Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-27
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


be held in the Agricultural Rooms at the
Capitol, commencing on Tuesday evening,
Feb. 8, 1877. The Executive Committee of
the Agricultural Society will meet on Mon
day evening, Feb. 5, to revise the premium
list and locate the State Fair for 1877. The
Horticultural Society will also meet Oh tie
same evening, and continue their sessions
Tuesday TO receive the Presidents address,
reports of committees, and for discussions
and the transaction of general business.
COPPER in large and paying quantities has
been discovered in Polk County
IT is reported that E. W. Keyes, Chairman
of the State Republican Committee is about
to remove to Chicago, and engage in the
practice of law in that city.
BEARS and deer are hume rous in Northern
Wisconsin.
FEW evenings ago, at Madison, as Mrs.
P. Ross was lying in her bed with an infant
son, kerosene lamp standing on the bureau
at the head Of the bed suddenly exploded,
throwing the burning oil, all over the bureau
and bed. Mrs. Ross starting up suddenly
stepped into The flames, and before assistance
could reach her was so terribly burned that
she died early next morning. The child was
covered with the bed clothing, and escaped
injury.
ED GROWER, frcight-train brakeman on
the Chicago Division of the St Paul Railway,
fell under switch-engine at Milwaukee, on
the Eth, and had one of his legs taken off
below the knee.
ABOUT 109S00 COO feet of logs passed
ha W,1e
There are held over about 25,000, 900 feet.
The cut on Wolf River and tributaries this
winter will not exceed 5000, 900 feet, a fall
ing off from last winters crop of about thir-
ty-three per cent
A BRAKEMAN on a Western Union train,
mile south of Milwaukee, was blown of his
train, on the evening of the 10TH and had
his back broken. He died two days after
THE Appleton Crescent advocates the cs-
tablishment of the Hospital for the Incurable
Insane, at Oshkosh, instead of Madison.
CHARLES HALEY, a clerk at the National
House, near Milwaukee, was arrested on IA
requisition from the Governor of Pennsyl-
vania, on the 10Th, and taken back TO answer
for a forgery committed near Eric, Pa. in
1873.
THE Blair House, large hotel at Merrill
lon Junction, caught fire from the chimney,
on the 10th, and was wholly destroyed The
structure was owned by the Green Bay 81
Minnesota Railroad Company. Loss, about
SIC, 600.
MILWAUKEE is fairly patrollcd by thicvng
tramps.
DURING the past season Milwaukee con-
structed over five miles of wooden pave
ment and twelve miles of sewer.
THEY are talking of organizing in Milwau-
kee district alarm telegraph company.
The stock has been subscribed, and, when
fairly in operation, it is believed that bur-
glary in the Cream City will be one of the
lost accomplishments.
ANAppleton man suspected that his neigh.
Dor was poaching on his wood pile, and
charged a stick with gunpowder. His own
hired girl got hold Of the loaded stick, and
a $50 stove was what the experiment cost.
The girl is engaged at present in the study
of criniculturc.
A DAILY mail between Ashland and Mil
waukee has been established to take effect
on the LIST Of January. The service is per-
formed by the Wisconsin Central Railroad
Company.
NEXT season a daily line of steamers will
run between Ashland and Duluth.
Ar Superior, on the 10th, the thermometer
indicated thirty-one degrees below zero
Cold weather.
THE Court House at Chippewa Falls re.
Gently came near being destroyed by fire by
the explosion of the gasoline with which it
was lighted.
TIE Executive Committee and other mem
bers of the Wisconsin Dairymen's Associa-
ton have decided upon a programme Of
exercises and topics for discussion at the
annual meeting 10 be held at Appleton, Jan
17-lS. For the best sample of cheese and
the best sample of butter exhibited at the
meeting will be awarded each silver medal
The Centennial medals and diplomas will
also be on exhibition.
A CARPENTER named Fred Ravcnsday re-
Gently left Oshkosh for the woods where he
expected to lumber for the winter. He was
overcome with cold about ten miles from
Shawano, laid down and died
FRED PREIsENEMIsTER, an Oshkosh fire.
bug, was sent to the State Prison for five
years for exercising his vocation in the
much-cremated city.
THEY gave a surprise party and social
dance at the County Jail in Chippewa Falls,
the other night, in honor of Sheriff Colburn.
THE Beef Slough Company have been en-
joined from running loose logs In the Chip
pewa River below Chippewa Falls.
Hon. D. G. CHEEvER has been appointed
q Trustee Of the Deaf and Dumb Institute in
place of Hon W. Isham, deceased.
ADAM HAARHoFP was found frozen to
death in Racine few days ago.
SCARLEr-FEvER is raging in Kenosha and
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