Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-21
Late News Items.

A PRIZE FIGHT between two little
sation.
HENRY D. BARRON, of this State,
has received the appointment of Fifth
Auditor of the Treasury.
a FIRE visited Riron, Wis on the
morning of the 10Th, and destroyed if
teen buildings. Loss about $4,000
THREE monitor iron-clads, now at the
Philadelphia Navy Yard, are to be fitted
out for sea Immediately
THE immigration to Kansas this spring
is without precedent in the history of the
state.
Two Iowa one-armed soldiers are to
chop twenty-five cords oe Wood each, on
a wager of 81 900, the loser to have pay
for his work
The U. : Senate, on Wednesday last,
| rejected the Alabama claims treaty all
most unanimously --o only one Senator
voting in its favor.
HORACE RUBLEE, of the Madisnn Jour>
nal, has been appointed Minister to
Switzerland. A. Good appointment
Horace, we congratulate you on your
success.
WILLIAM McGoN1GAL is reelected
County Judge in Grant county He re-
ceived 2 ,337 votes, to ,7l3 for 10. Blan-
ding, 500 for Eastman, and 81 for Mir
| rick
The people of Platteville are to
| vote Tomorrow as to whether or not they
will saddle another tax of $50, 900 on that
town to complete the railroad from Bel
mont to Platteville.
JAMES Fisk, jr., having made propo>
| sails for the purchase of every thing in
and out of the market is said now to be
casting longing eyes toward New York
Central Park
1t is generally believed at Washing
ton that Horace Maynard of Tennessee.
will be offered position as Justice of
the Supreme Court under the new bill
recognizing that court
ROBERT TREAIL has received the
appointment of Postmaster at Shulls~
burg, in place of Burnett; V Z. Kinney
at Potosi, in place of Neaville; and w.
o. Thomas at Montfort, in place of
Green.
THE steamer antelope was burned
and sunk on the 18th, twenty miles
above Yankton, while on trip up the
Missouri river. Two passengers, Mary
Hutchinson and l.. c. Giraux, were
lost
SENATOR CHANDLER, of Michigan,
made very strong speech against Eng
land in the U. 5. Senate on Monday, and
demanded that the Canadas should be
transferred to the United States in pay
ment of our claims against England.
ALPHA c. May, of Milwaukee has
been elected Director of the North>
western Mutual Life Insurance Compa-
ny rice Lester Sexton, deceased. J. III.
Van Dyke has also been elected Prosi-
dent of the company, Uice Sexton
REVENUE Observation-Disclosures
Delano has decided that all moneys,
whether borrowed or not, save deposits
paying tax as such, used in banking,
should enter into the estimate of capital
taxable under the rev enue laws
Hon. GEORGE II. PESDLEToN, of
| Ohio, and number of leading Demo-
Gratis Of New York have united in rec
ommending to the people of Virginia,
Mississippi and Texas to refuse to par~
| ticipate in the reconstruction elections to
be ordered by the President in those
| States.
| THE great Storm c n Sunday afternoon
| last appears to have been general through
out the States of Wisconsin, Illinois,
| Iowa and Missouri. Immense damage
is reported in central Illinois. In Du>
eral houses unroofed, and one man
| killed
THE MIssIsslPPF OPEN
| ton on the Mississippi river is now
clear from the mouth to St Paul The
steamers Countess and Key city arrived
from below, at Lake City, Monday, and
expected to reach St. Paul the next day
There is q little floating ice in Lake
Pepin, ut not enough to obstruct navi>
cation.
THB Ways and Means Committee of
the House of Representatives, are now
on tour of observation, inspecting the
workings of the custom-house and rev.
enue eollectorships. They assembled in
New York last Wednesday; and will
proceed south from there, visiting all the
Atlantic seaboard cities, and then cons
ne north through the Mississippi valley,
viii proceed at once to California
LATER adyices from Spain state
that the building of guu-boats for ser>
vice in the waters Of Cuba, IS being vig-
orously prosecuted, and it is expected
they will be ready for sea in June