Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-03-26
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.
PARTON of Its Local History is Here.
with Presented.
ILLINOIS.

srrAMERs are making regular trips be-
.roen Peoria and st. Louis.
urGH McCRACKEN a Mclean county
nan, died recently, aged 107.
BLOOMINGTON man challeng the
world to a mile walking match.
FOUR daily newspapers have died in
snringfeld within the past two months
IT is estimated that there are $4,000
acres of winter wheat sowed in Decatur
county.
FARMERS and nurserymen report that
the fruit buds are seriously injured by
The freezing weather.
WILLIAM II. VETS aged IA, son ofone
of the oldest residents OF Clifton, Iro-
ouois county, shot and killed himself re-
Gently, with a new gun which his father
had Just given him.
JAMES GooDsPEED has sold the Joliet
Republican, subscription list, good WILL
lob department and all, to Major Rob-
ert NJ. Woods, formerly insurance ex-
aminer of this state, for $4,000 The
transfer was made and the Major took
possession yesterday.
A CONVICT named Thomas A. William
son was released from the pententiary
recently, who was sentenced in 1867 to
twenty-one years Imprisonment for
murder. During his incarceration ne
did not have single black mark against
him, nor was he once reported for
breaking the rules of the institution.
His good time amounted to nine years
and three months, so that his actual
confinement was hut eleven years and
nine months, instead of twenty one
years.
EPIzooTIC prevails in Jasper county.
THE diphtheria still fingers in Mar
:haltown.
Iowa winter wheat is described as
boxing fine.
THE Chicago and Rock Island com
pany is surveying route from Bevng-
ton, on the Winterest branch, to Osce-
ola.
THE Chicago and Northwestern rail
road gives notice that it will bring seed
wheat into Iowa for the farmers at half
rates.
GEN. T. w. SHERMAN, recently deceas-
ed established the post of Fort Dodge
in 1850 and remained in command there
ior some time.
The Oskaloosa Herald reports the city
council of that place a tie on the license
question unable to pass a license ordi-
nance or to repeal the prohlbitory ordi-
nance.
Mr.. ID. A. POoRMAN has been COM
aissioned district deputy master work
nan of the Grand Lodge of Workmen
Iowa, with authority to organize
Oiges in the state.
Gus. PETERSON, store-keeper at the
Aborn house, Des Moines, was the
other day notified that he had fallen
heir to $50, 900 in Sweden, and immedi-
stely packed his gripsack and started
alter the money.
The school board of Des Moines has
prohibited rope-skipping by the pupils
Of the public schools on the school
grounds, on the ground OF danger to
health and life, yourg girl having lost
her life last week by over-exertion at
the sport.
MINNESOTA
PREscoTT is badly off with the scarlet
fever
NINETEEN thousand cords of wood
have been cut for the Minnesota South
ern railroad.
II. PETERSON, of Two Rivers, Morrison
county, has two-year-old colt which
weighs 971 pounds.
The Northwestern railway company
Will erect wire fences along the line Of
Inc Chatfield branch as soon as the
irost is out of the ground.
HE Lincoln county Tribune says new
settlers are arriving from nearly all
parts of the union, and claim jumping
slaSt beginning to be lively.
At GAINESVILLE, Waseca county, in 1877
envy 10000 barrels of flour were shipped
while last year. from January to Jauu-
ary Il 900 were shipped.
ONLY twenty-five school districts out
one hundred and ten in Winona
county have invested in the Merrill
textbooks. The aggregate amount Of
purchases thus far made is 1884.
"hs' L. y. UDELL, OF Viola, Olmsted
county, recently fell heir to five humid
Ted acres of valuable land on Cumber-
ana Island, off the coast of Georgia,
through the death of a wealthy planter
VINO attained the advanced age of JOG
!eafs: The estate consisted of part
~eight thousand acres OF land, the
''lger portion of which is improved.
hon, f M Cpocpv ;,doo of tbo sr,.
iPS 'llal district, has appointed John
4p!'fS, Esq, of this place, member of
S .e Farmers Board of Trade of the