Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-03-01
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


CoLKs BAsHFoRp has resigned the
office of Secretary OF State Of Arizona
Territory.
OVER 5000 tons Of excellent ice have
been taken from Lake Monona and sent to
Logansport, Ind.
GEo. +. SEkeER, a Milwaukee boot and
shoe dealer has been adjudicated bank.
rupt. He offers thirty cents on the dollar.
Mr.. OTro EVE, of La Crosse, the old
est and one of the most extensive wheat
buyers in that section Of country has re.
Gently failed.
A FEW nights ago the large stave fac.
tory OF Willy, Berkschy 4 Green, at
Throckton, twenty miles north of Apple.
ton, was burned, involving loss OF $780,.
600.
SIxTEEN passenger and freight conduc.
tors on the st. Paul T. milwaukee, Railway
have been dismissed from the employ of
the company for receiving money from
passengers and failing to make return
thereof.
LITTLE Indian girl was recently
burned to death on the Menominee reser
walton. The wigwam caught fire and
burned to the ground, and II Is supposed
the little girl was asleep or was sutfocated
by the smoke before she could make her
| escape.
A NEW method of swindling has been
practced in Fond du Lao by very re.
spectacle looking and well dressed lady.
She would so into a store, make 4 small
purchase and ask for change for ten dol
lars. When the change was counted out
| to her, she would declare that she had
| given the clerk the bill and he had put it
| in the drawer from which he had taken
the change. Quite number OF the mer-
chants have been gulicd in this way
INDIAN AGENT BRiDeMAN has Just con
| Guided a census of the Oneida Indians In
Wisconsin. There are, all told 1891 OF
| them, divided as follows: Men, BAL; WON.
en-, 1865; children, 695; there are 300 heads
OF families; they have cultivated during
the past year 4,332 acres, and have raised
22,292 bushels of grain of all kinds and
| ",SoV ouShS'S va poutoSS, tHSy HuNc ouJ
horses, 400 head OF cattle (which includes
horned stock Of all kinds) and 277 hogs;
there are fifty-sx frame houses and 2l6
| log houses on the reservation. The
Oneidas have cut and sold $4,000 worth
OF timber during the past year. Their
grain raised was mostly wheat, as their
corn was principally cut off by the frost.
THE Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Ma.
sons, lately in session at Milwaukee,
elected the following officers; VIM &.
Swain, OF Milwaukee, G. II. p Oliver
Libby, of Green Bay, ID. g. II. p; Fred
Ring, Jr., OF La Crosse. G.. X; J. M.
Evsns, of Evansville, G, s.. David II.
Wright, OF Madison, g. Treasurer; John
w. Woodruff, of Milwaukee, G. Secre.
tary; Rev. Joshua Butler of Fort Akin
son, G. Chaplain; Melvin l.. Youngs, of
Milwaukee, G. Lecturer; NJ. r. Gage, of
Sparta, G. G. H.; A. G.. Hamaker, of
Stevens Point, G. p s.; j. W. Lafilin,
Of Oshkosh, q. II. A. G.; Donald Nc
Grcgor, Of Platteville, G. NJ, Sd ". $. c.
Bassett, of Berlin, G. NJ, I'd "; Geo. II.
Daubner, of Waukesha, G.. NJ. lst vi,
l.. Barrett. Of Milwaukee. G.. Guard.
Mr.. PERo's family, living at the brick.
yard, two or three blocks south OF the
Mason street bridge, have two tame crows
that are novelty in their way. They nc.
company the children on their way to
school every day, flying ahead OF them
1 litfla NAV takip0 most IN tha rouraa or
trees until the children come up, when
they will start on again. They see the
children safely to the school house, and
then they return home, These crows are
the last Of five young ones found by some
of the men employed at Mr.. Pero's yard
two years ago. One Of them is quite talk.
alive; calls nearly all the family by name,
and repeats several words. They spend
their nights In the dovc-honse with the
doves, making themselves quite at home
with any Of the members Of the family
One of the children, deaf mute, is the
particular pet of the birds; they will sit
on her head or shoulder by the hour
Green Bay Register.
! CmIEF-JUsTIcE RYAN, on the 18th, rem
dered the decision Of the Supreme Court
denying the application made some weeks
since by Miss Godell, Of Junesyille, to
practice in that Court. The opinion il
elaborate, and critically examines the
statutes, and fortihes and illustrates the
opinions advanced II is held that, if the
Legislature has power 10 prescribe the
terms Of admission 10 practice in the
| courts-and that Is a legislative and not 4
| judicial power-tlere is no Wisconsin
statute authorizing the admission of
| fo,paIaa tn har from vhioh III. common