Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1916-12-07

D"J ihidntlle paralysis
claimed another victim in Brown
county when the months old child
of John McCabe. Depere, succumbea
after being i'll about three weeks.
Prairie du Chen - Henry LAWN
saloon proprietor. as a result of acci
dentally taking brichloride OF mercury
is in serious condition in a hospitsi
here. Physicians say he will live.
Oshkosh-John A. Becker's dr,,
store at Omro was robbed. the thios
cleaning out the entire stock of NOR.
phine, cocaine, codeine and Other
drugs used by dope fends," with
other articles.
Stevens Point-The trunk line road
system with a IL mill tax has been
adopted by the Portage county board
About $35,500 will be expended for II
in 1917 and several thousand dollars
of other money on other roads.
Green Bay - The tax rate for the
city, fixed by the new commission. il
2 mills lower than last year. An 8
per cent provision has been made in
the budget for a IS month increase
in salaries of policemen and firemen.
installing safety gates at bridges and
providing better garbage disposal.
Green Bay-Fire destroyed the barn
and adjoining buildings on the farm
of Lucas Kaufman, near Shiocton. and
caused loss of $4,000 Thirty-seven
head of cattle. eight horses, sixty hogs,
500 bushels of oats, forty tons of hay,
and larg eamount of clover seed was
burned.
Wausau - A. G. Berg, principal of
the county school of agriculture, has
purchased number of pure bred and
grade guernsey cattle at Fort Atkin-
son to be distributed among Marathon
county farmers by the Marathon
County Bankers association, under a
plan of installment payments recently
adopted.
Racine-A $4,000 fire loss resulted
from an early morning blaze at farm
short way from the city, belonging
to DR.. Meechem. Several head of ex-
pensive cattle and two horses, besides
forty tons of hay, were lost Damage
to the building was complete, but the
house was saved by the Racine fire
department.
Sheboygan-Union services by the
Rev. David Thomas, whose preachings
recently caused two members of the
Sheboygan Ministerial association to
withdraw, did not materialize. The
churches held individual services fol-
lowing quiet decisions to that effect
among the several denominations dur.
ing the week.
Neenah--R. J. Schaefer, well known
farmer in the town of Clayton, five
miles from here, was hurled twenty
five feet by premature explosion
while dynamiting stumps on his farm.
He was rushed to a hospital but exam
ination revealed nothing more than
severe burns and bruises about the
face and body.
Monroe-The members of the Mon
roe Ministerial association are hopeful
of closing the motion picture theaters
on Sunday and have offered the thea
ter managers that if they will comply
with their request, they will boost Tor
their theaters from the pulpits when
educational and uplift pictures are
presented during the week.
Madison-The governmental forest
laboratory here has broken the mar
ket" for waste rags. Discoveries re-
Gently made at the laboratory, in the
use of former waste sawmiu refuse,
were so important that upon the an
nouncement of the discovery and lts
success in commercial experiments
the price of rags dropped from S72 per
ton to S35.
Portage - Archbishop S. G.. Mess
mer Of Milwaukee and Rev. }. a.
Thuente of Minneapolis were the prln'
cipal speakers at a recent golden JUDI
lee celebration of the foundation OF
st. Dominican parish school held here
The parochial school in this city Is
the second TO be organized IN ths
United States under the Dominican
sister organization. 1t was founded IN
1866 and has been in active operation
since.
Racine - Harriet Steward Harrlhs'
ton. Racine's oldest woman, died mere
of general debility, aged 1O1 years
and 6 months. OF late years she Oe-
came blind and deaf, but her memory
was unimpaired. Her mother was tuo
daughter of Grey Eagle, a CheroAee
chief, and her father was scooter
man. She served as field nurse ~ inc
civil war under Gen. Grant, having r.
ceived her commission from the gen
erals own hand. During her serve
she is credited with having saved 1no