Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-04-16
THE NORTHWEST.
WISCONSIN,.

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A BrLorr company is shipping wind
mills to Cuba and New Zealand.
LEAD mining at Potosi is not panning
ont as we'll as IN years gone by.
MANY farmers have finished wheat
| sowing in the southern tier of counties.
THERE is a prospect that the Oshkosh
WOODEN mill will soon he in operation.
THE Oconomowoc yacht club will
have floating club house Oh Lake La
. Belle.
ROBERT KENT, of Osceola, Mexican
veteran, will receive 81 900 pension
money.
MADISON and Oshkosh are to have
| telephone exchanges on the central
plan.
THE Racine street railway projec: is
progressing finely. Nearly all the stock
| has been subscribed.
Docs have slaughtered about seventy
sheep in the vicinity of Randolph with
in the past two weeks.
FARMERS in Wisconsin are,advised
not to SOW Russian wheat, as the millers
of that state will not buy it.
The Eau Claire lumber company
| have decided to pile five million feet of
lnmber for shipment by rail the ensu-
ing season.
NEARLY three thousand men found
employment the past winter along the
| Wisconsin Central road, in the lumber
| camps.
The Oshkosh steam wagon manufac-
tory has sent one heavy freight wagon
| to Texas, and is at work on another Or
dered by the same man.
A TELEPHONE line from Berlin to Au.
roraville, distance of seven miles, has
been arranged and will be constructed
and in operation by the first of May.
Mr.. McCutcheon, proprietor OF the
hotel at Arena, fell down flight OF stairs
on Thursday, smashing his skull. He
is said to be now lying at the point of
death.
The enterprising stock men Of Gen
essee, Eagle, Ottawa and Mukwonago,
Waukesha county, have united their
orces, and purpose hereafter to hold
monthly stock fair at Genessee depot.
The annual strengthening festival of
the Wisconsin Sheep-Breeders and
Wool-Grower's association will be held
on the grounds of the Walworth County
Agricultural Society at Elkhorn, Thurs
day and Friday, May l and 2.
A QUEER monstrosity in the shape of
a calf or calves was born on the farm of
Mr.. Roman, of the town of Fond du Lac,
recently. The curiosity was still-born,
and before mutilated was one body with
NO heads, six legs and three tails. A
caection of the body showed that there
wee two hearts and the vitals of two
ANNALS. The jointule had taken place
1.-THE hips.
The Plano Harvester works employ
lour hundred men.
An Elgin man has invented new
ind of milking machine.
The Sanduich Euening Herald has
suspended, after an existence of six
months.
LITTLE girl in Rockford was severe
bitten IN the face and arm, few
days since, by pet coon.
A De KALB county farmer offers to
pay $50 annually to have his sheep in
soFed against damage by dogs.
A REVENUE officer has discovered that
some Egin druggists have been doing
business little crookedly.
A GRAY eagle measuring seven feet
rom tip to tip Of wings was killed the
o;her day by a farmers boy living west
OF Elgin.
A Mrs. SPENCE, of Mackinaw, has
oeen arrested upon suspicion of setting
IRE TO a mill at that place belonging to
Mr., b. +. Whistler.
WOMAN in Cairo who could keep no
Iood on her stomach experienced with
"a" turnlps. These she found she
,ouId retain. She has subsisted On
sleh, but her stomach has swollen to
'our times It's natural size.
LIE gln hunting and fishing clubs,
are circulating petition to the legisa-'
, lure asking that winter fishing through
s.e ice be forbidden by law. Tons of
'is' are caught every winter, the lake
famed, summer sport spoiled, and
,Ie work OF the fish commissioners more
'1ah ever ovcrbalanced.
LIE venerable father Of ex-senator
e@nes Robinson wandered from his
, rone IN fekin the other day. Search
%as made io- him, which continued
,I.oug9 the night, but he was not dis
y' ere, unit! Thursday morning, when
D., was found At the house of Nathan
''oiuSon, ten miles distant.
y, lHE counties of Cook, Du Page, Kane
a -. and McHenry produced.
Mil. year, over 100000 gallons of
.1 ';,A, ioob, $50 gallons of which were