Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1872-12-17
STATE NEWS.


ton POob OmC0s
There are now 184 prisoners in the
state institution at Waupun.
Dubuque city property is to be
taxed at the rate OF 2 per cent.
Hops are quoted at 32 TO 33 cents
per pound at Baraboo for first quail
ty.
Beloit College brags of negro, an
Indian and Turk among its stu
dents.
+, Janesville, Wis, offers TO build
and equip paper mill if any one will
run it.
The next Legislature meets at
Madison on the second Wednesday
in January.
A meeting OF leading educational
men of Wisconsin viii be held at
Madison, December Goth and 9th.
The house of Mr.. Len. Baruum, of
Bridgeport, was totally destroyed
by fire last week. Kerosene lampi
The iron masters OF Pennsylvania,
propose the erection of a iron mon.
ument to the memory of Horace
Greeley.
The Congregational Church of
Monroe, proposes to give the men,
bers of their Sabbath School q
Christmas supper.
The northwestern dairymen's asso
citation holds its seventh annual
meeting at Whitewater, Wis, Jan.
uary Il, % and %, 1873.
Five hundred volumes 10 the Nor
wegian language have been added
TO the University library at Madison,
from the proceeds of the Ole Bull
Concert.
Parsons, Of the Villas House, Mad
ison, has bought the Devils Lake
Hotel of CAPT. Hartley, and will fit
it up in the best of style for summer
visitors.
Edwin Forrest, who fell dead while
dressing, at his house in Philadel
phia, Dec. l3, was in his 9th year
He was born at Philadelphia, March
9, 1906
1t is given out that the condition
of the offer made to Mr.. Coliax by
the owners of the New York Trib-
une is its immediate acceptance aud
his resignation of the Vice Presi-
dency.
The Columbus Democrat has a
singular account of the death OF
Mrs. H Whipple, of Portland, at
qnite an advanced age from the eff
feet of pairing corn too closely.
Modification set in in consequence.
Chas. D. Atwood, son of Gen. At.
wood, of the Madison Journal, has
been appointed Private Secretary to
Governor Fairchild, Consul at Liver
pool, and goes there with the Gov
ernor, This is first rate appoints
ment.
The town of Grand Chute, Outa-
gamie County, is in trouble. SIEVE
raj years ago, it issued 100000
worth of bonds TO aid the "Woli
River Branch Plank Road Compa-
ny" The company" sold the
bonds but never built the road.
A report is afoat that Harper &
Brother are discussing project for
the purchase of the Tribune, and
making George William Curtis
editor~in-chief, and it ia understood
that they are ready to offer 81 ,000,-
900 for the establishment as it now
stands.
A movement is in progress, on.
dorsed by the Milwaukee Sentinel.
Fond du Lac Commonwealth, and
other journals, to raise funds to
build a suitable monument to the
memory of Ex-Governor Randall,the
only Cabinet officer Wisconsin ever
furnished.
One of the most entertaining
estate papers we have lately seen is
A. +. Prstt's memorial to the Board
of Supervisors of Waukesha county,
praying that body to reimburse him
for his expenses in defeating a cor.
rupt Democratic candidate for
Sheriff of the county. He claims to
have saved the county about $4,000
and asks the Board to settle his bills
for electioneering.
The Madison correspondent of the
Daily Wisconsin pays Governor
Washburn the following high COM
pliment: From the Governors
action on the Park fence, il is evi.
dent that he is not the kind of off
cial that was formerly described as
being carried in the pocke's of four
or FIVE politicians of Madison, and
the people of the State may realize
that there lie now one in charge of
their affairs to whom money is no
object who has the ability and in
dustry to discover his duty and the
back bone and nerve to do it,"
10 the construction of the COM
mittees of the Senate, Wisconsin
members have been selected for the
following positions: Senator Carpen-
ter-Chairman of the Committee to
audit and control the contingent
expenses Of the Senate, and on the
Committees on the Judiciary, PriviI
eyes and Elections, Patents and
Revision of the Laws; Senator
Howe Chairman of the Commit
tee on Claims, and on the Commit.
tees on Foreign Relations, lnvesti-
cations and Retrenchments PRINT
ing and Library.
w. w. Dante, of Princeton, a dis,
abled soldier who had lost one leg,
was killed in the recent accident on
the Pennsylvania Ger trail His his.
tory is a strange one. He lost his
leg during the war, and for two or
three winters was furnished employ
ment about the capitol at Madisc n.
Recently Congressman Sawyer SCI