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

uloti ao'ou, anu uLaoic, through poverty,
to follow and bring her child back.
/ MINNESOTA.
! TWELVE women voted at the school
meeting at Little Falls.
ABOUT twenty-five women attended
the polls in Lake City, and voted for
school director.
A 4-year-old child of John Carlson, of
Ellington, is lost in the woods and at
last accounts had not been found.
| A LARGE amount OF flax is being sown
! In st. James, Cottonwood county, and
vicinity. Farmers say they can make
m ore on flax than on wheat, and that it
Is surer crop.
Elk Rirer Star: The prospects for a
successful drive of logs are not verv flat
ter!ng, but the lumbermen are making
their preparations, so as to be ready in
case we get any rain.
NINETEEN families Of Belgians with
sixty carloads of stock and goods arrv-
session of land bought of the Southern
Minnesota railroad company
The project of charging the line Of
the Minneapolis and st. Louis railway
from Hopkins Station to Chaska by run
ming the same by the way Of Excelsior
has been abandoned on account Of en-
gineering difficulties.
The new German church at Goodhue,
Goodhue county, was struck by light
ming last week. The old church was
worth about 500, and was insured for
S4OO, but there is some doubts about
their getting the insurance.
CHARLES SCHULTZ, Of Alexandria, was
mending an empty powder-flask, as he
supposed. but hot soldering;ron
showed his mistake. Result: Scorch-
ed fingers, singned whiskers, democrat
lied jacket, and badly demolished
flask.
The Monticello Times says: The 9TH
er day horse belonging to J. H. Davis,
of Clearwater, having been given the
freedom Of the yard, awaited himself of
Mrs. Davis absence at a neighbours, and
walked into the kitchen, and after the
manner of a professional tramp, helped
himself to such articles as suited his
taste. then adjourned to the parlor.
where he displayed strong literary
taste by nearly devouring several valu-
able books and albums.
IOWA.
THE Iowa fish commissioners recent
ly placed forty thousand fish in the va
rious streams of Plymouth county. The
fish were Of three varieties-California
salmon, brook trout and lake trout.
A MILITARY tournament is to be held
in Iowa City, May 81 and %. A prize
drill contest is to be for 800 gold. The
first prize for bands will be 1925; second,
$75; third, $50; fourth, S25, to be paid
in gold.
A TWELVE year old son of Wesley
Smith, who resides with his parents
near Mount Hope, ten miles south of
Alta, was kicked on the temple by
horse, which caused his death in few
minutes.
A SIOUX CITY demi rep took dose of
poison, telegraphed for relatives, sent
for priest to hear her confession, and
while he went in search of a physician
to pump thevictim out, she mysterious
ly disappeared from the town.
DEs MONIES prospects are superior to
those OF any ether city in Iowa for
work and improvem ent this summer.
The vitality of the city, considering the
relatively small amount of accumulat-
ed capital it possesses, is wonderful
Des Woines Leader.
A DOZEN tramps were arrested in
Davenport the other day, at the fair
grounds, where thev had arranged COM
carbohydrates in the basement ofthe
judges stand they were supplied with a
stove for cooking and warming, and
were well provided with blankets for
bedding.
JOHN BAUMAN, of Storm Lake, has
died from injuries received from gun.
He was shooting with rusty gun, the
first discharge from which knocked him
down, but ne reloaded, and on firing
the breech blew out striking him in the
center of the forehead, passed through
the brain and lodged in the back part
of the head against the skull.
A REVIVAL at Wilsonvile, under the
auspices of Mr.. and Mrs. Harmon of
nhe "Western holiness association"
had the effect of splitting the congrega-
ton in sections, and there was much
disorderly conduct in time of services.
In one instance the preacher going
home from church wit h bis wife was
pelted with clods, at another his car
rage was tempered with, wheels even
changed, rails iammed into the spokes,
and other acts of vandalism committed.
A MINISTER in the Italian chamber,
speaking on the subject of capital pun
ishment few years ago, remarked that
Italy was the country in which they
killed most and hanged least, while