Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-10-12
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his wife TO death at Memphis, on Monday
evening.
THE yellow fever is raging at New Orleans
Among the victims of the terrible disease Is
State Senator Polk.
THE total receipts Of the late far OF the
Colorado Territorial Agricultural Society were
nearly $1,000
LARGE number Of employees IN the New
York postoffice have been dismissed for being
Greeley Republicans.
LADY named Doolitle died in a dentists
chair in Brooklyn. on Monday, from the eff
fects Of chloroform.
THE imports at New York last week were
-, sos, 299, nearly million more than for the
corresponding week last year.
THr new oil well in Terre Haute il now pro- I
ducing something over seventy-fiye barrels of
the best quality Of oil per day
A REPORT is being circulated among the coli
orcd people Of Arkansas that Horace Greeley
belongs to the Ku-Klux clan!
LIpp's brewery in the northern part Of Phil
dephia, fell on Tuesday killing Joseph Hahn
and seriously injuring four men.
A LAD named Charles Belou was fatally in
jured on Tuesday, by coming in contact with
circular saw in a Chicago chair factory.
\. PAEDEE OF Hazelton. Pa, has given
$500 600 for the erection Of now scientific
department IN connection with Lafayette Col
loge.
TuE bodies Of tho Confederate soldier src-
Gently exhnmed from the field Of Gettysburg,
we're brought to Savannah, Georgia, on Fri
day last
OS Thursday night last, the safe Of the
Merchants Bank at Lima, New York, was
broken open, and robbed of 600 in money
and bonds.
THE New Orleans Bee publishes letter
from Prof. Agossiz denying that he predicted
tidal wave would occur along the Gulf coast
in October
PnvArr dispatches from yicksburg and
Jackson, Miss. state teat there we're twelve
new cases Of yellow fever in each Of those
places on Saturday.
MAYOR Hall gtatos positively that he cannot
recognize Deputy Comptroller Green. Mr..
Hall also announces his determination not 70
resign the Office Of Mavor.
T., l.. kEnR, an able lawyer of Laramie City,
was found dead in his room last evening, a
supposed suicide. He has once before at
tempted to poison himself
TnE recent Colorad election resulted as
near as can toe ascertainod, in Two thirds
Republican majority in the legislature Both
houses of the last legislature wero Democratic.
4 CABLE dispatch confirms the previous re
port OF the destruction Of the steamer Lafay-
cite. She was burned whilo lying in her
dock. Both the ship and cargo are total
oss.
TuE people Of Monticello Arkansas, are
greatly excited over a report of tho finding of
gold rino fcur miIos west of that town \
simm rcror, corncs from Dallas, Polk county
Both mines give promise of fine yield
PAyaAsrR lopGE was arraigned before a
court martial at Fort Henry, on Tuesday, and
pleaded guilty to all the charges preferred
against him. His sentence will not be known
until promulgated 10y the War Department.
Az meeting OF workiugmon in Now York
general strike m most OF the trades through
out the unitol States and Canada early next
spring was decided on, and measures we're
adopted for permanent organization TO sus-
tain and render It successful
GAIT. Gro. $. LEACH has voluntarily sur.
rendered himself, to await trial for scutuug
bis ship the Eulorpo of the coast of Brazil.
last summer The owner of tho ship asserts
Leach Innocence 60 the New York authorities.
Con IUuNJ,~ q. SIMMONS, ohowas appointed
Postmaster Of Atlanta by President Johnson,
and against whom the Post Oriyo Department
has an alleged drtalcauun of ~13 GOA, has been
honomhOy acquitted 10y the jury IN the United
Status Court
Az Pleasant Plains, Saugamon county, Ill.,.
Monday evening" Peter Harlsou walled into
the house of a man named Kelly. wh- was site
ting 40 supper with hls family. and -hor him
through the breast, No reason Ia known far
the mHrlcr Harrison has not Vet been ar
rested
Tur woman surragists have got lit from
Judge Underwood, unitod states District
Judge I'm Virginia. The Judge writo- IN Let.
ter that he is confident chat the XIV and "
amendments together with IA enforcement
act of May last, have secured 20 all female
citizens equal night 10 vote with males
IHF Coulter Blgttn crew has issued chal
leugc 60 row a i've or SIX mile race for from
ono 60 five thousand dollars q side. The chal-
loogo IL especially intended Tor the Ward
brothers ami It 's believed they will accept
rurGNAN from Milford, Pa. announces
the sentence Of the two bows named William
Carroll aud John Harrington. aged IA and Il
vosre Tor ohstruetiur the Euc road. They
are 10 pay Foo each, the cost Of the court
aud he Confined no the pcmteuuary ~ Pmladel-
pima Tor two and half Years
riN moro worhucu n tho United States
Watch Company. at Marion. y. ]. have been
arrested for stealing portions ~ watches
wulc ia process OF manufacturer rwentv-one
workmcn IN All have been arrested. and from
confessions ~ some, 1t e estimated their
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