Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-11-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

THEY are organizing an Artesian Well
Company in Racine.
A NISE-yEAR-oLD girl in Barron County
weighs 1851 pounds
THE university students at Madison arc
organizing boat-club.
The epizootic appeared at Appleton on
the 18th. 1t is of mild type.
WISCONSIN paid $2,72O, SOS of internal
revenue during the last fiscal year.
THE Grand Encampment of Odd Eel
lows will meet at Oshkosh on the Goth,
and the Grand Lodge at the same place
Dec. 1.
j. n MORTON, the fugacious Milwaukee
druggist returned on the 10th and offers
his services to accomplish satisfactory
adjustment of his affairs.
AFTER twice voting down the PROPOSE
tion the Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce
adopted resolution on the 10th creating
new grade Of wheat to be known as
Extra No. l."
j. +. CoTTRILL, appointment Milwaukee
lawyer, has sued the Evening Wisconsin for
libel, laying his damages at $50, 900. The
alleged libcous article appeared during
the recent campaign.
l.. c. VINCENT, hailing from Mantle
voc, while in a Chicago street-car the
other day. incautiously displayed roll
of currency containing about $500. 1t
was stolen by couple of sneak thieves.
DICK ARMSTRONG, Charles McCloskey
and William Landgan, three Milwaukee
small boys, were severely injured on the
afternoon of the 14th by the explosion of
quantity of giant powder which they
threw into bonfire.
OTrO CAssEL was arrested in Milwaukee
the other day for stabbng John Lochen-
schmidt on the Fond du Lac Road
lochenschmidt was going along the road,
he says, attending to his own business,
when Casscl jumped from behind shelter
and attacked him with dagger, infictng
irigh,iul gashcs on the abdomen. The
victim managed to drag himsclfx home.
AS Mr.. JOHN ADAMS, farmer living
near Racine, was returning to his home
the o.ler afternoon the horses took fright
and ran away, throwing Mr.. Adams out
of the wagon underneath the wagon box.
He was dragged long distance over
rough and stony road and when found
soon after life was extinct. A young man
named Wilson who WAS with Mr. Adams
had his leg broken and badly fractured
below the knee.
Gov. TAYLOR has issued the follow
Ing Thanksgiving proclamation:
In accordance with custom older than the
State. and in recognition of our dependence upon
Almighty God for all things, l, William X. Taylor
Governor OF the State of Wisconsin. do hereby
designate Thursday Nov. %, 1875, day of
Thanksgiving and prayer. | recommend that on
that day all secular business be suspended and that
all persons repair To their places Of wor
ship and there Join i'll aserihing blessing and honor
and glory to Him that sitteth upon the throne.
In testimony whereof have hereunto signed my
name and caused the great seal Of the State to be
affixed Done at the Capitol. in the city OF Madi-
SON. this tenth day OF November, A. D I $50
BY the Governor: PETER DOYLE. Secretary of State
AT three O'clock on the afternoon of the
10Th Dr. A. s. McDill, Superintendent of
the Insane Asylum at Madison, died of
pneumonia, after an illness of several
weeks. Up to day or two before his
death he was not considered dangerously
i'll. DR.. McDill was member of the
Forty third Congress and came within Il
few votes of being a member OF the Forty
fourth He lived in Portage County at
the time of his election TO Congress, had
lived in the State for twenty years and was
well known and highly esteemed. The
Congressional canvass of 1874 will he re-
membcred. The contest was an exciting
one, and the certificate OF election was
finally given to Judge Geo. w, Cate, his
opponent, the canvassers figuring out
small majority for that gentleman by re-
iecting the returns from Il portion of Wood
County. DR.. McDill gave notice of
contest, and by agreement the case was
submitted to the Supreme Court of the
State, each contestant agreeing TO abide by
the decision The court decided but
short time ago that the Board of Canvassers
erred in rejecting the returns from Wood
County, and DIR. McDill would probably
have resumed his seat in Congress next
month if he had lived.
DIR. o. w. W1GHT. of Milwaukee, State
Geologist; Prof. Roland Irving, of the
University of Wisconsin: Prof. +. c.
Chamberlin. of Bcloit College, and Moses
Strong, of Mineral Point, constituting the
Geological Surveyors of the State, met at
Madison recently and had consultation
in regard to the years work and the re.