Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-08-14

du CHEN Union reports that two men,
named Maxwell and Stewart, were arrested
by Sheriff Harrington last Sunday morning,
on the steamer Var Eagle charged with the
robbing of the express safe the night be
fore, to the amount of several hundred dol
lars in valuable papers. Mr.. Mckinstry,
an old gentleman, passenger, was robbed
while In his state room of over $500, part
of which was found on the person of one
Of the prisoners They were bound over
to the next term of Court in the sum of
81, 900 each THE corn crop is fast catch
ing up, and bids fair to be a good crop -.
A span of mules owned by P. Mclaughlin
were drowned in the river last week, while
drinking. "A bottle of whiskey has re-
Gently been unearthed in Prairie du Chen,
which has been buried over fifteen years.
Judges of the article pronounced it to be of
excellent quality.
HIGHLAND COUNTY While Mr.. D.
G. Rease, of Rockbrdge, was measuring
lumber at his mill, pile of boards fell up
on him, disabling one knee and injurlng
the other. Charlie Rodolf had three fell
lows arrested, and brought before Justice
on charge of setting fire to his mill recent
~ After examination two of the men
were discharged, and the other, named
Cram, held for trial at the next term of the
circuit court, bail being set at $500.
| Walworth, of the Sentinel with character
| istic incogitancv announces himself favor
able to nominating A. NJ. Thomson for Gov
ernor, and David Atwood for Lieut. Cover.
| nor.
GREEN COUNTY "A son of Calvin
Lovelace, of Monroe, only seven years old,
was run over by wagon loaded with wood
on Monday, and severely injured. :. Sever
al wheat fields in that vicinity have been
cut, and are in fine condition, especially
the winter and very early spring wheat :;
but others are seriously damaged by blight
1.-Two stores and tavern were broken
into at Dayton, Monday night The bur
| glars secured little booty.
GRANT COUNTY. The Boscobel
| Iron Foundry has "petered" out No cause
given. One MeCord has sued Sylvester
Brothers, proprietors of the big Touring
mill at Boscobel, for damages done his
farm by them in turning the waters of
Crooked Creek to run their mill :. The
! blight" in wheat has developed itself to
considerable extent in this county,. The
Lancaster Herald has lengthy pleasant
letter from its old editor, j. G. Cover,
written at Washington on the eve of his
sailing for the Azore Islands. Two dis
tricts in the town of Bloomington are 60
ing to build new stone school houses this
fall. The wheat and oats crops are bet
ter than expected, and even above an av-
erage.. The County fair viii, be held
Sept Is, Is and IT.
GALENA.-Ex Sheriff Farrar, who
absconded few months ago, taking with
him considerable money at the expense of
other parties, has been discovered in Da-
kota, where he is supposed by the citi-
zens to be eastern capitalist Labor
ers excavating for a building foundation,
struck a mineral lode, taking out several
fine nuggets The owner of the lot IS 20
ing to prove the prospect. A case
which has been in controversy between
the 10 Davies County Agricultural Society,
and Mr.. Spafford, of Warren, since 1864,
has at last been decided. 1t seems that
Spafford employed and paid a band to play
at the County Fair in 1864 The Society
refused to reimburse him. He sued the
Society at several times, but each time bv
informality of papers failed to make his
case stick until last week, when the case
was brought before Justice Marfeld, of Ga
lena, and was decided for the plaintiff to
the full amount of his bill.
" ARREN An old lady nam ed
Stowe, passed her hundred and fourth
birth day in the town of Warren, last Tues
day. The County fair this wear is to be
held at Warren Sept. IA, Is, 16 and H.
A woman near Apple River, one day last
week, killed with broken pitchfork, a
huge wild cat.
LA f'AYETTE COUNTY. Darling
ton papers complain of excessive dullness
-. The Republican g local. has ascertained
that there are in that village only three
halddeaded men, fifteen old bachalors and
four old maids. Capt. Duncan has an
able leader in the Republican of Thursday,
favorable to Gen. Fairchild as his first
choice for Republican candidate for Cover
nor The crops are being rapidly har-
vested, and are very good.