Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-10-27

was eighty-five years of age.
The body of Leo Stober arrived in
Darlington Monday eve, the 18th
from Atlanta, Georgia. Leo was a
volunteer soldier stationed at At
lanta when he died. His parents
live in Elk Grove.
Frank Cabanis and the Clark Bros
of Big Patch have struck mineral in
large paying quantities. The pros
pect is very good.
There was "A meeting Of the repub-
licans Of Platteville, on Friday even
ing last for the purpose Of rganiz-
ing the republican club and making
other arrangements for the cam
paign.
At Bloomington Joseph Brookens
is this month picking green peas
from the vines. 1t is a second crop
of Canadian field peas.
Indications are that there is about
to be "A revival in traffic on the Miss
issippi river. A number OF light
draft, steel-hull steamboats, are being
built at Dubuque and other points on
the river and the steamboat seems to
be coming back again.
Twenty five dollars and costs or &C
days in the county Jail was the sen
tence imposed last week on August
Pust and Edward Capredts of Du-
buque for violating the laws of Wis
consin IN SEEMING for fish.
EX-Judge Carter of Grant county
has been allowed an increase Of PEN
sion from $40 to f72 per month Mr.
Carter is AN inmate of the asylum at
Mendoza.
Another community Of farmers in
North Lancaster warn hunters to
keep off their premises. Last week
one of these trespasser5 shot a horse
in their vicinity belonging to Robert
Godfrey.
James G. Monahan opened the re-
publican campaign at Kenosha last
week. During the next two weeks
he will preach the gospel of republi-
canism in many of the large cities OF
the state.
The prohibition party have nom
mated ticket in Lafayette county.
Richland county is becoming, ia
nous as an apple producing region
Several thousand barrels Of fine fruit
have been purchased there this fall
by Chicago dealers who pay from z
to 10 cents per bu. according to quail
ity.
some evil disposed or haIf-witted
person has scratched the large plate
glass window of the Shullsburg post
office with "A diamond or other hard
pointed substance, badly disfguring
the window.
DIR w. II. Diellenbacher, was taken
seriously i'll at ShuIlsburg last Sat.
urday with pertonitis, his condition
being such that his wife was tele-
graphed for. But little hope of his
recovery Is entertained.
Robert samson died at the home
Of his daughter, Mrs. Henry Wurm
near Shulsburg ON the 18th. He
was native of Lincolnshire Eng.
aud came to America in 1852.
The steel cages are being placed
in the new jail at Darlington.
The Warren Sentinel says that
their football team claims that they
were roughly treated while Mt Oar
llngton, and the Darlington Demo-
crat suggests that the Warren boys
must have gone home via Gratiot.
If so it is not at all unlikely that
next day their hair was pulling
and their heads sore.
The Darlington Democrat was
buncoed last week by its ready print
After the paper was
printed and distributed among the
IT was discovered that its
inside pages We're loaded with red
hot republican matter.
\ mania for poisoning dogs seems
to have struck Platteville. John
Fawcett and Fon Moore recently lost
two valuable canine from poisoning.
Reichors Bros during the past two
weeks have shipped into Belmont
over $500 sheep. The last lot of Ga
was exceptionally fine. Last year
this firm brought in 1900 head, which
were disposed Of to the farmers of
that vicinity