Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-12-13
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

movement of its highways and bridges.
FIFTEEN HUNDRED barrels Of fish are
sbipped from Green Bay weekly.
In the Government prosecution against
~ Deputy Collector Weissert, few days
sge. District Attorney Hazelton was obliged
10 enter a note pros, his witnesses having
failed him at the critical moment.
THE new iron bridge Of the Chicago, Mil
yankee q st. Paul Railroad across the Mis-
sissipp at Lacrosse was completed on the
o-tb. at cost Of $500, GOO, and tested in the
afternoon with a train of forty heavily laden
freight-cars. The bridge is ,6SS feet long,
having five spans Of $50 feet each, two Of
1s4 each, one Of $50, and a draw span of $50
feet. Work on the structure was begun
ON the 10th OF June, and, in addition to it,
over mile of trestle. work approaches has
beeu made. 1t is the strongest bridge over
the river, except the one at Rock Island, and
is mostly constructed of Wisconsin iron.
The contract test was made on the afternoon
of the 9th, and proved more than salts
factory.
MARTIN SCHELB was found hanging dead
in his barn. in Milwaukee, the other morn
ing. He had A drop too much the day be-
fore and had had bit Of q row with his
son.
THE bark Hans Croker went ashore at
the mouth of the Kenosha harbor on Thanks
giving Day. She proved . total loss. The
crew were saved.
The bondsmen Of Campbell, the default
ing Treasurer of Lafayette County, have
settled with the Board of Supervisors by
paving $1,000 The defalcation amounted
to 50, 26S.S2. Campbell is to be criminally
prosecuted.
THE business men Of Fond du Lac have
organized Board of Trade.
The Taylor County Ne,cs is Informed that
an old woman, "old enough to grace a
grave" has taken up homestead in that
county She lives alone, and has chopped
and cleared, without assistance, about two
acres within the past year. Her homestead
is heavily timbered. She came from Ger
many.
A MAN named Williams entered the house
of Mrs. Henry Stevenson, widow living at
Neshkoro, on some errand, few days ago,
having with him at the time one of those
small cases Of powder, which, it seems, was
nearly filed with this explosive material
While in the house he placed the can upon
the table. Mrs. Stevenson's two little child
rem soon found 1t, and, unperceived by the
mother, who was busily engaged about the
household work, took off the top, carried it
to the stove, and begun to pour its contens
upon the glowing Goals. a terrible ex-
EN- IL
from the house, the doors were blown open,
and the children were thrown violently
across the room. Their little faces are hor
rihly burned and badly swollen. The little
girl, ii is thought, will die, and the boy may
recover, In any event, they arc badly dis.
figured and their sight is undoubtedly de.
strOyed.
THE American House, at WrightstOwn
was burned, e few nights ago. 1t was one Of
the oldest tavcrIs in that section, originally
built by s. II. Wright and familiar to all
travellers in the old days OF staging. But
few of the contents were saved II was
owned by & H. Clark. Loss about $500;
insured for 500.
THE amount of tax to be raised in Fond
du Lac County this year is 1888 ,3O022, OF
which S45, 1905 is to Fay railroad bonds
THE mortuary report for Milwaukee for
the month of November shows 2S6 deaths, as
compared with l52 in 1871, the highest num-
Der in any previous November. Small -pox,
scaret-feyer and diphtheria destroyed l05 out
of the 236.
IRE people OF Milwaukee complain that
heWsboys, lettcr-carriers, grocerymen, col
lectorS, porters, and messengers of all kinds
are spreading smallpox, owing to the want
OF knowledge as to the location of infected
houses. Among the scares from this cause
That came to light on the 4th, was one in
The office OF the pension agent, where a
woman who was fresh from an infected
house, and who had herself but just risen
from a smallpox bed, came to draw her
pension; and another in a newspaper office,
where an enraged subscriber came in and
demanded to know why his paper had no.
heen delivered at his house, and it appeared
soon after he had gone that the newsboy
h"d refused TO deliver at the mans house
because 1t was infected with smallpox.
HE contributions of the various collec-
non districts in Wisconsin to the internal
revenue last year were, according to Com
missioner Raume's report, as follows: First
district, S2,s59, 1851; Second, 155,27S72;
ILlrd' s22, ,S27S; Sixth, S9l ,302S0; total
s3SJS. 1901.
a. q. HALL AND JOEL, BuRREI., while rid
Ing in a buggy near vanceburg, Barron
county, saw wounded deer cross the road
Ss1'rtdistance before them. They at once
went ID pursuit Of it, going about half a
"''' out Of their way, toward the river. 1t
."- INTO thicket Of poplar brush, and,
.''''hI after it, they saw what they supposed
.s '-e deer in the act of arising from the
ground. Mr.. Burrel fired from the buggy