Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-10
WISCONSIN STATE. NEWS.

ON RECENT nlSnt, burglars entered fOuf
places in Fond du Lac, securing about 800.
At the residence Of Col. J. Even they present.
ed revolver at the head Of Miss Even and
elected the iAformationsdesired. They then
robbed the house of 800 in jewelry and
money. At the groceryof W. Balschneider
they took fifteen dollars, two watches and a
large quantity of cigars, in all 500. At the
other two places visited they were frightened
away.
Gently stolen from one of the pupils in one
of the public schools at Fond du Lac. The
Chief Of Police had the lady teachers take the
girls, and the male teachers the boys, and
search them. The letter was found on a girl
in the intermediate department.
Our of nineteen awards for dairy prod
ucts, at the Centennial, Wisconsin took tif-
teen.
DURING the coming winter there will be
about 100000,000 feet of logs cut on the st.
Croix and its tributaries.
ONE Thomas Mangin, saloon-keeper in
the town of Maple Grove, and John Foley,
his employe, were recently arrested on the
complaint Of John Mullins, which charges
them with having dragged him and robbed
him of $745.
JOHN STILKEY, farmer living near Kau-
kauna, was found dead, few days ago, by
the roadside The attending circumstances
indicated that he had beeu thrown from his
wagon, and in falling struck his head upon
stone.
BURGLARS are reaplng a rich harvest in
Green Bay.
STATE GEoLoGIsr CHAMBERLAIN has set
tied it that it is granite, encountered at the
depth of some 500 or 500 feet, in the La
Crosse artesian well, and that means stop
boring.
This season 100000 pounds of cheese have
been shipped from Wisconsin to one firm in
Montreal.
AN extensive sale of swamp lands took
place in the State Land Office a short time
since. Thirteen thousand acres were offered
and 5000 purchased, at prices ranging from
81 .25 TO S2l5 per acre.
DR.. A. G. BARRY, long prominent in the
Universalist Church, and former pastor of
the society of that denomination in Fond du
Lac, on the Goth ult. publicly renowned his
mons to very large audiences in the Copere-
gational Church of that city.
A REVIVAL work is in ogress in kenosha
under the leadership of Mr. Henry Moor
house
HERMAN NuNNEMACHER, one of the Mil.
waukee crookeds, has been released from
Imprisonment upon payment of his fine OF
$1,000,
A Boy fifteen years old, named Lynch,
and living at Dcpcre, was recently run over
and killed by freight train on the North
western Railroad at Wrightstown. 1t is
supposed he fell between the cars while in
motion.
THE body of Mrs. George Roberts was
found floating in the lake at Ahnapee on the
morning of the lst. 1t seems that she arose
at an carly hour and went to the lake, re-
moving all her clothing except night-dress
before making the fatal plunge. She had
but lately been removed by her husband from
the insane asylum at Oshkosh.
On the morning of the 3lst ult., Mrs, Gen.
Geo. II. Dclaplainc, of Madison, was aroused
from her slumbers by violent storm. She
took Kerosene lamp and went forth over
the house to see that all was right. In her
movements she dropped the lamp, or else it
exploded, and her night clothing was caught
by the flames. The mothers screams called
| a daughter, and the latter, after time, sue
ceeded in eXtinguishing the flames which
had eveloped her mother. The latter was
dreadfully burned, and the former sustained
severe injuries. About midnight following
Mrs. Delaplaine expired, after suffering the
seyerest anguish. Another daughter was
severely burned in extingushng he fire that
was making Roadway on the carpet where
the lamp fell
A GREAT sensation was caused III Miwau-
kee on the 3lst ult., in the Plankngton Pub
lie School, by the sudden death of a pupil
in the primary grade named Herbert Booth,
son of George Booth, carpenter, after pun
ishmcnt by teacher, Miss Sarah W. Chap
man, The boy had been guilty of miscou-
duct, and was taken out in the hall and
struck in the palm Of the hand with light
rattan four or five times. Hesobbed his way
into the schoul-room, and fell into an empty
seat near the one he occupied. The teacher
ran to his assistance, but the boy died in a
few minutes. The punishment was so light
| that il left no mark. The inquest revealed
the fact that the boy died from disease of
| the heart.
! SINGULAR disease, resembling small.
! poN, has broken out among the Milwaukee
hogs. Several have died.
DURING the three days preceding the LIST,
| about 1900 children were vaccinated in the
| Milwaukee public schools. During Noyem.
/ Der, i is believed that 10000 will be vaccin-
| sted
! IL the town Of Vienna, near Madison, on
| the Slst uit., Mrs. John Hustlehy fen into
| barrel of vinegar while ascending the cellar
! stairs Slo9iaI a1r,,s. ;r.tart.p..,-e.-