Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-05-31
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


Gov. LUpINGToS issued the following
proclamation on the 18th:
In accordance with custom which has its
origin in the noblest impulses Of the human
breast and it, sanction in years of continu-
Gus usage, | hereby appoint Tuesday, the
Goth day Of May, as a day for the decoration
of the graves OF our patriot dead. 1t is
earnestly recommended that the day he OBJ
served by all our people under the direction
of military companies and posts of the
Grand Army Of the Republic, wherever such
organizations exist, in a manner betting
the high purpose for which it is set apart.
In reverently honoring the dead soldiers of
the Republic, we may not add to the I'M
pcrishahle luster OF their fame, but we may,
II We will, as we lovingly strew their graves
with the flowers of spring, kindlc in our
hearts such patriotic fires as glowcd in
theirs but a little age and there solemnly
resolve to show hcnceforth by our honest
zeal for good government that the Nation
martyrs in the cause OF human progress did
not die in vain.
In testimony whereof have her, unto set
my hand and caused the Great Seal Of the
State of Wisconsin To be affixed. Done at
the city Of Madison, this seventeenth day OF
May, in the year Of our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and scventy-six, OF the In
dependence of the United States the one
hundrcdth, and of the State the twenty
eighth. HARRISON LUDINGToS.
BY the Governor:
PETER DOYLE, Secretary of State
OK the Eth, the State Board for the assess
mcnt of taxes, composed of Secretary Of
State Doyle, Treasurer kuehn and Attorney
General Sloan, met at Madison, and organ
lied by electing Mr.. Kuehn Chairman and
Mr.. Doyle Clerk. Their duties are to classify
and fix the valuation of property in the sew
eral counties Of the State.
THERE were TT arrests made in the city
of La Crosse during the year ending April
10, 1876. OF these forty-seyen were females.
Five hundred and seventy-siy tramps were
ordered out of the city.
Dr.. JAMES TILLAPAUGH, an old resident
of Racine, died on the 18th, from aparalytic
stroke.
JAMES FRAMLEY, of Milwaukee, lately dis
charged from the State Insane Asylum, shot
himself through the head on the 18TH dur
ing an attack of temporary insanity. He
died almost instantly.
Coz. c. ID. ROBINSON, who had the matter
in charge of collecting an exhibition of the
newspapers of Wisconsin for the Centennial
Exposition, has sent to the agricultural
rooms collection handsomely bound in
cloth, with Russia backs, in four folio vol
umcs of six, seven, eight and nine columns
each.
A FEW days ago, Hiram Hurlburt, of Wa
tcrford, in The western part of Racine Coun-
ty, while engaged in digging a well, after
passing through about thirty-fivc feet of
gravel and hardpan, came upon log of
wood about two feet in diameter. The log
was of tamarack or some resinous wood and
was in an almost perfect state of prcscrva
ton, and lying directly across the well, had
to be chopped through. Immediately under
it was some three or four inches of ashes,
and then about four feet of black swamp
muck Under this was sand and then
gravel and hardpan again, similar to what
had been passed through before
reaching the log, through which they
had TO dig about twenty-five feet further, or
about sixty feet in all, before reaching
water Evidently where the log was found
was at one time the surface of the ground
yet above this was some thirty-nvc feet of
solid earth Here is question for geolo-
gists. How long time has passed since
this log of wood was lying on the surface,
and how was it buried to its present depth
was it by gradual accumulation or by some
sudden convulsion OF nature?
The commencement at the State Universe
ty this year occurs upon the 2lst of June.
AT Milwaukee, on the afternoon of the
23d, Joseph Dillman was thrown from his
buggy, on the Lisbon plank road, aud 50
badly injured that he died shortly after.
The jewclry store of Mr.. Miller, of Keno
sha, WAS entered by burglars, on the morn
ing of the 23d, and robbed Of large
amount of spoons, rings, etc. This is the
fourth time within as many years that Mr..
Millcr's establishment has been burglar
lied.
SCHROEDER x LINDBLoM, the recent bank
rupt Milwaukee commission men, in whose
names the disastrous wheat corner was run
last November, announced on the 23d that
they had resumed business, and pathetjcally
add that guided by past experience they
will hope to reaSSume a leading position"
JouN HENRY DAHLMAN, Of Milwaukee,
died on the I'D, having attained the re-
marllable age of lo5 years. The deceased was
born in Reckon, Prussia, Oct. 10, 111l, emf
grated TO Milwaukee i'm 1912, and was
healthy and active until six weeks ago He
discarded cye-glas Scs-whiCh he had used