Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-10-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS, OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.
NEIGHBoRING COUNTY NOTES.
tGleaned from Exchanges.

s.assr..-r-.rs.x.-x- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS;
The Platteville Normal football
eleven will meet the Whitewater
eleven at Whitewater on Oct. 3lst.
The Warren Seminal says that off
piece OF land less than twenty acres
Mr.. Jesse q. Kane has this year
raised about 1000 bushels of potatoes.
The new school house being built
for the primary departments in
Platteville is rapidly approaching
completion.
While in Fargo, n. Max, recently
the editor of the Platteyille Witness
had the pleasure of meeting Jas. G.
Monahan, editor Of the Darlington
Republican, VINO was in that state on
a stumping tour. Jim is one of the
best speakers on the stump, and is
doing valiant work for the good
cause.
The suit brought by r. 6. Hunting
ton, Of Platteville, against l.. &. Nc
Kenney, to recover $1,000 paid on the
Platteville News at the time Of its
purchase, on the ground that he was
minor when the contract was made,
was tried in the circuit court last
week and resulted in favor of the
defendant. 1t was shown in the
trial that the contract was ratified
by the purchaser by a payment after
lie became of age.
A series of union evangelistfc
meetings will be held in Platteville,
Nov. .. Evangelist Ostrum and his
singer, Mr.. Hills, have been engaged
to conduct the meetings.
A carload of chickens was shipped
from Platteville last Wednesday 30
Chicago.
Cassville has an artesian well with
a heavy flow of pure water that
raises to a height Of eighteen feet
above the surface. The well is six
inch bore l,l0o feet deep.
An attempt WIS made last week to
| break jail at Lancaster. Rockholm
and King sawed their way into the
corridor and dug a hole of con-
siderable size in the west wall OF the
jail, but were discovered before they
got out.
Jack Webb, who shot at J. w
Shiffman. and killed little Lille
BIindert at Bridish Hollow, last
spring, plead guilty to manslaughter
in the second degree, and was SEN
fenced to fourteen years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Arrangements are being made for
a course of lectures to be given at
Shullsburg the coming winter.
A carload Of poultry was shipped
from Shullsburg last Tuesday after
noon.
G. ID. Blanchard Of Marion, sold Il
hogs to Brunson q Storrs of Fenni.
more, average weight 437 pounds, fol
$500 per hundred.
==Business in Shullsburg seems to be
picking up little. Last Saturday
our merchants We're quite busy and
the streets showed quite u lively APP
pearance, which was in agreeable
contrast with the dizziness which has
prevailed for some time past.
A careful poll of the voters of Oar
lington shows republican majority
Of something less than 100. The dem
ocratic poll gives dem. majority
John Farmer, Of Darlington, is an
expert fisherman. Wednesday he
went down the Pecatonica river and
caught bushel Of black bass, pike
carp and sunfish. One bass weighed
3 pounds and another 4 pounds
probably the biggest bass ever caught
in the river.
Last Thursday afternoon the 10Th
two strangers entered Chris. Bauer's
saloon in Galena, murderously shot
down Joseph Bauer the aged father
of the proprietor, then robbed the
cash drawer of SO and made THEN
escape. The victim of the murder
Gus assault, is alive and will probably
recover unless blood poisoning
ensues.
BEFORE purchasing carriage
buggy or roadwagon, it will pay you
to write to Fitzgibbons Bros, Mon,
roe, Wis, for 1896 catalogue and
Wholesale prices, as they have nc
agents. lift.