Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1869-04-14
Late News IteEs.

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TBErE were 25 900 deaths in N. Y. city
last year, IS per cent of which were in
tenement>rooms.
THE town of Hancock, in the Lake Su-
perior region, has been destroyed by fire,
and its homeless inhabitants need help,
The Directors Of the Union and Gem
| trail Pacific railroads have decided not to
have an excursion over their roads to the
Paclic the present season.
The steamboat, G. H. Thompson, bound
! from Cincinnati to Little Rock, sunk and
burned on the Arkansas river, on Satnr-
| day. Seventeen lives were lost
The late James Harper, Of New Y ork
made $4,000 by the manner of his death,
as he held an accident policy for that
amount
By colliery explosion in Lancashire,
England on the lst inst. twenty eight
| persons were killed, and many others
bad y injured.
A. w RANDALL has gone to live in his
house at Elmira, n. Y, leaving the inn
preston that the fine mansion, said to
have been presented to him By friends in
Wisconsin, was a castle in the air.
CHEAP OCEAN PosTAGE-The Postmas-
ter general has written strong letter On
the subject of ocean postage, showing
that the whole influence of his departs
ment will be used to bring about cheaper
rates.
EASTER UNUSUALLY EARLY.-Eas-
ter may fall upon any Sunday between
March 22nd. and April 25th. Its cell
ebration on March 2Sth had not occurred
since the new style of reckoning was
| adopted, more than century ago.
NEW ESGLASp Methodists project an
educational university that is to rival
Harvard Toward its establishment 81,
600, 600 have been subscribed, and the
Massachusetts, Legislature is to be pc
titioned for charter
THE PACIFIC RAILRoAD.-The fight be-
tween the Pacific railroads is about at
an end. Congress decided upon Ogden
as the point Of junction, and that ends
the matter 1t is said there is to be no
excursion this year.
To visit Washington, the Surveyor
general of Idaho had to walk ninety miles
to get around the snow blockade of the
Union Pacific Railroad, through snow
drifts some 1000 feet long and always
twenty feet deep.
PROFESSOR r. T. Brown estimates that
the coal and iron fields in Indiana cover
ala area of about 5000 square miles, and
that the greater portion Of it is accessi.
bic without the expense of shafting or
pumping in its mining.
OK the night of the Sd the house of
Raymond H. Hazeltine, in Baraboo town
ship, Sank county, was burnt to ashes
and Miss Eveline C. Burnham, sister of
Mrs Hazeltine, was burnt to death in
the ruins
THERE is considerable ia k about add
ing the eastern counties of Maryland and
Virginia to Delaware, and making one
new State of the whole Delaware now
has population of ll2,2l6, which the
proposed additions would increase to
$50, All.
ABOUT 200 clerks were dismissed from
the Treasury Department on the ID inst
Their places will not be filed. The Sec-
rotary is convinced that a good many
more persons are on the pay rolls than
are needed. 1t is probable that further
dismissals will be made next week
THE Directors of the Atlantic Cable
Company have resolved to reduce the
tariff on messages to four shillings ster-
ling per word, which is about 81, ~ in
currency. The reduction will commence
on the first of June. The present rates
are nearly 1920 in currency for each
word.
We learn that the Commissioners of
School and University Lands have re-
Gently purchased at par s63 900 of Wis
consin State bonds, and invested them
in trust funds of the State This leaves
only about 100000 of all the bonds is
sued by the State, outstanding, which
will doubtless be absorbed before many
mouths.
NOTWITHSTANDING the cold weather OF
the past winter, which killed a number
of peach buds, ana the heavy freeze in
March, there are enough live buds for
fair crop of peaches in Southern Illinois
and Indiana. Some varieties have suf-
ferred more than Others, while there are
more than enough buds left on some for
a full crap Pears have been injured
slightly Strawberries look fine, as we'll
as other small fruits. Winter wheat
looks we'll
OsHknsH has purchased seven acre
| site for the Normal School, and entered
into a contract for the erection of the
| buildin.,. the mason and brick work of
which aione will cost S43, 300 1t is to
be one hundred and six feet long, seven
| ty-two feet Wide, and dree stories high.
| The tower will be in one of the angles,
and somewhat higher than that of the