Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-04-26
Neighboring County Notes.
GRANT.


a proposition TO grant a fifteen wear
exclusive franchise to an electric
light company.
Prof. A. j. Hutton is preaching
in the Congregational church in
Platteyille while the pastor is in
Chicago attending a course of Iec,.
ures.
A band of Winnebago Indians
went down the river past CassyiIle
on their way to Rock Island last
week. They had nine canoes 10
to carry them and their property and
were dressed in Indian style.
Sheriff Miller's house in Fenni.
more was struck by lightning Tues,
day morning and considerably
shattered. Mr.. Armstrong, who
lives in the house, was severely in.
jured, but is now ecovering safely.
Benjamin Davis, a farmer living
near Platteville, set fire to a pile
of corn stalks, and the fire ignited a
hay stack near which a team of
horses was tied to a wagon. Before
Davis could get the team away one
Of the horses was burned to death
and the other badly injured.
DR.. J. II. Rindlaub, son of editor
Rindlaub, of the PIatteville Wit
ness, is winning distinction at Wash
ington. At the commencement ex-
ercises of the medical department
of the Howard University, DR.. Rind.
laub was awarded first prize for best
clinical report on genitorurinary
diseases.
PIatteville had a bad case of
smallpox scare last week. All the
ground there was for the fright was
that Chas. Newton, of Dubuque,
appeared on the streets with bad
eruption on his face. The health
commissioners seized him aud put
him in quarantine. After being
isolated for a time the man was
liberated il being found that he had
not smallpox,
George Berkmcier, an old citizen
who lived near Mccartney Branch,
in the town of Waterloo, and who
has been missing since last July,
was found dead last week at the
foot of bluff in the crush, about
half a mile below Mccartney station.
1t is supposed he had been cutting
cedar posts near the brow of the
bluffs and losing his fooJhold fell
over, making fearful descent Of
one or two hundred feet To the
bottom. His coat and vest were
found on the top of the bluff where
he had been at work.
LA FAYETTE.
Bicycling has become very
pastime in Darlington.
There are now over thirty bicycles
owned in ,naC city, a large number
being ladies wheels.
Capt Conley announces that Com
pany d has received new regulation
tailor made, and neatly
tlted to each man-hnest material
ever supplied to the militia.
The Darlington lecture course
was greater success than anticipate
ed. The men who set down their
names only have to pay $I.35 each
instead of $500 for which each was
responsible.
The ShuIlsburg creamery has
been remodeled and improved until
now it is one of the most complete
plants of the kind in this part Of
the state. Milk from five hundred
cows has already been contracted
for the coming season.
The village Of Gratiot was inoor-
porated three years ago aud although
10 village tax has since been levied,
they have provided the village with
good walks, lamps aud hitchiug
posts, besides grading the roads
approaching the village for half
mile in every direction. They are
now out of debt and have about two
thousand dollars ia the treasury.
The village Of BlanchardyiIle was