Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-05-16
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS

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The stone cutters strike in Milw,,,l.-
is al an end The men get a per ,,,,-
| Rev. Jacob Post, d D.. who was Re-.
| of Perseverance Presbyterian church e.
twen.y-one years, died In Milwaukee
/ Friday from general debility.
! w. }. Ransom, formerly of Milwaukee
was found dead in cell in a Cievelar5
| station mouse. WHISKY was the cause
/ The body Of Martin Hanson, drowned
! last November, was found In Little Lao
/ Butte des MorteS, four miles from
Neenah. His brothers body was foBnJ
two weeks ago, in Lake Wlunebago.
! News has just been received OF the trag.
lie death at Clayton, Idaho, Of George +
Aodine, formerly a well-known resident
of Milwaukee, and Samuel h. Clemens
! of Berlin. Their bodies were fopn3
| Thursday at the bottom of deep guIeb
in the Salmon river mountains, wbara
they had been carried by an avalanche
The wife of Rev A. NJ. De Ford. the
young divine who is at present serving
five years sentence at Waupum for rais
ing the denomination of several 81 and 80
bills, is in destitute circumstances. Her
two Oldest children have been taken to the
Orphans home at Appleton. The lady
accompanied 10y her remaining Two Young
children. has gone to Montello. where Ne
mas relatives living, After her husband,
| fail she depended entirely on the charity
of a very small circle Of friends Mrs. De
Ford is a prepossessing young woman Of
| p years, although she has greatly changed
since her husband S incarceration,
Competition among the milkmen at
Piattevile has brought that commodity
| down to 2 cents per quart
Alexander Chapman was sentenced at
| Sheboygan to two years at Waupun,
| Judge ellison refusing new trial. Chap.
man was convicted Of manslaughter in
the fourth degree.
Phillip Roy, one of the Washburn
| tramps who attempted to kill Officer
| Cassidy, was held under $4,000 bail
| Cassidy Is now expected to recover.
Robert Bggerstatf died from the effects
OF injuries received in the collapse of
building during the recent heavy snow at
Superior
Officer Erickson was badly cut with
knives in the hands OF a pair of toughs
whom he ordered away from the Superior
depot
DR.. Mergler, who shot a man named
! Dohl at Marengo, has been held in bonds
of $1,000. 1t is now feared that Dohl will
die
Geo W. Cowan, who died at BoscobeI
| last Saturday. was resident of Grant
county for over half a century.
Will S. Frazier, chief of the Wisconsin
Good Iemplars, was married in Astoria,
ILL.,. or the 9th. Mr.. and Mrs. Frazier
will sail for Europe, where they viii spend
their honeymoon Mr. Frazier represents
Wisconsin in the Grand Lodge Of the
| World in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Miss Juna Winslow, a Normal student
at PlUttegille, aged 30 years, went sudden.
| " insane last Sunday, and made two vain
attempts at suicide.
Mr. Chas kessler formerly at Schlitz
park aud MIR J0hn BIumensaat have
| leased HiIgen Spring park at Cedarburg.
Three hundred cords of sniuge bolts be.
| longing to the Shell Lake Lumber COM
pany were destroyed by FIRE.
The body of Alex Jorgensen, who was
dr. wned in Shell Lake last Sunday, has
not yet been recovered.
Rev. f. NJ. Morris, Of the Baptist
church Mt Fort Howard, has resigned on
account of i'll health
Mrs. Francis Hayek, mother Of Mrs NJ.
NJ. Secor, of Racine, died Thursday aged
70 years,
John Davis. Of Racine, was found dead
IN his bed. He was afflicted with heart
disease
Ripon college will graduate seven stu
dents in July.
it has been discovered that the sudden
death of Mrs Frederick Wolf, an aged
woman living at Vroqua, was due to
strychnine, 1t is supposed she took her
own life on account of ill health and
trouble She was IS Years old
Charles Fress is suing the city of Osh-
! kosh for $4,000 damages. He claims HI:
cane stuck in d hole in the sidewalk and
! that he fell over it, breaking his leg. The
crack in the sidewalk was not more than
an inch wide.
A kerosene lamp exploded at the home
of w. Pence. O. Phillips "Wednesday
night, and the family barely escaped WITH
their lives Loss on the building and
contents is estimated at 81, 800.
A 7-year,old boy named Sitter was
| killed at Marquette Green Lake county,
/ by the falling Of a window SASH, wnlcu
struck him in the back of the neck.
An $4,000 site has been donated A, A.
| Freeman, the big miller, at Superior, ana
J the new mills are expected to be In run
J ming order by September.
There are | ,747 children enrolled in the
public schools at Superior and on that
basis citizens claim a population OF
25.0C0.
f. f. Proctor, Of the Depere News, hai
been succeeded by Paul Halline. Nh
| ProCtOrwlIi leave for the west shortly.
| \ TUkN'S JUSTICE.
| The Means He Employ ed to SECURE for a
! Poor Man His Justice.