Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-02-09
BADGER POTPOURRI.
n Multiplicity of Small But Interest
ing Facts

tNltoih'AS NeeutT, VI MuSlOli, anu
| Wyman. of Niroqua. will try to be
elected judge in Joe Morrow'S disctrict.
twenty-five carloads of cloyersecd
have been shipped from Kiel UP to
! date
Successful revival meetings are be
| ing held i. Raymond by the Rev. G..
| w. Palmer and wife.
| Burglars seem Ell $500 worth of goods
from the store of Quinn 4 Rosge at
| Oshkosh.
The Peshtigo company is putting IN
new turbine whcel-the largest in
tllat quarter of the state.
| Wells c. Miner, formerly a we'll
knoWL business man of Fond .lu Lac,
diel Il Euclid Mimi, on the Goth lit.
Maud Patterson is still in Oshkosh
un bic to give an account of herself,
or her former home, or of her refl-
| tivcS.
throp were married ut the residence of
TIC brides parents in Elkhorn
Wisconsin, pensions: Original wild
owS, etc. Gertrude A. Boodry, Stin-
Snn; Hannah III. Bellows, Delavan.
The pioneers of Washington county
and the southern part of Fond du Lac
county will hold IL reunion at kewaS-
/ KUN on the 22d.
An Englishman ut work in the cedar
camp near Marincttc lost his winters
earnings in wages that Mitchell would
knock out Corbett
! Sylvester Johnson has sued the city
Of Ashland for $1,000 on account Of
injuries received while driving over
Il defective roadway.
Farmers ut Misicott are drawing logs
! to Two Rivers that have been in the
water for years. George Chatterton
pointed to II stick that he had hcwn
forty years ago.
About thirty Adventists passed
through Weyauwegl on their way to
of meetings of their society to be
held in that place.
John Stevens, of NccnIh, will build
Il steam yacht ut Oshkosh this spring
100 feet long. The boat will have two
propelling screws to be driven by two
triple expansion engines.
II. l.. Powers, of Rpon, and +. l..
Selden, of Cambria, will represent
Itipon college in the state oratorical
contest ut Beloit next month.
Ferdinand Tietz, aged "a years, liv-
ing with his son-in-law, about two
miles north of Menomonic, committed
suicide by shooting himself through
the side
Thursday evening Munson Burton,
only son of the late Judge S. s. Bur
tol cashier of the La Crosse National
bank. and Bella Mcdonald, daughter
of pit. d. A. Mcdonald, the well
known steamboat man, were united In
marriage at La Crosse
The Security Savings bank with
capital of $4,000 was opened Thurs.
day at la Crosse. The officers are:
President, l.. w. Foster; viceprcsi-
dent, Il. II. Burke; cashier, Ill. V. May
i'll; assistant cashier, f. b. Nelson.
The Rock county bar, Ly a vote Of
II to 10, named Judge John X. Bennett
- tn,ir choice u circuit judge at the
coming spring election. A convention
of delcgtes from Rock, Green and JEFF
ferson counties will be called in the
near future
The Alderman Granite company, 10
Gated at Alderman, made an assign
mcnt. Tine liabilities are about $1,000;
assets about the same. The plant is
owned by Chicago men.
The ManitoWoc volunteers, Go. A.
second regiment Wisconsin national
guards, in existence for about twenty
five years and the oldest company III
the state, has dissolved as state or
ganization and will organize as an
independent company.
Nine cars were smashed to pieces
at Elkhorn destroying many articles
which were in the cars. The accident
was caused by the trucks Of a freight
car breaking Trains were delayed for
abcli: ten hours. The loss is estimated
1T $1,000.
John Dunn. a prisoner at the She
bogcan Jail. was taken sick and the
IhySiciIns pronounced it smallpox
| Over twenty prisoners have been ex-
posed. Dunn has been sent to the pest
| house.
Fire destroyed the first ward primary
school at Washburn. The building was
owned by the Methodist church and
| formerly occupied as q chapel Loss
5000; no insurance.
! Louis Schoenleben, who threatened
to strangle his dying child, abused his
wife in a shameful manner and threat
ened to kill her, and after the child
was dead and in its coffin, knocked the
casket to the floor, was tried on a
charge of assault and battery and sen
fenced to the Racine county Jail for
three months.
The Green Bay Business Mems asso-
citation has adopted resolutions against
the reduction of duty, as proposed by
the Wilson bill, from 45 to % per cent.
ON pickles, caulifower and onions,
which are imported into this country
as vegetables in brine or salt" The
resolution also requests that a duty
be placed upon sauerkraut, which is
imported free under the Mckinley law. I,
Henry Morse, the 9-year-old boy who
accidentally killed Byron Street at
GAINESVILLE, said of the occurrance:
Byron and l were talking about what
color the cover of my Bible was We
threw the Bible around and ] went
and got the gun. I was going TO
spank him with it and make him go
home, but didn't. When I pointed It