Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

passed through the whole OF the Franco
! Prussian war. They were Of various
nationalities - French, Irish, Polish,
Russians, Italians, and majority Of
them American citizens.
A TELEGRAM from New London.
Conn, states that the bark Roman lost
six of her men by the boat capsizing in
the surf, near Desolation Island, and
the bark Peru her mate and four sail
ors by one of her boats being capsized
in st. Georges Bay.
An application has been received at
the Treasury department from ST.
Petersburg, for an agency for negotiat-
ing the new loan to be established in
that city. The application was accom-
panied by subscription of ten millions
to the loan by the house applying for
the vacancy.
The number of arrests made by the
police of st. Louis last year was IT,
484.
BRIGHAM You've is at Provo, visiting
large wooden factory just completed
at cost of upward Of 100000
JAMES HoLLAHAN, we'll known coal
dealer and farmer, was found drowned
in the canal near Ottawa, Illinois, on
the 18th.
A RICH gold, iron, coal and copper
discovery has been made between Salt
Lake and Pleasant Grove, on the line
of the Utah Southern Railroad An
Omaha man is the discoverer.
II. VIGNoN, prominent sheep-raiser
of Los Angeles county, California, was
shot dead by one of the shearers, in an
alteration, on the Odd. The shooter
escaped on horseback to the mountains.
The great canvas tabernacle, with the
New Jersey, New York and Washington
revivalists, opened at Sacramento on
the odd Two thousand people were
present in the evening.
Mrs. A. J. CULVER, of Whitehall,
Illinois, stood before mirror in her
room, on the ODD, and cut her throat
with II razor. She died in less than
minute.
The man who committed suicide at
st. Louis, on Sunday, by drinking
cyanide of potassium at public bar
has been identified as VIM. F. Jones.
His widow lives in Rochester, n. Y.
The Dixie Mine, in East Cannon,
Utah. is exceedingly rich. The average
assay gives $1,697.87 of silver, thirty
five per cent. of lead, and twelve per
cent. of copper to a ton. Another
assay yielded -, 491. 90; another gives
50, 1872 10 of silver to the ton.
The East.
Rev. VIM BELL, Universalist clergy
man for over fifty years, died in Boston
on the Goth, aged 70.
Rev. JAMES THOMPSON, pastor of the
Twenty-ffth Street United Presbyte-
rian Church of New York, died of apo
plexy on the Dist.
The Republican Congressional Exec
utive Committee has appointed resi-
dent committee to attend to business
during the recess, consisting OF the
following gentlemen Senator Harlan,
James H. Platt, Jr., H. d. Cook, Fred
erick Douglass and J. NJ. Edmunds.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, on the 10Th,
five boys. of ages from six to ten years,
were buried by a sand slide. Two of
them managed to get out and give the
alarm. The other three were dead
when taken out. They were sons Of
E. w. Barnes, G. Rice and Peter Rus
chic
AL named Christopher Smith,
who recently committed suicide in Dec.
ana county, Mich, turns out a des-
perado of the worst character Before
death he confessed to committing three
murders in Canada, and to have three
wives living. Fearing arrest for inhu-
manly treating his last wife, with
whom he was living, he deliberately
shot himself through the head.
ONE of the mills of the Rome Iron
Works, in Rome, n. Y, was destroyed
by fire on the oath. The loss is about
$4,000 insured for S10O00
THE miners in the employ OF the
Lackawanna Iron and Coal Company
have resumed work. The men who
have resumed are Germans, and do not
belong to the Miners Union.
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE has been pre-.
scented with $4,000 by E. w. Slough
ton, of New York city, to found mu-
scum of pathological anatomy in the
medical department
! MARGARET NOLAN has been awarded
by the Supreme Court of Kings county,
( n. Y, $4,000 damages for the loss OF
her husband, who was killed by the fall
of a portion of the roof of the Novelty
Iron-works.
| The Wadsworth iron-works, at But
falo, has suspended business. Over
one Thousand persons are thrown ont
of employment. There is a prospect
! that the creditors will arrange to re-
sumo business soon.