Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-09
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

SUIT has been commenced by Hon. James
Campbell President of the Madison & Portage
Road Chicago K Superior is the corporation
name), against the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul Company, for possession of the former
road. and also 10 recover about 500, coo which,
it is alleged, is wrongfully withheld from him,
as earnings of the road.
Hon. Z. w. KEYEs has been reappointed Post
master at Madison.
WILLIAM CURLEY, of Milwaukee, has been
beaten for years by his parents, and SO often
cuifed upon the that he has become deaf.
Recently they turned him into the street with
instructions to go to the State Industrial School
The police have taken the little wanderer in
charge and propose TO make it uncomfortable
for his inhuman parents.
THERE is a general emigration from Duluth
to Superior. The people of the latter city are
iubilant over the downfall of the city to which
Proctor Knott gave the death-blow and receive
the Duluthans with open arms.
A LABoRER employed at the mills of the Mil
waukee Cement Company, recently, fell into a
burning kiln and received fatal injuries.
On the night of the Goth, a burglar entered
tho house of farmer in the town of Black
Wolf, near Oshkosh, and being unable to open
the boxed top of n bureau, in which money and
valuables were kept, pricd it loose and carried
off the whole thing. In il was about 800 in
money and large number of valuable papers
including the deeds of his farm 1t is be-
heved to have been done by some one familiar
with the premises, and who knew where the
money kept and that there WAS money in
the house.
LARGE quantities of sturgeon are being caught
ii Fox River Some of them weigh as high as
1875 pounds, while the smallest caught weigh at
least twenty-five pounds Fish were never
known to be so plenty they are this season.
THE old City Hotel, Mt Prairie du Chen was
burned down on the morning of the Goth. Loss,
sl,i00.
A cAMr-MEETrNG, under the auspices of the
from June 10Th to 2ith.
LAKE trout weighing forty pounds was re-
Gently caught at Ahnapee.
MILWAUKEE Poles are talking of emigrating
to Texas. They have organized n colony and
purchased 100, 900 acres of land there.
MRs. GALLArIN, of Fond du Lac in recent
visit to friend, carried her baby in her arms.
When 1T was unwapped the poor thing was
found To be smothered.
TuIEyEs broke into l.. d. Wickwers clothing
store, at Oshkosh, few nights ago, and relieved
him of II 900 worth of goods
DErvINd wages on the st. Croix are low this
year.
TIE Robert Ross mill, in La Crosse, which cost
$4,000, was lately sold for sl0, 900
LARGE fruit crop is not expected in Outa-
game County this year.
THE value of school-houscs in Wisconsin is
given at ~ l25 ,o03; sites, 5607 ,423; apparatus,
sli2, 292; total, Si,s76.6lS.
OSHKOSH lost ss3757 by fire last year.
THE resignation of Es-Gov. Dewey, State
Prison Director has been demanded by the Gov
ernor, it is said.
APPLETON has reduced saloon licenses from
$3.50 to 800.
Loos have commenced running through the
Wolf River boom.
MANY of the Kenosha County farmers have
lost heavily in sheep during the past winter.
MoNpoE GRAY. of Freedom, Outagame
recover 300, the value of hard wood stavc-bols,
alleged to have been purchased of the Oneida
Indians off their reservations, contrary to law.
A STRANGE woman around the streets OF
Racine the other day, trying to dispose of a
two-y ear-old baby for cash or its equivalent in
dry-goods and groceries.
THE Appleton Crescent complains that, though
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price of drinks remains as before.
INDIAN AGENT BRIpnxMAN has established
boarding sohoo for the Menomincc Indians Mt
Cashena which is being attended by abont sixty
dusky lads and lasses.
UNDER date of April II, the Secretary of War
wrote to Senator Howe that he had directed the
immediate expenditure Of the following sums,
being the uncx pendcd balances Of the appropri-
atoms for the improvement Of the harbors and
rivers Of Wisconsin, For the work ut the
trance to Superior Bay, $500 Green Bay,
20, 900; Menomnee, $4,000; Ahnapee, $1,000;
Two Rivers, A., 600; Manitowoc, $1,000; Shs-
boygan, $1,000; Port Washington, $4,000, Mil
waukee, S2l 900; Racine, $4,000; Kenosha,
1850; Fox and Wisconsin Rivers, $50 900;
Chippewa River, sl0, 600
JOHN G. BArGEn, of Fond du Lac, recently
stook, by mistake, quantity of cxrbolic acid.
At last accounts be was in critical condition.
ROBERT TULDEs lately drowned at De
pere, in the fume of Robb's Mill. His body
wsdged between the Hume and wheel ~ tightly
that it stopped the wheel.
PATRICK CoSFREY, al inmate Of the Mlwau-
kec Soldiers Home was run over and killed,
the ID by freight train. The head was severed
from the trunk.
A sxTEKs-yEAE-oLD son Of s. A. Bennett, liv-
ing Platteville, was instantly killed on the
morning of the LIST, while engaged in digging
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