Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-05-01

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Mr.. VIM. Walker, proprietor Of
the Mineral Point House, on &C.
count of declining years, has decided
to discontinue the hotel business in
which he has been engaged in this
city since 1861.
In consequence of the play having
been given four or five times in this
city during the past year, Uncle
Toms Cabin company was moi
greeted by full house on last Friday
evening.
Philip Nit, laborer residing in
GAINESVILLE, while attempting tc
board freight train on the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul road on
Sunday, received a scalp wound
which may prove fatal.
The earnings of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul Railroad for the
third week in April were S407, 900
against $434, 900 the same week last
year, q decrease for the former o.
s27, 900.
John Thies has had his store room
repainted and a large refrigerator
placed therein. The refrigerator
was manufactured by Thomas
Ellery, and handsomely painted and
grained by Weidenfeller & Son.
There is cooperative house
keeping establishment at Evansville
this state. The Home" is com
posed of about twenty families, anc
numbers, including those who per
form the work, about seventy per
sons.
Mary A. Cole, of Beloit, has
brought suit against VIM. d. Nc
Key, of GAINESVILLE for $4,000
damages, for injuries received by
stepping into hole III a lower hall.
way of a building owned by Mickey
in Beloit.
Mr.. T. w. Wadsworth, formerly
assistant general agent for the pas
senger department of the Chicago
Milwaukee d st. Paul road, al
Chicago, has been promoted tc
general passenger agent, with head
quarters at Chicago.
Thirteen persons, among them
being postmaster and ex-membel
of the Legislature, where brought
prisoners to Oshkosh, for fishing
with nets. Some were fined $50
and costs, and others had their cases
continued.
The parochial reidence of the
Rev. J. w. Valley, st. Patrick s
church, Elkhorn, was entered on
the 25th by burglars during the
hour of the morning service, and
clothing and valuables to the amount
of $50 were taken.
Joseph Hallam will sell at his
residence in the town of Linden, on
Wednesday, May 6, four horses,
fifty-seven high grade cattle, 50
hogs, 120 chickens, lot of seed
corn, and oats. five to ten tons OF
hay, and farm implements and
household goods.
Frank III. James recently sold TO
c. Gilman a set of heavy team
harness, which good Judges declare
to be the finest of the kind that
they have seen in many a day. Mr..
James is turning out first class work
and respectfully solicits an examir-
alton of his goods and prices.
An exchange says: "The Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul company have
ordered twenty-five new heavy
engines, with a nineteen by twenty
six cylinder and five foot five
drive. They will be run between
Chicago and Lacrosse making fast
time. The smaller ones now in use
will be transferred to the River
division.
The Monroe Sentinel of last week
contains an engraving of "The Lud-
low," the new hotel in Monroe,
which was opened for guests on
April s, 1885. The Sentinel gives a
full description of the building,
which from the basement to the
top Of the cupola is SO feet in height.
The entire length Of the building
is 90 feet.
DR.. Van Dusen was able to be
out of doors for a short time on last
Sunday afternoon. He has been
confined to his home during the en-
tire fall and winter. His many
friends in this city and elsewhere
will be glad to know that he is i'm
proving. The Doctor is probably
the oldest physician in Wisconsin,
holding as he docs diploma given
to him in 1926 by the Onodago
county medical society of New York.
Gustave Ehlert, late of Milwaukee,
has purchased the fixtures of the
soda water factory belonging to the
estate of the late Samuel Webb. Mr..
E. has added new machinery and
other necessary apparatus, and in
tends to run first class establish
ment for the manufacture of every
thing in the line of soda water,
ginger, ale, birch beer. Setter and
other mineral waters can be OBJ
tanned at the lowest price.
The Platteville Witness says:
There is some talk of changing the
length of the terms of the Normal
School. The change, if effected will
make the Fall fern, fourteen weeks
the Winter term, fourteen weeks; and
the Spring term thirteen weeks.
By this arrangement, the term
which has the most scholars in
attendance, will be the longest. The
commencement exercises takes up
most of the last week in the Spring
term, and with the intended plan,
it will give twelve entire weeks of
school work in the Spring.
On last Monday morning at about
two o'clock a fire broke out in the
cellar under ]. Darcy & Son S
store on commerce street, which was
first discovered by the family living
over the store, the smoke coming
up through the building into the
rooms above. The city hall bell
runc out an alarm and many people