Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-04-15

lead ore, blackjack and drybone, of
several hundred pounds weight
each, were brought to this city from
Linden and vicinity on Thursday
for shipment to the worlds fair.
HEREAFTER road taxes must be
paid III cash. The bin providing
for the payment of road taxes in
cash rather than in the antiquated
style of working them out has
passed in both houses and is now
a law.
M. E. CHURCH services tomorrow.
Memorial service for Mrs. Hutchinson
at 1880. Sunday-school at 300.
Song and praise service by the Ep-
worth League at $50. Preaching
at 1880. Subject, "The Life of
Enoch."
SPLENDID accommodations during
the Worlds Fair, to parties of 3 to
10 persons. Choice location near
the Fair. Rates 81 per day or S.
per week each For further partiou-
lars address Mrs. Simington 33l
East 4lst street, Chicago. l5wl*
WHILE the Central is talking of
disseminating the running of pass
enger trains between Freeport and
Dodgeville, the c., M. IL st. Paul
company is obliged to increase its
facilities for accommodating the
public on the Mineral Point branch.
The states Of Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska, Iowa and the Dakotas
have had sad experiences with
tornadoes this week. The loss of
life has not been anywheres near as
large as might reasonably be ex-
pected from the great amount of
property destroyed.
VIM, J. Cox and wife, of Engle-
wood, Mrs. Miller, Mrs. Gay, form
erly the Misses Margie and Mary
Hammill respectively, of Chicago,
Mrs. E. J. Bennett, of Evanston,
and Arch. Hutchison, of Algona,
Iowa, attended the funeral of Mrs.
James IIutchison last Saturday,
NEARLY all of our citizens most
surely remember that earnest, in.
dusuiou8 and honest young man by
the name of John Weckler. Well,
he's "qone and got married, too"
1t happened at Colo, Iowa, on the
9th inst. Miss Ella Mcclure, of
that place, was the chosen bride.
THE numerous friends of Rob.
Hughes, who has been serving as
operator and clerk at the depot, and
in a manner that proved him one of
the best and most genial hands ever
in that position, will be grieved to
learn that be has been compelled to
resign on account of poor health.
II the Wisconsin exhibit at the
worlds fair is not something ornate
it will be the fault of the commits
sioners. One hundred and sixty.five
thousand dollars in addition to in
dividual contributions makes a good
round sum. No exposition in the
state ever cost one.fourth as much.
LAST Saturday evening Father
/ O'Keefe received by telegram the
sad news of the death of his brother
Arthur, which occurred that day at
his home in South Dakota. Father
| O'Keefe left for there on Monday.
| Deceased was about ~ years of
age and left a wife and nine chill
dren.
TWENTY thousand fish Of the
! Wisconsin exhibit at the worlds
fair were let loose into Lake Michi.
gan on Monday by fool employe,
He "didn't 90 to do it," but he took
the cover from a trap in the lagoon
where the fish were temporarily
confined, and when he returned the
trap was empty. He didn't know it
was loaded.
Ok the evening of the 9TH inst.
Mr.. J. w. Crawford, formerly of
this city and whom we wont to call
"Jack," was united in marriage at
Galeua to Miss Harriet Webb, an
accomplished young lady Of that
city. Hon. and Mrs. J. NJ. Smith