Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-23
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

was unanimously renominated al Republi-
can Convention held on the 9th.
THE Republicans of the Sixth District will
hold their Congressional Convention at
Neenah, on the Goth of September.
THE Kenosha Telegraph observes that the
whocping-cough and lightning-rod agents
are sweeping that locality.
The twelfth annual fair of the Marquette
County Agricultural Society will be h. Id at
Montello, Sept 20 and 81. The list of premi-
ums is quite large and complete, and good
attendance may be predicted
By the caving-in of sewer on Hanover
street. in Milwaukee, on the afternoon of
the l0ih, two men named August Weber and
Mike Whetland were killed outright
THE State Gazette publishes school cen
sus Of Green Bay. There are 2,25l school
children there between the ages of four and
twenty There are eighty seven more girls
than boys 1t appears that 552 children are
between four aud seven, and $50 between
fifteen aud twenty years of age.
THE "Gem Saloon,n in Racine was
burned the other morning, involving loss
of about $4,000.
Wallis glue works, in Milwaukee, were
burned to the ground on the afternoon of
10th. Loss, S35, 600.
LEE WHEELER lately broke into the safe
of his employer at Prairie du CHEN, and
stole therefrom $l25. He was captured at
Lansing.
Hon II. S. ORION, is to deliver the adj
dress at the State Fair, taking for his sub
iect-"Relations of Business" A Grand
Encampment of the State Militia is also ex-
pectcd. Entries in all classes close on Sept.
II at nine p. m.
The valuation of real estate, including
improvements, in Milwaukee for purposes
of taxation, is S3S, 743, 422; personal property,
sl493l 1858; total valuation, S53 ,675,1S5.
THERE are 1886 horses in Milwaukee,
valued at 1855, 2l0.
CORNELIUS BoARETz, an old man living
near Appleton, was found dead in his bed on
the morning of the 18th. He was thought
TO have died in fit some three weeks be-
fore.
W. c. E. THOMAS, Postmaster at Green
Bay died on the 18th.
JOHN PASSENGER fell out of yawl boat
at Milwaukee, the other morning, and was
drowned.
AT Milwaukee, on the 14th, Fred Remp
was killed by a pile of slabs falling upon
him. He was swept into the river.
THE residence Of w. H. Somberger, at
Oshkosh, was burned on the 18th Loss
$500.
IL Wisconsin, for the purpose of holding
and managing their own property, wives are
in effect divorced from their husbands The
separate estate of a woman at the time of
marriage is absolutely her own; and she
may contract and be contracted with, sue
aud be sued in respect to her own property,
as though she were unmarried.
THE Southern Wisconsin Fair will be held
at GAINESVILLE from the 9TH to the Sth of Sep
TENDER,
WIDOW named Fischer, residing near
Frcdonia, in Ozaukee County, lately COM
mitted suicide by hanging.
GEO, MURRAY, Esq, of Racine, an extern
siye stockraiser, has been appointed a Judge
on the group of horses at the Centennial
Exhibition. His especial duty will be to
Judge Of heavy draft horses, and he win be
found capable in this class, having some of
the best horses in the country of his own.
He has accepted the position. The horse
exhibition will take place from the LIST to
the 18th Of September hudson Journal
THE seventh annual exhibition of the
Southwestern Industrial Exhibition will be
held at Mineral Point on the 5th 9th, 18th and
Sth Of September.
THE annual address before the Dane Coun-
ty Agricultural Society will be made by Da-
Wd Ward Wood, editor of the Western R,0oi.
Tue River and Harbor bill allows $210, 900
tor'he improvement of the Fox and Wiscon-
SIN Rivers. 1t is thought, now that labor is
cheap and plenty, that the Lower Fox can
he made ready for business in three months.
HE ice-houses of A. 5. Piper d Co, at
Sturgeon Bay, were burned the other night
The fire was started by sparks from an ada
cent sawmill, the weather and buildings
were dry as finder, and in almost less time
han IL takes to write the entire property
was swept away. The losses are understood
10 nt about $4,000, fully insured
iHE Madison Democrat recommends that
\ 'ue iramps thereabouts be set TO work with
"eNand-chain attachment, and thinks that
'Hs course Of treatment would lessen the
number Of burglarics being committed.
n 3 WISCONSIN inventor has invented fam
na-ialll which, in addition to the usual
a u."h'ng separates the wheat according to
W.. market grades. The next step viii prob
N amy Dee a machine which shall insure good
81 pieces for the various grades.
"a 'ANfiNG QUIZ has been all the rage in
"a vicinity Of Oshkosh during the last two
u "'s. and the romantic places along he
N @1'.e Of Lake Winneoago have the appear
u " VI t.ntel viIlagns. .