Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-08-05
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

FOND DU LAC has about 400 more women
and girls than men and boys
The Milwaukee Turner's won eight
prizes at the late Appleton funniest.
LAFAYETTE COUNTY is making collec-
ton OF her mineral treasures to send to the
Centennial.
BARRON COUNTY is to be visited by the
State Geologist some time during the sum.
mer and fall.
PsHAw on your new motive power!"
says Green Bay woman. "Dye see
that tongue, misters"
THE Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
Railroad carried, from various points in
the State, sixteen and quarter tons Of
blueberries on the 18th
A MAN named Carpenter has been fined
$25 by Green Bay Justice Of the Peace
for beating horses that were vainly striving
to pull an overloaded wagon.
REV. j. S. SHPMAN, Bishop-elect Of the
Northern Wisconsin Episcopal Bishopric,
has formally declined the appointment. A
special convention is to be called to fill
the vacancy
THE rcctifying establishment of Louis
Feuldner, on Reed street, Milwaukee, was
seized, on the 22d, on orders received from
Washington, for collision to defraud the
Government
THE Northwestern National Fire and
Marine Insurance Company of Milwaukee
has formally Withdrawn from the National
Board of Fire Underwriters, and will be
Independent henceforth.
THE consolidation of the Milwaukee
Neos and Ereniag Times is talked about,
the consolidated sheet to be under the edi-
torial control of DR.. o. w. Wight, the
State Geologist.
DURING the week ending July H. 1875,
postal changes occurred in Wisconsin as
follows: Observation-Disclosures Corner,
La Crosse County, Alois Newberg, Post
master. Postmaster ppointed-W alhaln,
Kewaunee County, Frank X. Gosin.
Mr.. II. r. FARNUM has disposed of
his interest in the Fond du Lac Reporter
to DR.. c. d. Pillsbury, for long time
resident of this State and identified with
its interests, who has been both an editor
and preacher, and for several years
Methodist presiding elder
AT a recent meeting in Milwaukee of
the Wisconsin State Poultry Association
it was decided to hold the next exhibition
in that city commencing on the 10th of
December and to last one week. 1t is
said the premium list will exceed that of
last year by liberal amount.
THE other morning the body Of an un.
known man, about thirty five years old,
was found in the woods near Appleton.
He had apparently been dead about two
months. He had on no clothing but
pair of pants and one boot. Not far from
the body lay two good shirts and pair of
pants. The pants looked as though they
had never been worn, but were cut in
places as with knife.
THE Executive Committee of the North
ern Wisconsin Fair met at Oshkosh on
the 22d to consider the improvements on
the fair grounds for the coming fair After
looking the grounds and buildings over
it was decided to enlarge two of the build
ings TO nearly double their present capac-
ity; to build another expressly for poul-
try: to make IS to 100 more stables for
stock and double the seating on the grand
stand facing the race-track. The fair will
be held Sept. q to Oct. /, inclusive, and
the prospect is there will be larger show
than ever.
THE State Journal says: The work
on the new building at the university, for
which an appropriation was made last
winter, is progressing finely. 1t is to oc-
cupy position near the lake, at the end
of Angel street, corresponding to Ladies'
Hall, on the corner of the grounds. Its
will be ia by 1877 feet, and
four stories high, including the basement
Workmen are engaged at present in dress
ing the stone and eXcavating. All the
lumber is to be upon the ground and ex-
cavating completed and the foundation
built this summer. The contract does
not make its completion compulsory be-
fore the month of October, 1916. The
stone are to be taken from the Madison
stone-quarry, and the entire expense of
the building will be $69,975
THE father of Joseph Deuster, ex-
Sheriff of Milwaukee County, is under ar
rest in The Grand Traverse, Mich, region
for killing man in the early part of July.
1t appears that an intoxicated Norwegian
was in Deuster's saloon, adjoining his
store, making a noise, when Deuster