Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-11-11
NEIGHBORING COUNTY NOTES
tGleaned from Exchanges


Married, on Tuesday, Nov. I'd. lso
At the M. f. parsonage, Mr. John
Sleep, of Willow Springs, to Miss
Bertha M. Burris, of Fayette. Rev
George Merrifield officiating Tn
young couple enter upon their wed.
ded life with the best wishes of manv
friends.
Last Thursday evening, while Mr.
George w. Russell and family wers
seated in their sitting room, near
Dunbarton, some unknown Villains
drove up to the front gate of tho
yard and fired shotgun at the glass
front door.
Julius Laurent, an insane patient
escaped from the asylum at DUBUQUE
the other day. He was recaptured
and when found was eating grass an
which he had subsisted during tbe
several days.
A Monroe jew has been sued bva
pretty maiden of his own faith for
ten thousand dollars damages for
breach Of promise of marriage. Its
safe two to one bet that he will
compromise by marrying the girl.
A young man returning home
from Brodhead recently was halted
by would-be footpads, but he urged
his team forward and the fellows
both shot at him, one ball passing
through his hat and the other
through his coat collar.
Wednesday is the publication day
for the Boscobel Dial Enterprise.
There have been only two Wednes-
days on the 18th of the month thi.
year, one of them was January 18th.
when the gasoline engine in the Dial
Enterprise office exploded the other
was October 18th, and on that day
their press was so badly disabled
that paper could not be issued until
the following day. The printers in
Boscobel think the unlucky number,
thirteen, is the cause of all their
| trouble.
The Darlington Journal states that
sin the list of lucky klondyke min
ers published in the Seattle Post IN
| telligencer of Oct. IL, is the name Of
Dick Law, credited with 100000 in
gold. Dick formerly lived in ShuIls-
burg
Miss Sina Jones, of Halle Green,
recently received a fine diamond
ring as a reward for the solution of a
puzzle published by the New York
Tribune. Miss Jones has been EN-
ployed as a teacher at Halle Green
| the past two years.
A young child of Mr.. and Mrs. Her
| bert Orion, residing north of Platte
| vile, was so severely scalded recent
| ly that its recovery was for time
doubtful, and even now it may lose
| the use of one arm, as the flesh of
that limb was so thoroughly cooked
that patches fell from the bone.
John Mains, a veteran of the 7th
| Wisconsin regiment, aged 81 years, IS
now lying in precarious condition
from self-inficted wounds at Nogel-
burg's hotel in Potosi.
Ed. G. Day, of Potosi, (recently ac-
| Quilted of the charge of numbering
his brother,) and Geo. Bradley were
arrested by under-sheritf Jim Nc
Gomgal Monday afternoon of last
| week on the Paul Humphrey farm in
Patch Grove and lodged in the county
| Jail at Lancaster to answer to the
charge of robbing prosperous
| farmer at Bloomington.
Postmaster Alex. Kirkwood of FL
dorado, Wis, committed suicide
Monday of last week by drinking
carbolic acid. He was forty-five
years old and leaves IA widow and
two small children.
A clerk in II. II. Chambers store
at Richland Center, dropped bag
containing about $25 in paper money
and some silver into the waste paper
basket for safe keeping (money that
was taken in after banking hours re-
Gently. Next morning he emptled
the contents of the basket into the
street and touched a lighted match
to it. Before he thought OF the
money it was so badly burned that
only sufficient pieces were left to IN
sure redemption of the bills by IN
Gle Sam.