Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-02-14

WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.
JULIA SToCKfIHLD, q Lacrosse white girl
OF bad character, attempted to take her life,
In the County Jail at Lacrosse, on the after
noon of the 3lst ult She set fire to her
! clothing with Goals taken from the stove in
the female department. In q few moments
she wns enyelopcd in a sheet Of flames, and
the intense pain caused her to scream for
help. Mrs Phillips, wife of the Sheriff, and
boy tending sick prisoner, hurried to the
rescue, but were afraid to enter the cell until
they released one Of the prisoners, who pro-
cured a pail Of water, and the trio entered
the cell and extinguishcd the flames. The
County Physician, who dressed her wounds,
pronounced them fatal. her arms, thighs,
breast and bowels being horribly burned.
The logging business in the pineries OF the
State has been suspended In consequence OF
the recent thaw. Operations in the woods
virtually ended on Saturday, Jan. 81, as
on the following Monday the roads were in
such condition as to render Il continuance
OF the work Of hauling logs to the streams
impossible. This state Of things being gen
cral throughout all the lumber districts of
the State, Is generally satisfactory to the men
interested in logging operations. by insuring
them good price for logs during the COM
Ing season, as the number will fall long
way short of the usual drive. 1t is generally
conceded that the light sales in proportion
to tie immense cut Of the late seasons is due
TO the fact that lumbermen heretofore used
up all their resources in yeng with each
other on the size of their respective cuts, and
thus having to sell at great sacrifice they
established price from which the millmeu
were unwilling to depart throughout the
season, and at which sales were numerous
The numbering camps are broken up, and
the prospects are that operations will not be
renewed during the present winter. This
state of affairs insures the cleaning out of
old logs lying in the woods and clean drive
during the approaching spring, with prices
back at the old paying figures; and next
season will give from scventy-hye to eighty
five per cent. new logs with an easier drive
and at less expense than sixty per cent. have
been driven in other years. Anyone can see
at n glance the beneficial results likely to be
the outcome of this cleaning out Of the
stock. The lumbermen will not have their
money tied up in logs lying unavailable in
the woods, but will have clean hands to
commence the season of 1873
The raft steamer Mountain Belle, lying at
the mouth of Black River, was burned on
the evening OF the 5th. Loss, about 5000;
no insurance.
On the night Of the 4th, at Milwaukee, an
employe of the Milwaukee 4 st. Paul Rail-
road got nipped between two freight ears as
he was dropping couplingpin in its place.
He extricated himself and was taken home
Next day he died, though there was no ex-
ternal wound.
w. d. JOHNSON, Of stephcnsvillc, was ar.
rested, on the 9Th, for using the mails for
fraudulent purposes. He was held to bail in
the sum of 81 900 to answer.
SCARLET FEVER prevails extensively in
some portions of Wnnebago County--to
such extent as to induce the school author
tiles to seriously consider the propriety Of
closing the public schools.
A HORRIBLE case OF child-starving has
Just come to light near Chaseburg, a small
village twelve miles south OF Lacrosse. The
child of Carl Wailand, by former marriage,
died of starvation and neglect. The brutal
father and step-mother have been arrested.
AT a meeting Of the State Agricultural
Society held in Madison on the 18th, com
mittee was appointed with authority to To-
cate the next State Fair.
THE latest reports from Milwaukee give
the following rs the current prices for lend
ing staples: Flour-Choice Winter Extra,
n. Mol, ..fn A,.R
Wheat-No. 1, s1.390l.39H; No. 9, sl.32
@l.32A; Corn-No 2, 42110e42Nc; Oats
No. ., 33SlM33Ic; Barley--No. 2, 76a76>fc;
Rye--72td7 21Ic; Pork, t16.35ql6.4s.