Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-06-01
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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
CAPT. HAIRS Arctic Expedition is ex
necfe1 ia sail in two weeks
MiscelianeoUs.

OAPT. HALLS Arctlc EApetlllon is e&
pected to sail in two weeks
I MISS Angela Georgiana Burdett
Coutts has accepted g peerage. ---.
Ir is reported that Bancroft has re-
signed his post as Ambassador of the
United States to the German Empire.
MEssRs. z. L. WHITE and II. J. Rams
dell, correspondents Of the N. Y. Tri-
bune, having refused to divulge to the
investigating committee how they OBJ
tanned possession of the copy of the
High Commission treaty which was tel
egraphed to New York, viii be arraign-
ed before the bar of the Senate for con-
tempt.
GEN. SHERIDAN has reached Wash
lngton. s#
THE labor reform league is holding
its annual meeting in New York.
THE students of the University of
Pennsylvania, with the approval of the
faculty, have established two boating
crews.
The German peace celebration at
Philadelphia, on Monday, was a grand
affair The procession occupied four
hours in passing given point
/. On account Of the oyercrowded con-
dition of Sing Sing-it has 300
prisoners now-seventy-tive were sent
to Clinton and Auburn. Sing Sing has
never had SO many inmates.
THE statement of the sale of the Erie
road is contradicted by the managers of
the company. They pronounce the
whole report entirely without founda-
ton, and add that not only have no Off
fers for the purchase OF the road been
made, but none would be Tor a moment
entertained.
The West.
The Odd Fellows Grand Lodge is N
session at st. Louis The order is ina
hourishing condition in that state.
A LITTLE SON OF Capt John Mckee,
lightkeeper at Manstee, was drowned
by falling off the harbor pier at that
place on Saturday.
The cornerstone of the Smlthson
Educational College was laid at Logans-.
port, Indiana, on Tuesday, under the
auspices of the Masonic fraternity.
The Etna amateur nine of Chicago
beat the professional nine of Cleve-
land at base ball, yesterday, by score
of 3 to 2 The Boston Red Stockings
defeated the Haymakers of Troy-score
9 to 5. .. ....-.-. . .-
AN insurance agent named Framer,
who has been in the habit of running
out of Chicago and operating in Iowa
for companies which had not complied
with the complied with the conditions
imposed by the laws of that state, was
arrested at Clinton on Saturday.
The South.
THE Grand Lodge of the order of
Druids is III session at Louisville.
ABEL GLASS and Edward Diggs, Off
GERS of the African Baptist Church, at
Memphis, who killed John Moody on
Saturday night last at a church fair,
were examined on May Is. Glass was
sent to Jail without bail; Diggs in de-
fault of So, 000 1t was shown in the
examination that, during a row at the
church, Moody had snatched the cash
box, containing $12, and was pursued
by the officials of the church, and
caught by Diggs, who held him while
Crimes and Casualties.
J. G. HEADING, a carpenter, fell from
the staging at the top of the reservoir
in South st. Louis, and was killed.
AT Warren, Ohio, on Friday, a boy
aged IL, named john Crowbad, was
killed by log rolling over him and
breaking his neck.
JUDsoN A. SHELDON, postmaster at
Sparta. Morrow county, Ohio, was ar
raigned at Cleveland for making use of
cancelled postage stamps and WIS fined
$50.
The trial Of Borllton and Park, i'm.
pllcated IN the woman-poisonlng affair
in London last summer, has resulted in
the acquittal OF both of the accused
parties
The wagon factory of Barton Il
Waight, at Rome, N. Y, was burned on
Thursday last Loss $4,000.
THE wooden mills of Reading, Levan
& Butt, at Lasport, Pa, were burned
Sunday night Loss $50 600; insured
$4,000. ,eAE.#stf sls#HE
THE dwelling house of Mr. Gaffney,
in the town of Hart, was destroyed by
fire on the 18th. Loss 5000 insurance
$3.50. The house was occupied by q
man named Kokpeter, whose household
effects We're all Destroyed total loss
of some S400.
Obituary.
JUDGE RoaLRT ROSE was found dead
in his bed at Washington on Tues
day