| sixty-ton furnace. This is considered re-
markable work.
A human leg, supposed to be that of a
woman, was found among the bones re-
Gently shipped to the glue works at Port
| Washington to be ground into bone meal
for fertilizers.
Mrs. Dunn and Mrs. DeHaven, of Ra-
cine charged with keeping dsreputable
houses forfeited bonds amounting to 49,
600 by not appearing in the circuit court
when their cases were called.
While working at the Highlands mine,
near Dodgeville, John Leschske got caught
in the machinery and had both his arms
and legs broken and his skull fractured.
He died shortly afterwards,
A man named Sherrer, employed in tn g
Brown Lime Works at Harrison, across
Lake Winnebago from Neenah, was in
stantly killed by heavy plank, which fell
and struck him in the abdomen.
In row between William Miller and
Fritz Keeper at Florence, the latter was
severely in iured about the head, and the
former was stabbed in the thigh. Keeper
has sworn out warrant for Miller charg-
ing him with assault.
A deer ran upon the track of the Lake
Shore & Western Railroad near Norrie,
and looking at the train became so bewil-
dered as to be run down and disabled so
that the engineer killed it with his pocket
knife
Will Feig, of Eau Claire, who was sem
fenced to the Waukesha reform school by
Judge Larson, having pleaded guilty to
shooting his sweetheart, Miss Annie Lenz,
was taken to that institution recently. He
is less than eighteen years of age.
An oil lamp fell from the ceiling of the
Opera House at Brodhead, setting fire to
the scenery and damaginga a number of cos
tunes. Laudius Taylor was severely hurn-
ed about the body in an endeavor to extin-
guish the flames. The damage Is about
$500.