Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

1HE Liberal Democrat, the only Demo
cratic Norwegian paper in the State, has
changed hands.
ANOTHER batch Of Winnebago Indians
have been making entries of land at La
Crosse under the Homestead act.
MADISON, according to a recent school
census, has total Of 1880 children be-
tween the ages of four and twenty
A SAFE in Rhodes & Co.'S meat market
in Madison was blown open at an early
hour the other morning and $500 secured.
MIR. JACKSON WHITE, Whitestown, of
Vernon County, was thrown from his
horse and instantly killed, few days
ago.
THERE were forty four deaths in Mil
waukee during the week ending Aug. 20,
of which thirty-three were classed as chill
dren.
IT is conceded on all hands that moth
ing now will prevent an immense corn
crop in all parts of tho State but heavy
frost
Appleton, and one of the largest real es-
tate owners in the city, was buried re-
Gently.
TAYLOR COUNTY is to have a Court
House to cost $4,000 They are having
| lively time over the location at Medford,
the county seat
JACOB REHR, a farmer residing on the
| Muskcgo road, few miles from Milwau-
kee, had aleg taken off by threshing-
machine few days ago.
THERE are 2,646 boys and girls over
four and under twenty years of age in the
Tenth Ward, Milwaukee OF this num-
| Der 1 ,2S3 are girls and 1868 boys.
A MILWAUKEE saloon-keeper named
kuhfeldt cut his throat the other day, but
was discovered before life was extinct He
had been drunkard of long standing
A PLANK was lately thrown from athird-
story window in Neenah, and John Cross,
who was walking on the sidewalk below,
received serious and probably fatal in
| juries.
| THE assessment returns Of Milwaukee,
city and county, show real estate valua-
ton Of $43 ,54o,0 97, and personal property
to the amount of $16,473,034 total, $780,
| 0l3, 131.
A FOND DU LAC carpenter was horse
whipped by an Oshkosh woman, and that
evening he ran away with her daughter,
making of that pugnacous woman
mother in-law.
CHARLES ScoFIELD, a prominent MILL
| owner and member of the Legislature, was
recently arrested on a charge Of appropri-
| ating 10000 feet of logs belonging to
Xavier Martin, of Green Bay
POSTAL changes in Wisconsin during
| the week ending Aug. %, 1915, were as
follows; Postmasters appointed-Cale-
| donna, Racine County, Charles X. Stearns;
| Moses Ear, Barron County, VIM. w.
! Flynn.
THE Wisconsin says that, during the
month Of August, the sales of real estate
in Milwaukee city and county amounted
and is one-quarter more than the sales
made in August, 1874.
ANOTHER mineral spring has been dis
covered in the vicinity Of Milwaukee.
! This time the waters rise near the quarry
of Manegold & Schweickhart, in the Me
nomonee Valley. Ii has been named the
| MenOmOnce Health Sprinr
IT is reported that Mr.. A. Z. Ross, for
merly Principal of the Fond du Lac High
School-a man good many people will
| remember because of the numerous unset
tied accounts he left-committed suicide
| in California a short time since
THE State Normal School in Oshkosh
has fairly opened for the fall term. The
great popularity of the institution is at
tested by the fact that, large as the build
| ing and accommodations are, it has hard
| ly seating capacity sufficient for the pupils
that have appeared this term.
A FEW ghts ago. at Oshkosh, light
ming struck the Westinghouse of Frank
SChottle and tore the house almost to
pieces and set it on fire. Strangely enough
the inmates were not injured in the least
although little girl bears black stre2k
clear down her back from the effects.
THE Methodists of Oshkosh have final.
ly closed the bargain with the Presby-
terrain Society for the sale of the old Meth
odlst church and parsonage, corner of
Church snd Division streets. The con-
sideration, it is understood, was $500
and the Presbyterian property on Jetter-
son avenue.