Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1875-09-02
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


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CHARLES MARTIN wasrecently killed by
the caving Of clay bank in Kratz' brick
yard, Wauwatosa.
THE freight warehouse of the Wisconsin
Railroad Company at Fort Howard was
burned the other night
THE annual meeting of the Grand Lodge
of the State Of Wisconsin, I. O. G. T., will
be held in Oshkosh on the It'll of Septem.
ber
A SEVERE and in many places killing
frost visited Wisconsin on the morning of
the 22d, killing the vines pretty generally
and the corn in some sections
KITTY QUINN, aged thirteen years, was
burned to death the other evening, at Mil
waukee, by her clothes taking fire from
contact with the kitchen.stOve.
CHARLES HILDEBRANDT, the late Viii
lage Treasurer of West Bend, Washington
County, the State Journal says, is de-
faulter in the sum Of &4,061.77.
AT Milwaukee, the other day, Webster
& Lawson's hub and spoke factory gave
way, causing the loss of about 81, 600 worth
of machinery, and destroying property
worth $1,000.
OSCAR GEAY's lumber and single mill
on the Shawano military road, near Green
Bay, was recently burned, together with
four tenement-houses and quantity Of
lumber. Loss $4,000
AYoUNa man arrived in Madison, Wis,
the other day, accompanied by his intend
ed bride, but after hunting all through the
town for minister they were obliged to
60 on to Milwaukee to get the knot tied
THE saw-mill and several adjacent
dwellings at Mill Centre about ten miles
from Green Bay, were burned to the
ground few evenings ago, involving
the loss Of property valued at about $780,
00O
THE brewers of Milwaukee have made
up table on the beer statistics Of the
city for July, which shows that during
that month they manufactured %, 534 bar
| rels, sold 81 ,5S3, and had on hand at the
end of the month 92,579 barrels; that is,
the number Of kegs sold in July was
126,332
GEORGE WILLIAMS, who was arrested in
Oconto some four or five weeks ago upon
the charge Of passing counterfeit money,
escaped from the Milwaukee County Jail,
a few nights ago, by saving through the
grating and letting himself to the ground
with rope made by tearing his blanket
into strips.
THE committee of the State Agricult-
ural Society appointed to investigate Sat
Clark's charges of msappropriation of
the society's money by Gov. Taylor when
he was Marshal of the State Fair, had
meeting at Madison the other day, but
some witnesses wanted by Clark were
not there, and the examination was finally
postposed till December.
Col VIM A. BUcH, Postmaster at Ber-
lin, died lately Of consumption The de-
ceased was in the army during the war,
holding the position of Captain in the
Fifth Infantry, and subsequently that of
Colonel of the Thirtyseventh. He re-
ceved wounds which made him cripple
for life He represented the district in the
Assembly in 1865, and had been Postmas-
ter since 1866.
THE other evening the tugs Starke
Brothers and F. w. Maxon had a race for
the schooner Ardent, in the bay off Mil
warl,ee. The Maxon reached the schooner
first, but the Starke Brothers was so close
behind that she struck the Mayon in the
stern, driving the latter's bow against the
Ardent with such force as to crush the
latter's side and cause her to fill with
water in few minutes.
THE following postal changes were made
in Wisconsin during the week ending
Aug IA: Name changed-Ableman, Sank
County, to Rock Springs. Postmasters
appointed--Fox River, Kenosha County,
John II. Roberts; Leon, Monroe County,
Arthur l.. Mitchell; Rusk, Dunn County,
Thomas Condor; Tess Corners, Wau-
kesha County, Christian Schale; Wilson,
ST Croix County, James w. Van Vliet
TAXING it one year with another, and
for the whole series of years that have
passed since any considerable settlement
of Wisconsin was effected, she shows a
steadiness and permanency of material
growth and prosperity that ought to make
ker people contented and happy. Each
recurring census proves that our popula-
ton is steadily on the increase, and the
tables of assessments of real and personal
property and the statistics of our agri-
cultural, mechanical and manufacturing
interests are exhibits calculated TO I'LL