Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-01-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
Rarron County.

west Of the 4th principal meridian, to the
so,,thcast quarter of Sec. %, Township "a
north. Range 1, west OF the 4th principal
meridian.
Columbia County.
Mr.. Warehouse, Of Columbus, nearly
century old, died while at supper on New
Years Eve.
Dane County.
The noted conspiracy case in which Col.
Bull, A. s, Rogers, A. Mueller and Sam
Rindskopf were defendants has ended. On
the Doth Col. Bull was fined 5000 and SEN
fenced 70 six months Imprisonment in the
county Jail; Mueller was fined $1,000 and
sentenced to one DAYS imprisonment; Kinds
kopf was fined 5000 and costs, and placed
one day in the custody Of the United States
Marshal; Rogers, having turned States eyi-
dence, was discharged.
The Wisconsin Agricultural Convention
will convene at Madison on the 27th Of
January.
Eau Claire County.
Four dwellings were burned in Eau Claire
the other night worth about $4,000.
Fond d. Lac County.
The Doth was the coolest day Of the season
at Fond du Lac. At sunrise the thermometer
indicated u deg, below zero.
The decision OF Judge Ellis, giving j. w.
Bass, Of Fond du Lac, Judgment for some
$1,000 against the Northwestern Railway
Company for ejectment from n ladies' car
some time ago, has been reversed by the Su-
preme Court.
Fond du Lac has shipped goods worth g., 200
10 the Kansas and Nebraska grasshoppcr
sufferers.
j. J. Smith & Sons. of Rpon, will establish
"A butter factory at Fond du Lac next season.
John Sewcll & Co., dry. goods dealers, and
G. A. Trowbridge & Bros, jewellers, of Fond
du Lac, failed lately.
Grant County.
There were $40 marriages in the county
during 1874,
4: reen County.
During 1874 there were made in the county
1850 pounds Of Swiss and Limberger
cheese and $4,000 pounds of American
cheese, amounting in all 10 l,693, 900 pounds,
valued at S2ll ,625.
JeueIsOn Souuys
Charles Beard, Fort Atkinson druggist,
recently attempted suicide by taking five
grains of morphine There was n woman in
The case.
Howard Il. Manning, Of Hebron, was in
stantly killed the other day by the acct
dental discharge of u gun. He had been out
hunting with companion. They separated
"a. al f.r Manning M Tn a
fence, and in getting over his gun caught
the hammer of which was struck with such
force as to discharge it.
Marquette County.
The dwcllins OF b. McDougal, situated
about one-half mile south of Moutelo, was
burned on New Years Day.
milwaukee County.
The length OF the paved streets In Milwau-
kce is 1901 miles.
A Pole named Raczck was killed and
another man fatally injured at Milwaukee,
the other day, by the fall Of u clay bank under
meath which they were working.
The annual statement of the trade and com.
merce of Milwaukee for 1874 shows the re-
celpts Of wheat to have been -, 697 IA bush
els; shipments, 23359, III, hour, receipts,
i,5s6,oS5 barrels shipments, 2,20S AIS; lum
Ter, receipts. l4l ,i0i 300 fect lath A. lO3, 800
shingles, sos, 900 cattle, receipts, 2o,925
live hogs, 2S7,oo7 dressed hogs, 75,0a4.
There are lss teachers employed In the
milwaukee, public schools.
Farmer John Gusal, of Town Nine, while on
his way 10 Milwaukee with a pair OF steers,
recently, was terribly and fatally wounded by
being gored in the abdomen by one of the
animals
Two strangers stopped at the Mecklcn
berger House, Milwaukee, the other night,
and were placed by the proprietor in one bed.
During the night one of them rose and stole
from under the pillow of the other the sum Of
sloI in currency.
The second story OF Caswell's new build.
ing, Nos, ls2 and IA Spring street, Milwau.
kec, was burned out the other night. Loss
about $4,000,
Ed Woods, Il coorcd milwaukee barber,
recently got into friendly scufiic with a
visitor, and during the circus a revolver in
the possession of the latter was DISCHARGED.
accidentally, the bali striking Woods in the
leg,
Acouple of Milwaukee policemen fshed a
young girl out of Spring street cistern
carly on the morning of the Sd She ap.
peared to be insane, and could give no OK
planation how she got there.
The new Sheriff invaded the National Sol
d'ers' Homo the other afternoon and arrested
two inmates OF the asylum, without opposs
ton, for oteuscs committed OF the ustlona
ground
Polk County.
At 81 troiN Falls, not long ago, a Chime
wa Indian known As John Buck. while RESTING
IN the woods, was approached from hehipt