Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1870-06-09
greuities.
Miscellaneous News Items.

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A heavy snow storm prevailed west 30
Cheyenne on the Both twelve inches %
snow fell at Piedmont, Wyoming. V
The Committee on Patents hava CO.
tended the reaper patent of the Messrs
Mann tor seven years from June 80, 1870
George Seddons, the prlze fighter wo.
sentenced to six months Imprisonment in
the House of Correction at Boston recentlv
John Garvin was killed in strao,
riot at Madison, Ind, on Tuesday, and M
body seems to regretit, as John was quar-.
relsome,
! "A War Department order enlarges the
Department of the Lakes, by ERECTION of
the President, so as to extend it to Ogdeps.
burg.
The American Institute of Homeona.
thy will hold its annual session in CHICAGO
on the 7th, Sth, 9th, and 10th of this
month.
The young girl, Mary Merrick, who was
so badly injured on Monday at Chicago
by kerosene explosion, died yesterday of
her injuries.
The residenc of Mr. Hughes. near
Knights aniing CAL, was DESTROYED by
| fire. His four children and sster.in-law
were burned to DEATH
The break in the French cable has
! been demonstrated to be about two hund.
red and ninety-fve miles east of the Massa.
chusetts shore, off the southwest corner of
Cape Sable.
The liquor store of S. H. Davies in
Williamsburg, and the cork mandatory
of Kalke & Co., at Greenpoint, were
burned Wednesday, Loss $4,000; in.
sured.
The wheat crop of Georgia gives good
promise for large yield. South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida and Alabama papers
speak encou- agingly of the cotton and
corn crops.
Harry Leslie, the rope-walker, while
performing in Washington, Wednesday,
fell to the ground, thirty feet, breaking an
arm and ribs, and sustaining internal and
fatal injuries
Fifteen horses ran for the Derby. King
craft won. Palmerston was second. and
Muster third, and close up. TIE race was
we'll contested KingcrsIt won the race in
minutes and As seconds, distance one
mile and half.
Geo. Brown and Jack Williams, two
negro roustabouts on the steamer Thomp.
son Dean. got into an ARRAY at Cairo, ILL.,,
in which Brown stabbed Williams, killing
him almost instantly. Brown is in Jail.
On Wednesday morning last three men
went to the house of Daniel and Neill Nc.
Leod, brothers, living in the western part
of Cumberland county, Va, and murdered
both. They also badly wounded the wife,
daughter, and son of Neill Mcleod
"A mandqmus has been issued on the
Mayor of Brooklyn to compel him to sign
the park improvement bonds. The last
legislature authorized the issue of halfa
million. The Mayor had signed 100000
Of the bonds before he decided to obstruct
the work.
Exports from New York for the past
week valued at So, 483, S04, including -four,
42,267 barrels; wheat, 343358 bushels;
rye, 1888 bushels; corn, 1926 bushels;
pork, l,26l barrels; beet 377 barrels and
LOOP tierces; cut meats, 1852, 224 pounds;
lard, 399, 966 pounds
The school teachers excursion party
from California arrived at Omaha Wednes.
day. all well, and expressed themselves
highly pleased with the trip. They number
about 800, of whom rs are school ma ans,
and the others friends and relatives. They
CRIME east.
The loss by the fire in Cleveland is
estimated at $50 to 100000. In ad-
dtion to the loss already reported, six
teen tank cars, containing l, 400 barrels of
oil, and six empty freight cars, were de-
HuSsey, Haines & Co. No insurance on
the railroad property or oil.
The room of J. L. Myers, of Boston,
at the Planters House, st. Louis, was rob-
bed on Tuesday. His trunk, containing
some $4,000 worth of jewelry, was bro
ken open and robbed of from four to five
thousand dollars worth of diamonds, gold
Watches rings, and plated watch chains. -
No clue to the robbers.
Joseph G. Isaacs, diamond broker,
was enticed to his room in the st. Nicholas
Hotel, New York, Wednesday, and there
chloroformed, bound and robbed of $780,
900 in cash, valuable rings, and other
property. The robbers are supposed to be
two Italians Carlos Dijoliss and Joseph
Choral. Thus far they have escaped ar.
rest.
The still belonging to the distillery OF
Peter Schwab, at Hamilton, Ohio, explod-
ed Monday morning, killing Mr.. Klein,
beer-runner, and Aug. Fredick, mash
hand. The still was outside the building,
and was blown to fragments. 1t broke
hole in the wall of the main building, and
destroyed the mash-tub, scattering the
contents on the floor. The cause OF the
explosion is unknown.
The Indian chiefs have visited Wash
ington. They want to be removed to the
White Earth reservation, to be allowed the
privilege of spreading out and hunting
buffalo, and have stock sent among them.
General Parker expressed the Presidents
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