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

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| in the act of putting wood in the stove, was
struck just below the knee, driving his foot
through the floor Part of his heel and
toes were torn off. The boot, a new one, was
torn to atoms. A child four years old was
| standing by her father with pet cat. The
| child was unhurt, but the cats midnight
serenades are over. The child was the only
person in the house, except her father, at
the time of the accident, but had presence
of mind enough 10 go to the nearest neigh
Dor, about 100 rods away, telling them her
father was burned. Redman's foot will have
to be amputated.
VERY sad accident occurred at Kaukau-
ma Outagamie County, on the 9th. AS Mr..
lighting was driving across the bridge at that
place, his team became frightened and
backed up against the railing OF the bridge,
which gave way, and Mrs. lighting and her
| two children, boy and girl, were prccipi
tated into the water Mr.. lighting managed
to save himself by jumping as the wagon
was going over the bridge. The current un-
der the bridge is very swift and the water
unusually high, so that the unfortunate Nc-
tins were carried down the rapids with
fearful velocity. At this juncture, Mr..
Bottcrman displayed remarkable courage
and presence of mind. He sprang into the
water without hesitation, and succeeded in
reaching the boy, and, by floating with the
current, managed to gain the shore about
sixty rods below, thus saving the life of the
boy at the risk of his own. The woman and
| girl were swept onward by the resistless
| waters, and their lifeless bodies were after
| ward recovered some distance from the
scene of the accident.
| BURGLARS entered the store of James Call,
Of Oshkosh, the other night and robbed the
showcases OF about $500 worth Of rcvovcrs
and gold watch chains.
| A. PALMER, one of the Wisconsin Fish
| Commissioners, offers IS for the frs two.
pound shaI sent him, and $40 for the first
| hyc.pound salmon, caught in the tributaries
Of the Mississippi in Iowa, Minncsots or
Wisconsin.
THE Milwaukee police have lately had an
amusing illustration OF extreme economy
on the part of a German household. II ap.
pears that woman had her husband ar.
rested for assault and battery and placed
under bonds to keep the peace. The head
of the family thereupon stood upon his dig
nifty, severed his connection with his fam
| lily, and made an allowance of 81 week for
the support of his wife and two children,
subject to saving of twenty-five cents a
week. In case of failure TO lay aside the stated
amount allowance for support would cease.
The poor woman accepted the situation,
bought rye flour, cooked mush and made it
palatable by sprinklings of salt to save the
twenty-five cents and insure her stated allow
ancc. The fare became stale after awhile,
and she managed to secure money enough
by some means to purchase pint of molas
ses and effect slight variation from day to
day between mush and salt and mush aud
molasses. Bot the JOY of that household
was as a sunbeam between two clouds, for
when the husband heard OF this bit of ex-
travagance, lis rage knew no bounds. He
hurried to the home he had forsaken and
gave his wife a sound thrashmg for her
proneness to high living. The poor woman
scarcely knew what TO do, as she feared that
she had forfeited her allowance, and that she
would be obliged to beg living for herself
and children. She finally concluded that
matters had reached an extreme that could
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TO report her case to the police AS the
husband was under bonds to keep the peace,
the officers of the police had at command a
moral suasion that they did not fail to apply
TO advantage. Through their Intervention
the poor family is no longer obliged to stint
their fare, and mush ana moasses has
given way TO Il more palatable and nourish-
ing diet
AN old woman, named Elizabeth Braasch,
drowned herself in puddle at gravel-pit
in the Seventh Ward Milwaukee, on the
2sth, in lit of dependency.
ERNST lGrBzER's planing-m mill, at Milwau.
kee, was burned on the morning Of the 9th,
involving loss OF about $1,000
THE wife of Herman Kinding, Of Milwau-
kce, cut her throat in her own kitchen, on
themorning Of May so. Her husband had
charged her with inHdeli,y
THOMAS FALLEN was drowned in the
Kinnikinnick Greek, Milwaukee. while
bathing few mornings ago
DURING a quarrel with his employer, on
the morning OF the 3d5h nit, Charles Noble,
of Milwaukee, had his left eye Knocked out
by blow with Il bar Of iron
\ SEVERE winG-storm, accompanied by
RAIN, hail, thunder and lightning, passed
over La Crosse, on the evening Of the 30th
ult Trees were upruoted and chimneys
blown down. Several steamer, on the river
were driven 10 the bank. At North Lacrosse
one building Wa, blown down 4 man
named J. iliNey, employed at Stodlard's
min, while returning To his home at North
Lacrosse, was struck 10y flying Lumber and
killed.
UNDER lew Of lasr winter, the Governor
has appo uted a State Board of Health and
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