Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-06-04
WISCONSIN MEMS.
TelrEyAmS from Many Quarters RedHd
lNpwu lor husy Readers,

Harry \ NltCh,Cck, 4cWisI ~ Wy
Lake. aud Miss Annie Lindsay AeFe
m&&ried Al the home OF the erlde'& ,Hr~
euts IN BerIim
John " Williams and Miss Anna +.
Davies both OF milwaukee,, Nere
married near rlarnhcld
4 small insect that Was preNlnS ON
the apple crop A Palmyra was '9m
pletely destroyed 10y last week mSA
Miuds. - tMat the %,oWelS SAY ne
prospects are Soot Tor an AhondaM
harvest Winter wheat aud wye ave-
bcSunluE TO ppen, promising to he
le&iN tot yutttnE by the 18th, nearly
month EARLIER than usual,
bids for the construction OF the n@W
Methodist church were opened ut M"r'r
ncttc The bid oI w H. Caodru" "t
Alhany Mis-. $4,000. was the loves.
\ womans branch OF the Catholic
Order of FoyestrrS viii ho toumed NJ
Green Ray. II vii! be the Htth lod&"
OF thi, ordrr N the state.
l.. I, Monkey. one Of the leading
druggists and a former alderman OF
Hudson. IS Ne.y dangerously i'll an I
grave fears are entertained shat he
cannot recover.
\ little son Of William Riddle OF OF
tawa is dangerously i'll from arscnteal
poisoning take from preparation his
mother had left around to poison in
SeCtS
Willie Marllow. aged II years and
his uncle, who bears the same NAME
and who is but on, year his senior ran
away from their hcmc In Marinette and
were picked up on the streets in Green
Bay They were sent back,
Joseph Ritter, 20 years old, doing Il
job printing business in Chippewa
Falls, was arrested by PoStoiiice In.
Spect0r Walter :. Meyer, on the chark"
of raising seventeen postal notes to 80
cents each Ritter's scheme was n
very simple am, Vet successful one.
During the wear 1894 Ritter made n
practice Of purchasing notes for cents,
$1.09 and 500 each and then, by sim
ply writing the figure min, in place OF
the cipn"r mad" them good for 90 GEMS
more each He was obliged to punch
the nine Ell the margin, hut it was very
successfully done by comElon punch
Mr. Ritter confessed to the charge say
ing he took thet means OF raising
money to start hun in business
N. ]. BARKER u resident of Wisconsin
since 1852, dice IN Plainheld. aged -
years
Alon2o White, a prominent con
tractor and hrilder of Kcnosha died
aged so. He ad been n resident of
kenosha for sixty years
\ peculiar mite of an insect is play
ing havoc with strawberry beds about
Trempealeau II proves tn BE- the pest
thar was frs discovered in Texas last
fall, and millions of them are now
spreading all over the country The
little mites gather ON the strawberry
blossom and dpvour IT. Hundreds of
acres of strawberries are thus ruined,
and greatly depleted crop viii be the
consequence
Mrs. Walter Hin Of Palmyra fell
down a stairway and received severe
injuries
A child Of Robert TOrke of Shcboy
gan was found dead In bed from con
WILSON'S.
The summer meeting Of the State
Horticultural society viii be held in
Wanpaca in June
The postonice AT Mcnekaune, Mar.
nctte county was hurglarized The
burglars secured $l2 in stamps and 30
cents In cash. There was 5000 in the
safe
Thomas Kennedy, alias Thomas Sui
Ivan, was held for trial ~ Superior on
the charge Of burglari2ing a warehouse
last August and robbinR II Of $500
worth Of goods,