Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-05-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

burg, has been sold by the sheriff
/ About $1,000 were realized There
are judgments against the concern for
I $25, 200.
THE statement that serious charges
( have been made of nature to affect
I the standing of the Knickerbocker Life
Insurance Company, of New York. is
found to be without foundation.
| IT is rrmored that the President will
appoint Secretary Fish Commissioners
on the part of the United States for the
Alabama and fishery questions unde,
the provisions of the treaty agreed upon
by the High Commission.
! A LETTER from jim Cusick. Mace's
! trainer, contains the announcement
/ that the battle-ground selected bv
/ Mace, who won that privilege in the
toss between himself and Coburn. is
situated in Canada, opposite Erie, Pa.
| 1t is also intimated that the fight will
take place on the 10th of May, instead
/ of the 18th, as first announced
I Dick LENENAN, fireman on the Des
Moines Valley road, saw little child
run on the track ahead of his train in
/ Des Moines The engine could not be
reversed III time to save it, so he ran
out on the cow-catcher and pushed it
! of the track without injury.
/ The East.
| The annual meeting of the Ninth
! Corps Society of the Burnside expedi
4 ton is called to meet at Boston, MAY
18th. Gen. Burnside will preside.
! THE Presbyterians propose to erect
| in New York a Presbyterian House
suited to the uses of the denomination.
/ A STRINGENT ten-hour factory law, and
| half-time school for children, are under
consideration in the Massachusetts
Legislature.
/ The Cleveland & Pittsburg Railway
| Company have declared a semi-annual
dividend of q per cent, payable May
! 49,
! In New York, at an early hour Sat
urday morning, four burglars entered
! the room of Miss Catherine Manning,
and after gagging her, helped them
selves to rings and other jewelry valued
at 81, 500, also $3.50 in money.
/ Ex-MAYoR Gunther tenders the New
/ York Club his mansion at Bath, rent
! free-to be used as Club house.
/ The West.
! THE Northern Pacific Railway adver-
/ tises for proposals for the construction
of the first twenty-five miles of road in
Washington Territory.
! An action of trespass has been com
menced in the Circuit Court, at Chicago,
| by Smith Whittier, against Wilbur F.
Storey. Damages are laid Mt $4,000.
ARRANGEMENTS nave been perfected to
establish Bessemer steel works in Jo-
liet. Capitalists of the Pennsylvania
Central Railroad Company have agreed
to invest 50, 900, 600 in the enterprise
The works are to be built in connection
with the rolling mill.
The White Stocking base ball nine
will play their first match in the north
on Wednesday next, with the Forest
City's, of Rockfort.
A TERRIBLE gale prevailed at Quincy,
on Friday, stopping the ferries, laying
up the steamboats,, and doing consid-
cradle damage
THE next Illinois State Fair is to be
held at Duquoin.
The south.
MARTIN Worm, Vincent Coyonne and
Petro, are to be hanged at New Or
leans on the 18th of May, for murder.
Two children aged eight and five
years, sons of Mrs. Castel, were carried
over the dam in the Monongahela river
at Fairmont, Western Virginia and
drowned.
CINCINNATI kilograms report num-
Der of suicides in Ohio.
VIM. Y MILLER printer, a native of
Natchez, Miss, formerly publisher of
newspaper at Grass Valley, California,
committed suicide at San Francisco
Saturday evening.
WHISKY Row, in Evansville, Ind, has
been cleaned out by fire.
The sash and blind flctory and plan
ing mill of B. +. Heiner & Co., at
Warren, Ohio, was totally destroyed by
fire on Friday Loss $4,000; insur-
ance So, 900.
THE warehouse and elevator of Rob
inson Il Co., at Peoria, Ill, suffered
damage by fire to the extent of $4,000.
SECRETARY Boutwell, made an excur-
sion ont upon Lake Michigan, at Chi
cago, on Saturday.
The furnace of the Grafton (Ohio)
Iron Company was burned on Satur-
day. Loss $4,000.
Foreign.
The Prussians have summoned the
insurgents to quit st. Quentin.
TIE petroleum shells fired by insnr-