Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-03-28
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

Commander Upham, of the Wisconsin
&, A. r., has appointed the following Off
GERS to complete his personal staff: +, A.
Shores, Ashland, senior aide-de camp
John Beth, Green Bay, assistant quarter
master general; S. w. Eager, Racine, in
spector; d. Lloyd Jones, Stevens Point,
judge advocate; Thomas Peck, st. Croix
Falls, chief mastering officer. The COM
mander has issued an order to the posts of
the state to properly observe the twenty
fifth anniversary Of the f0un ling of the
first G. A r, post. April 6.
Secretary OF the Navy Tracy received a
letter the other day from d life convict i n
the Waupun penItentiary suggesting tina
seamen for United States cruisers be taket
from the penetentiaries of the country an \
enlisted, and at the end of their term of en-
listment if their behavior has been good
they be discharged
Mrs Mary G0rham, wife Of the editor
of the Merrill News, has for some time
past been undergoing Koch treatment in
Oshkosh, and she has been discharged
Mrs. Gorham has been suffering with con-
sumption.
The National League Of Musicians will
not affiliate with the A neriean Federation
of Labor, the discussion of the proposition
TO so affiliate having been brought to a
sudden termination at the Milwaukee
meeting Thursday
Fred. w. Staples who was arrested
some time ago charged with killing David
Seeley, at Staples. January II, pleaded
guilty to manseughter in the fourth de-
gree, and was sentenced to thirty days in
jail, and to pay fine OF 5000
Thomas Riley and James McNally, of
/ Shell Lake, who were sentenced in the cir
cult court yesterday to a year each at
/ Waupun for larceny, escaped from the
county Jail. They manufactured wooden
I keys, with which they unlocked the door
Ella, wife Of G. NJ. Breed, Of the town
of Howe, Oc0nto county, mas disappeared.
Breed says he took her to tie railroad sta
/ ton, but she has not been heard from
| since, and tits feared there has been foul
pla&
/ Miss Lilly Curtis, the fourteen year-old
/ Neenah girl who took $50 of her mother $
money and ran away to Milwaukee, has
! been returned to her home by the Milwau
/ kee authorities She will be sent to the
state Industrial school,
/ A reward Of $3.50 is off red by a number
of the citizens of Sheboygan for any In.
formation that will lead h the conviction
( OF the person or persons who have spread
poison upon tle streets, and which caused
the death of about fifty dogs in the past
few days
( Dayii Malcom, aged s., is dead at
hartford; also Joseph Chenkoski, a POLISH
/ refugee, aged 20. at Durand, and John
puggn at Oshkosh
Thomas Montague, brakeman living at
Waupun. fell from a freight train between
Ru1ioou and Iron Ridge and was badly
hurt
Brother ChristoT, nurse at the AIexiar
Brothers hospital at Oshkosh died Of !.
grippe.
The homestead fever has struck
Fond du Lac, and when the unearned lane
grant of the Omaha company is thrown
open for settlement a numuer 1t resident.
vii have a finger IN toe pie.
Capt J II Marston, of Appleton. ons
af tie members of the WaupaCl homt
t ard says he will request Gov Peck Il
hold an investigation Of the affairs Of tht
institution
Edmund pennefather, a highly respect
ed citizen and wealthy farmer, and one o
the FIRST settlers Of New Aunston, kenosls
county. is dead. aged 81 years.
4 Burglars in the residence Of Patriel
Wooster at Racine had several hundres
dollar worth Of siiverware rolled VI /,
o.srt IF wheL they we're discovered.