Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-07-28
NEfGHBoRING COUNTIES.

was raking hay recently, the tongue
on the rake broke, the team gave a
jerk, broke the dOuble-trees and ran
until one of them dropped dead.
The dead horse was valuable ami
NAL.
The pretty little natural park, a
mile and half west Of Richland
| Center, has been named Cavite lpro-
nounced Kah-vee-tah J Park. 1t is
becoming a popular resort for pic
nickers and bicycIists
The Viroqua city council did two
commendablr acts at a recent SEES
sion-apnropriated $50 for purchase
Of library books, and gave encourage
mont to the new band by voting it
So per month 50 long as it keeps up
inactive existence and a member
ship Of not less than twelve.
An effort is being made to get
game of ball at Platteville between
! the Page Fence Giants and Chicago
| Unions, the two best colored mines
in the world. If they come together
there it will be heavy expense to
the enterprising young gentlemen
who stand the guarantee, and the
game ought to be well attended.
The members Of the Richland Cen
ter military company are drilling
three times Il week, Tuesday, Wed.
nesday and Friday evenings, on the
| High School campus, Under the di-
rection of Rev. j. w. Francis. They
are improyingrapidly in the required
movements. The largest number
that has yet reported for drill on any
one EVENINGS y, This isn't quart
or of the desired number needed to
recruit the company to its maximum
strength. 50 more are desired.
j. A. Vaughn, an Illinois Central
brakeman was killed one mile east
Of Scales Mound on Tuesday of last
week. He was a brakeman on the
way freight which goes west from
Warren usually about noon. At
Scales Mound several carloads of
gravel had to be switched and
Vaughn was sent down the track to
| flag and stop the t-bOumd alter
noon passenger. lie put torpedoes
on the track and then, it is supposed,
he must have sat down on the rail
| aud fallen asleep. At any rate the
! passenger train struck him in the
| forehead and his life was crushed
out before the train could bestopped.
| The remains were put into the bag
gage ear and carried to Galena, where
the deceased lived. He was 10 years
| old and unmarried.
An accident, most unusual and Pc
culiar in its horror, occurred on the
farm of Isaac Bradley, a few miles
! east of Sun Prairie, early Tuesday
forenoon Of last week. Bradley was
at work in field of oats with a
binder His little girl, aged two-and-
a-half years was with him, but was
ordered back to the house. Instead
of going it is believed she fell asleep
in the grain. The father dismissed
her from his mind till he felt jolt
as If his binder had passed over a
bundle and looking back saw the
form Of his child kicking in the
stubble behind the machine. 1t was
minus the head, which had been
severed by the sickle and then crush
ed by the hullwheel of the binder.
The father became almost insane at
the CHASTITY spectacle and his shouts
of grief and despair were heard over
mile II is believed that the child
woke up as the binder approached
and sat up just enough to be caught
between the guards in the manner
indicated. 1t appears that the head
was thrown on the canvas platform
by the reel and then fell under the
wheel The child was the youngest
of -four children.
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