Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-30
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

consumed 1t is generally conceded that the
fire was the work of incendiary. Loss, in
GLIDING lumber, about s55, 600
A MAN named Bean attempted to kill himself
with an axe at Kenosla, on the 18th. He was
locked mp for safe keeping.
THE annual meeting of the American Malt
sters Association has been called to meet in
Milwaukee on the 18th of June. The National
Brewers Congress takes place on the following
day.
MRs. VAN OsrRAND, a lady well known
throughout the State in connection with various
temperance movements, has brought suit for
divorce against her husband, Dewitt G. Van Os-
trand, of Neenah. She charges desertiou and
failure to provide, and demands $40, 900 all
mony.
john KING, of the Town of Milwaukee, COM
mitted suicide on the morning of the 18th, by
hanging himself in his barn. The Coroner's
Jury found that religious insanity caused the
suicide.
The Milwaukee School Board estimate that
it viii cost slSS, 900 to run the public schools
during the current year.
DEACON LOVE, a wel-known citizen of Mil
waukee, attempted suicide by drowning, on
the morning of the 18th. He was rescued.
JOHN SULLIVAN attempted suicide in the
Brown County Jail, the night of the l7th
by cutting his throat with razor. A doctor
sewed up the cash, and he was likely to recover
at last accounts.
JACOB HAAS WAS found dead, hanging to a
tree, Racine, on the 18th.
DpnrHrnA is alarmingly prevalent at Green
Bay.
HENRY GIRAFFE, n farmer living La
Crosse recently came to that city with load of
wheat, and stepping into bakery to get n
lunch, dropped dead, from the rupture of an in
ternal blood vessel.
WASHINGTON COUNTY has a large sized law
suit growing ont of the defalcation of Albert
Senior ex-County Treasurer. The deficit was
discovered ia August, 1876, and Mr.. Senior fled,
but he gave himself up in Omaha, Neb., and
was brought back on a requisiton from Gov.
I.udington, and lodged in Jail in default of
/ 81, 600 BAIL Several weeks ago, his attorneys
/ applied to the Supreme Court for writ of hd-
/ JtdS corpus for his discharge, on the grounds
| that he had given bail for portion of the Of
/ fenses charged against him, and that the lnfor-
nation did uot charge any oiicnse for which he
! ought to be longer held. That tribunal denied
/ the writ on he grounds that the facts set forth
! in ino petition are not sufficient TO authorize
/ such proceedings, and referred the matter back
| to the Circuit Court to adjust the BAIL now
/ fixed at ~, 500. Judge Pulling, of the Wash
/ ington Circuit, on the hearing of the return of
| the writ, has released Senior on his own reoog-
/ nizauce, in accordance with tie opinion OF the
/ Supreme Court He has been in the County
! jail eight months
GARLIC ISLAND in Lake winnebago, is be-
ginning to assert its claims summer resort.
VEIT RuMrEI, Of Milwaukee, was found a
few days ago, with his lower jaw-bone broken
IN eight pieces and the roof of his mouth splin-
tered and though it evident that he had ac-
complishcd all this 10y shooting himself in the
| mouth with the small brass pistol he beld IN his
/ hand the closest search failed to discover
I shot ball or slug or wound 10y any missile of
/ the kind. They concluded the old gentleman
I had loaded the pistol with water some other
/ liquid.
Tue Kcnosha County Commissioners have ia
! sued decree that more tramps will be fed
kept night at the expense of the county.
| In consequence of this small thofts occur al
| most nightly.
! A FEW days ago nm agent on his way north to
! pay off gang of laborcrs met with an adven-
/ ture at the Northwestern Depot, in Green Bay.
! He had in his satchel about "A o 0. On going into
! breakfast he carclessly threw the satchel under
| the table. Just before the train started, man
named CALLAHAN snatched the satchcl containing
the money and left hisowu. The agent upon dis
] IA ,xua wit
The train WIS held few minutes, and search
| was made for the man with the wrong satchel,
without success. When near Suamioo Station,
/ the Conductor discovered Callahan with the
missing property relieved him of it, and tele-
graphed the agent, who went forward On the
following freight. Callahan claimed that IT
| was mistake through the similarity in the
satchels. The agent too glad TO get his
"a 900 to question it, SO he called off the officers
| and deemed the matter square.
Ir Is estimated that about $50 900 900 feet
! of logs are hung up the Chippewa and its
tributaries and almost all hope Of getting them
/ down has been abandoned.
! MARarHoN County will make one more cffoi,
to ind out whether the bill osmpting the Wis
! consin Central Railroad lands from taxation is
1 "A legal one or not.
JCDGE JusoY, one of Kcnosha's honored citi-
zcns died on the 10th, after lingering illness,
! in the sixty third year of his age.
The Union Bank, of La Crosse has been
Incrgcd into the La Crosse National Bank.
/ OVER iO0, 900 feet of lumber will be used in
/ the construction of the new pulp mill at Apple
I tn.
! T. MoRRow's house, in Green Bay, was burned
90 the evening of the I'D, ingolyiuga loss II
about q, 900.
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