Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-07
PRAIRIE fires have been unusually disa strous

! Mills CLAY, O'Brien, Woodbury. and Cass dur
ing the last few days. Two children were
burned to death on the prairie between Cor
rectionville ano Cherokee, on Saturday.
! GREAT trottiug match on the Prospect
Park ground for purse OF $4,000 between
| Gazella, Judge Fullerton. Rosallnd and Geo.
Palmer. commenced on Monday, and was con-
| clnded on Tuesday Gazelle winning. Time
2:23B, 2:21. 2:22A, 2:23h, 2:23h. Fullerton
took second money.
Ar a colt show in Lexington, KY, John
Stout, exhibited a chestnut FLY one year old
| bv Mambeino Patchen, dam by the thorough
| bred horse Mark Time. She was given a two
mile trial She trotted the first mile in 3:05,
! and the second in 1902, making the two miles
/ in 6:07. This is the most wonderful perfor-
nance ever Witnessed in the Blue grass region,
! if not in America.
THE circumstances Of the cadet troubles at
! the Naval academy, at Annapolis as reported
! to the Department, are briefly that Robert ID.
Djgqs, of Maryland, cadet midshpman, met
colored cadet midshipman Coneyers on the
/ grounds of the Naval Academy, and, afteI
some words between them, fight ensued.
Digs getting the better of Coneyers. The
/ represer tation being that Diggs was IN fault,
an order was issued dismissing Dlggs from the
/ Academy.
THE new corn field crop of Michigan is very
heavy and farmers are very blue over the
prospect of fifteen cents per bushel this win
1 ter.
BARNUM's & Co.'S jewelry case on exhibition
at the exposition at Memphis, was robbed OF
/ So 900 worth OF diamonds, Monday, while the
clerks back was turned No clue to the rob-
bcrs.
Ar special meeting OF the trustees OF the
Northwestern University, at Evanston, Rev.
Charles II. Fowler, d, D., pastor Of the Meth
odist Centenary church of Chicago, was elect
ed President of that institution, to succeed
Rev. T.. O. Haven.
The Peoples Savings Bank ofSyacuse, has
failed.
JULES d. STERY, German, formerly clerk
in the Meridian National Bank, in indianapolis,
forged an order on the Indiana Banking Com
pauy for $4,000, and escased with the money.
THE Turf House and stables at Rye Beach,
\. H., burned Tuesday morning, The con-
tents were mostly saved,
/ A yuuSG man named Holmes was instantly
killed, Tuesday evening, by being run into by
a locomotive, while crossing the railroad track
on South Water street, Cleveland, in wagon.
Mns ELwooD, of Holly, Michigan, commit.
ed suicide by stryehnine. Cause, domestic
trouble.
A GERMAN on the steamer Dubuque Satur-
day night, was swndlcd out of $500 by con-
ddonce operator, who used the well-known
tobacco-box me. The man escaped from
the boat Sunday morning, and has not since
been found.
TnG giving out OF the retort of the gas
works, in Davenport, Monday night, left the
CITY in darkness about ten O'Clock. Type
settlers telegraph operators and others used
candies The new gas-works will be com
plctcd the middle of next month, with ample
capacity to supply the city.
A WOMAN about sixty years of age, named
Mrs l.. Dersh, fell or jumped from the Central
railroad bridge at Rochester, n. Y, INTO the
river Tuesday, and was carried over the h gh
Gcuesce falls.
THE widow of Rev. DR.. Francis Nayland, of
Brown University died ON Tuesday.
As a passing train on the Atlantic a Pacific
railroad was leaving Marshfeld, Mo-, between
nine and ten O'Clock Monday night and as
conductor Porch was entering car, he was
shot by an unknown man and killed. 1t is
supposed the deed was committed by man
whom he had put of the train for refusing to
pay his fare.
WEI CLuoR, the Indianapolis wife-murder
or, has been sentenced to be hung on the Goth
OF December.
CAPTAIN RICHARD NJ. GoRDoN, of st. Joseph,
Mich committed suicide ON Monday night by
taking morphine. Cause business troubles.
HENRY D. J. PRATT, Chief of the First Diplo-
matte Bureau of the Department of State, has
resigned.
Mrs. GREELEY was very low Tuesday even
ing. Her physician says her death ls hourly
expected, though her present condition is no
worse than on two previous occasions.
JouN McKEoN is said to have determined to
withdraw as senior counsel FOR Stokes A
witness has been found who heard the hotel
boy Hart tell different stories concerning the
shooting.
ruE New York Board OF Health has ordered
an investigation into the death Of Nicholas
Scahroob, said to have been caused by ILL
treatment on the steamship Oceanic, on the
voyage from Liverpool.
MIS-. EhzABErH COOPER, widow of Commo-
dorc Cooper, of the United States Navy, died
i'm Brooklyn Tuesday, aged 10.
THERE were 2l0 deaths from small poX in
st. Louis last week.
Abroad.