Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-02-24

charge OF. making counterfeit United
States currency, has been convicted and
sentenced to four years imprisonment
Governor Butler, of Nebraska, issued a
proclamation on the 18th, converting the
Legislature in extra session at Lincoln, at
noon, February IT,
A flag for the National Capitol, manu-
featured in San Francisco, entirely OF
California silk, will be completed soon,
and forwarded to Washington.
The ruling of the Secretary of the In
terror, that all land grants to railroads
must be located on air lines, unless natural
barriers intervene, has changed the North
ern Pacific programme materially. Orders
have gone forward to stop the surveys un-
til further notice.
A Salt Lake, Utah, telegram of the 14th
states that the municipal election passed
off quietly. The best order prevailed at
the polls. The Orthodox ticket was
elected by large majority. The author
tiles Hscountenanced women voting in
this election. Some half dozen voted,
however. Both tickets were voted tor."
Rev. James Lemen, last surviving men,
Der of tbs Convention which framed the
first Constitution of Illinois, in 1917, died
at the residence of his son, near Belleville,
few lays ago.
The Minnesota House of Representa-
tives on the 10Th passed-33 to ia bill
for an amendment to the constitution,
providing for female suffrage The bill
provides that women may vote upon the
proposition their ballots to be received
in separate boxes. Several members
stated that although they were opposed to
women suffrage, they voted for the meas
ure in order to have it submitted to the
people of the State.
At the special election for member Of
Congress from the Madison, Wis, Dis
trict, held on the 18th, very light vote
was polled. Hon. David Atwood, Repub-
lican, was elected.
Supervisor of Internal Revenue Nc
Dougal has been assigned to Missouri,
Arkansas and the Indian Territory, Super
visor Mari to Kansas, Dakota, Wyoming
and Montana, and Supervisor Bridgeland
to Texas and..New Mexico
The, Ohio State Board of Agriculture
has decided to hold the next State Fair at
Springfield, during the second week in
September.
The Superior Court at Cincinnati rem
dered decision on the 18th, that the Bible
shall not be excluded from the public
schools, as proposed by the Board of Edu-
cation Opinions to this effect were read
by Judges NJ B. Hagans and Bellamy
Storer. Judge Alphonso Taft dissented.
Holders of Illinois State bonds, which
were called in by proclamation of the
Governor, to be paid on the 1st of Janu-
airy, 1870, and which were not presented
at that time for payment, have, since the
decision of the Supreme Court, demanded
gold.
Several counterfeit $50 notes on the
National Bank of Commerce of New
York, have recently been received at the
Sub-Treasury in San Francisco.
The South.
1t is reported that the business portion
of the town of Port Hudson, Miss, has
been recently destroyed by fire. The
Post Office and hotel were among the
buildings destroyed.
Two New Orleans cotton pickeries
were burned on the 10th, and man
named Charles Merrifeld persisted in the
flames.
A boiler on the steamer Maggie Hays,
bound up from New Orleans, exploded
on the afternoon of the 10th, near Helena,
Ark, and ten lives were lost, including
the captain, Barney Martin, and the second