Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-05-16
THE N EW S.



Loss $50, 900; insurance $4,000
ALBERT vANsouS, O. New York broker who
forged check for $4,000 last August, sur
rendered himself on Wednesday and was held
to answer.
The jewelry establishment of VIM. Kidd,
and bookstore of Caleb Andrews Co., IN
Cevand, suffered damage by fire to the ex-
tent of $4,000 on Sunday.
A WOMAN named Mcmahon was killed by a
runaway accident, at Metropolis, H., on sat
urday night.
The large pipemen in the employ of the
New York Commissioner of Public works.
have struck for 81. so per day.
RICHARD IScH, Superintendent of the Fer
guson mine, at Mariposa, and William Oliver
were drowned in the MERGED River, California,
OH Saturday.
A BosroS broker named David Nichols has
been arrested on the charge Of forging the
name of Horace Saunders, another broker for
-. s75.
A FERROUS difficulty has occurred between
New Jersey and Delaware fishermen, concern
ing the fishing boundaries between the two
tates.
SEVERAL children were injured, but not Sc
riously, during panic occasoned By fire in
the rear of public school in One Hundred
and Iwenty-ifth street, New York, on Tues
day.
A sTArEMENT, recently widely published
that COL Casey Collector of the port of Now
Orleans, had drawn 1872, 600 from the Treasury
as a moiety pertaining to his Office is said to be
untrue.
FIRE in Akron, Ohio, Saturday morning,
entirely destroyed the office Of the Akron
Beacon together with three iewelry stores of
o. H. Remington, J. b. Stow Il Co., and II. $.
Abbey Loss about 100000; partially insured.
TnE mails received on Saturday by the Jap
anese Embassy at Washington, to March rs,
show that the reports of the persecution Of
Christians in Japan are untrue, and grew out
of the conviction of counterfaters,
PATRICK DosAHuE, publisher of the Boston
Pilot, presented the Catholics in the north
section Of Boston, on thu occasion of the Goth
birthday Of Bishop Williams, with St. Johns
Hall, worth $4,000
THE house Of John Jennings, on Atlantic
avenue, Brooklyn, was burned Tuesday night,
His wife and three children escaped from the
burning building by means of sheets tied to-
eether. Loss 10000; insured for $4,000.
WORK on the new Academy Of Fine Arts, in
Philadelphia, will commence at once. Twenty
one gentlemen have subscribed $4,000 each
and four $50, 600 each. The tota, subscribed
is $3.50, 600. The lot and building will cost
half million dollars
4 TELEGRAM from Kingston, n Y, states
that the fires ON the mountains continue.
Fires are NI-o raging along the line of the Os-
wego and Roudout Railroad. whore large
quantities of wood and railroad ties have been
burned.
CAPT. MIENHoLD, of the Third Cavalry. in
pursuit of the Indians who~Iroye OF the stock
near MCPHERSON, Nebraska on the 24th, sue
ceedcd in oyertaking twenty of them on the
IOupo Three Indians were killed and por-
ton of the stock recaptured,
Tar Washington Chronicle, whose editor is
Executive Clerk of the Senate, makes the as-
sertou that it is a fact within the knowledge
of the editor, that Senator Robertson, of South
Carolina. paid forty thousand dollars 10 secure
his election to tho United States Senate.
DURING severe thunder storm sunday
night, lightning ran down the stovepipe of
house four miles from Aclley Iowa, instantly
killing two of the occupants Patrick Cassidy
aud Peter Burns. The other occupants of the
house were uumiured. The house ALSO cscap-
ea damage
Tur american Society tor the Prevention of
Cruelty TO Animals held their annual meeting
and reelected II. Bcrgh president and Henry
CleWs treasurer Ihetreasuor'4 repnrt shows