Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-05-07
THE NORTHWEST.
WISCONSIN,.


the Racine driving park grounds.
THE grain is backward in Kenosha
county, and cattle have to Re fed pas
lures are as bare as in winter.
TROUT fishing is the principal sport in
the northern part of the state at pres
ent.
The English cabbage butterfly has
made It's appearance in Racine. 1t Is
said to be very injurious to cabbage.
KEwAUNEE has the smallest delin-
auent tax list of any county IN the
state.
QUITE small village of Winnebago
Indians are encamped across the river
from kllbourne City.
THE work of rebuilding has COM
menced on the site OF the recently des-
troyed buildings at Union Grove.
The Milwaukee council is still con-
sidering the propriety OF altering over
their self-propeling fire steamer to
common horse engine.
THE Plankinton house at Milwaukee
will, after May l. be conducted by Mr..
John Plankinton, the owner Of the
structure, Mr.. Sherman retiring.
A sTEAM.HEATING company has been
organized in Milwaukee with a charter
running twenty years. Its object is to
furnish steam for heating buildings of
all sorts, through pipes, as gas is fur
nished.
GABE BoUCK gives notice that a COM
petitlve examination will take place at
Oshkosh, on Thursday. May 18th, for a
vacant cad etship at West Point. APP
pllcants' ages must be between II and
p years.
TWENTY years ago, James Storm, Of
Whitewater, cut the knuck les Of one Of
his fingers, and when the wound healed
it left the finger perfectly stiff. A few
days ago he accldently cut the same
knuckle, but in different direction,
and now he has the full use of the joint
again.
LEMARs has been visited by four hun
dred tramps since the season opened.
A FIFry-MILE extension will be made
to the Muscatine Western railroad this
year.
EXPERIMENTS are being made with
clay in South Des Moines with a view
to commencing the manufacture Of
pressed brick.
AN order is to be formed at Cedar
Falls in which ladies are admitted and
their lives insured. 1t is branch of
the Knights OF Honor.
Iowa CRY is to vote on the proposed
additional tax for the Southwestern
railroad, the requisite number of petit
TONERS having been secured.
AN emigrant wagon passed through
Indianola last week, going IN an easter
y direction, labeled on the cover: Go
i~s backs 10 nay wife'a people"
STRANGERS are not allowed to tlirt
with the pretty girls of Cedar Rapids.
Two strangers were arrested and locked
up for trying it the other day.
A TELEPHONE now connects Burling-
ton with Keokuk. 1t was gotten up by
the Burlington boat club as u means of
adding to the receipts Of their coming
fair.
CEDAR RAPIDS is making extensive
preparations tor the firemen's conven-
ZION, to be held in that city il June.
Several Illinois companies have sent
word that they expect to be present.
THE skeleton of an Indian was un-
earthed the other day on Bloody Run,
near Dubuque. 1t WAS several feet un-
derground. The body had been buried
IN sitting posture, and two pieces of
pottery and other relics were found with
the bones.
A PARTY of thirty-fve residents of
Muscatne city and county have pur-
chased large tract OF land i'll Mead
county, Kansas, and have chartered
cars tor the removal of their families,
furniture, agricultural implements, seed
grain and provision slor year.
REV l. n. PARDEE, of Fort Dodge,
and Rev. ]. Il. Berry, of Ninton, are
making arrangements for a Sunday
School excursion to San Francisco,
which will leave Council Bluffs May 2S.
The rate for the round trip will be 500,
half the usual price. The national
Sunday school convention will be held
in the Yosemite valley, and the excur-
sion will arrive in time for this meeting.
MINNESOTA.
The youthful grasshoppers are said
to be putting IN an appearance in Rock
county.
ST. CLOUD has been made a Northern
Pacific office for all business on that
road north of Sank Rapids and west OF
Brainerd.
EDWARD w. HARTLEY, father Of Hart
ley Bros, proprietors of the Bismarck
Tribune, died on the 18th Mt his resi-
denco in lower CAnterhurY Now Bruns-