Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-06-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miseella neous.

The hom9opathists will hold their
next convention at Washington, IN May,
1872.
THE retirement of Admiral Colds
borough, on the LIST prox, promotes
Commodore A. Taylor to Rear Admiral.
THERE is no truth in the report that
surveying party was recently attacked
/ in the Canadian River by Indians, and
their stock captured.
THE Commissioner of Internal Reve-
nue. has issued circular disseminating
the use of the Tice metre in distil-
/ leries.
THE members of the Northwestern
Synod of the Reformed Church of the
| United States are holding a convention
at Cleveland.
A Miss McNUrT was drowned by the
upsetting of a boat ut Troy, N. Y,
Thursday evening,
The work of removing the Diamond
Reef between Governors Island and the
Battery, New York, is finished.
THE mails between New York and
Washington and New Orleans will here
after be sent by the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad, saving twelve
hours time.
THE directors of the New York Via
duct Railway, at meeting Wednesday,
subscribed for 81, 0O0,0 900 stock, A. L.
Stewart taking 1000 shares, and most
of the other directors 800
| A FAST young man named Edward II.
Moves. son of a rich Pine street broker,
has been arrested in New York for
swindling various hotels in that city,
through false representations.
TELEGRAMs from various portions of
Illinois represent the growing wheat to
be suffering from the ravages of the
chinch bug.
THEODORE LoUoKs, aged II, in endea-
voring to sail on log IN the bay at
Grand Traverse on the 4th, fell off and
was drowned.
The keno establishments of ST. Louis
were raided by the police Saturday
night. About 100 players and $4,000
worth of implements were captured.
A DISPATCH from Abilene, Kan, says
5000 additional head of mixed cattle
and 1000 beeves have arrived there.
Close calculations show that 1872, 600
head of Texas cattle are now within
radius of 25 miles of Abilene.
The south
DURING difficulty at Bludsoe's Land
ing, Arkansas, a man named }. Dunn
shot and killed James Collins Thurs
day. Dunn escaped.
JOHN MoNTErrH, formerly of Cleye-
land, has been appointed State Super
intendent of Public Schools in Missou-
ri, vice Ira Duvall, resigned.
ARRANGEMENTS have been made for
the immediate extension of the Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Texas Railway from
Henriettaville, Missouri, to Paoli. the
county seat of Wiona county, Kansas.
THE contract for building a bridge
over the Missouri River at st. Joseph,
has been awarded to the Detroit Bridge
Work Company for S7l0,O0O. The
bridge is to be completed on or before
November LIST, 1872.
SArANrA, Kiowa Chief, one of the
three Chiefs who were captured near
Fort Sill during the recent visit of
General Sherman at that post, was
killed while being sent to Texas, On
the way down he slipped one of his
handouts off, seized knife, and
stabbed the Sergeant of the guard. A
soldier Immediately fired at Satanic,
killing him. The shot also killed the
driver of a wagon.
Grimes and Casualties.
A LAD named John Store was killed
by fall from mulberry tree at Peoria
on Thursday.
JAMES A. CUTLER, junk dealer, fell
into Chicago river from his boat, Fri
! day, and was drowned.
CHARLES WEBER and Mary Plaus,
both about eighteen years of age, were
! drowned by the upsetting of boat in
the lake, at Chicago, Wednesday even
ing.
Hon. JOHN B. SKINNER, one of the
most distinguished lawyers OF Western
New York, and prominent citizen OF
Buffalo for many years, is dead.
| FREDERICK STEARNs' drug store, III
/ Detroit, was damaged by fire and water,
Sunday evening, to the extent of
$40, 900.
THE extensive canning factory of
Warner, Rhodes & Co., formerly Ed
wards & Co., at Brighton, n Y, was