Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1871-06-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Miscellaneous.

Rev. DR.. BoYSToN has entered upon
his duties as Recorder of the General
Land Office.
The charter election in Norwich, Ct.
resulted in the choice of a Republican
Mayor by 80 majority.
ONE of the Anglo American telegraph
cables has been recovered and re-
paired.
THE report is gaining ground that
Judge Edward Pier"opont, who has
been in Washington during the past
two days, and was closeted with Grant
on Tuesday, will shortly succeed Ham
ilton Fish.
THE published statement that SILL
900, 600 has been bequeathed to the
United States by rich Englishman
who died recently, is believed to be I'M
true. Secretary Boutwell, has received
no such information.
The East.
The National Photographic Associa-
ton is in session in Philadelphia.
THE Mutuals of New York beat the
Forest City's of Rockford to 3.
In Washington colored laborers re-
fuse to work for less than 81 per day,
and whites are taking their places at
from 81. % to $50
THE New York Yacht Club has
elected the Grand Duke Alexis of Rus
STA an honorary member.
FIGHTER and Miss LeClerq sailed for
Europe Saturday.
THE strike at Washington resulted in
favor of the laborers, whe are hereafter
to receive two dollars per day.
THR annual Harvard College regatta
took place over the Charles River
course on Saturday, and resulted in a
series of fouls.
SENATOR FENToN is dangerously i'll
at his residence in Jamestown, N. Y.
The West.
A JEWISH Rabbinical conference is in
session at Cincinnati.
THE barley harvest has commenced
in the Miami Valley.
Mrs FAIR has been sentenced to be
hanged on the 25th of July.
THE trial of Gov Butler, of Nebraska,
has resulted in his conviction.
THE wheat crop has begun in South
ern Illinois earlier than ever before.
The yield is abundant.
THE incoming wheat crop OF Califor-
MIA is now estimated at one-third higher
than it was two weeks since.
A MAGNIFICENT palace car made wholly
of Californian and Mexican ornamental
woods, has left San Francisco for the
East
Two fatal cases of sun stroke oc-
CURED among the laborers on the Rap
ids improvement, at Keokuk, within
two days.
G. e. CHARS committed suicide by
cutting his throat with a pen-knife, at
Lagrange, Tenn.
FRED. M. WILSON, of st. Louis, hav-
ing become pecuniarlly embarrassed,
committed suicide at the Overton
House, IN Memphis.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans states
that the inundation is extending, and
now includes all west of Franklin
street, between the old and new canals
The water is Lake Pontchartrain is re-
ceding slowly The Pontchartrain Rail-
road from Gentilly Station to the lake
is six or eight inches under water,
though the cars are still running.
Grimes and Casualties.
LUTHER BARNARD was drowned III
Silsbee Lake, five miles south of jack
son, Mich, on Wednesday, while bath
ing.
Miss ELLEN GILLETr was burned to
death at Oberlin, Ohio, on Friday, by
an explosion of kerosene with which
she was lighting fire.
The trial of ex-Congressman Bowan,
for bigamy, has resulted in his convic-
ton His counsel has moved for new
trial, which will be heard Thursday.
Meanwhile he is held in 50, 900 bail.
DURING thunder storm at Provi-
dence, r. l., on Sunday, the lightning
struck the house of Alfred Pearson,
in Lonesdale, killing Smith Hallgate,
aged IS years, and prostrating several
others.
Obituary.
THE Rev. VIM. Young, widely known
as g Father Young died suddenly at
his residence at gainesville, Ohio, Sun
day night.
LADD's planning mill building in Me-
nasha, was burned on Monday last