Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-10-27
BADGER BRIEFS,
Short Notes From All Parts of Wis
conSin.

The new Presbyterian church at Rice
Lake was dedicated yesterday.
Silas Martin, aged 81. was married
TO Miss Mary st. Martin, aged ii, at
Sigel, Chippewa county.
Frank Lee. Il brakeman on the North
western road, fell under the cars ID
Fond du Lac AMI lost !, leg
Fire damaged the dry kiln of the
Wright Lumber company at Merrill to
the extent of about 81 300.
+. \. Merrill, superintendent of the
Eastern Minnesota railway was para
lyzcd at West Superior yesterday.
The Ashland monolith which was TO
have been sent to the worlds fair is
now being cut up into building stone
Real estate men of West Superior
will so to Chicago in special train
to attend the convention of real estate
men there this week
The body of August Schatf. a young
baker of Watertown. was found in
the woods near that city, he having
committed suicide by shooting
A. II. Lewis, OF Fond du Lac. recently
caught the largest black bass that has
ever been taken from Green lake Its
weight WIS six and oMe-half pounds
DIR. William Merkel, the Marinette
man who was charged with seduction
was acquitted of that charge but was
at once rearrested on charge Of obtain
ing money under false pretenses.
ore shipments from Ashland for the
week ending Saturday night were Il,
402 tUns, making Il tCtal for the season
thus far 1,O59.:iS4 tons. Possibly %,
900 tens will yet be shipped since the
docks were built at Ashland.
Miss Anna DinkenSOn, postmaster at
Sister Bay, has refused to turn over
the office to W. NJ. Bunda, who was re-
Gently appointed to the place She
says that she will not give UP the
office until compelled to by main force,
Mrs Or>cn Phelps. of Mt. Pleasant.
Racine co'rHty, died At E,nglcWond.
where she was visiting. She WIS -
years old. Thomas Driver, Il former
resident of Racine, died i'll California
last week. Joseph Edwards, Il resident
Of Columbus since 1914, is dead, agpt,
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The question of licensing butchers for
the maintenance of Il meat Inspector
will be brought before the commnl.
council at West Superior before long.
ILL., ~,
idea 1t is thought that the health i'll
Spectur'S other duties are too oncrohS
to permit him to carefully look after
the meat sold in the city.
james AIcNrcSn w;,s picked Up GA the
street at GAINESVILLE in u dying condi-
tom from the result of knife wounds
suspicion Of knowing something Of Ehe
matter, said he had stabbed an un,
known man in the dark who had at
tempted To- WaylaY and rob him of his
money. McNeese dG;,ie, this.
The contract for building the new
normal school ut Stevens Point has
been awarded by the board OF regents
to Frank HoulH. Of Chicago, whose
figures we're $46.63O, the lowest bid o1
the forty-eight that We're received. The
highest was 81, 100. The contract calls
for the completion of the building by
Aug. ], 1891. NIr Houle was the con
tractor of the state building at the
worlds fair.
The Appleton Crescent wants the
county board to investigate the OK,
pel...dre of the So-called dralnage fund
1t slyS that ''the Oldest settler has
failed to see a single acre of land i'll
this county drained, from the proceeds
of many thousands of dollars received
from this fund and appropriated spc
cially for said purpose. The money
from this fund has been frittereC
away and devoted to other purposes
than intended by the law
An open letter from Father White
of LII Crosse, is published III the Hud
son Star and Times in which Father
White, after saying that the Hudson
opera house block has been transferred
| to Mrs. GosS to secure her deposit 81
! SIT 900 in the bank, to the detriment o1
other creditors of the bank, offers t
! dismiss his suits against the GoSses
also the assignee, for the benefit of the
creditors, the opera house block anC
all other property which Father White
has caused to be attached"
William Carson and L. X. Long, o.
Eau Claire, have purchased an interes
in the Red Cross Lumber Mill company
| and the California and Northwestern
Railway company. The property con
sists of two saw mills, planning mills
railroad, the town site of Castle Craig
Cal, and & large tract of sugar pine
lands. The railroad opens up the larg
est body Of sugar pine lands in The
Golden state and is destined, accordin:
to the report of the company, to be tht
largest numbering enterprise in thu
state The concern was started anC
developed by D. T.. Miles and l.. d
Brewster, of Chippewa Falls, and CAPT
talists in San Francisco.
1t is announced at Neillsville that tht
bonds1nen of Daniel Allen, who il
charged with the murder of Henry
?, Wright, have Withdrawn their surety
| Allen had been convicted of the muir
der, but was granted a new trial anC
, was under $1,000 bonds for his ap
pearance. Allen was respected cit
, zen of Neillsville and a member OF thu