Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-01-29
STATE NEWS.

| 1ne SOW mills OF Sherry, Mlllard Il
Co., at Hewitt, near Mansfield, have
begun the seasons saving.
The knights of Labor assemblies III
Neenah and Menasha number nearly
400 members.
The Fond du Lac Iron company
will start up its blast furnace about
the middle of March.
The Wausau Turnvereip has nam
ed committee to secure for that city
the state turner festival in 1887.
At Milwaukee, Nellie Somers, a ten
yearold child was left at home in the
house. She upset the lamp, her clothes
caught fire, and she received burns
from which she afterwards died
The Wausau Light guards are can
yassing their city for means to cover
the expenses of encamping the Third
regiment at that place this year. II
is estimated that 81, 600 will be need
| ed.
The Wisconsin Sulphite Fiber com
pany, of Appleton, has filed articles
of incorporation at Madison. The
object is to make and sell wood pulp.
Its incorporatorS are a. J. Rogers, G.
f. Steele, and E A Richmond, and
the capital stock is 100000.
The Knights of Labor at Racine
have received a large accession to
their numbers by the accession of the
members OF the Iron Moulder's un on,
which has given up its charter The
moulders number 100.
A suit involving the title to lands
valued at $75, 900, lying in and about
Menominee, will be brought up for
trial at Marquette, Mich. at the next
session of the United States district
court.
At a meeting held by the Milwaukee
Bricklayers and Masons' union reso-
lutions were passed in which they de.
clare that the eight hour law shall be
enforced from the first Monday in
May, 1886, the minimum of wages for
a days work to be 50.
James S. White, who has been
found guilty at Milwaukee of having
embe zzled Milwaukee city bonds now
hangs his hope On the action Of the
supreme court and it is stated that a
decision is likely to be made in two
months.
The York Iron company, of Black
River Falls, will require about 1SO car
loads of charcoal every month. To
make the 1,500, 900 bushels annually
will consume from $4,000 to So, 900
cords of wood, enough to cover thirty
acres piled eight and half feet high,
leaving only marrow alleys between
the piles.
At Rib Lake 13 persons are reported
to be suffering from trichiniasis. The
names are as follows: Fritz Wilkie,
Mrs. Wilkie, Fritz Racke, Mrs.
Racke, four children and a boarder
named Chris Leamaa, John HUM
wife and child, and Mrs. Lewis Ken
nedy.
Gustav Krehaut, aged 90, leaped
from a building three stories kigh at
Milwaukee, and fell on wooden post.
His left breast was torn open so that
his heart and lungs protruded. The
young man was delirous from the eff
fects of arysipelas, from which he had
been suffering for some time.
A telegram has been received by
Sheriff Pierstorff, of Dane county,
that F. w. Stewart, the burglar who
shot Officer Lyons on the 3Ist of last
October, has been arrested at Green
Cove Springs, Clay county, Florida.
The sheriff will at once leave for Flor
ida to get the prisoner.
Martin Dalkie, who pleaded guilty
10 the charge of selling liquor with
out a government license, at Hay
ward, and together with Helen Gas
trow was fged $50 by Judge Bum.