Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-07-01
wISC6NSINigEMS.

In Ninnebago county there are 26s,522
acres of LAID.
Hurley reioices at the prospect of hav-
ing a saw mill.
The Methodists are holding a camp
meeting at Lake Pepin.
Last week there were lis deaths in the
city of Milwaukee.
The first permanent settlement at
Green Bay was made in 17t5.
Naupaca will raise $500 for its great
Fourth of July celebration.
tits now alleged that some Of the Rip
on grocers sell butterine
Racine prohibits bicycGsts from riding
on the sidewalks.
Of the 1900 enlistments in the First
Wisconsin Volunteers only 800 survive.
James Mueller of CALEDONIA. celebrated
his one hundredth birthday on Tuesday.
Office Lake parties are preparing to put
up another saw mill at Round Lake.
above Rice Lake,
The Sheboygan common council has
appropriated 10000 TO celebrate the
Fourth of July in becoming,manner
A Methodist mission was established
at Green Bay as early MS 1929, by a young
Mohawk who had been converted in
Canada.
The state constitution of this state was
adopted in 1s4S, Wisconsin being the
seventeenth state admitted to the Union.
For threatening TO blow up all Ripou
with dynamite George H. Jusen has been
sent to Jail for a term of 20 days
During the past fifteen years the value
of taxable property in Wisconsin has in
creased Slilo5Ljo7 or about 90 per
cent.
The barn of William jackson near New
Chicago, Trempeleau county, was struck
by lightning and burned Loss 81 500;
insurance $500.
There are nine lumber firms in Wausau,
the combined product of whose mills is p
little over loOOO0,000 feet of lumber per
day,
There are five lady lawyers in active
practice in the state of Wisconsin. Only
two states have alarger number, Michigan
having six and Illinois seven.
Ihp first woman graduate of Columbia
college, Mrs. Winnifrod Edgertou, was
born in Ripon in 1868.
The cost of the new dummy line from
Milwaukee to Whitefsh Bay will be about
100000. 1t il expected the road will be
ready for travel by July goth.
During the session of the Wisconsin
Teachers Association at Madison next
month, the mechanical productof the west
side school OF Eau Claire win be ex
hibited
Mitchell Nojcdlo, of Green Bay, and
Joseph Smith, of Fort Howard, while at
work on the Murphy mill AT Green Bay
fell distance of Is feet and were serious
ly injured
The highest lands in Wisconsin are To-
Gated along the head waters of the tribu-
taries of Lake superior, near the cources
of the Montreal river, and ARE about
eighteen hundred feet above the level of
the sea,
Tuesday the board of state University
regents elected the following oiheere
President. Geo II. Paul. Milwaukee;
vice president, j. g. McMynu, Racine;
secretary, Chas +. Lamb, Madison.
Governor Rusk has commissioned f..
/ b. Goodhue as first lieutenant of com
pany &, First regiment, located At White
water, and james johnson as second
Lieutenant
The Berlin Courant states that o block
of granite in the quarry there, fifteen feet
long, six feet wide and fifteen inches
thich, was split So as 20 form two pieces
each seven and half inches thick.
At Madison, William Macarthur, who
lives near the Flambeau reservation,
pleaded guilty IN the United States court,
Monday, of selling liquor TO Indians, and
was fined 500 and costs and sent TO Jail
for twenty-siX days.
AZ q meeting of tho conference of the
Seventh Day Adventists, at the fair
grounds az Madison, Monday, -ubscrip-
tion for missionary purposes was taken.
The munihceut sum of $4,000 was sub
scribed. In view OF the fact that the de
nomination has only LOO members all
told in this state, the subscription is GER
tainly good one.
Gov, Busk's recent visit TO Nausau
was the first made TO that city by any gov
ernor. People came from miles around
to get squint at Wisconain's chief mag
istrHte and one man brought his baby 10
shake hands with the popular executive.
Hog cholera is reported TO have reap
peared in the town of Bear Creek. near
Eau Claire, and the farmers are killing off
many swine which were intended for mar
ket in the early part of the winter The
farmers in that locality suffered pecun-
iary loss last winter from the same
cause.
The towns on the road of the Farchild
d Mississippi Railway company survey
having voted sufficient aid the work on
grading will be commenced without delay
The northern terminus OF the line will be
at Abbotsford, and the southern At some
convenient point ON the Chicago, Buring.
ton 3 Northern railway
/ a well on the farm of Louis Hoyner,
about two miles west Of GAINESVILLE; set
\ tied full twenty feet, the curbing remain
/ ing intact. The gravel and loose earth
at the top cayed ia as the curbiug went
down and caused the water 20 rise Within
twenty feet Of the surface,
Noah White, colored son of Mr. aud
/ Mrs. Spoouer White drowned Monday
afternoon mt Greenland place, Rock river
abouf mile from Jauesyill "a He was