Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-12-03
N EW s OF
WISCONSIN

MadlSOn.-Dr. CndfleS A. Harper,
secretary of the Wisconsin state board
of health has received notice from
he federal census bureau that Wis
consin has been admitted as regis
tration" state This means that the
mortality and morbidity statistics col
lected under the law passed at the
last session Of the legislature will be
published by the government bureau.
During the month of October an ex-
pert from the bureau of labor statis-
tics investigated the system used and
recommended that Wisconsin be ac-
cepted as a registration state. The
census bureau has already employed
clerks to make transcripts of all GER
,ificates received for the year 1908.
Madison. The Douglas County Tel
ephone Company in an action against
the city Of Superior filed its answer
denying the allegations and ask
ing for the dismissal of the suit.
The railway commission ordered the
company to cease supplying telephone
service to the city of Superior officials
free. The city had granted fran
chise among the conditions OF which
was an obligation on the part of the
company to furnish to the city offices
free service. The city makes the com
plant that the franchise constitutes
valid contract, the obligations of
which will impair the enforcement Of
the law
Madison.--The supreme court in
affirming the decision of the lower
court in the case OF Jacob Dorner
and others against school district
No. Of Brown county, decided that a
school district has the right to rent a
Roman Catholic school building for
public school purposes and employ
Catholic nuns to conduct the school,
but the methods Of conducting the
school must be non-religious and ac-
cording to ordinary methods followed
by other public school districts in the
state.
Waukesha The barking of his
faithful dog saved Chris Nelson from
meeting death in a cave-in. While
working alone in a gravel pit at the
farm Of f. lIilger near Caldwell, Mel
son was caught in a cavern of dirt
and gravel and almost entirely buried,
only a portion of his head protruding.
His dog discovered something wrong
and parked Justify attracting the II
teution Of neighbors who came and
dug Nelson out
Friendship its session the coun-
ty board will pass upon the petition of
Burns & Co. of Chicago, who ask for
a 100000 bond issue TO aid in the
building Of a railroad from Kilbourn
to Grand Rapids By way of this vii
lage If this road is built, and there
is every prospect that the present pro-
meters mean business, II will be the
first railroad IN Adams county.
Delavan The American Industrial
Journal, published at the Wisconsin
School for the Deaf and the only
monthly magazine OF its kind in the
world takes a strong stand in its last
issue against the plan that the super.
intendent of schools for the deaf
should institute a kind of sorting
process among his pupils to learn the
trade he is best adapted
Racne-Mrs J. H. Spencer, wife
OF prominent hotel and horseman,
sustained serious injuries and came
near being killed by being run down
by car Rev. w c. Blossom of St
Lukes church. who was on the car
seeing the woman's danger, leaped off
and pulled her from the track, thus
saving her from being mangled and
perhaps killed
Thorpe. Edward Phillips, charged
with having killed Ole Johanson at
Tomahawk Junction on May last,
and who escaped from b. J. Bartelmo,
sheriff of Lincoln county, on May at
Heaflord Junction, was killed at Goth
enburg, Neb He was known as T., j.
Adams His remains arrived here for
interment
Neenah.-A suit for $4,000 damages
In which sensational testimony Is in-
trodueed, has been started against DR..
+. y. Mitchell of this city, a prominent
physician, and Miss Ella Cass, alleged
owner of a resort The complainant
Is Miss Anna Bruehl of Menasha, her
guardian, Charles Bruehl, bringing the
action.
Red Granite The origin OF the
couAagrauon which destroyed tbs
business section of the village has as
yet not been ascertaiued. 1t is gen.
orally believed that IL was caused by
incendiarsm as fires started in three
different buildings within a short time
/ OF one another,
+ Fond du Lac.--The explosion Of
hot-water tank I'm the home al
Mr. and Mrs John Csrtmin wrecked
the kitchen and hurled their ten-year-
old daughter Lillian through a window
amid shower OF splintered glass,
she fell on a mass Of sooty garments,
uuhurt
la Crosse Attempting to catch a
ride on q freight train in order tC
speedily transact some business a,
Sparta, f. Geyer Of Rocklaud fen I'M