Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-07-12
STATE NEWS.


A tWelve-rattle snake killed at Max
vile was over -four feet long.
Richard WilkerSou, of Rochelle, H..
was agridently drowned near Alma.
One OF the small. poX patients at
Juda, a MIR. Folsome, aged rs, is dead
John prethers. Welsh farmer near
Belmont, was relieved of S22a 10y two
footpads.
The hlucberry crop at Mather failed
so completely that pickcrs We're unable
TO fill orders.
\ swarm of bees settled upon two
horses AT Prairie iii Chen and stung
them to death
g. :. Morris, deaf-mute, walked
off the railway bridge at GAINESVILLE
and was drowned
The Nemadji Wooden Mill company,
a new corporation at Superior, is cap
italized ut 100000.
Three female shoplifters have been
arrested in Milwaukee, They are well
known 10 the police elsewhere.
Father Keogh ut 81. Johns cathe-
dral, Milwaukee, denounced the keep
ers and supporters of stall saloons,
The main log drive on Oconto river
is now ut Stiles and will reach the
piers ut Oconto With few weeks,
Mrs. Henry G. Busse, of the Pier
farm at Fond du Lac, was tossed hy
an angry bull and seriously injured.
The New Diggings Lead Il Zinc com.
pany has leased forty-hye acres at
Leadmlne and will at once begin
work,
Peter Harth's livery barn, Wickert's
saloon and the residence of John
Iehner at Dale were damaged $1,000
by fire Friday,
A Milwaukee firm IL to build three
bridges In Appleton ut an aggregate
cost Of $1,000. exclusive of stone piers
and abutmene'.
All classes Of business at Boomer
are paralyzed by the strike, and II
looks as II there would be sugar
and grocery famine very soon
II. Runtman. Of Marlnette, was
taken 70 Milwaukee Nv the United
States marshal, for contempt of court
in not answering to Il summons.
Sunday saloons and restau-
rants were closed in Mari.
nettc. Drug stores sold nothing
but medicine, milk peddlers stayed
at home Livery stables, news deal
ers and street ears did business as
usual.
AT a meeting Of the Arcadia council,
1T was decided to do away with the
old system of lighting the streets with
Kerosene lamps and use electricity
exclusively. Arcadia has had au cleo
tric Light plant for some time, but II
has been used only for lighting the
business houses.
Fifteen deputies have been sworn Ia
by United States Marshal Pratt In NH
wnukee TO guard the property Of the
st. Paul company and to protect en-
ployes from interference. The depu-
ties carry revolyers. They are sworn
in for thirty days and are on the pay
roll of the company.
f.. NJ. Edwards, who recently pur.
chased a one-haf interest In the Shaw
ano County Journal, and merged the
Shawano Transcript with the same I'M
der the title OF Shawano County Jour
nal and Transcript, has sold out his
interest in the same 10 David Gorham
and gone to Chicago for the purpose OF
engaging IN business.
G. s. McAuliffe, president of Guiding
Star lodge, brotherhood Of Locomotive
Firemen and one Of the leaders the
Milwaukee railroad strike, was ar
rested by Deputy Marshal William
Buckley on a United States warrant.
Four other men were also arrested.
McAuIiffe was arrested after an A. X,
u. meeting. He spent the night In
Jail. McAuliffe's arrest grew out of
the delay OF the United States mail
train at o'clock Thursday afternoon
at the Union depot, when a committee
OF strikers induced the men to leave
the train McAuliffe says: They
think that by arresting and fatimidat-
ing us that the strike viii be broken up.
No committee was ever appointed toI
ask men to leave their work. Such
committees always acted voluntarily"