Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-04-23

VI Saill@e STOCK company 10 Dullu an
opera-house.
\ nISruLERY ut Iowa City which cost
$4,000, was sold the other day for
$1,000 by the government, by whom it
had been seized.
n. L. ALLEN, OF Trenton, Dodge
county, has just received package Of
seedwheat grown in the British PROV
inceS eighteen hundred miles north of
st. Paul.
JOHN G. BELL, of Clifford, the young
man who killed Miss Roberts. his sweet
heart, and then attempted to take his
own lle is still alive, with a ball in his
left lung above his heart and one
through his bowels.
The Presbytery of Des Moines, April
10th, adopted resolutions denouncing
the theater, card-playing and promis.
cuous dancing, and recommending
churches to guard against them by an
exercise of discipline.
EX-GOVERNOR Merrill has offered to
furnish the iron and rolling stock for
the extension Of the Abel and Western
Narrow-Gauge road to Panora, and
work will begin ut once.
john +. HOUSE, who departed from
Newton very suddenly On account OF
forged note and two wives, about three
months ago, has been found at last near
Henry Clay Deans "Rebel Cove" on
the extreme southern border of the
state, and now rests in jail in Newton.
In the district court of Hardin coun-
ty, ID. Is. Morse, ex-county auditor, was
convicted under one of the indictments
for emheMlement, and sentenced to six
months IN the county Jail and Ia pay
fine OF 500. There are six other in
dictments against him for the same of.
Tense.
WISCONSIN.
JANEsyILLEs new gas company will
charge 50 SO per thousand
FARMERS have finished wheat-sowing
in the southern tier of counties.
THE factories at Depeie work up
about Sl25, 900 worth of wood annually.
A JOINT stock company has been or
ganlzed ut Wausau to erect u sawmill.
Dodge county farmers are to plant
largely increased acreage in corn this
spring
ENEMIES Of the sparrow at Madison
have been busy scattering poison for the
little creatures to pick up.
la CRossB and Winona rifle teams
are to shoot challenge match; scores
to be sent by telegraph.
ALI the mills at In Crosse will be
run to their capacity, the bulk Of the
cut being intended for rafting down the
river.
The body recently washed ashore ut
Fond du Lac Is supposed to be Joseph
BREATH, n Frenchman who was drowned
off the steamer Porter last fall
a Rock county dispatch says the
winter wheat crop, of which there is a
much larger acreage than for many
years past, has come through the win
ter and late freezes and thaws in very
fine condition. The same may be said
of rye, of which there is large acreage
in this county, The acreage of spring
wheat in this county will be larger
than usual The area sCwn to
barely will show falling
off, us compared With last year, and
that of oats and corn an increase. Far
mers are seeding down more land than
ever before, and will go into dairying
and stock raising.
GEE. RUGER, L. 5. A., Wisconsin
man of brilliant military record, until
recently stationed at Atlanta, Ga,
passed through the city yesterday with
part Of his command, enroute to from
tier posts in Dakota Besides the sleep
ers, occupied by the general, his staff,
and the officers Of the regiment, there
were ten cars for the privates number
ing 600. The force has been assigned
to the duty Of protecting the new set
Elements from invasion by the Indians.
Other attachments are TO follow IN or
der that the frontier may be fully guard
ed. A long freight train followed IN the
wake of the special train with the arms,
accoutrements and supplies for the COM
mand. The stay here Of the boys in
blue was brief one. the train having
been side-tracked just long enough to
admit Of the attachment of newly-fed
iron horse Mtwaukee Sentinel, AprI Is.
MICHIGAN.
f.. ALLEN SMITH, who was arrested at
Otsego few days ago and taken 70
Ohio, committed suicide in the Xenia
jail.
THE Athletic association of the uni
versity of Michigan has been duly Ia
corporated Its charter runs for thirty
years.
WILL CARLETON, formerly known as
the Michigan poet, has returned to his
Hillsdale county home to rest after a
winter lecture tour.
ADoLPH SPENCER, Of st. Charles, Sagi-
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