Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-11-01
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

vaccinated, and that the parents, who are
generally Of the poorest and most ignorant
classes Of Polish laborers, angrily refuse to
allow vaccination In their families
SERIES of religious revival meetings,
after the manner of Moody and Sankey, have
been arranged under the united efforts of
the churches Of the city OF Oshkosh. They
began on the morning Of the 23d under the
charge of Rev. Mr.. Needham, the Irish
evangelist
SOME unconscionable thief has stolen the
plans and specifications OF the Main street
bridge from the Green Bay Common Council
Chamber.
AREPoRTER Of the Milwaukee Sentinel was
John Mccoy, for saying unpleasant things
about him in his paper. Mccoy was willing
enough to cry quits before the knight of the
pencil got through with him.
In order to more effectually carry on the
missionary work in the counties of Oconto,
Brown, Shawano and Outagamie Bishop
Brown has organized the clergymen resid-
-.ig therein into an association under the
title OF "the Green Bay Associate Mission"
A GIRL named Patten walked off a bridge
into the river, at Green Bay on the evening
of the 10Th, while the draw was open for the
passage of a steamer At the imminent risk
OF his life young man named Davis jumped
in and succeeded in saving her.
THE following have been elected officers
Of the Board of Trustees of the State Hos
pitai for the Insane: President, David At
wood; Vice President r. E. Davis Secre-
tary, Levi Alden; Treasurer, Simeon Mills;
Executive Committee, David Atwood, An
drew Proudtit
AT Milwaukee, on the 10TH Mrs. Marga-
retha Cordier, widow, committed su eide
by drowning herself in cistern at her resi-
dence on Chestnut street. Temporary in
sanity is assigned as the cause.
GARRETT s. MAYER, well-to-do farmer,
committed suicide, on the ed, by blowing
the top of his head off while walking along
Fourteenth street, north of Spring street.
Milwaukee. Family troubles and dissipa-
tion were the causes assigned for the act
BURGLARS entered DR.. Yalamb's residence
at Green BAY, on the night Of the 2lst. The
doctor awoke, but the burglars threatened
to shoot, and he was compelled to witness
the spoliaton Of his effects.
EUGENE ROBERTS, an employee in the office
of the Secretary of State at Madison, shot
himself in the head, a few days ago, evident.
ly with the intention Of committing suicide
Depression of spirits caused by the loss OF
his leg is said to have induced the attempt.
AN unpleasant phase of domcst c felicity
came to the surface in Milwaukee, the other
day, before Judge Mallory, in the simple
guise of an assault and battery case, in
which William Jackson, piano tuner, man
In respectable standing, stood charged with
beating his wife. Jackson appeared still
suffering from a tremendous spree and
when the Judge ordered him to pay ten.
dollar fine, ar, give bail in $500 for keeping
the peace for six months, he declared he had
endured seventeen years of welded misery,
and appealed sin the sacred name of jus.
ticc" for a long term in the House of Correc-
ton, or anything else so that his wife could
I've kept from him. Rather than pay the fine,
he went to prison.
AT Grantsburg, oh'the 23d, Barney Thol.
lifison and Ole Hanson became involved in
quarrel over the payment of two dollars
withou' anything serious occurring. Thol-
son, who shot him through the window,
lodging a ball in his breast. TIVE women
and a man were in the house at the time,
but so badly frightened that they fed and
left the wounded man alone IIar son then
went into the house, assisted his victim up
stairs, put him in bed, and remained with
him until a doctor, who had been notified
by those who witnessed the shooting, ar
rived. Hanson acknowledged that he com.
mitted the deed, and said he was MT sorry,
and made no attempt to escape. Tholliison
died next morning.
FIRE at Melville, early on the morning
OF the 25th, destroyed the dwell ing-house,
store and saloon of G. Schroeder, the in
mates barely escaping with their lives. Loss
about $1,000
A GERMAN girl named LIZZIE LUCKow. a
servant in the family of W. E. Simmonds,
of Appleton, was dangerously, if not fatally,
burned on the 2ith, by her clothes taking
fire from the kitchen stove.
\ FIRE early on The morning of the 25th
destroyed the family residence Of Mr.. Thorp,
at Fond du Lac. Loss 81, 500
On the morning Of the 23d fire broke out
IA INV fa'ut sH"l VI t"o hNPe!t A-tltuliu rat
works, containing 800 seeders and several
threshing machines, totally destroying the
building and contents. Loss about 500 0,
insurance, 5000, Supposed to be the work
Of an incendiary.
INFORMATION was received in Milwaukee
the other day, that drafts aggregating 81 500,
issued 10y the First National bank, payable
in Boston, were stolen in transit
JAKE NuNNEM.CHER WIS lying at the
point Of death at his residence in the town Of
Lake, on the 2jlh
Al Mjlwauk c, on the 25th a lady giving
her name rs Mrs. Foster, of Lufmgton,
Mich, ap lied to The police to help her to
and her husband. who came 10 that city with