Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-12-14
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Prairie du chien.
THERE we're sixty deaths from small -pox in
Cincinnati, last week.
SILVER mine has been discovered near
Astoria. Oregon, causing much excitement.
JOSEPH c. CoGsw ELL, for many years libra
rian at the Aston Library, New York, died
sunday
ALDERMAN STEWART, of Brooklyn was shot
and fatally wounded, on Monday night, by
rough named Kelly
A BURGLAR was caught on Monday morning
in the act Of robbing Tiffany & Co. of $4,000
worth of watches.
A LITTLE son Of James G.. Speer, of Peoria
broke through the ice on the lake at that
place. on Sunday and was drowned
The German military authorities at Epernay
executed two Frenchmen who killed Ger
man sentinel
The thermometer at Quebec marked ten
degrees below zero Tuesday morning. The
River st. Charles is frozen over.
STATE Of anarchy prevails throughout the
entire Republic Of Mexico. The journals
are filed with accounts of pronunciamentos,
and the soldiers are growing revolutionary.
THE body found in the North River, at New
York on Friday, was recognized as that of
Madame Rhodes, wealthy lady Of New Or
leans.
FRED RuaEn, proprietor of the Attic House,
Chicago, was severely and probably fatally
burned Monday morning in attempting to kin
die fire with Diamond OIL
Ar Keosauga, Iowa, on Friday, Craig q
Blackmore's store, the Republican Office, and
Masonic Lodge, all located in Craig's building
were bu ned. Loss sli, O00-insured for 55,,
000
WOMAN named denslee wife of farmer
near Minear, Tazewell county, His, was found
dead in her house last Friday. Her head was
terribly maEgled by some murderoug instru-
ment.
ANOTHER snow slide is reported in the Cot
tonwood district, by which four men lost their
lives The snow at Alta City is ten feet deep,
and at last accounts II was still storming furi-
onsly. The sun has not been seen since the
10th inst.
Ten new cases and four deaths from small
pox occurred in New York on Monday. There
were 1853 deaths from that disease in Philadel-
phia last week, and 90 new cases were reported
there yesterday.
Hon. WILLIAM MILLwARD, formerly mem
Der OF Congress from the Fourth District of
Philadelphia, and United States Marshal dur
ing the war, died ON Tuesday morning at
kirkwood Delaware.
In the Ku-klux trials at Columbia, S. C a.. on
Saturday, the grand and petit jurors were or
ganized, tho former consisting Of eight whites
aud thirteen colored, and the latter twenty
whites and thirty colored.
In the New York Supreme Court, Judge
Spencer decided that marriage followed by
the cohahitation OF the parties and mutual
public acknowledgment as husband and wife,
is a valid marriage according to the laws Of
this state,
An Indignation meeting Of tho depositors
Of the Stuyvesaut Bank Was held in New York
on Monday evening, &C which the President,
Mr. Coamer, admitted that 3}S6,O00 was
loaned to Mr.. Hartman, the security to meet
which was only SSSOOO.
SENATOR Scorr, from the Ku Klux Commit
tee, has recommended to the President that
martial law be at once declared in the coun
ties OF Jackson aud Calhoun, Florida, and il is
probable that q proclamation IN accordance
with the recommendation viii be Issued soon.
TuF Bedford, Ind, graded school building
burned down Friday morning at two O'Clock
Loss, $27 000. The cause of the fire is un-
known. No insurance, The building was
erected last summer and was q very suhstau-
tial structure. School had been going only
about two months
Az action tor libel has been brought against