Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-08-02
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

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State Horticultural Society co>mittee was
appointed to arrange for and exhibit the
horticultural productions of the State at
Philadelphia This committee subsequently
met and voted to open the exhibition on
September Is, and to continue through the
remainder of the general Exhibition. The
Chairman has lately issued a circular of in.
structions as to the care Of intended contr-
buttons during the period of growth and AS
to the method Of shipment, the latter por'
tons of which are here reproduced;
With each specimen inclose paper labe..
with the name as known to the grower, art
accompany each package with an invoice oi
contents, and also forward a copy by mail
to the Committee. Each package should be
plainly marked and forwarded to The Chair
man OF the Committee, J. S. Stickney, Mil
waukee, by express, either direct from the
contributor or through the local committee
Of the district as may seem best. All con-
tributions should be in the hands of the
Chairman by the 10th OF September. sub
sequent collection of long keeping apples
may be called for some two weeks later. For
further information address the Secretary,
or some member of the Committee.
The limited space granted forbids private
displays, but amples of particular merit GO
ing to make the general collection may be
labeled with the name and locality of the
grower.
The work # collecting and forwarding the
specimens, must be largely done through the
Committee of Observation in the respective
districts, and in this work they win ca to
their aid such local help as may be necessary
for a thorough canvass of the field, and
prompt execution of the work.
This preliminary work as well as the final
Exhibition must be mainly labor of love,
a tribute to the credit Of our State as self
producing the most valuarl fruits OF the
temperate zone. Let no efforts be spared to
make this Exhibition an index of our antici-
pated progress in Horticultural attachments
of the next century of our commonwealth.
}. s. STICKNEY, Chairman,
Wauwatosa Wis.
J. c. PLUMB, Secretary, Milton, Wis.
On the Dist, at Milwaukee, the body OF
John Sidebotham, German, seventy-fve
years old, was found in the cellar of his
house, No. 245 Sixth street, battered to death,
the head lying in a washtub and the body in
a pool of blood. A washboard near it APP
peared to have been used for the purpose OF
the murder. Sidcbotham was last seen
alive in company with Henry Thwarte, his
son-in-law, who had not been found at last
accounts. Thwarte and the old man had
quarreled on account Of the formers mar
riage.
THE Democratic Congressional Conven-
ton for the Fourth District will be held on
August nth.
JOHN Milton, an old hardware merchant
Of Lacrosse, suspended business on the 22d.
Assets and liabilities not stated.
In June, AS persons died in Milwaukee,
being II 4o-lo0 per 1000 of the population.
Death has claimed, 12,517 persons in Mil
waukee from 1869 to 1876, both inclusive.
The death rate has always been low as COM
pared with other large centers of population
on both hcmispheres. There are fewer vic
tins of consumption in Milwaukee than in
any place of similar size in the country.
A BURGLAR, who gave his name as John
Brown, was caught recently in Green Bay.
in attempting to enter house. When
taken to Jail it was ascertained that he was
the convict released the day previous for u
similar charge.
AT Lancaster, on the Fourth, a Centen-
NAL box was filed with historical records,
stored and sealed On the top appears in
carved letters the following:
Accused be He
Who opens Me,
Ere a hundred years are gone
The box was stored in the Court House
A SON of Mr.. Zeigler, of Madison, was
kicked to death the other evening by a
vicious horse.
MANY Wisconsin teachers are now spend
Ing from two to four weeks of their long va
cation at the Centennial. They appear to
be enjoying themselves greatly
Ed SMITH, who lived about two miles
south of Grand Rapids, was shot and killed
the other day. He had gun trap set with
string to shoot deer, and it is thought he
went out to examine the trap and acciden-
tally ran against the string and was shot
dead
SLIGHT frost was reported in some low
places about Madison on the night of the
22d.
THE stock OF wheat on hand in Milwaukee
on the cath was $50, 29i bushels.
The Town Clerk, George Su!man, was ar.
rested in Milwaukee, on the 24th on a tele.
gram from the authorities at Port Washing
ton, Ozaukee County, for forgery, erasure
and substitution of figures and recircula.
ton of cancelled orders.
ANNA kUES was drowned in puddle OF
water by the roadside on the North Point, in
Milwaukee, the other day
The whisky raids by the general Govern.
ment In Milwaukee, during 1875, have real.
lied cash return Of over Sill 600.
CHANDLER MCCURDY, an Oshkosh lum.
herman, failed on the 26th. His liabilitie,
aggregate about $4,000
IHE yield OF cranberries in the State this
year Is said to be unprecedented.
GRAPE culture is said 10 be a success in