Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-11-05
NEIGHBORING COUNTY NOTES.
lGlenned from EXCHANGES.

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Mary A. Pedlar died at the home
Of her daughter Mrs. Samuel stevens,
one mile east of the court house in
Lancaster, on Monday, Oct. rs, 1886,
aged 80 years.
Brechler Bros. hardware merchants
at Fennimore have failed. Their in
debtedness is about $4,000 and there
is something like 5000 in sight 70
pay with.
Gustave Meyer, one Of the Oldest
settlers of Grant County, died at
Boscobel last Saturday, of stomach
complication. He was 63 years old.
The ladies minstrel show given
Tuesday night in the City Opera
House at Lancaster WAS one OF the
best entertainments ever given IN the
city. twenty-five prominent ladies
took part.
The little town Of Barnum on the
Kickapoo road in Crawford county,
is sadly afflicted with diphtheria. 4
message to the HERALD today says
there are two young people dead in
the family of Amos Alderman and
deaths in number Of other families.
Schools, churches, the creamery and
all places of business are closed.
Saturday morning hoop pole shop
in Boscobel, belonging to Geo. Hide
brand, was partially destroyed by
fire. III the afternoon of the same
day a house belonging to Mrs. Holm
iii Boscobel was destroyed by fire.
The Galena Democrat says the
miners league of that city is being
pushed rapidly to the front by its
members. Many outside capitalists
and miners are being correspondent
with and the management feels GER
tain that in short time one Of the
most successful miners leagues in
the country Will have been estab-
lished here. The purpose of the
league Is to prove the lead and zine
mines more fully and ut greater
depths than ever before, and search
ing for new discoveries, Another
great object of the miners league is
to induce outside capital to come
and help turn this whole community
into one vast mining camp, and give
employment to all honest laborers.
The fellows who sold sugar to
Grant County farmers last spring
and delivered them salt, were found
guilty in the circuit court ut Lancas-
ter and sentenced to ninety days in
the county jail.
by efforts of Rev. r. j. Leydon of
Apple River, the widow of Herman
Shulz, a section laborer who was
killed on the I. G. II. r., track near
Apple River last summer, has just
received $4,000 from the company
and also funeral expenses.
Sneak thieves have been getting in
their work in different parts of Oar
lington. Cellar doors have been
broken in and canned fruit and
vegetables carried away. The thrift
less loafer who sat in the shade dur
ing the summer months believes in
making his neighbor, who have
"borne the heat and burden Of the
day divide up.
The latest thing in the amusement
line ne Shullsburg, says Tom Law,
is known rs the mum sociahle, for
the benefit of churches. An admis-
sion fee is charged, and after the
ladies and gentlemen are all in, they
must not speak. When all are seated
about the room, the lights are turned
out, and when one of the party
squeals the lights are lit. and she
has to tell what she was squealing
about. II She refuses to tell she Is
fined two shillings, witch is usually
paid BY the euss that sits next to her.
1t is said to be better than a succo-
fash festival.