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STATE NEWS. THE St. Paul's new depot at Milwaukee was formally dedicated by a banquet to railroad and newspaper men on the 18th. The first trainfrom the new house went out on the evening of the 19th. THE 7:20 P. M. train from the east ran over a man midway between Grand Crossing and Winona Junction on the 18th, mangling him beyond recognition. Fragments of a bottle were found in bis pocket and his clothes were saturated with whisky. ANDREW DOLAN, a convict at the house of correction, was pardoned on the 18th by Gov. Rusk. Dolan wascon. victed October 16, 1885, of burglary in the night time, and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Dolan and a pal named Max Wittig broke into a room of the old Drake House, Milwaukee, and stole a sum of money, both being sentenced to three years' imprisonment. JOHN LEMEYER, a half breed Canadian, a stranger, while drunk, cap tured a switch engine in the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul yard, at La Crosse. He drove the engineer and fireman out of the cab with a knife and attempted to run the engine himself. Being ignorant of machinery, he could not start the locomotive. Officers overpowered Lemeyer and took him to jail. The yardmen found that he had turned several switches, with the apparent purpose of wrecking the passenger train. In the municipal court he was held in $1,000 bail to appear for trial at the next term of the circuit court. ONE of the worst collisions that has occurred on the Madison Division of the Chicago & North-Western Railroad for some time occurred about two miles west of Trempealeau station on the 17th. Two freight trains, running at full speed, collided, causing the destruction of both locomotives. The train men all jumped for their lives, and fortunately no one was killed. Ford, one of the engineers, sustained severe bruises, and one of the brakemen was seriously injured in jumping through the window of the caboose. The amount of damage done will reach several thousand dollars. The wreck was caused by the negligence of one of the engineers who failed to read his orders, which were in his pocket. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY orphans arrived at Racine on the 17th from New York, and were distributed among Catholic families to be brought up by them. Another consignment is announced for next year. ARTICLES of incorporation of the New York and Gogebic mining syndicate were filed in the office of theregister of deeds at Milwaukee. The capi tal stock is $5,000,000, divided into 200,000 shares of $25 each. The incorporators are H. H. Hoyt, George A. Parker, John A. Kennedy, A. L. Worden and Edward A. Benson. The company will do general mining business. CHARLES H. ANSON, of Milwaukee, has made cash entry at the local United States land office at Eau Claire, of 2,500 acres of land in Chippewa County. The land, for which Mr. Anson paid $1.25 per acre, embraceslarge tracts covered with valuablehard wood and pine timber. LAST August, Bartholomew Lyon, a Waukesha 'busman, backed up his team at the North Western Railway station at q stand allotted to one of the regular transfer 'busses by therail way company. He was ordered off, and, on his refusing to go, was arrested. He then brought suit against Sheriff Ross for $5,000 damages. The case was decided on the 16th by the jury bringing in a verdict in favor of the sheriff. The case attracted considerable attention, as it was brought to test the right of 'busmen to any stand at the railway depots. MRS. WALTER SEARING, one of the earliest settlers at Eau Claire, died at Tompkins' Cove, N. Y. A. F. WILBUR, of Eau Claire, lost $4,000 by the failure of the First National Bank at Pine Bluff, Ark. THE report of Secretary Huxley, of the State Grange, indicates the total membership of the order in the state to be 3,000; gains and losses of membership this year about counter-balance each other. The financial receipts of the year were $1,090, and expenses $218. There will be no election of officers this year. SIDNEY SCHREIBER, a British cavalry officer. has sued the Caicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Road for 500, which he claims is the value of a pair of silk stockings and two dress suits that he lost en route to Minneapolis last summer, the satchel having been checked. DR. RICE, of Weston, president of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, has presented to the society a complete set (ninevolumes) of Lord Kingsborough's famous work, "Antiquities of Mexico." Copies of this work are very rare. LAST fall Fred. Mather, son of J. L. Mather, a well-known lumberman of Mather Station, was accidentally shot and killed while duck hunting with two friends, at Sioux City. The first reports showed nobody to blame, but later inquiry indicated that Tappan, the man who fired the fatal shot, was grossly careless. On the 15th A. E. Bleekman, attorney of La Crosse, returned from Sionx City, where he has
