Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-06-07
WISCONSIN NENvSLETS.
Miscellaneous Happenings Around a
Great State.


The chair factory at lronwood may
be moved to Marshheld
Kate Berchner of Cassvine was
killed by a train near Waupeton.
II. u. Wing, late of The Kaukauna
sun viii move to Alabama
Oshkosh and Chippewa Falls are to
have new republican dailies.
Horsemen at Durand are delighted
with thei. new halfmile track
Tramps burned the schoolhouse at
Benefits Siding, Douglas county
An excess of water is interfering
with work at the Hortonville mine.
The pioneers of Portage county will
picnic at Lake Emily on the 10Th inst.
Crawford county pioneers will talk
over Old times at Gray's Mills next
Saturday.
Last week the Upham company of
Marshfeld shipped thirteen carloads
Of furniture
SupL Lowell Of the Waupaca city
schools has resigned to take course
at the state university
-Four cases of shoes and number
of hats We're taken from a Milwaukee
car at the La Crosse yards.
Parties from Columbus, O., are look
ing around Marshdeld to locate
staye and barrelhead factory.
Eph Miller and William Cuday Of
Rice Lake were taken to Minnesota
for alleged robbery of an old man.
The interstate campmeering of the
Seventh Day Adventists will begin
Thursday at Silver Lake, near Por-
tage.
Editor Wheelo9k of The Taylor
County star and News will spend
wellearncd vacation on the Pacific
coast.
The kewaunee Banner, a German
democratic paper edited by l.. IL.
Maring, has been enlarged and i'm
proved.
Brossc Bros. Of Oconto have this sea
son shipped about 5000 pounds of fish
To Chicago. They keep tweny-oue
nets set.
Fred Monsons G. year old girl
burned TO death while playing around
brush fire near her home in Wash
burn county.
The body Of Charles Kanbach. a
3-ycarold boy who has been missing
from his home for two days. was
found in the river al Racine.
Willard ID. Van Brunt of Horizon is
viewing the hardwood lands in Flor
cncc county with the intention of buy
ing from 1900 to 10000 acres
The Kewaunee Enterprise last week
issued handsome special edition
showing the advantages Of Kewaunee
as manufacturing and shipping
point.
Miss Belle Field Of Racine received
the diamond medal of the Chicago
Musical college There were 1900
competitors, all accomplished must
clans.
r.. A. Diebel, while at work on the
roof Of house, fell and broke his
neck expiring in about fifteen inmates
at Wausau. He was intoxicated at
the time
John HOFFMAN. who lives on ii farm
near Racine, attempted to commit
suicide by shooting himself. The ball
glanced to the left side Of the heart
and was extracted He is supposed to
be insane
George Kaime, who said he was an
Oshkosh attorney was arrested at
Wausau for an alleged attempt to pass
a confederate $50 bill He was intox-
icated at the time. He was fined 50
and costs
An ingenious Sheboyganer has pat
cntcd a process for covering buggies
with a porcelain surface-a permanent
finish that cannot be effected by ex-
pOsme, by sand or grit In washing.
or by mud spatters.
At Hortonyille, Sylvester S. Whit.
man, a pioneer If Outagamie county
and father of the weIlknown Apple
ton attorney, A. b. Whitman died
Sunday aged 50 years.
Fire destroyed the residence Of Mrs.
George Perry in Platteyille Quite a
sum Of money, which had been Sc
creted in the house, was carried from
the building by a fireman.
The Empress mine, near Etna, La
fayette county, 50 long a forlorn hope,
is now the best in that county, 1t
employs twenty-eight men and twenty
two boys and has averaged about
seventy tons Of jack per month be-
sides a large quantity OF galena, the
present mineral product being about
forty thousand per month. Last month
they sold 1870 tons Of jack and about
fifty thousand of mineral.
At West Superior papers have been
prepared by Immigrant Inspector
Stokes to bring action against Chief
Engineer McCollum of the Anchor mill
or the Mil company on the charge Of
/ importing foreign labor. 1t is claimed
three men have been engaged in Can
ada to work in the mill The ofense
is punishable by a fine Of $1,000 for
each alien brought in under contract