Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-06-15
NEWS OF TIE WEEK.



ing May were S11, 064, 900.
SERIOUS trouble is reported among
the Tammany leaders, especially Tweed,
Hall, Connolly and Sweeney
THE National Insurance Convention
has concluded its business and adjourn
ed till October next
THE soldiers monument at Westtield.
designed by 8. A. Mosman, of Chico
pee, and cast in bronze at the Amos
Works, in that town, was dedicated
Tuesday with imposing ceremonies.
SECRETARY DELANo has left Washing
ton for the West. Assistant Secretary
Cowan has been designated as acting
Secretary of the Interior during De-
lano's absence, which will be for two
or three weeks.
AT meeting Of the stockholders of
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad
Company, held in Chicago Thursday,
the following directors were elected for
the three year term: John +. Tracy, A.
b. Baylis, David Dows, Francis II.
Lows, Geo. l.. Lunlap.
THE American Missionary Associa-
ton is in session in New York.
FIFTY Sir Knights, of the Command
cry at Allegheny, Pa, left that city
Tuesday evening for tour through Eu-
rope.
THE body of DR.. Wales, who so mys-
teriously disappeared FROM Rondout
in November last, was found floating III
the Hudson Tuesday afternoon.
JUDGE BEDFORD, of New York, has
sentenced VIM. McNevins, the muir
derer of Edward Hines, to be hanged
on the 14th of July, the same day ms
Foster.
AT Hillsboro, Ohio, Monday evening,
VIM. Scraggs was shot twice i'll the
breast by DR.. Mos Holmes. His
wounds are considered fatal.
HALLow A. JussErr Norwegian,
committed suicide by drowning himself
in the river at Chicago on Saturday
evening.
WIN. ELLSWORTH WAS killed by tho
bursting of balance wheel in the EN-
pire Gang Mills, ut Grand Rapids,
Mich, on the Both.
A rain storm Tuesday night did con-
siderable damage to the Chemung
Canal and feeder. A small creek which
empties into the feeder near Corning
came down with such force as to de.
post 5000 yards Of gravel into the
canal, completely stopping the how OF
water 1t will require six days to re-
move the obstruction. Near the village
of Havana, Mt lock No. 3, a break oo-
Cured by the overflow Of the water III
the canal. About four rods of the tow
path was carried away to tho depth OF
ten feet
A RAIN storm in Kentucky has caused
the heaviest flood known for years.
Travel upon the Knoxville Railroad is
interrupted.
ARTHUR A. MoGrNNIs, a New Orleans
merchant, married the daughter OF
VIM. NJ Tweed, of New York, Wednes-
day evening.
A LETTER from Jacksboro, Texas,
saws that on the 18th of May, a band OF
some hundred Indians attacked Henry
Warmers train, twenty miles from
there, killed seven men belonging Ill
the train, and wounding one.
| Crimes u nd Casualtles.
LOUIS WINKLRFuss killed one o.
Leary in a quarrel near McKeesport,
Pa, Monday night.
J. A. SAwTELLE, Chicago theater
actor, drowned himself in the Missis
sippi river, at Keokuk, few days
since.
GEORGE HARBERaER, a German, was
robbed of several thousand dollars dnr
ing the passage across the ocean from
| Bremen.
THE steamer Hansa ran down the
bark Rhea, at sea, on wednesday.
Captain Anderson and seven OF the
vessels crew were drowned.
J. p. FoRBUs, well-known citizen Of
Cincinnati, was killed by lightning on
Tuesday
Con. JESSE J. ALEXANDER, late of the
59th Indiana volunteers, died IN Terre
Haute, on Tuesday. ,4... ~
THE death Of Col. j. II. Potter, SUI
perintendent of the Burlington Il
Southwestern Railroad, is announced.
Hos. SAMUEL X. CASEY, an old and
widely known citizen and Democratic
politician of Illinois, died at his resi-
dence IN Mt Vernon, ILL.,, Wednesday.
A $40, 900 conhagration occurred at
Hamilton, Mo-, on Sunday morning.
A FIRE at Louisville, on Thursday,
! dnufroved Firth & Hyle1s LARGE stone