Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-01-18

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II. Rountree, Of Platterillc, furnished the
money to purchase the first printing office
ever brought TO Galcna which was in 1928.
! The people of Crawford County are asking
for an extension of the time allotted for pay
ing taxes. We cunderstand the people OF Iowa
! County will make a similar request.
! The Boscobel ''fi@il ones'' confined I'M the
Lancaster Jail are threatening vengeance on
the parties who pret ured their arrest and i'm
prisonment.
Business in Platteville seems to be good
According to the Witness there is great de
mend for greater railroad facilities Last week
there were 81 900 bushels of grain there
awaiting shipment, besiles several carloads of
hogs, and forty carloads of hoop poles,
AT BoscobcI, also, business is uncommonly
| lively, says the Herald,
The Winter Session of the Plattevillc Nor
NAL School began with larger number of
| students than ever before,
Rev. S. w. Eaton, of the Congregational
Church at Lancaster, preached his 3jtk ami
! '''H''y S'iHoH oii cuhidy tlS 'tH lHst
Madison has made nearly half million
dollars worth of Improvements the past year.
| Good for the Capitol City.
A colony is being formed at Monroe, to
settle somewhere on the Pacific Coast. They
stnrt early in the spring.
Within the past two years $4,000 have
hNgS IN, Ia,
buildings in Blraboo--a record without par
allcl in Its former history
An attempt was made to burelarize the
house of town treasurer in Dane County
last week, but fortunately the occupants of
house awoke before an entrance was effected
and the would-be robbers were shooed OIL
A horse owned by ?. B. Barlow ran away
in Darlington last week and made a Grand
show, and demolished Il few windows and the
cutter which wss attached to him.
La Fayette County Republicans should be
satisfied. Looking over the list of Legislative
employees we find there are three from La
Fayette.
The Republican says che days are per
ceptbly lengthcning," but we fail to see it.
John Shea ofNev Digg,ag y~haa both bones
| of the forearm broken with the crank of a
windasS, while trying to hoist a tub OF debris
with one hand. Unfortunately for the young
man he had but one arm and the accident
was caused by his slipping while in the act of
hoisting.
three year old son fP. Burns Of tee same
place had his co'lar bone brokcn lsst wcck.
1t is reported that the directors Of the st.
taul K. X. have decided to commence in the
spring on the extension of the Monroe and
Dubuque r. r. 1t is also reported that the
Northwestern Company have made arrange
| ments to connect from Frceport with the
| above road somewhere in Lafayette county.
The people Of Warren are alarmed on ac-
| count OF the siaallpoX so mach so, SAYS the
Sentinel, that the attcndancc at the schools
! is less than for ffe years. Yet but one case
4 OF the dis use has been known N the village.
, The people are being vaccinatcd by hundreds,
and di>nfcctants are freely used
Fabulous stories arc told of q mineral lode
freccntly struck near Sinsinaw Mound. Grant
| County. If only half is true 1t is the richest
mine ever discovered in Wisconsin. The
ground is owned by Mrs. Williams, and the
working partners are her two sons, and a Mr.
| Corners The ore is found in big chunks,
weighing 2O00 pounds and upward each.
The Galcna papers are still sangune that
the proposed narrow gauge railroad from that
city will be built and that work thereon will
! be commenced AS soon as the frost is out o1
the ground next spring. Having resolved by
! city council to fund the city debt of 500, COG
in aid of the enterprise, the Gazette seems to
think the Kubcon is passed, and saws, within
one year it expects TO see cars running out OF
| Gaiena In the direction of Belmont As. ac-
cording to its own admission, the success of thi-
enterprise depends upon securing 500, 900 aid
from the people between Belmont and Galena
VS. think the Gazette is reckoning without its
host"
! PERsoNAL.-Uncle Frank Vivian was ir
| town on Saturday.
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