Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

DURING game Of baseball at Appleton
on the 5th, between the Actives, Of Apple
ton, and the Berlin Citys, OF Berlin the
catcher OF the Berlin City was struck in the
temple by foul ball and dangerously in.
jured
THE Government lock at Eureka on the
upper Fox River, is completed, and is very
fine structure. Dredges are at work clean
ing the channel, and by Sept. Is the river
will be open from Green Bay to Portage.
CROP returns from two-thirds of the old.
er-settlcd portions of the State, published
on the 9th, state that the wheat crop
throughout the State will be about half
crop. Oats will be an average crop, and
corn will be poor. The hay crop is immense.
ON the night of the 5th lightning struck
the spirc of the Lutheran Church in La
Crosse The barn of Rev. p G. Rein, nd.
joining, was also struck, and valuable
horse killed.
PRoF w. J. PHELPS, of the Winona
(Minn) State Normal School, has accepted
the Presidency of the State Normal School
at Whitewater. Mr. Phelps is President OF
the National Teachers Association.
ACCORDING to the Wisconsin game law.
woodcock may be shot from July 4th to No.
yember 18th; prairie chickens or grouse,
August 10Th to November 18th; quail, ruff
fled grouse and pheasant, September 10th to
January End; ducks September LIST to Febru.
AIRY LIST; deer, August 18th to December 18th.
THE Geological Survey is progressing
satisfactorily, and is developing important
results, chief among them being the GER
tainty that the copper-bearing rock extends
south into Polk, Burnett, Barron and st.
Croix Counties; and the probability that
the iron range, instead OF bearing over into
Minnesota, tends southwark toward the
Black River range Mr.. Moses Strong Is
examining the copper rock in st. Croix,
Polk, Burnett and Barron Counties, and ex.
poets to get up into bayfield, County In Sep
tcmber. Prof. K. p. Whitfield, of Albany, n.
Y, a man particularly well acquainted with
our western palcontology, has been engaged
to work up the fossils OF the Survey.
john LEIsKE, n laborer, was killed on
the 18th, while crossing the railroad track
front Of an approaching engine, at the
St Paul yards in Milwaukee.
SHERIFF MUELLER, Of Washington Coun-
ty reached West Bend on the night of tho
| 9TH with cX-Treasurer Senior. When
found at Omaha, he was sick with brain
fever and suffering from prolonged disspa-
| ton.
On the 18th, the escaped sea-lion was seen
in the vicinity of Oshkosh, aud an attempt
made by pa ty in a small boat TO capture
him, When the young men retired from
the encounter there was hardly enough OF
the boat left to float, and they returned to
Oshkosh with conviction that they had
lost $500.
PREPARATIONS are making to At up the
grounds at Milwaukee for the accommoda.
ton Of the State Fair, which Is TO be held
in September. All the buildings will be
renovated and placed in excellent order.
THE Ahnepcc Record notes that the num-
berless swallows which inhabited the high
banks along the lake shore In that ncghbor-
hood recently disappeared, abandoning their
eggs and young. 1t Is supposed that the
birds were carried out over the lake in
gale, and, becoming confused and tired, fell
into the water and were drowned.
FRED PREsMEIsTER was arrested at Osh-
kosh on the 7th on charge OF arson.
A NINE-YEAR.oLD son OF s. Roscndoon Of
Fond du Lac, while playing in the barn on
the morning OF the Sth, was terribly kicked
and stamped upon by horse. His skull
was fractured and his arm broken.
A FLYING kite frightened the horse OF Mr..
Crombie, Of Milwaukee, on the 9TH and a
frightful runaway resulted. The carriage
was reduced to splinters and Mrs. Crombic
who was seated in it was seriously and per-
haps fatally injured
THE prarie-chicken crop is reported good
in the northwestern counties.
IL some portions of the State blueberries
have been sold as low as fifty cents a bushel.
A. PALMER, of the Fish Commission.
offers reward of ten dollars for the first
salmon caught in Wisconsin waters.
OK the sth, Mrs. Peterson, in the town
Of Winchester, was making some haryes, beer
for hands in the field In lifting the vessel
containing The boiling fluid from the stove,
one Of the handles gave way, the contents
falling on two children, one Of whom lived
only a few hours while the other is In q
dangerous condition.
THE residence OF George Sine at Oshkosh
was burned on the afternoon of the Sth
Loss about 81 200.
THE hay crop in the State is abundant and
prices accordingly rule very low.
A SuAwANo lumberman has 5000, 900 feet
Of pine logs on the Upper Wolf, and 400o,-
900 feet on the Oconto Rivers.
THE Green Bay Regatta has blown over.
No one was injured by the recent mild at
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