Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-03-03
NEWS OF THE VICINITY
Digest of News in Iowa County and il the
Neighborhoods Surrounding.
IOWA COUNTY.


IOWA COUNTY.
Granville Bros, of Linden, have
made sale of a car of Jack" and have
delivered same at Edmund.
Williamson Post, q. A. r., OF
Dodgeville, will hold their annual
campfire, March 22d.
Mr.. Stephen Rule, of Linden, has
recently gone to the Black Hills
country. He expects to stay there
if he likes it.
A. l.. Jones, a former Iowa county
boy, has been elected Chancellor
Commander of Minneapolis Lodge
knights of Phythias. Art seems to
be meeting with especial favor in
his new home.
Invitations are out for the we'd
ding Of Miss Della Bartle to Mr.. c.
James, which is to occur at the home
| of the brides parents in GAINESVILLE.
| town Of Dodgeville, on the 9th of
| March.
! Steven Davies, formerly of Dodge
vile, now of Congress, Ariz., left for
the Klondyke gold regions on the
| Goth of last month.
| Mr. George Stevens, well known to
all old settlers of Linden, and a
| former resident of that town, died at
his home in Cleghorn, Iowa, on Fri
day, Feb. Is, 1898, aged about 66 years.
Died, at the home of her son, VIM.
Bennett, in the town of Dodgeville,
Feb. II, 1893, of jaundice, Mrs. Sarah
Bennett, nee Tyrer, aged rs years. s
months and % days.
Miss Mary Baker surprised her
| parents at Linden last week by drop
| ping in on them unannounced from
| California. To make the surprise
doubly strong, she came via Kansas
| City and was accompanied home by
| her grandmother, of that place. Miss
Mary went to California about two
years and "A half ago on account of
| a throat trouble. She returns entire
ly well.
Died, at his home at Tower, Mimi,
Feb. -, 1898, James Messenger, aged
about II years. Deceased was one of
the early settlers of the city of
Dodgeville.
Married, Feb. l4th, '9S, at Moscow,
Edna Kelly. of that place, to VIM.
Theobald, of Big Flats, Adams CO.,
G. :. Holland, j. p. officiating.
Died, in West Superior, Feb. II, '9S,
OF typhoid Iever, Miss Charlotte Ce-
celia Lame, aged - years, months
and rs days. Deceased was the eld-
est daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Rich
ard Lane, Of Dodgeville.
! Died, at Denver, Colo. Feb. Is, 1898,
Mr.. James I'll. Rowe, aged IS years,
months. Deceased was born and
raised in the town of Dodgeyile.
and was the son of the late w. III. ID.
and Mary Rowe, of Dodgeville.
Married, at Rewey, Wednesday,
Feb. %. 1898. by Rev. Mr.. Bloom, of
Cobb, Mr. John Burton and Miss
Maud jenkins, both of Rewey. The
groom ownes farm near Rewey.
The family of Rev. II. Titmarsh, of
Dodgeville, have been quarahtined
for several days on account of their
little daughter, Ruth, being afflicted
with scarlet fever. Rev. Ham, of
Madison is attending to the church
services in the Plymouth Congrega-
tional church, for the pastor,
A dispatch from Cherokee, Iowa,
reports that at Cleghoru, Iowa, Mrs.
Elizabeth Wilcox, formerly of
! Dodgeville, widow of the late James
| Wilcox, Jr., shot and killed her five
| year-old son, Irwin, while suffering
from n temporary fit of insanity.
The unfortunate woman has many
relatives in and about Dodgeville,
brothers and sisters.
Anton Wotapeck. a young man
from Highland. was Officially de-
/ clared insane at Dod2eville last
week, the result of severe attack
/ of typhoid fever several years ago.
/ He was taken to the state insane
asylum at Madison, by the sheriff, in
"A very violent and dangerous eondi.
zion, requiring the efforts of four or
I five men 20 control him.
| Married, Feb. 18th, '9S, ut Blauch-
willie, by Rev. o. Paulson, Walter a.
| Mas, of Verona, Dane Co, to Caro-
i line Stcensand, of Perry, Dane Co,