Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-04-10
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

! Senator Pratt. of Oshkosh. is in great
/ danger of losing an eye from disease and
may be unable to perform further legisIa
tive duleS this session.
The ease of Q. J. Evans and Frederick
tuiSon, OF Minneapolis. V. Mrs. Freeman
hempster was decided in favor Of the
latter. Mrs. kempSter is the former wife
! l'r. kempSter, the Oshkosh insanity ex-
pert. The case grew out of the attach
/ ment of $1,000 alimony awarded Mrs.
hempSter at the time Of her divorce.
JoSheph Wolff, an old l>Sident of
Fond du Lac, died of pneumonia April :.
Geo. F Newell, the first settler in Ossco
died April =
Judge Jenkins has remanded NJ. NJ
Zimmerman. charged with stealing the
steamer neWm. for trial in the Michigan
courts,
Charles Noyr attempted 20 shoot Julius
bengel IN meat market at Appleton.
The marriage of Miss Lucy HITLER, of
NaukeSha, to Mr.. Seteldson, Of Wauke-
gan, has just been made public.
Daniel plneen, Of Germantow. Wash
lngton county, was called to the door of
his residence and shot one night recently.
One bullet lodged in his arm. A man
named Burke has been arrested for the
crime.
Eric Nelson committed suicide near Rice
Lake recently by shooting.
An estimate of the amount Of timber
put IN along the line of the Milwaukee,
Lake Shore n Western railroad durins
the past winter makes the total s.. .OOO. 600
feet. A part of this is hard wood.
Seven-year-o Jeanie Sullivan. of Pres
colt, felt into an open cistern and was
drowned.
Drs. MoIndoe and Daniels and John
Shelter have bought the Rhinelauder
hospital
Postmaster Lester Ciemous, Of Walton.
died ofrneumonia April 6.
The men arrested at Racine for putting
IN an additional track on the Northwest
ern road on a street where permission had
not been given to do so will have their
case heard April Is.
Fred Gatziatf, of Centraja. was carried
over the dam ON Il cake of Ice and Hoated
several hundred rods down stream.
When rescued he was nearly dead from
cold.
Richard Coon, a PardeeviuIe bov. was
accidentally shot in the leg b, com
panlon while the two lads were out hunt.
ing.
Senator and Mrs Spooner have engaged
apartments at the Cambridge. a pleasant
hotel iii New York, where they will re-
main until summer when they will prob
ably sril for Europe in hopes of beneftting
Mrs. Spooner's health, which has been
quite poor of late.
The box of human bones found at the
Chicago depot belong to w. H. Harris, of
Cuba City, Wis, who writes that he pro-
cured them from medical college where
the body had been diSsected by students.
Otto MINI, Emil .lordon and Eddie Trot-
man. three kewaunee boys, whose ages
range from l. to Ii. will be tried IN court
April IA on Il charge of beating II year-old
Anna Bohne.
From Marinette comes the "wooliest"
story on reeord. Last summer it seems
hen Strayed away from farm yard. The
other day the hen appeared with brood
OF chickens, which, as they grew older,
took ON a most peculiar appearance. In
stead OF down giving place to feathers,
fur appeared, The chicks ate grass instead
of grain and had four toes instead of
three. The rabbit-chickens. for so
they are called, finally died One
has been stuffed, however, aud is on ex-
hlblton at Peshtigo and will be ex-
hlbited to the State Medical society.
The only feathers to be found on the freak
are at the tips of the wings, and it is not
an easy matter to detect them, as they are
more hair than feathers From the wings
back the body is very long, and is devoid
of any tail whatever The two feet which
it pOss 2sses are exactly like the fore feet OF
rabbits, having four toes and being en-
hre!y covered with hair, which nearly
hides the small claw at the end or each
toe. The man who owns it is charging
an admittance fee to the people who are
anxious to view the strange creature.