Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-07-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

AN Oshkosh dog became so attached to .
baby carriage that when 1t was disposed OF
by the man, who had no more use for such
articles, the animal followed it and would
persist in lying under it a portion of the day.
The pcrambulator had to be brought home
again in order to retain the dog A happier
dog was never seen than he when the cart
was taken home, and he guards it with all
the fondncss Imaginable.
THE mangled corpse Of Mr. z. W. Jones, Of
Racine, was found the other night neas the
Catholic cemetery, northwest of that city.
He had been killed by runaway horse.
Tom ONEILL's distillcry in the town Of
Lake was sold by United States officers, on
the 10Th, on an assessment of $6S,0OO It
brought but $500.
ONE Of the oldest houses in Fort Howard
was burned on the morning of the 26th.
Loss not heavy.
THE statement that the Appleton Iron
Company has failed needs modification. For
some weeks the Company was unable to get
coal because OF the condition of the roads.
During that time it lost some thousands of
dollars and was unable to meet afew notes
due. On this, together with the fact that the
furnace was blown off because of having
worn out, the report was started by inter-
ested parties that the Company had failed.
The furnace stack has been running twenty
one months, one of the longest runs ever
known, and was obliged to blow off before
the other stack could be prepared. This
stack will be ready in the course Of n week
or so for the Company to resume the smelt-
ing Of ore.
A MAN who has his crops eaten up by deer
at this season Of the year, when the law for
bids shooting them, ought to have the sym
patty Of the public. Capt. William Powell,
Of Maple Grove, Shawano County, a gentle
man well known to all the older residents Of
Oshkosh, went to Green Bay n few days
ago to consult with lawyer about what he
could lawfully do to protect his crops. The
Gazette says he has about thirty acres cleared
and under cultivation, and the deer jump
his fences and eat his wheat and corn. The
Captain is = Law. abiding citizen, and he
wanted to know how he should protect him
self. We know how VIC would do it--with Q
rifle, law or no law.-Oshkosh Times.
A MAN named T. J. BOas, employed rs col
lector for Sehlitz " Co, Of Milwaukee, rec
filters, has disappeared with large sum OF
money. His character is good, and fears are
entertained that he has been murdered.
THE beautiful Lake Geneva is de-
scribed by an enrOptured correspondent as
about ten miles long, by an average Of two
and half to three miles In width; shores
bold and well wooded; timber around the
lake mostly hard maple and oak, with
sprinklng Of ash, buttcrnut and Eastwood,
and the water Of the lake flowing In from
numberless springs Of great purity.
A PARTY OF twenty MenomOnee Indians,
belonging to Catholic total abstinence So
ciety in the Reservation Mt Keshina, left
Green Bay, on the evening Of the 18th, for
Philadelphia, whittier they go under the
auspices OF the Philadelphia Total Absti
nence Society, who pay their expenses for
the trip. They took their war costumes with
| them, and Catholic priest aud Joseph
Gauthicr the interpreter, accompanied
them.
FEW days ago, James McCrea died OF
lockjaw, at La Crosse, after twenty four
hours OF horrible suffering His foot and
ankle had been accidentally crushed, two
weeks before, but no fears were entertained
OF fatal results until lockjaw set in.
On the 2sth contract was signed with
John Wilcc for the construction OF foun-
tain In Court House Square, at Milwaukee,
at a cost Of 81 ,O05. The basin Is to be ak
feet deep and thirty-six feet In diameter.
The Chicago Times, in announcing the fact.
significantly asks why Milwaukeeans want
water when beer Is so convenient.
AN incendiary fire was started on the
night OF the 27.h, ut Green Bay, in partially
completed house belonging Ito o. j. Bryce,
cx-Chicf Of Police OF that city. The loss was
about 81 900.
| FEW evenings since young couple
called upon clergyman at Oneida, Brown
County, and stated that they wished to be
united In the holy bonds OF matrimony. Be-
fore the ceremony began the young lady ex-
cuscd herself froA the room, saying that
she would speedily return. She handed the
minister note which he read soon after her
| departure. II was Us follows: ARTHUR:
| You will wait for me in vain, for the longer
YOU wait the further away I'll be. | shant
marry you tonight. You went back on me
a year ago, and I'll get even with you now"
The bridegroom took the hint, babe the
clergyman good-by, and started for home.
THE barn Of D. Fitzgerald, about five
miles from Oshkosh, was struck by light
ming on the night Of the 18th, and entirely
consumed with al its contents. Loss not
stated.
DURING the storm on the night of the 26tb,
At Sankville, u man named Peter Geib was
standing In u saloon kept by his son-in.l law,
when the lightning struck the building and
! lac was instantly killed. The deceased was
eighty years old.
A GENTLEMAN, while engaged north OF
town, observed an eagle arise from the