Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-08-03

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A TERRIFIC hail-storm passed over Western
Iowa Tuesday night, doing much damage. AT
Atlantic the postofiice building was destroyed
and several houses upset. Two men were IA
tally hurt.
BYRON HUTTON, son of Joseph Hunton, one
of the first settlers of Aurora, ILL.,. promising
Young man of IS years, was run over by the
cars and cut in two at Dennison, Iowa, Tues
dav night He was returning from Kansas
WATSON, the lawyer who WAS assassinated at
Effingham, H., wiled his property to frail wo-
men with whom he was intimate.
The large WOODEN mandatory of W. W
Carpenter & Co., at DesMoinea, Iowa, was
burned on Wednesday. Loss s37, 000-insur-
ance sl2, 500.
OMAHA has voted sl00, 900 for the completion
Of High School edifice.
A HURRICANE passed over Bellevue, Kansas,
on Tuesday, leveling houses, trees and crops.
BILL FLYNN shot Roger Mullen in saloon
row at School Creek, Nebraska, killing him.
NINE men are under arrest on suspicion OF
completely in the Ku-Klux affair in Estelle'
Kentucky.
GEO NJ. CHENEY a business man of Ierre
Haute. committed suicide, Thursday after
noon, by shooting himself through the head.
A YOUNG man named Christian Merza WAS
accidentally shot and killed by room mate
named De Corbrey, at Akron, Ohio, on Thurs
day evening.
A SoorcHMAN residing in Wilson county
Kansas. beat his six-year-old daughter so bad
ly that she died, because he thought she had
eaten too much food in his absence.
The latest accounts from Fort Fetterman
represent Reid and his party az making ready
for the war path, and that he has already got
out his small stealing parties bringing in the
stock,
A CARPENTER named David Evans, is under
arrest at Cincinnati charged with committing
rape upon three girls, aged ten and twelve
years.
THE whole business portion of the city of
Truckee, Cal. on the Central Pacific Railroad,
the great lumber depot of the Sierra Nevadas,
was DESTROYED by fire on Thursday. Loss
heavy.
The south
Gov. Pile. of New Mexico, sends discourag
ing reports concerning Indian affairs in that
territory.
HEAVY rains, accompanied by destructive
winds, have prevailed in Georgia for several
DAYS. The dams of the Langley cotton fac
tory. on House Creek, six miles from Augusta,
were carried away. The volume of water
struck the South Carolina railroad, and swept
away the embankment and track for half
mile About 500 operatives in the mill are
thrown out of employment Loss, $4,000.
TUESDAY night, the express-train on the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad, going to
Chattanooga, ran through trestle which had
been washed away by flood, near Grand
Junction killing the engineer and woundlng
twelve or fifteen passengers
Foreign.
THE ministerial crisis in Spain continues,
GENERAL. L'ADMRAuLr prohibits electoral
meetings in Paris
THEIRS will shortly leave Paris for one of
the watering places.
CouSr AGENoR GEoLucHswsK has been APP
pointed Governor of Gahcia.
A VERY destructive fire occurred on Lisbon
on Thursday. Several persons persisted IN the
flames.
Ir is rumored that the Due dAumale and
IrlnCe de JulnNllle utNe ItrlShc' thoh So"'p
in the Assembly.
GEORGE FRANCIs TRAIN lectured at Cork
Thursday evening, and explained his plans for
the invasion of Germany.
Ir has become known that Gambetta, during
his dictatorship, authorized the opening Of
private letters for the purpose of discovering
who were iuimical to his government.
In the House OF Commons, on Thursday
Gladstone announced that the Queen had
solved the purchase problem by cancelng the
the royal warrant legalizing the purchase of
commissions in the army.
The South American mall steamer brings
intelligence that the yellow fever has ceased
TO be epidemic at Buenos Ayres, and services
Of Thanksgiving had been held in all the
churches.
TuE Inmau steamship City of Brussels, from
New York, July sth arrived at Liverpool Mon
day. the eth inst, at T. NJ, making the run
from port 10 port in nine days, and Queens
town IN little over eight days,
TuE result of the census taken at midnight,
Sunday. April 3, 1871, throughout Great Brit
ain. has Just been officially announced. The
entire population of England, Ireland Scot
/ land. Wales, the Channel islands, and the Isle
/ Of Man including the army. navy, and mer-
\ chant marine abroad. is, male II, $40, 27l fe-
males l6, POI S37 total, 81 COS, 80. The pre-
/ pouderauce of females over males is us 56S
/ ii. Louis. the Mississippi River. and