Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-12

His wife is still alive with no DrOSDectS
Of recovery. The man has been bereft
OF reason for some time.
AT d special meeting Of the Brown
county board resolution authorizing
the application for Il loan of $50. 900
from the trust funds of the state to be
applied to the construction of Il normal
school building, provided that county
should be favored with the selection
OF a site, was unanimously carried.
Brown county will make a great effort
to secure one of the schools
a letter from James Collins, the
Splinter, who was recently shot at
New York, to his mother in Edgerton,
states that he is recovering from his
wound, and expects to return home
before long. The bullet has not vet
been extracted from his back. The
man who shot him is still in Jail, and
will be tried rs soon as Collins is able
to attend court.
The Superior police are anxiously
awaiting news from Sherman, Tex,
regarding the trial of Texas Dick
who was captured at Superior on
charge of committing a triple murder
at Dennison, Tex. If he is convicted
the sum of $500 will be divided be-
tween eX-Chief Simons and Detectives
Earnshaw and Purchase.
The bail for Martin Pishkaski, who
is held at Beaver Dam on u charge Of
wife-muIder, has been fixed at $4,000
by Judge Sloan. Two men. Anton
Bach and William Milarch, have signed
the bond, but the others hesitate for
some reason and Mr.. Pishkaski still
remains under arrest.
An eastern capitalist has offered to
establish a beet sugar factory at Bur
lington, Racine county. that will en-
ploy 200 men if the farmers in that
vicinity viii guarantee to raise 800
acres of beets for a certain number of
years. He will put 100000 into the
PROJECT.
An S-year-old daughter of Peter lib
Eetts, of the town Of Amigo, was Sc
verely burnt about the face and arms
while playing around a bush of fire.
She will probably recover. Her father
was badly burned about the hands
while eXtinguishing the flames.
Marvin Mentch engineer for +. w.
Merlyman & Co, of Marinette, dropped
dead while working in the mill. His
remains were taken to Mill Center,
Brown county, where his family re-
sides.
John Dcrtz. Racine baker, commit
ted suicide by shooting He claimed to
have recently been robbed of all his
money While in Chicago. He leaves a
wife and several children in Germany.
James Gibson, station agent for the
Wisconsin Central Railroad company
at Nandyne, Fond du Lac county, has
been declared insane and committed to
the northern hospital at Oshkosh.
j. H. kimball. the winner of the
second prize in the interstate orator.
cal contest at Columbus, O., was given
an enthusiastic reception upon his re-
turn to Beloit college.
Thieves entered the office of the kau-
kalna Lumber & Manufacturing COM
pany, at Appleton, and tapped the till
for S35. The police claim to have a
clue to the guilty parties.
1t is claimed by woodsmen that hum
dredS of deer have been killed in north
ern Wisconsin the past winter by
wolves, which are growing very nu-
merOus of late years.
The final session of the convention
of the Missouri synod was held at st.
Louis Saturday. The resignation of
Prof. c. Loeber director of Concordia
college of Milwaukee, was formally
accepted.
Henry Mesenheimer, who is supposed
to have lived in Milwaukee at one
time, committed suicide in the jail at
Terre Haute Sunday.
The damage to the government break
water in Milwaukee by the recent
heavy storms, it is now estimated, will
reach probably $4,000. About 100
feet of the structure just north of the
fair weather opening, was entirely
washed away. That part running
shoreward is badly damaged.