Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-05-07
NEIGHBORING COUNTY NOTES.
CLEANED from Exchanges.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.


Theodore Kepperd, of Lone Rock,
has been adjudged insane and taken
to Mendoza hospital, at Madison.
| The Sons of Veterans and the
members OF the Blanchardville Cor
net Band are getting up a 18th of
May celebration.
Last Friday afternoon Robert
Webb, a retired farmer at Richland
Center, went into his barn and cut
his throat from ear to ear with a
butcher knife.
Robert Ward, of Darlington, while
experimenting in testing his strength
against that of horse last Sunday.
received injuries from which he
came very nearly dying Sunday
night Mr.. VIM. Morris, our infor-
mant, says he is better at this writ
ing.
The Benton Times was taken pos
session Of by Constable Gallagan last
week, upon a ehattle mortgage in
favor of Barnhart Bros. & Spindler.
Of Chicago. We are informed that
James Hoskin has purchased the
mortgage and that son of John w.
Coltman will continue the bushes.
The Dubuque construction COM
pany have man who understands
the business engaged in repairing
the botch work made by their orig
nal overseer of the Belmont water
works.
The w. r. c., of Darlington, rea-
lied between $50 and $40 from the
burlC sque Black Patti show, which is
better than they expected, although
they earned all they made and more
too God bless the women they
work harder for nothing than hired
men will work for big wages, when
charity or sentiment is at stake.
Two men who sat up with Mr..
Kerr's sickchild ut Hurricane, Grant
Co, Monday night, received very
severe electric shock Tuesday morn
ing as they started home in the
storm.
Nonat Wathtel and his two little
children, aged ! and l3years, walked
from Muscoda to the Grant County
Asylum, fully 30 miles, last Friday
to see his wife who is an inmate Of
the institution.
The Boseobel Enterprise says a
vein Of silver has been discovered
near Blue River. OF course there is
considerable excitement.
Two young ladies, Edna Varney
and Emma Cunningham, aged Is
and II years, jumped into Pitt lake at
| townsville, Wis, and locked in each
others embrace Were drowned. The
girls had been led into fast company
and the disgrace Of it drove them TO
suicide.
Geo. Ellington, a well driller while
at work on the farm Of Henry Ellis
near Berlin, had his coat sleeve
caught in the machinery and his arm
drawn in SO that he could not eXtri-
cate it. He then picked up knife
that lay at hand and cut off his arm
leaving his hand and part of the
forearm in the gearing.
While Ole Landague, of the town
of Redwood, Richland county, was
blowing over the top of a cistern a
few days ago his team broke through
and fell in. Tie cistern was ten feet
deep and fourteen feet square, and
the water about four feet deep. One
of the horses was gotten out alive, by
tunneling into the side Of the cistern
The other had its back broken by
the fall.
Ray Huntington, the youthful ed
itor Of tile Grant County News, has
retired from the News sanetum and
its occupancy will pass into other
hands. Possibly the financial oppres-
sion of the times, democratic has
been an important factor in bringing
about the change. We learn the
News will still continue to live but
under new Inspiration and manage
ment.