Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-05-27
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NEIGHBORING COUNTY NOTES.
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a false alarm OF .fire at belmont
is said TO have showed that the local
fire company j. utterly unable to
cope with even a small fire.
The Belmont and Kendall Mining
Co. is actively engaged few miles
east Of Calamine, with fine pros
pect in view. About 300 pounds of
fine galena have been taken out of
drift, and shaft is now being sunk.
An attempt was made to wreck a
train near Belmont last Friday eve
ming by an iron rail placed across
the track. The front wheels Of the
engine struck the obstruction and
pushed it about 800 feet along the
track before the train could be stop
ped. No motive for the attempted
wreck is known and no one is sus-
piconed, but railroad officials will
attempt to discover the culprit.
The people Of Darlington want the
county board called together in spec
ial session for the purpose Of taking
action on the subject of building a
new Jail.
Squire Clary, of Darlington. says
that there has been frost between the
18th aud Goth Of May every year for
the past 10 years in this locality
A stranger was killed by the cars
ON. ,layy Lat Nyaaly "a hnut half ,x,nx, ha
tween Gratiot and South Wayne.
The Milwaukee Railroad company
are laying steel rails and new ties
between Shullsburg and Dunbarton
and have already distributed over
two miles OF rails. They expect to
have complete new track by the
first of July.
Three game wardens with bulldogs
are looking for the Warren toughs
that steal into Wisconsin in the Silly
night and steal our game fish with
the aid of dipnets and senes.
! Eugene Hazlitt's barn, one mile
south of Darlington, was burned to
/ the ground saturday night together
with hay and straw stacks near by,
new set of harness and some tools.
1 Mrs Hazlitt discovered the fire, and
ran to the stable with butcher
/ Knife, cutting the horses halter, thus
saving the animal from cremation.
No Insurance.
Platteville NJ, II. Camp Meeting
viii be held this year from Aug Il
to - inclusive, Rev. DR.. Rauton. of
Michigan, will be the Evangelist.
I Fennimore is to have a cornet band
again. The younger element in the
village have taken hold of the mat
ter and promise a "sure GO
The narrow guage railroad at Fen
lnlmnre seems to be hauling empty
I passenger trains most of the time.
The cause is found in the radical
change in the st. Paul time table, by
which the connections heretofore
made are wholly done away with.
Within one week Freeport has had
I three cases Of suicide, all the victims
of self destruction being members of
the Knights of the Globe. That
lodge now comes forth with the as
sertion that suicides are becoming
entirely too frequent, and insurance
claims may not be met.
Henry Ooley, of Lafayette county,
who had one of his legs amputated
near the hip joint some three weeks
ago, is rapidly improving,
Mr.. Martin Henry, of Fayette, who
was arrested for adultery and plead
guilty before VIM. Hooper, and made
the preliminary arrangements to go
before the county judge and receive
his sentence, changed his mind plead
not guilty, and will stand trial At
present he is out on bail. Some OF
the leading citizens of Fayette be-
lieve that it would be wrong to send
him to states prison, and intimate
that he is being made a Scapegoat
for the sins of Others.
Wednesday afternoon huge rat
tie snake, which had evidently been
killed by the noon passenger train.
was found on the railroad track near
/ Darlington. Enough rattles were
/ picked up along the track to prove it
to be one of the largest Of that kind.