Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-03-19
>oRTHWEsTERN NEWS.
WISCONSIN,.

G'ee and responsibilities of a private cit
o,,,rxry new graves have been made
10 cemetery at Ableman, Sank
u ,n since last fall In that vicinity
TgS iIbi has bnen as fatal as yellow
Ever at the south.
Nv Ben. GEORGE, Of Hudson, met
Nth what may prove serious accident,
l,.t Thursday evening. In sliding down
nm ..,, a load of hay he struck stake,
..S;rh was forced up into his body about
s,nr inches, making a fearful lacerated
wound.
CHARLES SMITH, son of the late j. b.
smith of Milwaukee, committed sui
ci5e IN that city by shooting himself in
HE head with a revolver on the 10th
nst He died the same evening leav-
mo wife and one child entirely desti-
ME. His father, man of consider
lille means, left all bis property to
.ec3nd wife. His son, being out of en-
nloyment felt tins action OF his father
70 keenly that he took his own life.
Rev. FATHER OMALLEY of Oshkosh,
.be eloquent advocate of temperance
has been lecturlng to crowded houses
IN Portage. He is doing much good
among the Catholics of that city.
ACTIVE operations have been COM
menced on kenosha harbor.
WOLVES are making havoc with the
armers sheep flocks around Palmyra.
TELEPHONE communication has been
opened between kenosha and Racine.
On morning of last week Peter
Molderer was found frozen to death
near Waupun. The evening before he
had attempted to cross the marsh, but
lost the track, and his horses broke into
mud hole. 1t seems he detached his
team from the wagon and got one of
his horses out, but was overpowered by
the cold.
WINTER-wHEAT looks promising in the
vicinity of Milton.
THE body of Michael Burk was found
hoating in the slough at Prairie du Chen
on the 10th inst. He has been missing
since last November. The verdict of
the coroners jury was accidental
lrowning."
QUITE successful revival has been
IN progress for some time in the First
Methodist church of Oshkosh. The
number who claim TO have been con-
yerted is from sixty to seventy-hve.
GEORGE briggs, of Fond du Lac, is
now commercial agent Of the United
states at the city of Hull, England.
Tp,,rt, nro trp,, n GOOD ,N,a,1o
O: Milton. One of these gentlemen
saved wood for fifteen cents per cord.
They called him crazy.
MINNESOTA.
Mrs. COTTON, wife of W. II. Cotton,
lmerly proprietor of this paper. acct
tuIy shot herself with revolver
few days since and is not expected to
I've. Mr.. Cotton resides in New York
city, Carer Free Press.
CHUNKS of coal have been found at
the depth OF twenty feet in well at
Marshall, Lyon county.
SINCE Montevideo, Chippewa county,
became a railroad point, the Valley Vim
dieator has more than kept pace with
the remarkable growth of the place.
EZRA G.. BENEDICT, of Albany, New
York, has bought fifteen hundred acres
Of land in the towns of Wyanett, and
spencer Brook, in this county, of the
81, Paul & Duluth company, paying
therefor Sc, 1000 Cambridge Press.
THE LIE Boy Mower county, Idepen-
dent says: "Our father, mother and sis
Ter have arrived from Bangor, Maine"
This verifies the motto Of the editor at
the bead of his paper: Devoted to the
up-bui!ding of lie Roy and Mower
county,"
SYvERT OLESON LATHER was lately
killed near jackson, and the coroner's
Jury found it was from wounds on his
lace and head, inflicted With a club
Matthias and Carl Danielson were sus-
pected but after hearing the justice de-
cded there was not sufficient evidence
10 bind them over.
MICHIGAN.
SARGENT the Michigan baseball ex-
pert and only dead-beat, VINO duped
Kansas girl into marriage few days
ago, has pleaded guilty to the charge OF
ogamy preferred against him.
A KALAMAZOO man "took a chance"
IN a lottery for valuable horse and
won IT.. His prize is so valuable that he
mas not yet dared to move it from the
stable for fear it will fall down and die.
HE farmers in the regions round
"eout Caro-, Tuscola county, are organ
.1ng Tor the purpose of resisting any
Eul' That may be brought against them
-or tne alleged infringement of the So
called patent Lee farm gate.
Mrs. j. j. BlGELow died in Danes
Uars' Oakland county, recently. She
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