Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-04-16
WISCONSIN ITEMS.

| Ripon people have taken out $50 scho
arships in the Congregational college a
| that place.
Green Bay Gazette: A dividend of
| 1.457 per cent. of the Strong's bank assets
has been ordered by the judge of the cir
| cult court.
The winter cholera prevails to a con-
siderable extent in the village of Oak
field in Fond du Lac county and vicin-
! ity.
The life-saving stations along the Wis
| consin shores of Lake Michigan are again
IN commission and everything is being
got IN order for active service.
Val. Sanford. the Sheboygan Falls boy
who murdered his mother near Henrietta
Tex, has been sent to prison for life.
HIS father is about to move back to She
boygan Falls.
Fred Dahlke, German farmer living
near Fairchild in the region of Eau Claire.
tried to kill his infant child by choking it
IN cradle. He is thought to have been
insane and has been placed in Jail.
The spring term of the State Univer-
sity will close June %.
At present there are about 125 students
attending the Rlpon college.
Electric lights have been put in McDon-
AIDS saw mill at La Crosse.
AT Peshtigo hotel John Swanson. a
lumberman, was robbed of a note for $500.
bank certificate for $500 and a time
check for $50. About $500 in bills that
Swanson had placed inside of his vest
were left untouched by the thief.
At a special school meeting the citizens
of Hortonville decided to employ male
teacher in the future to instruct the young
idea of that stirring village.
1t is reported that the proprietors of
cremeries i'll the territory adjacent to
Rlchland Center have made an agreement
not to receive milk or cream from cows
containing less than so per cent of Jersey
blood after 1899, and have notified pa
irons of their action. 1t is also said that
similar action has been taken in some
other parts of the country.
At the meeting of the state board of
dental examiners at Eau Claire the fol
lowing applicants were granted a privilege
of styling themselves tooth carpenters:
j. Z. Peoples, Maiden Rock; Frank H.
linn, Waukesha; Robert NJ. Foster. Eau
Claire. The state board has elected the
following officers for the ensuing year:
President, c Chittenden, Madison; sec
retary, Edgar Palmer, La Crosse.
reorganization of the GAINESVILLE Cot
ton company has been effected with the
following officers: President, Dr. Henry
Palmer; vice-president, G. G. Souther-
land; treasurer, L. S. Eldred; secretary,
A. j. Ray.
Omro has daily paper called "The
Days Doings."
Geo. G. Shaw, formerly principal of the
schools of Beaver Dam, suffered stroke
of paralysis that may prove fatal.
Preparations are being made at Green
Lake for larger number of summer visi-
tors than ever before entertained there.
Moses Little has been called to account
at Appleton by Z. c. Goff, for alleged
trespass in moving 500 cedar trees from
the property of the complainant.
Miss Florence Collins, of Berlin. on
graduating from the Womans Medical
college, received series of literery
works for excellence in pathology.
The Second Adventist's of Neillsville
are greatly exercised because the public
hbirarion of the place would not list for dis
tribution certain books they had donated.
Prof. Sawyer has written to the Wiscon-
sin journal of Education that he may not
be able to return from Germany soon
enough to attend the summer convention
of teachers.
K. nj. Brundage, of Greenbush, Sheboy
gan county, was prostrated by heart dis
ease while waiting for prescription at
drug store in Plymouth, and died the same
evening.
The Unitarians of Madison have re-
solved to liquidate by cash subscriptions
the Indebtedness of $1,000 on their new
church building. The salary of their pas
tor was fixed at $4,000.
Peter Wyer, of Lomira, Dodge county,
was awarded $2,012 on an appeal from
right-of-way appraisal for the Wisconsin
Central Railway company. The commits
sioners had allowed him only $500.