Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-11-07
Sad Ending of G. w. Price.


The announcement on Tuesday
of the accidental shooting of Mr..
G. w. Price, who married Miss
Eunice Cobb, of this city, caused
a feeling of great regret to pene-
trate the community. The partieu.
lars, AS hearG, are about as follows:
Mr.. Price, accompanied 10y a Chi
/ cago friend named Fleischner, and
j. Z. Cobb, formerly of Mineral Pt.
now located in Denver, started out
with guide from Denver last Sat
urday for a two weeks hunt on the
Big Muddy. On the Monday night
following Price left the camp and
returded on all fours. The guide
who was on watch called out "who's
there," and receiving no answer,
he thought it bear, and took re-
volver from Cobb's hand and fired
two shots, one of which went thro'
the top of Mr.. Prices head, and he
died shortly after. Mr.. Price was a
son of Dr. Price, and secretary of
the Price Flayoring Extract Co. He
WAS 50 years old; born and brought
up in Waukegan, H., which place
was his home. About eight years
ago he was married in Mineral Point
to Miss Eunice Cobb, who, with
three sons and daughter, survives
him. lie was a bright man, com
pletely absorbed in his work, and
ambitious. The newspaper accounts
represent him as somnambuist,
but those who knew him best never
heard of his walking in his sleep.
ONE day last week there walked
into Judge Huntington's court, at
Green Bay, most remarkable
individual IN the person of Mrs. j.
Martin, Of st. Ignace, Mich. No
one who saw her mount the steps
of the county building and walk
firmly into the Judges office would
have thought her beyond the age of
go, yet 90 years ago, when Ia years
of age, she left Green Bay, and
this is her first visit to her birth
place in all that time. Some weeks
ago she came to that city to visit
Ducharmes, to whom she is related.
In conversation she is bright, and
her memory of incidents which
happened 100 years ago is keen.
SALE.-On Tuesday, Nov 10, JAS.
}. Peters will offer at public
auction, on the farm now occupied
by him,-2 miles southeast of The
city of Mineral Point, near the
Rock Branch cheese factory lot
of stock and farm machinery as
follows: Span of geldings, and
years old, and two-year-old filly;
| 4 milk COWS and yearling hefer;
II good shoats; 10 to Is tons of
timothy hay and some straw; two
horse wagon, two-horse buggy, set
double harness, Mccormick mover,
hay rake, corn suky, and many
other articles. Terms, one years
time at 7 per cent. interest.
DECEMBER 7, 1862, at the battle
of Prairie Grove, in the state Of
Arkansas, Geo. w. Day, Of the goth,
Wis. Company, was shot, the ball
entering his head just below the
temple and about one inch back Of
the right eye The ball passed
through the bone and lodged just
below where it had entered, thus
making it impossible to be extracted. q.
The weight Of the ball aud probably
the working of the bone when eat
ing, caused the bail to work its way
down through the bone and into the
cheek, where it has been for over
90 years, until last Wednesday,
when Mr.. Day had it cut out by the
Board OF Examiners at Platteyile.
lie served two and a half years
after being shot and was actively
engaged in nine engagements dur
ing that time.
The weight Of the bali is little
over / o.. aud itis4 inch 10 diameter,
being bali that had evidently been
run in a pair Of common noHids,