Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1877-07-04


arrest The arrest, however, was
accomplished without any one being
hurt, Meyers wife succeeding in
getting the gun away from him. He
was taken to Highland and placed
IN the Jail of that village, but there
being some lear that the outraged
people might take the law in their
own hands, the officers thought best
to remove the prisoner to Dodge-
vile, where he is now lodged in the
county Jail.
The victim, Anthony Auel, says
the Chronicle, is a German, about 80
years old, and universally respected.
Honest, Industrious, temperate and
peaceable, and was held in high es-
timation by all who knew him. The
sad catastrophy which has befallen
him casts gloom over the eommu-
nifty foy Many miles aToand. lie
was happily married only last Octo-
ber, TO a daughter of Francis Marks,
of Pulaski, TO whom he was much
attached; and the grief of his
young wife over the occurrence is
described by those who witnessed it
as Aeart-renderipg in the extreme.
WR are pleased to be able to offer
the following in relation to wool buy
ing at Darlington and Mineral Point,
The writer's statements can be re-
lied upon and accepted as trust
worthy. lie says:
THE LION Is NOT SO FIERCE AS THEY
PAINT HIM.
Ed. TRIBUNE -- "Anecs and ministers of
grace defend us" from the aims of thst an.
rent and sshy story copied rom th4 Darling
ton Republican i9 the last issuc oi the TllnuNg
st is great mis-tatelneat og Scts, fabricated
eDthely in The interests ef Darlington's gath
crers and disposcs OF other mems stuf.n As
mo pleasure is comparable TO standing upon
the vantage ground Of TRUTH" and as one
more sinncd against than SHINING" permit
me briefly 30 vuntilatc that onc.sdcd view OF
things.
tluying been buyer Of wool in Mineral
Point market ever since the Beginning of thr
present wool season, | world say that in no
instance have ! bid for the poorest wool under
twenty, or for long combing wool under
twenty five cents per pound but have paid
much higher for the bulk have bought The
above named figures were b.d at Opening,
when The market was at its lowest and weak
est. II is a wen kaown fact that the wool
markets have been steadily advancing ever
since the opening This season, consequently it
is very plain that had any time interviewed be-
tween the farmer IN question having asked the
! price in Mineral Point and that of marketing
1 il 10 Darlington, difference in price Guui6 not
fail To exist
In recent conversation with buyer from
/ Darlington, he admitted our prices sayc been
! in advance of theirs on shopt wool, and theirs
in adHsncc Of ours on long wool and since
the great bulk Of the wool grown in this see
! ,ion is short does it not necessarily follow that
/ Mineral Point, taken as Il whole, Ia, been The
/ bcst markcty and any one WHO attempts TO
establish the contrary puts the truth IN
masquerade"
! would not be guilty Of charging the Oar
lington buyers with dishonesty far from ii is
our Intention. If they practice unIai, dealing,
/ their fate will ns Alle the "loyc that took an
carly root--wiil have and early doom" If
1 Fair in Their business transactions, the fact will
establish itself; bVt win some good shepherd
\ please ,ell rs how a single firm ia one season
can make Their purchases weigh OFT , 900 lbs
more than weighed IN? is it possible that
( wool will grow in Darlington warehouses {?
Also is not one Of two things evident either
that the quotations Of jhr Rcpublican were
wrong at the tiue named, or The fret bidder,
/ (p9ssihie The second and ,hirdJ, must have had
faces like "a benedictisa" tc attempt the
purchase OF said farmers wool at So much
under It's value, That saving Of $I3 or 50 is
Like washing hands with invisible soap in un-
prrccptiJlo watar,' hard to believe until seen.
II .aight have been saycd for The time being,
by The letting 80 unpaid Of some aged ledger
account Of that amount, tia; should have
been paid IN Mineral Point vitA said wool.
Wool BUYER.
S. T. Osborne is prepared to start
q siugiucr cIasg All who desire ia