Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21
WISCONSIN NEWS.
Interesting Budget of Matter From
Many Places.

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The Superior Forum has raised the
name of Isaac Stephenson of Marin
cite as a candidate for United States
senator to succeed John l.. Mitchell.
Five barns with stock and contents
| and one dwelling were burned at Mon
roe. The dwelling was owned and
occupied by John Howe, and the barns
were owned by j.. H. burst, John
Howe, Matt. Elmer, Samuel Cother-
man and Marble Green.
The state medical board adjourned
at Oshkosh after issuing forty licenses
and examining four applicants. The
next meeting will be held the second
Tuesday in January in Milwaukee.
All physicians who came before the
board began practice since July l last.
Parties have been in Stevens Point
interesting business men and alder
men in a new railroad it is proposed
to build from Oshkosh TO Stevens
Point via Omro, Lake Poygan and
Waushara county. They say they
are backed by plenty of capital.
Judge Webb has granted permits
sion to Receiver PGiffner Of the Com
mercial bank at Stevens Point to
make a further disbursement of $9,375
among the creditors. The bank failed
in April, 1895. Thus far dividends
amounting to 45 per cent of the
claims have been allowed,
An extra freight On the Wiconsin
! Central road was wrecked two miles
north of Theresa. As the engine was
going down a grade, a coupling broke
and the train parted. When the o.
gineer began to slow down, the rear
end crashed into the cars attached to
the engine and ten cars were thrown
from the track.
! A deal by which the board of nor
NAL school regents acquired five and
one-half acres Of land adjoining the
normal school campus at Stevens
Point from N. ~Boyington, was com
pleted. The price was $4,000. Part
of the new tract will be fitted up for
athletics and the remainder will be
converted into a park.
The Wisconsin Telephone company
when the northwestern company es
tablished an exchange at Oshkosh, re-
duced rates to $24 a year for business
places and s12 a year for residences
Now notices have been issued that
on Jan, l, rates will be advanced to
$50 and s1S respectively, the same as
those of the Northwestern company,
which is backed by local capital.
Mrs. Elsie f. Weisbrod. who was
buried at Oshkosh, was 70 years OF
age, Mr., Weisbrod died in 1876.
Mrs. Weisbrod is survived by two
daughters, Mrs. B. l.. Edgarton and
Miss Anna Weisbrod, and a son, c. j.
Weisbrod, all of Oshkosh. She was
also the mother of the late A. W.
Weisbred and the late "Chubb" Weis-
brod The former was a brilliant
young lawyer who died a few years
ago. The later was graduated from
the state law school before his death
Sunday. Sept. ., Edward A. Gard
ner, a Fond du Lac architect, left on
his wheel for Hartford, taking build
ing plans with him and expecting to
be gone only a day or two. Tuesday
Mr.. Johnson, his partner, received a
letter dated at Iron Ridge on Monday
and postmarked at Hartford on Tues
day saying that business would detain
him in that city longer than he had
anticipated, Nothing has been heard
from Mr.. Gardner since. Gardner
came 10 Fond du Lac four years ago.
The tools left at his boarding house
are valued at $500.
\ meeting Of the La Crosse Beard
OF Trade TO take action towards or
ganiziug a company for mahufacturir &
The Brown binder was held. This is a
machine patented by Viroqua parties
and is said 10 have some radical points
Of difference from any harvesting
machine now in use. The most no.
ticeable one is that the cut grain is
not elevated to the binder but passes
through the big wheel which offers a
clear space above the center. II sat
isfactory work is done by the machine
capital will be paid in for a large fac
tory. J.. b. Canterbury has offered
20 donate five acres for a site.
The jury in the case of Mary Scha'd-
Ter against the Chicago 4 Northwest
ern road. which has occupied the