Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-08-17
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ter, for the purpose OF encouraging
the manufacture OF higher grader OF
butter, offer = special premium of
$40 for the best tub OF not less than
rs lbs of dairy butter mot factory
made) on exhibition at the Grant
Co. Fair, to be held Oct. 4th, 9th and
9Th. 1882.
The Muscoda Ncacs says that
Mrs. Aug. Kestler, Of Prairie dn
CHEN, whose husband was killed ia
in the gravel train accident, has re-
ceived $500 from the railway com
pany.
The case of the defendants, held
by Justice keene to the Circuit Court
at the close OF the Sisley eXamina
ton, was taken before Judge Cothren
for bail, who has fixed the same at
$1,000 each. Capt. Beebe was in
the city on Tuesday aud effected
change in the form OF the bond,
which as first drawn Included the
three defendants and would thus
cause snreties tc justify in amounts
o: $4,000 each. AS parties with that
amount of unipcumbered real estate
are hard to find, three separate bonds
were drawn, which Capt, B. took oack
with him and if expectations are re-
allied, the defendants will soon be
at liberty.--G Grant Go. Herald
The common council OF Monroe
is considering the purch are OF q
steam fire engine; a majority Of the
business men and tax payers are in
favor of the move.
The boating business between
Argyle aud Wayne is not a paying
one. The boat is success, but
there is not enough business to make
it pay. The trips generally CONSUME
13 to IL hours; the distance is about
40 miles down and back, while by
the wagon road it is but "a miles,
Rock Co. this year has under
cultivation 6,232 acres OF tobacco
an increase of 900 az Is over last
year.
The conviction that he was a
victim Of hereditary insanity Undue.
cd the Rev. Henry S. Sanford, pas
tor Of the Congregational Church at
Brodhead, to commit suicide; he
took a largo dose of rat poison, the
principal ingredient of which is ar
senic, aud after several days intense
suffering, death eusued. His con.
sistelt Christian life aud industrious
habits had given him an enviable
reputation in the village, and not
even his most intimate friends guess.
ell that such thing was preying on
his mind
Martin Coleman, who is suspect.
ed CT killing his mother, Mrs. Ores
coil, in Rchland Co., was arrested
near Red Wing, MINI, and has been
brought back. The preliminary ex.
animation began last Monday, the
18th inst when be plead, mot guilty.
and thrs far, his leaving home i'm
media'ely after the funeral is the
only evidence the prosecution has
of his guilt.
--Oshkosh's street car line com
menced doing business on Tuesday,
the Sth inst. For an hour or two
the biggest patronage was inflicted
by small boys "who had begged or
borrowed five cents for ride, which.
in the novelty Of it, was a big thing
to them"
Last week we mentioned the cur
alive qualities of the artesian well
water at Boscobel; the following is
what the Uiui, after careful in.
quiry as to its merits, says of it:
The " NrER ExCIrgNENr.-Th rush of PEG
pie TO the arlcsan well m this city is simply
immense, Every day there is from one |,
three hundred people at the well, carrying
away the beating and lite giving beverage. It,
curative properties are unQucStiuned. Hun
dreds of people, who have been ung for years
aud who tavr spent a great amount OF money