Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-09-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

GEORGE ELARDSON was sun struck at the
corner of Peoria and Third streets in La
Crosse on the 23d.
OK the afternoon of the 23d the wife Of
W. 2. Waller, Deputy Sherif Of La Crosse
County, while on Good Templar excursion,
fell between the barge and boat of the
steamer Natrona and vas drowned.
THE Milwaukee Assessor says there are
l ,729 pianos in that city.
AT the next election the people of Wis
consin will vote on the ratification Of an act
Of the last Legislature providing for the or
ganization of savings banks and saving as
sociations.
MRS. HORTON, living in Chippewa
County, was bitten by rattlesnake while
binding grain in the field, on the oath. She
died soon after from the effects of the bite.
THE new life-boat intended for Milwau-
kee reached that city on the 25th under con-
voy If the revenue cutter Andrew johnson.
ACTIVE preparations are making for
grand reunion Of the soldiers Of the late war,
in Milwaukee, during the State Fair. Among
the features of the reunion will be a camp
fire festival at the Soldiers Home, on
Wednesday evening, Sept. IL, and parade
on the State fair ground, Sept. a. Invita-
tons to all the ex-soldiers and sailors resid-
ing i'll the State, whether they served in
Wisconsin regiments or in those from other
States, are to be extended through the news
papers, by circulars, and by means of the
posts of the Grand Army of the Republic
The time for preparation and for notice is
short, but very large attendance is ex
pected. No political movement is involved,
and party is kept entirely out of the discus
sion.
A SAIL BOAT containing two young men
from Fond du Lac, named Henry Warner
and Charles f. McClanathan, was capsized
on Lake Winnebago, about ten miles from
Fond du Lac on the afternoon Of the 22d.
They chung to the bottom of the boat, and
were butfeted by the waves until the after
noon of the oath when they were picked up
by the steamer Island City. They were
nearly dead when rescued, being terribly
bruised and bereft of all clothing by the ac-
ton of the waves. McClanathan was de-
ranged, and had repeatedly let go his hold Of
the boat, but was sustained by his comrade
He died shortly after his rescue, but Warner
will probably recover.
A RACINE hardware manufacturing COM
pany recently shipped a carload Of school
furniture to Rio Janeiro ON the order Of the
Commissioner of Education of the Brazilian
Government.
FERDINAND DIoNIZIUs, of Milwaukee,
driver of an ice wagon, in going up North
steet, on the evening of the oath, fell from
his seat. and was run over by the hind wheel
and so badly injured that he died about
midnight.
ABOUT 800 men are engaged in building
the Wisconsin Central Railroad between
Worcester and Penoka, thirty miles from
Ashland. The company expect to get
through The forest 10 the lake by next
spring. Fifteen miles Of ties have been
laid this year so far, and by the end Of the
season twenty miles more will be down
The Central is the only company at work
constructing road in the State this year.
AT Necnah, on the 2Sth a drunken dcs-
perado, banned McGrath, visited one Of the
prominent saloons, and upon being refused
liquor fired atthe bar-teuder without hitting
him. He was driven from this place, and
going down street entered the saloon of one
Haley and upon being again refused liquor
Maggie HALEY, aged eighteen years, one
shot taking effect on the body of the girl,
entering between the hips and coming out
near the spine.
THE body Of the late Mrs F. b. Waller
who was lost overheard from the steamer
Natrona, at La Crosse, "A few DAYS ago, has
been recovered
THE barn and grain stacks of Patrick
Nicholson, near Fond du Lac, were de-
stroyed by fire on the morning of the 9th.
Loss 81 300 The fire was the work of an
incendiary.
THE rcquisition Of Gov. Ludiugtou upon
the Governor of Illinois for the arrest of w
f, Storey, editor of the Chicago Times, was
issued upon the following opinion OF the At
torney-General:
his Egce}lsHcy, H. LgdjagtoH. G0rey00r s'e..
DEAR SRI have the honor TO report that have
eNSminCd the papers re- erred by you to this office,
in the matter OF the application for "a requisitiOn
upon the Governor of Illinois for the arrest OF Will
bur T. storey. and his return to this State The
rule seems To be well settled that the publisher of
newspaper may be prosecuted ana punished for
libel in any place where the paper containing the
lbelpus matter j. circulated by The act or procure
meut of the publisher. Such are the English de-
! oisous; and the case OF Commonwealth IS. Bland
ins, Pick. ? BOT applies the rule when the pub
LEGATION in one state and the circulation in an
other. A. the papers submitted are in strict con-
formty to the act OF Congress and the statute of
this state | am Of opinion that II i your duty to
grant the rpJuiSitlou. Very respectful Is.
A SCOTT SLOAN, Attorney General.
A Young man named John Rift, we'll
known hard case, was caught while in the
act of burglarizing the store of Davis & Me-
Diary, at La Crosse, few mornings ago. lie
confessed To entering the same store some
four weeks ago, and gave the names Of two
accompliccs, who have since been arrested
and locked up.
ROBERT MCCCRpY, an Oshkosh insurance
agent has lately gone into bankruptcy His
, Indebtedness aggregates $4,000.