Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-10
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

session at Madison, on the 9th and 18th ult.
| Several witnesses testified, among Others the
Ex-Governor, Col. Bird, his Private Secretary.
| j. c. Sloan and T. L. Hacker, the ex-Gov
ernors messenger. The investigation was
| still pending at last accounts.
THE fall in the price of wheat on Change
| in Milwaukee during the week ending April
| 2S, aggregated nine cents, and those who
had sold long and were waiting for rise
wore long faces. The bears were still growl-
ing and predicting further decline.
Hon. AsHAEL FINCH, of Milwaukee, has
been notified that he has been drawn as one
of the new council or jury OF investigation
In the case of Plymouth Church and Rev. II.
w. Beecher.
THE Regents of the University, at recent
special meeting, accepted of a proposition
to sell the Orphans Home property for
$4,000, to Halle Steinsland, as trustee for
Scandinavian Seminary; also to adopta sys-
tenn of low pressure steam-heating for
Science Hall; also accepted the offer OF
Hon. John A. johnson to endow the Uni
versty with 5000, the increase to be ex-
pended to aid Scandinavian students at the
University, not more than $50 to any one
yearly. They also, by vote Of the Board,
decided to retain the present Matron in
Ladies' Hall. Considerable work was laid
out for committees, to be reported upon at
the regular annual meeting in June, and va
rious matters informally talked over.
THERE were fifty vessels laden with wheat
and oats at Milwaukee, on the 2Sth ult, wait
in for hp hat he
were open, before starting on their way to
the Lower Lakes. They had on board $685.
| 6S5 bushels of wheat and 81, 600 bushels Of
| oats. Two propellers which were loading
| are not included in the above.
| PATRICK HANRAHAN, Assessor at Fort
| Howard, died very suddenly, on the morn
| ing Of the 1st. He awoke about three O'Clock
| in the morning with a taste Of blood in his
| mouth. He asked his wife for a light,
| when blood was seen to be gushing from
| his mouth in copious streams. He died be-
| fore his family could be gathered at his bed
| side.
ALBERT G. KNIGHT, an old citizen of Ra-
cine was fatally injured at Racine on the
lst, by being thrown from buggy in which
ne was riding.
The Appleton Post says: " While Louis
Lehman was out trapping in the town of
Black Creek, last week, on stream of that
name he discovered beautiful swan. 1t
measures six feet across its back, between
the tips of its wings. II is to be stuffed and
placed on exhibition. We believe this is the
| first bird of the kind which has ever been
discovered in this part of the country"
| THE Fond du Lac Threshing Machine com.
| pany has made an assignment Its assets
are scheduled at about Sl65 900, and labili
ties at about $4,000.
OK the morning of the LIST, the Racine
wire works, owned by Charles Goehner,
were burned to the ground, involving a loss
| Of about $4,000. Mr. Goehner was in Mil
| waukee at the time of the burning 1t is
said the fire was the work of an ncen-
| diary.
JOHN ScHLITz and August Bergenthal,
who have served sentence for whisky frauds
| In the Milwaukee County Jail, took the no
| property oath, on the 1st, and were dis
| charged from the payment of the fines i'm
| posed on them, and set at liberty.
Mr.. A. w WINTER has been appointed
| General Superintendent of the West Wis
eonsin Railroad, in place of Mr. w. Swan,
| resigned.
Mr.. HAWTHORNE, who pleaded guilty at
| Appleton to the charge of taking stone from
the Government owing to very extenuating
| circumstances, was fined $50 and given into
| the custody of the Sheriff for only ten days.
THE mill of A. Weed X Co., at Green Bay,
80 "a, II,
| The foreman went through the engine room
few moments after, and observed John
Learr, the engineer, examining some portion
of the machinery. Soon after this the fire.
man, hearing peculiar noise about the
machinery, FASTENED to stop the engine.
The sudden stoppage brought the hands to
the engine-room, where a sickening sight
was presented. The mangled body of the
engineer was hanging over the scantlng of
portion of the wall. 1t is thought he at
| tempted to regulate the eccentric, and while
doing so was thrown into the fly wheel and
then hurled against the opposite wall, where
he was found. The back part of his head
was entirely gone, bis left leg severed, every
bone in his body broken, and pieces of flesh
and bone scattered in all directions. His
thirtcen-yearold son was running knot
saw in an adjoining room, and was among
the first to find the body
Ar Green Bay, on the ID, while Ole Shat
| ford was engaged In charging the furnace of
the Green BAY Iron Company, not stepping
back quick enough volume of gas and
flame that shot up enveloped him. burning
him badly, both inwardly and outwardly.
In his terror he jumped from the platform
10 the roof Of the coal-shed, aud thence to
the ground, and, receiving no injuries by
the leap, walked home. He was terribly