Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-19
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

She has uniformed her police.
THE Milwaukee police force made 291
arrests during the month of July
A Mrs. NUTTER is candidate for Su.
perintendent Of Schools in Dana County.
The average yield of wheat per acre IN
Washington County this year is about
twenty bushels.
CoLEMAN's saw-mill was burned at La
Crosse few nights ago, involving a loss OF
$4,000. Over $50 hands were thrown out
of employment.
WHILE discouraging reports come in
ffom most of the States in regard 10 crops
the returns from various parts Of Wiscon-
SIN are most encouraging.
A La CROSSE dispatch of recent date
says the prospects are excellent for larger
crop OF cereals in le western counties of
the State than has been gathered since 1860.
The State Gazette, of Green Bay, has
been sued for libel on account Of an article
IN reference to an itinerant sewing machine
rcpairer. The damages were laid at $4,000.
SOME of the largest oaks in the Capitol
Park are dying out. Three of them have
already been taken out by the roots SUI
perintendent Knight is apprehensive that
he will lose them all.
THE Supreme Court has lately decided
that an open, unliquidated demand for
goods or services, or both, where no ac-
hos
of payment made, does not carry inter
est, in the absence of any agreement to
that effect.
a PARTY Of hunters from Green Bay
thought to escape the penalties Of the
Game law by an excursion for deer into
kewaunee County The sequel was an
urgent Geographic appeal for funds to re-
lease them from the clutches of the
kewaunee Sheriff.
a MECHANIC named Blacl.man was IA
tally injured in the Packet Company's
mills at La Crosse the other evening
While at work repairing belt by some
means the belt got caught in moving ma
chinery, throwing him on the machinery,
feartully injuring him in the lower part of
the body and hips.
THE United States Marshal at Milwau.
kee was lately requested by Indian Agent
Bridgeman TO remove the Stockbridge In
dams, who were said to be trcspassing on
the reservation in Shawano County. Dep
uty Marshal Whitney attempted to com
ply, but the Indians resisted him. There
were grave apprehensions of trouble.
IL the Green Bay Municipal Court late
ly seventeen suits were brought against
the firm of VI, NJ. Lawrence & CO., being
variously divided, for violation of the city
ordinances regulating the sale of liquor at
wholesale and retail. They compromised
by conSenting to one judgment under each
of three oficnSes charged, and to paying
costs on all the suits Their tine and costs
amounted TO Sis.
a sCHooL-MIsTREss at Wrightstown,
named Sarah A. Christman, was recently
arrested for assault and battery upon a te
male pupil, The case came to trial, and
after the testimony for the prosecution
was in she was dismissed for the want of
sufficient evidence. The affair grew out
of the teacher wishing to have singing in
her school, and this pupil, among others,
refusing because they were Catholics and
fearing that Protestant songs would be in
troduced.
THE discovery was made the other morn
ing that the packing-house Of John Fair
long, located on the lake shore north of
Milwaukee harbor had been entered re-
Gently by men or boys and an engine
which cost 5000 broken up, probably to be
sold for old iron. Kettles We're also broken
and carried off, also one or two scales
One of the latter was found on Walkers
Point bridge, which leads to the SUPPOSE
ton that the vandalism was perpetrated
quite recently. The packing house has
not been usedsinc the spring Of 1874 An
entrance was effected by cutting hole
through the floor of the building.
THE Madison Democrat of the 9th pub
lished a table purporting to be the returns
of the late census. Official reports on that
date were still lacking from Adams. Ash
land, Barron Brown, Shawano, Washing
ton, Waupaca and Wood Counties Ac-
cording to the Democratic figures the total
population is now / ,231 921 against 1854
go in 1870, making net gain of 1S3,25l.
The returns received at the office of the
Secretary of State vary considerably from
the figures published. The State JoRrHGl
SAYS the indications are that the census
falls considerably short of the real popula-
ton of The State. especiallv in the rural