Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-11-18
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

RICE LAKE, in Barron COUNT, is clam
oring for graded school.
THEY have commenced numbering oper-
ations on the Upper Wolf
THE Brown County Mexican war vet
Grams are organizing a society.
THE Wisconsin Indians predict a mild
winter, but that is no siGn it will be.
AT Oconomowoc, one evening recently,
three weddings We're soemnized and one
silver wedding celebrated.
A TRIwEEKLY line of stages will be
established on the route between Green
Bay and Sturgeon Bay on the close of
| navigation.
The survey for the extension Of the
Wisconsin Valley Railroad to Jenny, in
Lincoln County, has been completed and
| the road will be built after spring opens.
TIE proprietor of the Dousman House,
at Prairie du CHEN, a few days ago
| caused the arrest of John Sutton, his
clerk, for embezzlement to tie tune Of
| $1,000.
OK the night of the 4th, at Milwaukee,
servant girl named Eliza Frank gave
| birth to an infant in her room at the Man
sion House, which she strangled with a
| cord and placed in her trunk. She then
| prepared to leave, but her room was acct
| dcntally entered and her crime discovered
| She was arrested.
A FINE quality Of hydraulic cement has
| been discovered on the Milwaukee River
near Washington bridge only mile and
half from the city. Recent investigations
have shown that the quarry will produce u
better quality OF cement than any other in
the country, and a large establishment for
its manufacture is one of the immediate
probabilities.
The following postal changes were
made in the State during the week ending
| Nov 6, 1875: Established -Eldorado,
| Fond du Lac County, Alexander Kirk
| wood, Jr., Postmaster. Discontinued
st. Jacobs, Ozaukce County. Post.
masters pponted-Banner, Fond du Lac
County, Mary Meyer Byron, Fond du
Lac County, Charles II. Marston.
In the suit of the State of Wisconsin
IS. the city of Duluth and the Northern
| Pacific Railroad Company, the Chief
| Justice of the United States Supreme
| Court has announced the decision OF the
| court granting the motion for leave to
| file replication and for an order to take
| testimony, also decree pro confesso
| against the Northern Pacific Railroad
| Company.
AT Oshkosh on the 9Th W. f. Botsford
| and NJ. G. Dclano were tried before Pc
lice Justice upon the charge of conspiracy
and bound over u the Circuit Court. 1t
appeared upon the trial that in June last
Botsford, Delano and one Wilcox were en-
gagged to procure evidence against persons
for selling liquor without license They
visited Ripon, Omro and Eureka together,
one pretending to be a card seller, one an
insurance agent and one Il druggist. They
obtained in each place several persons to
sell them liquor, and caused their arrest.
Convictions followed, rs matter of
course, before The local magistrates, but
appeals were taken, and in every case that
has been tried the accused have been &C
quilted. For consprng to induce per-
sons to violate the law they were arrested
and bound over. After the trial they were
at once rearrested on another charge of
conspiracy.
THE following table, compiled on the
evening of the Sth, shows very nearly the
result of the recent State election. The
figures are not official but do not vary
materially, it is said, frcm what the of
fetal returns will show: