Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.


waukee Ne,es.
LOUIS BUzzARD was drawn between two COO
wheels at Sandcrsons Touring mill, at Milwan.
kee on the evening of the 4th, and fatally in.
jured
WAGES on the st. Croix drive, this season
range from Sl.75 to S2.75 per day.
The State Geologist reports that the conner.
bearing rocks of Lake Superior extend, almos,
uninterruptcdly, across the State.
DURING April 700 tramps were accommodated
with lodging at the Milwaukee Central Police
Station.
ONE day lately thirty-six surgeons were
pulled out of the river, at Oshkosh within
radius of six let.
MENAsHA is having serious time with scare,
fever. The disease is confined mostly to German
families.
SILAs BUCK, twelve years of age, of Shewano.
was himself blown mp while trying to blast out
a stump, and the probability is that he will lose
his sight. While the doctor examining his
injuries, the little fellow called out Mother
did fetch the stump"
On the morning of the 9Th, a row of business
blocks on Main street, in the Town of Whine
come, destroyed by fire, involving loss of
about $4,000.
THE mill in the Town of Glenmore owned bv
b. f. Smith, was burned, on the night of the
4th. Loss, 81, 900; insured for s., 900.
MOSES LADD a half breed, has been arrested
and held to bail for trial on the charge of in
citing sedtion among the Oneida tribe of In.
he Gov ,aptr h.
else methods used by the defendant did not ap
pear, but it is understood the prosecution will
attempt to show that he went about trying to
excite feeling of unfriendliness toward the
whites, dissatisfaction with their treatment and
distrust of the future.
THREE prominent Milwaukee brewers have
contributed 1000 toward defraying the ex-
pense of the National funniest.
THE whole number of children enrolled in the
Milwaukee schools during April was 1876 and
the average daily attendance was s,9l8. OF this
number g. 102 were enrolled for the study Of
German.
GEORGE BRETT OF Gratiot, in Lafayette Coun-
ty, has three children-two boys and one girl
all born at one birth, who now fourteen
years old, and bright, healthy young people.
At birth two of them weighed six pounds each,
and the other five and a half pounds.
THE schooner Velocipede was capsized of
Racine, the other day, and every man on board
persisted.
THE recent storm washed away the greater
part of Grass Island in Green Bay. All the
buildings on the island were carried off except
the harm hplonpinp IN the | ipht- House
The property of the Green Bay Iron Company
in Outagamie County, near Seymour was re-
Gently sold by the Sheriff. NJ. r. Hunt of De
pere, was the purchaser at $4,000
THE next fair of the Southern wisconsin and
Northern Illinois Industrial Association will be
held at Beloit, during the first week in Septeni-
Der.
A TRAVELLING man from Chicago recently en-
gagged in a game of cards with asaloon-keeper in
Green Bay and claims that the latter won about
sixty dollars of his money. The Chicago
brought suit against the saloon-keeper for
gambling and he was fined twenty dollars. The
saloon keeper then entered complaint against
the drummer for the same offense, and he was
also fined twenty dollars. The saloon-keeper
has appealed the suit.
The following fortunes have been made by
leading Milwaukee wheat spectators in the last
few days; Angus Smith, SIS, 900; Rindskoff
Tenney, $50, 600; the Youngs, $3.50, 900; Graham
Halderman, $4,000.
A LADY in Menasha took her little child to
photograph gallery to have its picture taken.
She had washed its face before they left home,
but concluded to give it another wash there.
Iba hot nh ,rF@ he hut on
being informed of her wishes called to her to
step into the dressing-room. She made mis-
take and got into hik operating-room, and
washed the child's face with bath of nitrate of
silver. In few minutes it's face was as black
as night The operator applied cyanide OF potas-
stun, and reduced the color to rich olive. IL
will be some time before the child will bew white.
HUDSON spectators netted about sl00,000 by
the late rise in wheat
THERE is an extensive emigration from Wis
consin to the Black Hills this spring.
THE State of Wisconsin is credited with hay
ing 9Os, 453 horses.
OVER 2, 900 cords of wood await shipment from
Don County ports.
The name of the town of Scanawan, in LIN
coin County, has been changed by the Board OF
Supervisors 10 Rock Falls.
The Eighteenth Annual Convention of the
Wisconsin Sunday School Association viii oe
held in the City of Oshkosh, May %, % and "a
LITTLE daughter of Mr.. Schwin, of New
burg, lately killed by being run over ana
crushed by farm roller.
THE Pension Agencies at Madison ana La
Crosse have been conso lidated with the Agency
Mt Milwaukee, in accordance with a recent order
Of the President