Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-07-06
NEWS OF THB WEEK.
NIscella ncOsss.

! Cathan De La Forest as Consal-Gen-
eral from France Mt New York
7 AT the Nolwalk city election the Re
| pnbhcans carried their ticket by an av-
erage majority Of $50.
| THE gold shipped abroad since Janu-
| AIRY LIST, amounts to about S3S. 600, 600,
the largest amount in the same tame
| for seventeen years, except 1866 and
1868, when it reached S45, 00o 900.
THE Athletics were defeated by the
Mutuals, S to s; the Stars OF Brooklyn
by the Forest Citys of Cleveland, 6 to
8; the Live Oaks of Cincinnati by the
Forest Citys of Rockford, 80 to O.
ALBERT GAaNrER has challenged Mel
vim Foster to. play match game of
billiards.. either three or four ball, for
| five hundred dollars side, IN Chicago,
Buffalo, or New York, within twenty
days.
THE Olymrics defeated tie Eckfolds,
II to 3, and the Atlantics, the Keki-
ongas, - to a..
The Erie railway has forbidden the
publication OF tonnage reports, for the
reason that its managers are unwilling
the public should know the extent of
their business
Gov JEwElL has appointed Gen. J
II. Hawley, of Hartford, and W. p.
! Blake, of New Haven, Commissioners
for Connecticut, under the act of Con
gress providing for an international ex-
hibition at Philadelphia in 1876.
Allen FIRTH. professional forger,
who claimed to be Texas hide deal
er, has succeeded in defrauding New
York bankers and brokers ont of be-
tween $4,000 and $50, 900, by means of
forged checks.
The wheat harvest is nearly COM
pleted IN Montgomery county, Ohio.
The crop is unusually good,
In Utah the grassheppers are again
Stripping vegetation, and farmers are
hiring themselves to labor in the mines.
A YOUNG man named Matthew Nee
han, wa, killed by n train of cars on
the Michigan Southern Railroad, in
Chicago, Monday evening.
SOME two weeks ago, some Sioux In
dams made a raid on the settlers stock,
near Fort Mcpherson, Nebraska. They
were pursued, and the stock and six In
dams brought back to the fort
THERE is q lively fight in Utah over
some mining property, in which 1t Is
claimed that Judges Mexican and
| Strickland are, or have been interested.
1t is expected that an attempt will be
made to have these officials removed
The south.
A REPUBLICAN daily paper, to sup
port President Grant for reelection,
will appear il Nashville in few days,
The graves of the Confederate dead
in the cemetery near Springfield, Mo-,
were decorated Wednesday.
: A NUMBER of gamblers have been ar-
raigned in st. Louis on charges of va
grancy, and fined five hundred dollars
each.
ISABELLA w. SrRlcKLoNa, wife of a
steamboat engineer, suicided i'll st.
Louis, Sunday morning, by saturating
her clothing with kerosene and then
setting them on fire. She was AZ years
old, and the mother Of seven children.
Crimcs and Casualties.
A TELEGRAPH pole fell upon man
man named Joseph Arrett, in Chicago,
on Friday, instantly killing him.
THE mandatory of Hicks & Badger,
coppersmiths, in Boston, was destroyed
by fire yesterday. Loss, $4,000 par
TALLY insured
A FIRE in Montreal, Thursday night
DESTROYED McGauverans mills and the
st. Gabriel locks, together with three
acres of lumber, and sawmill Loss,
about $4,000.
EDWARD NEVILLE, recently convicted
in New York, of forging tickets on the
Erie Railway, has been sentenced to
FIVE years in the state prison,
THE eastward bound express train on
the Missouri Pacific Railroad collided
with freight train, a few miles beyond
Washington, Wednesday, smashing
both locomotives, express and baggage
cars, and killing the fireman of the ex-
press train
JAMES BuoHANAN,a nephew of the late
! President, died at Guilford Station,
Va, on Friday.
THE death of Sue Robinson, noted
California actress, is announced. She
was native of Galesburg, III.
PROF. II. s. ENGLIsH, principal of
the Cairo public schools, and widely
known through his connection with
various educational institutions of
Southern Illinois, died on Wednesday.
II was originally from Vermont
Foreign.
TIE Bank of France has resumed
the publication of its returns.
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