Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-05-25
NEWS OF TnE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

IA MISCELLANEOUS.
b. JOE CoBURN has reached Erie, the
rendezvous FOR his coming fight with
Mace.
The break in the canal at Oxbow is
nearly filed up. Water will be let in
to-day, and boats will pass Friday.
THE following gentlemen have been
chosen officers of the New York Repub
lcan Executive Committee for the en-
suing wear Gen. John Cochrane,
President: Gen. Lloyd Aspinwall, Vice
President; d. d. Conoyer, Second
Vice President; Geo. F. Coachman and
Andrew Leggett, Secretaries.
THE receipts of the American Tract
Society last year, were 1892, 1S2, of
which S370,116 were from sales; ex-
penditures S491, 7S7, of which 1927, OBS
were appropriated to the manufacture
of books and tracts. Three new peri
odicals have been established, and
fortv-five new volumes issued by the
society during the past year,
THE national convention of the Grand
Army of the Republic elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
Grand Commander, Gen. Ambrose f.
! Burnside: Senior Vice Commander-in-
/ Chief, Gen Lewis 4. Wagner, OF Penn
svlvallia Junior Vice Communicating
. Chief, Col James f. Coy, of California;
Surgeon-in-C Chief, DIR. SAINT A. Greene,
of Boston; Chaplain, Rev. Mr.. Connor,
of Ohio.
Tin, East,
A REVENUE TUG is cruising in New
York harbor, waiting fer the arrival OF
the Russia with Gems. Sheridan and
Forsyth, and Mrs. Lincoln and son.
, WIrLIAMsoS's system of steam towage
by rail steamers on the toUpath OF the
canal was tried at Albany, on Thurs
day, III the presence OF Canal Commits
sioners Wright and Chapman and sew
eral engineers, and gave entire salts
faction Three boats were towed at
the rate of three miles an hour, without
any apparent strain.
4 JUDGE BENEDICT, in the United States
circuit court, in session at New York,
gave decision in favor of the govern
ment against Westry, Gibbs & Hard
castle for an extra amount OF duty
claimed on cargo of rice imported in
! 1864, with interest. The decision is to
! the effect that, under the law, lqui-
/ dation with the collector Is final. About
! s., 600, 900 are involved in similar cases.
/ The decision is to be carried to the
/ United States Supreme Court.
/ The West.
! The income taxes for the Third Ohio
District will not exceed $50, 900.
STRAWBERRIES are selling at from
four to six cents per pound in San
Francisco.
THE International Mining Company,
capital $500, 900, and the Patent Metallic
Roofing Company, capital $4,000,
both of Chicago, have filed certificates
of organization.
James Stuart, formerly Colonel Of the
10th Illinois cavalry, was arrested at
Kansas City, Wednesday, charged with
having absconded from the quartermas-
ter's department. at Galveston last
March with $4,000.
/ CONSIDERABLE indignation is felt
among the Germans at Council Bluffs
on account of the city authorities fin
ing the keeper of Horns beer garden,
a new and popular Sunday resort, for a
! violation of the ordinance in regard to
the sale of beer and liquor on Sunday.
A BOY named Aleson Crispin, thirteen
years of age, left his home in Bay City,
Michigan, on the ODD 1llt., on a fishing
excursion, but did not return. On the
afternoon of the 3lst he was found
dead in small boat, entangled in drift
wood, in marsh near the mouth of
the river. When found he lay in the
bottom of the boat with his cap in his
hand, as if asleep He probably died
of cold and exhaustion.
The south.
DECORATION DAY will be generally
observed.
Iowa papers speak of large breadth
of lan,, being planted in corn and other
crops.
Gus. EARLY and four children were
drowned in the Mississippi river, near
Louisiana, Missouri, last Friday, by
the upsetting of skiff
THE Tennessee Industrial Exposition
opened at Nashville on May s. The
variety of articles on exhibition is large
and unusually attractive
The Iowa Northwestern Railroad has
filed articles of lncorporation-S3, O0O,-
600 capital, 1t runs from Mt. Vernon,
Linn county, northwesterly to Dakota.
The first shipment of Texas cattle
was made from Baxter Springs, on Mon
day, over the Fort Scott and Gulf Rail
road to Kansas City, being part of
herd driven from Texas