Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-04-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

the lSthmuS OF barren Tor the canal
route, but the prospect of favorable
result is slight.
THE Erie railroad, May 1st, will re-
duce the running time between New
York and Buffalo two hours, by the
lightning express train for Chicago.
II making an excavation for new
building on the corner of Fifth and
Plumb streets, Cincinnati, the work
men, when eighteen inches below the
cellar floor, came upon a skeleton, which
appears to have been that of young
Girl, with rusty, sharp-pointed knife
near by.
LOTTERIES and gift concerts on
mammoth scale are being run in nearly
all interior counties of California, in
direct violation of law, but are justified
on account of the action of the legisla-
ture permitting the Mercantile Library
lottery last year. The same is also the
case in Wisconsin
A TELEGRAM from Washington says
there is no longer reason to doubt that
the Joint High Commission have ar
rived at a basis of settlement mutually
satisfactory. The protocol was sent to
London by mail The friends of the
Administration seem confident that the
terms will be satisfactory. Nothing is
vet known of the details.
The West.
A sNow-sToRM occurred in the Rocky
Mountains and the Upper Platte Valley
on the Sth.
PAssENGER-TRAvEL is very heavy west
ward. Many colonists are settling in
Nebraska.
The thermometer at Sioux City,
Iowa, on the 9th, stood ninety-six de-
grees in the shade.
QUINCY, ILL.,, went into ecstacies over
Com. Davidson's new steamer, City of
Quincy, on the 7th. A stand of colors
worth $500 was presented to the boat
A PARTY of Sonora scalp-hunters
killed party of so hostile Apaches,
near the border of Arizona The Mex
lean Government pays 5000 for each
scalp.
Crimes and CASUALTIES.
The rioters at Scranton, burned til
then have been very quiet.
A CASE of sun-stroke occurred in New
York on the Sth-the earliest ever re-
corded in that latitude.
The ST. Louis police made a descent
upon the gambling houses, Saturday
evening. Some two hundred gamblers
and citizens were arrested and about
$4,000 worth of gambling implements
confscated
EDWARD THORN, Michael Trembler
and William II. Webb, alias Buck, con-
victed of rape, in Philadelphia, have
been sentenced to pay fine Of 50, 200
each, and fifteen years each in the pen
itentiary.
The body of August H. Paul, who
has been missing for the past ten days,
was found in the canal at indianapolis
on the 8th. His head was bruised. 1t
is feared that he has been foully dealt
with.
JOHN ID. REILLY, Postmaster at Gov
ington, Neb, has been arrested for
robbing the mails of registered letters.
He had purloined twenty-four letters,
containing upward of a thousand dol
lars.
4 YOUNG MAN named Richard FitZ-
gerald was shot through the neck, and
probably fatally wounded, in Chicago,
at late hour last night, by one of a
party of young men with whom he had
been spending the evening in saloon.
DIR. S. E. SCANLAND, young physl-
elan well-known in Chicago, was shot
dead in front of his residence, No. 142l
West Jackson street, at 7 o'clock last
evening by his brother inlaw, p. A.
Leonard, Il young man employed IN the
Registry Department of the Postoffice.
Domestic difficulties led to the TRACE
dy,
r. B. TREADwAY, prominent citizen
and merchant of Chicago, fell through
the hatchway Of the storehouse No. 100
kinzie street, last evening, and was in
stantlv killed Deceased was Il widow
el, and leaves six children.
Fires.
THREE small fires occurred in st.
Louis, on the Sth, involving a loss of
$4,000 or SO, 600; insured for about
S. 600
AT Cincinnati, on the 29th, the dwell
ing Of Lewis Brockman was destroyed
by fire. Mrs. Brockman and son
twelve years old were severely if not
fatally burned.
LIGHTNING struck in eight places at
Bangor, Ne, on the 18th. Several
I houses were damaged, but nobody in
jured. In Newburg the barn OF james
j Smith was entirely destroyed.
FIRE at Louisville, on the Sth, in
Il W. b. Williams extensive paint-shop,
On Third street, near Main, inflicted a
q loss of about 10000, including about