Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-13
Points of Wisconsin News.

SAltAS ~ WISCONSIN News
Miss Dearborn of GAINESVILLE fell
IN the roller rink the other day and
broke her arm.
The log cut of the Chippewa
Lumber and Boon, company and of
the Chippewa Lumber company is esti-
mated at a5e, ooG, 900 fest, and that of
all other loggers on the Chippewa
and It's tributaries at S., 900, 900 feet.
Parties in a position to know say
tat the Wisconsin, Pittsville & Sn-
perior railway will build forty miles
OF road in the summer. beginning AT
Plttsyllle and running in a north
westerly direction. Work will beoin
about June /.
Southern Wisconsin beeSeepers
met at Janesyille and elected As off.
GERS, president, c. @. Shannon. Edcer.
ton; president, Levi Fit2tnger
Janesvltle; secretary, John c. Lynch.
Janesville; treasurer. II. L. Humph.
rev, Janesville.
The reason why voters are So
plenty i'll northern Wisconsin begins
to be apparent Mrs. w. b. Manney.
the wife of q honesteader, living i2
miss west of Medford, in Lincoln
county, gave birth to four girls ON
Sunday, each weighing three and
one,half pounds. All are doing we'll.
-Gotlieb Harp's wife died at Chic
ago while ho WAS enroute from Ger
many to Medford, Wis. As the i'm.
migrant was without means, the Wis
consin Central Railway company
provided transportation for the family,
forwarding the remains or the wife
and mother on the samesstrain.
There is growing opinion al
Elkhorn that Nellie Hcran will not
be convicted. Sac is cool and collect,
ed, showing not the least sign of fear
or apprehension as to the result. The
testimony for the prosecution is nearly
all IN, and the belief is expressed that
the case is not sufficient to secure con
yictlon.
Lieut.. G. L. Atbee, we'll known
IN Madison, who is now in Texas, in
a letter TO a friend, says: If you
have had a hard winter and hard
times Ap there wisconsin, it is moth
ing to what they have had in Texas.
Never before have the losses of stock
been SO great; there is no grass in the
state, and what stock pulls through
will do It by eating prckly pears
(cactusl and brush.
A dispatch from Elkhorn SAYS
that Tuesday was the thirteenth day
of the trial of Nellie Horan, for the
poisoning of her sister, and the pros.
ecution rested the ease. The defense
immediately moved for the exclusion
of the evidence of the Milwaukee
chemist, and for non suit, but both
were overruled, The defense then
rested the case. The jury will be
charged this morning.
Rock county is infested with a
tramp who goes about soliciting aid
for a mythical widow who was burned
out IN an imaginary fire. He is SO
aisinterested that he gives his own
time to this noble work of helping
people heavenward by perSuading
them TO contribute to the relief of the
widow and the fatherlRsS. An unfeel
ing court has sent him up for thirty
days, and the sympathies Of Rock
county people for widows are likely
TO remain IN obeyance.
James G. Jenkins, one of the
counsel for the Goodrich transporta-
ton company, in the case Of John
Atkinson against the company, on
trial for the past four weeks in the
circuit court at Oshkosh, returned
home to day. The same suit was
tried in the United States district
court at Milwaukee, before another
jury last No,ember, and verdict
given for the defendant. The result
Of the present trial is verdict for the
plaintiff. The suit was brought by
the Phoenix insurance company in
the name of Atkinson 10 recover the
amount Of insurance paid by the com
pany for losses by fire in the city Of
Green Bay in 1880, it being claimed
that the tire was caused by sparks
from the smoke stack Of the steamer
Oconto. Other suits hinge on this
one, involving 5000, 600. Gen. Bragg
is enc of the transportation company's
lawyers.