Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-11-19
STATE NEWS NOTES.

STATE NEWS NOTES.
Stevens Point is to have a street rail
way.
Sturgeon Bay has a Seventh Day Al
ven tist church.
Over 2o0 cases of diphtheria are re-
ported at Marinette.
Agenela is the name of a new mining
town in Ashland county.
An effort IL to be made to iucorporate
Rio as a village.
Typhoid fever Is raging in the town of
Summit, Waukesha county.
The Knights of Labor of Kaukaunna
will have Thanksgiving ball.
The cost of supporting the phor in
Menasha for this year is only 500.
Milwaukee has nine Chautauvua Circles
with a total membership of 300.
Martin Smith of Wausau was fined $500
and costs for keeping Il gambling house.
The ore shipment by way of Lake Su-
perior will close for the season this week.
The Marinette Independent has been
discontinued owing to inadequate sup
port.
Clothes line lighteners have COM
menced their thieving operations at Port
age.
cutlery manufactory, to be operated
by water power is to be located in Eau
Claire.
The annual convention of the Wiscon-
sin Dairymen will be held at Sparta III
February.
This seasons shipments of tho Norrie
iron mines, near Hurley, amounted to
nearly 1875 900 tons.
The Brewster house at Schullsburg was
opened with a ball, at which Is couples
were present.
Milwaukee is to hnve Il new $4,000
Baptist church at the corner of Wells and
Nineteenth streets.
William Pfeifenberger,o of Addison, near
Hartford, has marketed $1,000 pounds of
honey this season.
A son Of George Gout, of Plaintield,
put one of his eyes ont while playing
with cross-gun.
The new city hall of Oconomowoc has
been provided with town clock and a
1,OO6 pound bell.
Numbers of ciscoes are found floating
in Lake Geneva; they are disabled by the
large pickerel and die.
hItObiiSi bit'th III lIlS utll has
lowered the river above the dam about
seven inches.
The La Crosse Street railway company
has opened a shop and will do Its own
blacksmithing.
The people of Pepin county, by 300
majority, have decided to return the
county seat to Durand.
The mortality in Portage this fall has
occasIoned by contagious diseases.
A pheasant hunt er has shipped over one
hundred dozen to the Chicago market,
from the country bordering on the Beef
river.
Ben Bones, of Racine, has stored about
one hundred and twenty tons of cabbages,
to be shipped south during the winter and
spring.
The Merrill Lumber company has in
creased its capital stock to 100000.
The Episcopal, Congregational and
Presbyterian churches at Ripon are now
without pastors.
Over 1000 people attended the burial
at Columbus of Brinker and Waltersdorf,
two victims of the Rio disaster.
The stage in Bushnells hall, Omro, has
DSeH Ill pIpNeu Sy SCeHtGy purcHdseO
from Putnams hall in the same village.
Mr.. George Oeder of Auburn, Fond du
Lac county, has been declared insane and
sent to the Northern hospital.
Twelve newspapers, including four
ameteur monthlies, are now published in
Menasha and Neenah-tvo dailies, five
weeklies and five monthlies.
Charles L. Smith, the man who escaped
from the day coach at Rio, is recovering
slowly. piece of glass is supposed to
be imbedded in the side of his head.
The new Wisconsin Central repair
shops at Waukesha will be ready for bust
ness next month, at which time machin
lists from the old shops at Stevens Point
will be removed there. The Stevens Point
shops will be maintained as repair shops
of this line.
The name of the girl who found 5000
in sorting rags in a Neenah paper mill is
Tena Wulff. The find was well placed as
she is the support of a widowed mother.
Out of 1,G66 paintings contributed to
the exhibition of the Royal Institute of
Painters in water colors in London, 342
were sold fer n total of s55,0OO.
There were si1ty-th deaths in Mil
waukee last week. At present there are
fortyeight cases of scarlet fever and
thirty of diphtheria.
Two new cars of the latest pattern have
been put or the La Crosse street railway.
They have high windows reaching to the
roof and stoves located IN the aisles and
enclosed in casing.
! The laying OF water pipes at Fort How
ard is finished. About seven miles o.
pipe were laid. Green Bay has about
three more miles to be laid. A force of
300 men Is still employed, and the work
will be finished within few days.
Measles has invaded the Lynch settle
ment, near Rhinelander. The disease was
brought from the Tomahawk country,
where the Indians are infected in large
numbers.
The water power at Little Chute, on the
lower Fox river is said to be as vast and
available as at any point on the river.
Il is predicted that Little Chute will
eventually be the site of thriving city
The engagement of Miss Emma
Deuster, daughter of ex-Representative
Deuster, of Wisconsir, and Baron Paul
Won Baumgarten, secretary of the Austro-
Hungarian Legation in Washington, is
announced.