Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-10-25
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


few days ago they found tree in Glenmore
from which they secured about fifty pounds
Of honey, and five years ago they found one
containing about 400 pounds. The hollow Of
the tree was filled with honey for distance
/ Of about sixteen feet
AT Appleton, on the morning of the 10th,
the livery stable OF VIM. Lelkman q Co. was
destroyed by fire. In the stable was large
number of carriages, cutters, harness, ETC.,
which were totally consumed, together with
six horses. There were three men In the
building at the time, one Of them, German,
/ from Manitowoc, was burned to death, aud
another so severely scorched that he lies in q
precarious condition. The loss on building,
horses, etc, is at least 5000; insured for
| $500. Three wooden buildings, occupied
as dwellings, and adjoining the stable,
owned by Mrs. Burke, were partially de.
etroyed. Loss $1,000. A small building
owned by A. .Breitung was also destroyed.
Loss $500; not insured.
! THE State Board OF Charities have been
ordered to investigate certain charges made
| against the management Of the Racine Poor.
House.
| CHARLES MERRILL, brakeman on gravel
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee g. St. Paul
Railroad, fell between the cars, at Milwau.
kee on the 18th, and was mangled out OF
recognition.
| BRUECKER, editor Of the Milwaukee So.
eialist, was recently fined $500 for libeling
Judge Mallory, and was sent to Jail in de.
fault Of payment. Next day his friends paid
his fine, and after his release gave him q
brilliant serenade.
Hon. JAMES H. MINER having declined the
Republican nomination as Presidential
Elector for the Third District, the Republi.
can State Central Committee has nomi.
mated Hon. Daniel L. Downs to fill the va.
cancy. Mr.. Miner declined because of his in.
eligibility, he having accepted an appoint
ment as Postmaster.
AT Kenosha, a few nights ago, bunko
man, disguised as Granger, got forged
check on N. r. Allen u Son cashed by C. A.
Dewey.
| In the bay, off Milwaukee, on the 18th,
the tug X. Y. Green ipicked up capsized
boat with three Poanders, named John
Sterrit and Valentine Struck, who were
dead, tangled in the rigging, and John Bal.
lasky, alive.
| GEN. RUFUS KING, formerly editor of the
Milwaukee Sentind and subsequently United
States MiRkter to Rome, died at Elizabeth,
N. j., few days ago. He Iwas sixty-three
| years old.
| JULIUS JONAS and Louis Goldberg of Chi.
/ cago, have instituted suit against Louis
Rindskopf, of Milwaukee for $4,000 each.
1t will be remembered that some time ago
Jonas and Goldberg were indicted and tried
In Milwaukee on charge of conspiring to
| blow up the town and steal certain docu.
ments. They say it was Louis Rindskopi
who set up the job and did the squealing,
and now Jonas and Goldberg propose to
make him sweat for it
| THE Astor brewery, in Green Bay, spen.
did substantial new building of brick and
stone, costing about s44 600, and filled up
with all the appliances for making beer,
was sold at auction, at Shcriirs sale, lately.
for $1,000, to Henry Schneider, of Oshkosh,
the only bidder.
AT Oshkosh, on the 18th, Hon. l.. s.
Bcecher, of Boston, was run over by a rum
/ away team and fatally injured
| YoUNG's warehouse, vinegar factory, etc,
at Oshkosh, was destroyed by fire on the
evening of the 18th.
| On the night of the 10Th George Oddcn.
burgh's furniture store at Fort Howard was
| burned. Loss, 81 400. 1t was the work OF
an incendiary
! Two THOUSAND bushels of choice cranber.
| ries have been harvested this season from
| the marshes near Neecdah.
! FARMER of Omro, boasts of the posses
sion Of COW which yields, on an average,
thirty-tiye and one-quarter pounds Of milk
daily.
OPERATIONS have been resumed at the APP
pleton iron furnace.
DIVIDEND Of twenty per cent. has been
/ declared in favor of the creditors of the
| First National Bank OF La Crosse
JOSEPH MILLER, saloon-keeper, living
near La Crosse, committed suicide the other
| evening, by shooting himself through the
head. Financial embarrassment is said to
be the cause ID the suicide
WISCONSIN has 962 saw, single and plan.
| ing mills.
| IN St. Croix County, the corn crop is the
largest and best ever harvested.
FEW days ago Trostel & Gallun, Milwau.
kee leather dealers, received letter from
New York banker named p w. Gallandel.
informing them that their agent, H. w Gies,
had left notes of Trostel Il Gallun, amount
ing to IS, 97o.9 6 with him for sale A check
for the mount was inclosed. Gallaudel
wrote thst ne would have paid the money to
the agen. Gl.s, but he could not identify
himself Jsos'l Il Gallun never heard of
the notes or ,,eis. On the 18th they received
dispatch from Gallandel declaring the
notes forgeries, and asking for the return of
the check. No one loses by the operation.
but IL was a Skillful scheme for swindliug