Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-06-01
BADGER BRIEFS.

The GAINESVILLE Y. M. C. A. band of
twenty-three pieces left for Grand
Rapids, Mich, where they will furnish
music for the international confer
ence of Y. M. c. A. secretaries.
Charles Ryan and Louis Hansen,
arrested at Elk Mound and charged
with assault with intent to rob Con-
ductor NJ. NJ. Riggs Of the Omaha rail-
way, pleaded guilty and were each
sentenced to state prison for year.
The Kewaunee board Of supervi-
sors has decided to build new poor
house, to cost from $4,000 to $4,000.
The Manitowoc county board elected
Arthur lander county clerk to fill the
term of Fred Maresch, who committed
suicide.
At Berlin William Worth, cattle
buyer, had pocket-book, containing
notes and greenbacks, chewed up by
hogs near Chicago He accidentally
dropped the pocketbook in the car
while feeding his stock. He will send
the pieces to Washington.
Rosie Wiesung, the girl who disap-
peared from Kenosha, has been found.
She has written letter from Chicago
to her mother in which she says that
she had left home with the Italian
Sam Rose, and had gone to Racine,
where they were married. She is
anxious to be forgiven and to come
back.
DR.. D. w. Day of Eau Claire, has re-
turned from Chicago where he con-
suited Dr. Murphy, originator of the
Murphy button used in appendicitis
operations. AS a result, DR.. Day de-
cided to undergo the operation for
appendicitis. He left for St Paul
where the operation will be per-
formed.
Sheboygan is either without board
of public works or else 1t has two such
bodies. The old board refuses to hand
over the keys and records of the office
to the new body as advised at the last
meeting of the council. Notwithstand-
ing that at the last municipal election
the voters elected the old board out OF
office, the members seem bound to re-
main.
Mrs. Hugh M. Elliott has begun suit
against the Chippewa Valley Electric
road for $4,000. Her husband, ex-
Alderman Elliott has also begun an
action for $4,000 for the loss OF the
services of his wife. On Feb. II, Mrs.
Elliott was a passenger with eight or
ten others in trolley car when it was
run down by a yard engine. She lost
an arm.
The Chippewa county board rejected
the offer of James l.. Gates OF Milwau-
kee to purchase the county lands, 40
900 acres. Mr.. Gates made three
propositions, the first being to pur-
chase the lands for SIG forty cash.
His second was to build railroad
through the county to connect with hiS
proposed Milwaukee & Lake Superio:
| road, if the supervisors would donate
the lands. He also offered to take al
of the tax certificates held by the coun-
ty at face value. The board without
a dissenting vote rejected each and all
of the propositions and placed valua-
ton OF 81 an acre on the lands.
At Appleton County Clerk Montgom-
cry has issued a license for the mar
riage OF Alexander Schenandore, full
blooded Oneida Indian, and Miss Ma
! BILE Bennett, white girl who has been
| for the past two years a teacher at tLe
government school on the reservation
| Schenandore is young Indian who
has been educated at Carlisle, Pa, and
| has acquired considerable property on
| the reservation, including good housf
| and some stock. Miss Bennett is All
attractive girl, and the match is APP
proved by her mother, who is her sole
| uryiving relative. The bride came
| TO Wisconsin from South Dakota
where she had had previous experience
! in Indian school work.