Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-09-22

Elgin, West Chicago and Chicago to
add, after calling the name of the
station. don't forget your parcels and
umbrellas"
Twelve probationary members were
received into the Belmont NJ. r..
church Sunday, the 18th.
Col Charles Mappes advertises his
St. Charles hotel, at Belmont,for sale.
A new band has neen organized at
PlatteviIle with IS members all un-
der II years old, the youngest 10.
The Darlington high school foot
ball team have organized for the sea-
stason, and is ready for contest with
any high school team in the country
Fred Sass, who has been a visitor
at Platteville, was summoned home
to Chicago on account of the drown
ing of his brother, Louis Sass.
A union meeting Of the Methodist
Primitive Methodist and Congrega-
tional churches was held in the NJ.
f.. church at Platteville Sunday eve.
ming in the interest Of the Anti-Sa-
loon League, a non-partisan, non
sectarian temperance organization.
Prof. Albert Harvey, Of the Platte
willie Normal, has been appointed by
State superintendent Emery as one
the members of the state board OF
examiners for teachers and county
uperintendents.
Mrs. Mary Wayne died at her home
in Plattevile on the 18th, aged 10.
Alfred Patterson, Of Platteville, is
billed to speak at the picnic of the
Southwestern Wis. x. p. Association,
of which he is president, at Dodge
willie on the 3Oth inst.
Bert and Mabel Johnson, students
in the Plattevile Normal, were sum
moned home to Moutfort last week
to attend the funeral of IA brother who
was ii soldier and died at Montauk
Point, l.. /.
A pupil in the Platteville Normal
was asked, what are the four princi-
pal islands of the West Indies" and
replied, Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica
and Hades.n She was marked 10 by
the teacher.
Several of the party of gold hunt
ers who went to the Klondyke from
Grant county last spring are on their
way home, poorer but wiser men. 1t
is said that others would come but
cannot.
4 Grant county farmer found u val
liable calf dead in his pasture, shot
through the eyes. other farmers
complain of stock being injured, pre-
sumably by careless or vicious hunt
ers.
VIM. HolZcr, arrested for the kill
ing OF his neighbor John Fauk, in
the Bad Lands" west of Rewey. in
Grant county has confessed to the
crime. His defence is that Fank in
| suited his wife on different occasions,
annoyed him in various ways, and, he
| believes, set fire To some cordwood of
| his. The murder was committed by
shooting the victim in the back with
a shot gun and afterwards firing Il
| bullet into his head with pistol
Holzer is in jail to await trial by the
circuit court.
The Lancaster electric light plant
! has a new l0-horse-power engine, the
one it had not being powerful enough
to do the work
The First assembly district repub-
| lican convention of Grant county
will meet in Fennimore Sept. 2Sth.
John Fiddick, for many years a
leading merchant at Galena, H., has
leased the Swift building in Darling
ton, and opened there large dry
goods store.
Danvers Netf, formerly of Gala
/ mine, but for the last eighteen years
a resident of Syracuse, Neb., died at
the latter place Tuesday, the 18th
after long illness.
Lafayette county republican con-
ventiou will be held Friday, the 23d
There are many candidates. among
/ them Paul Noble, who wants to be
sheriff, and IL c. Martin who aspires
TO the state senatorship, Many here
would be pleased to see them both
succeed. Indications are that Mar
tin will have the support of his own
county, and il being understood that
. Green county Will coucede the nom
nation to Lafayette this year, Har.
ry', chance of wearing the senatorial
toga seems 20 be good.