Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-05-23
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

Mitchell, Jr.. of Racine, took fire from
kitchen stove, and in a moment she was envel-
oped in fames She Immediately ran ont of
the house. lay down the ground, and COM
menced to roll about calling to her hired girl to
bring sheet from the line with which to ex-
tinguish the tire. Some gerrtlemenl ~cross the
street heard her cries and Immediately ,,u to
her assistance. They put out the fire and thus
doubtless saved the life of the young woman.
THE fremont HouA, in Fond du Lnc, was
set on fire on the night of the 9th and destroyed.
Loss, $4,000. t0s
MILWAUKEE has been selected A. the place for
the next meeting Of the Wisconsin State Medi-
cal Association. 4
THE Interstate orstorical contest occurred at
Madison on the evening Of the 10th. The first
prize was awarded to Oliver A. Curtis, of Law
renee University, Appleton-subject, Satan
and Mephistopheles, and the second prize to
s. +. Prouty, of the Central University Of Iowa
subject, Faith and Doubt a. Motors Of
Action" ste
CART. John LYNCH, prominent citizen of
Oshkosh, was accidentally drowned at that
place on the afternoon of the 10th. His life
was insured for $3S, 900.
THE Green Bay advocate has a female type
setter who sets up, every day, twelve thousand
ems in seven hours. The Adpocaie asks those
who can produce better or faster compositor
or compositress" to let it know, and they can
make money by impartiny the information.
On the morning of the 18th, NJ Clark's resi-
dence in Tanktown," near Fort Howard, WAS
burned to The ground, involving loss of about
$500. The tire originated from u defective
chimney.
AN old man named Ribbell shot himself in
the head, a; Milwaukee, ON the morning of tho
18th. He died instantly. He was dissipted
character. '"'t ''t .'
The wife Of John Endreas !, Dane County
farmer, committed suicide on the 18th by cut
ting her throat .,
EARLY on the morning of the 18th ] IN
Peckner, gardener, seventy years old. living
west of Milwaukee, was Killed by being thrown
out of his wagon during \ runaway. %
THE Apiarists Of the State generally complain
that they have lost a much larger proportion of
their swarms this winter than usual. The warm
weather Of February, followed by the intense
cold Of March, is believed to have caused this
mortality.
| LITTLE daughter Of Joseph Kye living at
Green Bay, WAS fatally burned the other dry by
her clothes taking fire from a stove. The child
WAS two years old.
RATION MouLpEE from Racine, WAS fatally
injured at Milwaukee, the other afternoon by
runaway team i4r, sH1' r.7f.
EpNar I. R,,pv IN tho ,ru &c the
Oneida street bridge, at Milwaukee, on the
18th, and crushed 10 that he died soon after.
4. H. JONES 4 BRo., grocers, ut Fond du Lac,
have lately failed with from 10000 to s25 900
Liabilities. i' #ilt
A GERMAN farmer named Plaedman, living in
the town of Belle Plain, in Shaw,no County.
WAS recently brutslly murdered. He WA found
| lying in the road with seventeen buckshot in his
body. No cause can be assigned for the muir
| der, as Placdman has always been a steady
hard-working man. The party or parties doing
the shooting stood in ferce-corncr and from
the appearance in waiting for hours.
Work o. the grnde between Buttcrnrt and
Chippewa on The Central Road, is progressing
fawraby and with good luck the track will he
connected by the 20th of June.
ASHLAND lumber mills are manufacturing
lumber to fill Quebec orders, and quite num-
Der of mills are manufacturing for the Paris
market prediction made ten years ago that
Wisconsin lumber could be proftably marketed
in France would hive subjected tbs person
making it to n suspicion of lunacy.
The annual meeting OF the Old Settlers So
cicty Of La Fayctte County will DO held Mt Dnr-
lington, on Wednesday, June6.
The Milwaukee police force numbers eighty
men
THE Wisconsin Editorial Association will meet
in Milwaukee June Il. The meeting will b. for
business alone. Important matters are to be
| considered.
FIRES on the south side Of Sturgeon Bay were
rapidly consuming the timber, on the 18th, and
threatened even to destroy the school-bouse and
other buildings in Bay View.
FREDERICK PosER, who recently died, at Mil
waukee. ~ suddenly that suspicious Of poison
ing we're entertained which were dissipated only
at the conclusion Of a chemical analysis of the
contents of his stomach it has been definitely
a-certl.ned. came to his death from joy at
sunng work, he having been ont of employ
ment for long time. As as he received
news Of his employment he tainted away aud
died.
THOMAS SULLIVAN. farmer residing in Ledge
vile, Brown County, was arrested on the 18th,
upon the charge Of placing obstruetions on the
track OF the Wisconsin Central Hallway. He
bad threatened ~ get even with the road for
killing some OF his stock
EARLY on the morning Of the 10th, II. j.
Holmes, of Oshkosh, suddenly awakened to
ind thief At bis bedside. He jumped up aud
grappied the intruder and for a short time it
VIA doubtful which would gain the mastery.
Mrs. Holmes, in her wel-mesnt efforts to AID
her hn.hand got her ErzAn about him enabling