Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-07-29
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


THB State Funniest was he'd at Apple.
ton, commencing on the 10Th.
A LIFL-sIzE bust of .Chief-Justice
Dixon has been modelled by Madison
lady.
THE clover yield in the central and
southern portions Of the State is unusually
heavy.
The Madison wooden mills were dam.
aged by fire the other day to the extent OF
about $4,000.
Four villages have recently been laid
out In Barron County-Rice Lake, Bar
ron, Sumner and Shetac.
A BOY twelve years old was recently ar
rested in Fort Howard for bursiarizing
the store of Bruce & Co.
MARATHON COUNTY has hermit He
lives alone in hut near Wausau, and be-
longs to the Smith family.
A BETTER class of buildings is being
erected on Main street, Oshkosh, in place
Of those recently destroyed by fire.
THE people of Caldwell Prairie are Of
fering big bounties for the killing of full
grown wolves during the month of July.
THE Madison Journal says it is believed
that Bishop-elect J. S. Shipman, of the
Fond du Lac Diocese, will not accept his
election.
THE sailors at Milwaukee refuse to ship
for the prices offered in the grain trade,
being $3.50 to $175 per day, and are on
strike for So.
THE twenty.third annual session of the
Wisconsin State Teachers Association will
be held at Eau Claire on the 2Sth to Both
of the present month.
THE trotting mare White Stockings,
owned by Mark s. Tyron, of Milwaukee,
was poisoned the other night, in that city
She was worth $4,000.
MILWAUKEE, Racine, Green Bay and
La Crosse are fighting for the Peniten-
tiary. La Crosse claims to have 300 men
who ought TO be in it.
A BOAT containing fishing party cap
sized at the foot of Seventh street, Racine,
the other evening. and a man named John
Longfellow was drowned.
THE prospect for the cranberry crop at
Berlin is the best ever known since the
cultivation of the ugar-devouring terror
of boarding houses was begun.
Hon. GEO. F. WHEELER, Hon. r. II.
Hotchkiss and Hon. Aaron Walters have
been appointed commission to appraise
the damage done by the Neenah dams.
JOHN ANDERs, while lately engaged at
work on the old Catholic Church in APP
pleton, was struck by large piece of fall
ing plaster and quite seriously and proba-
bly, fatally injured.
THOMAS GIBSON, a Fond du Lac grocer,
recently left the town, leaving great many
debts and some paper which is alleged to
have been forged. About 81 500 of doubt
full notes are af1oat.
GEO. I. JONES s Co., the Milwaukee
commission merchants who recently sus-
pended, have settled with their creditors,
giving notes at three, six and nine months,
secured by real estate.
REV. A. c. BARRY, formerly State Su-
perintendent Of Public Schools, has been
appointed sort of Universalist Bishop,
having supervision over all the Universal
list parishes in Wisconsin.
The compositors in the Eueaing Wis,
consin office at Milwaukee recently voted
to submit to reduction of 10 per cent in
the price of composition They were re-
ceiving thirty five cents per 1000 ems.
A WARRANT was issued on the 14th fol-
the arrest of Messrs. Nunnemacher &
Wirth, proprietors of the Kinnikinnic dis.
tillery at Milwaukee, charged with hav
ing defrauded the Government out of SIG,
p2O.1l during the month OF May.
THE crops in the eastern portion of the
State are looking well and promise good
yield this autumn. Corn is little back
ward, but if the fall frosts hold off as late
as last year there will be a better yield
| than for some years Wheat is heading
| out full and thus far is free from weevil.
THE rapid and unexpected advance ir
wheat is squeezing some ofthe milwaukee,
SPECTATORS, who are skirmishing around
pretty lively for collaterals to meet thu
calls made on them for margins, 1t j:
said that the firms of Ball & Martin ant
! Geo. |. Jones & Co, have suspended anc
that other failures are likely to follow.
THE Normal School Regents, recently il
session at Madison, made the followin!
appointments to the faculties of the differ
/ ent schools: River Falls-Protessor o
/ Mathematics and Institute Conductor, j
/ r Thaver. of Menomonee; Instructors