Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-10-14
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

T6EoNs are very plentllui throughout
the State
THE contractors for the artesian we'll
at Racine have reached distance of 100
feet
JOHN BRIsToL's house at Depere was
burned the other night, involving loss of
about $4,000.
VoLNEY FRENCH has been appointed
Judge of Kenosha County, in place of
Judge Webster, deceased
The remains Of another victim of the
great fire of October, 1871, have been re-
Gently discovered near Peshtigo
Mr.. AND Mrs. THOMAS KrMBALL, of
Neenah, celebrated their fiftieth wedding
anniversary on the 9th of October.
A CHILD of Mrs. Frank Durand, of
Fond du Lac, recently fe Il into a pail of
hot water and was scalded to death.
HENRY ROMAN stabbed and killed John
Magill, at his residence in Oshkosh, a few
days ago He also attempted to kill Mrs.
Magill.
MIR. Tony SCHNEIDER, an old resident
OF New Berlin, Waukesha County, re-
Gently accidentally shot and killed him
self while out hunting.
Four MILLION ONE HUNDRED AND NINE
LYNNE THOUSAND AND FIFTY-FIvE DOL
LARS is the value Of real estate and per-
sonal property in the city Of Racine.
A MAN named Knowles fell overheard
from the transfer steamer McGregor, at
La Crosse, few nights since and was
drowned before aid could reach him.
THE body of a man named Dockery
was recently found in the millrace near
the Winnebago paper-mills at Neenah.
When last seen on the preceding night he
was drunk.
ALEX. BRONSON, a conductor on Wis
consin Central freight train, fell from the
top of his train the other day and twenty
five cars passed over hi m. His remains
were barely recognizable.
JOHN BALsTEY, of Center, has lately
commenced suit against the town of Black
Creek, to recover damages for injuries re-
ceived on account of the bad condition of
the highways. He claims $4,000.
A PAIR of horses attached to an omni.
bus at Fort Howard ran away the other
evening and were not heard of until next
day, when they were discovered about tf-
teen miles away-neither horses nor stage
being injured.
In the Circuit Court at Milwaukee, in
the suit of George Reed against the Wis
consin Central Railroad and Trustees. the
injunction against the sale of the balance
of the bonds in the hands of the company
has been dissolved.
THE assignee of the suspen ded banking
house of O. NJ. Tyler & Co., of Wau-
kesha, states that the entire liabilities of
the concern are $32 900 and that the cred
itors will not receive more than twenty
cents on the dollar.
A YOUNG nurse girl named Annie Crow
lev, in Milwaukee, wa detected the other
night in putting her charge to sleep by
administering chloroform. 1t was discov-
cred that she had been in the habit OF
using it frequently, and, fearing arrest, she
suddenly left the city.
JOHN II. LEWIS, a resident of Madison
since 1910, and conspicuously connected
as United States Marshal under Buchan-
an with the famous Fugitive Slave law
case of S. NJ. Booth, died in that city on
the 81 of consumption, after two months
illness.
WISCONSIN fruit made very creditable
show at the recent meeting of the Amen
can Pathological Society OF apples
Wisconsin showed by far the largest va
rlety of any of the twenty-tour States and
provinces represented, receiving the third
Wilder medal for - general display of
fruits"
NUMBERING will be carried on further
up river the coming winter than ever be-
fore. The Oconto Company has crew of
men engaged clearing out McCauslin
Brook, situated some sixty miles up the
north branch of the Oconto. They are
also erecting dam on it, preparatory for
spring driving.
JOSEPH BEMIRCH, an insane man,
drowned himself in the marsh between
the tracks of the Chicago & Northwestern
and St Paul Roads near Milwaukee the
other evening. He stripped himself of
all clothing and plunged around in the
mud in the marsh until he found sufficient
water TO drown himself in.
THE recent serious accidents in Wiscon-
sin, caused by threshing machines, have
called attention to the law on the subject,
which Is fund in l'han q General LAWS