Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-02-18

a tract Of rough land lying near Ed
/ Geogia, about midway between At
| lana and Birmingham, with the in
4 tention Of searching for iron and coal.
/ Men were set to work. and while they
did not find that for which they
sought in paying quantities, they
/ struck something which gives prom
ise Of being much richer. A vein four
feet wide has been opened up, aud
from specimens sent north, mining
/ experts say II viii yield 500 Of gold
! to every ton Of quartz. A specimen
was sent to Colorado and word came
back that the prospect was worth
half u million dollars. On Tuesday
OF this week the Interested parties
are going south.
The Darlington Power Company
Will wire churches at cost Of material.
The boys donating the time, and cur
rent will be furnished in both church
and parsonage at % per cent below
the regular prices.
An accident occurred TO the Illinois
Central passenger train near Nora
last Wednesday, caused by defect
ia the locomotive. The cab was de-
molished, the fireman and engineer
hurt, and passenger named Crock
EFT severely bruised on the head and
breast.
The new Catholic church at Hol-
landale. Wis, will be dedicated on
Tuesday, Feb. BIRD, al 10 o'clock A. NJ.
solemn high mass will be celebrated.
The GRAFTON will be delivered by
Father DeFour of Freeport, Ill.
Additional electric lights have been
put into the ceiling of the masonic
halla Platteville, making it the most
brilliantly lighted room in the city.
The republican county convention
Of Grant county win consist of 100
delegates, and 90 votes viii be neces-
sary to nominate candidate for
county judge.
Joseph Horsfall, of Melville, Grant
county, died January %, aged so.
/ c. Smoker, of P!attevile, is laid
up from the effects Of TWO wounds
received while a soldier in the fa-
nous Iron Brigade He is a brother
of J. p. Smoker, OF Dodgeville.
The Lilly Turner, a steamboat well
known to persons familiar with the
Mississippiriver traffic, is condemned
on account Of old age, and is to be
wrecked.
Lawrence University, of Appleton,
has conferred the degree of LID. on
Prof. Duncan McGregor, of Platte
Vile.
w. p. Richardson, of Lancaster, has
colt Of the Clydesdale breed that
weighed exactly 800 pounds on the
day it was nine months old.
The tax collector of Lancaster has
his Office in an undertaker's estab-
| lishment. That is combination sug-
gestive of the two surest things of
earth--death and taxes.
The post Office at Boscobel was bur-
glarized Wednesday night of. last
week. About six dollars was stolen.
Two attempts TO blow open the safe
with dynamite failed.
Hon. J. II. Cabanis, of Platteville,
is an applicant for appointment as
member of the State Board of Con-
troll. He would make a good one.
Monroe bakers are waging Il fierce
war of prices. The first cut made
was when one baker advertised three
loayes for cents or eight loaves for
a quarter. His competitors followed
suit Then came another cut, and
now you can buy twenty loaves for
30 cents, and one of the belligerents
vows that bread will sell for cent a
loaf before the white flag is hoisted.
Grover Newman, of Lancaster, ac-
cidcntally shot himself through the
foot with a b calibre revolver one
day last week.