Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-05
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Indiana.
EDWARD HARRIS, a prominent manufacturer
and business man Of WOonsocket, Ii. l., dled
Sunday afternoon.
A FIRE in San francisco, Sunday. destroyed
John NJ. Farrens wagon factory and Gallardo
h Co.'S oil and junk store. Loss about sl5oD.
An old man named Joseph Clark perlshcd III
the flames.
TpIr repair shop and warehouse belonging
10 the Chicago and Alton Railroad, at Jackson
vile, H., was burned Saturday night, Loss
unknown.
The principal feature Of the celebration of
Evacuation Day In New York on Monday, was
the PROCESSION of veterans of 1872, under the
escort of the Sixth Regiment to the old fort in
Central Park and the ceremony OF hosting
flag over the parapet After the close OF the
ceremonies the veterans partooh oil cona'ioh
at the Sixth Regiments armory.
THREE men. named Andrew Roshe, Herman
Roshe and Herman Meyers. were found dead
at the old Government camp, about forty
miles north OF Mcpherson Station, On the Loup
Fork. two days ago. They had apparently
been murdered by white men. They were
bpn,ers and trappers who had left Mcpherson
on the 18th.
GEN TERRY will take command OF the De-
partment Of Dakota, vacated by General HAN
cock.
THE British forces have been Withdrawn
from the island Of San Juan, in accordance
with the Berlin decision
The revenue fraud case against VIM. L.
Weld & Co., of Boston, Is SAID to have been
comprised by the defendants paying to the
United States Treasury 100000. The amount
originally claimed by the Government was one
million four hundred thousand dollars. The
g. i against the same finn III New York has
been compromised 10y the payment OF one.mil
hon two hundred Thousand dollars.
4 b. KEyFs x Co., bankers Of Cincinnati,
have suspended on account of the corner IN
Northwestern.
The total vote Of Kansas Is about one hun
bred and three thousand, an Increase OF two
thousand in the last two years. This indicates
an increase OF population vt the rate OF over
one thousand year.
Mrs. JAS A. OATES, the actress, was married
to Tracy W. Titus, manager OF the Oates
Troupe, Sunday evening, at the Southern Ho-
tel, ST. Louis.
DENNIS Dow, aged 65, farmer in the town.
ship of Dover Cuyahoga county, committed
suicide Sunday morning. He was suffering
from alteration of the mind.
TIE channel of the Mississippi River IN front
of Dubuque, is clear of ice, and the ferryboat
il still making reguar tips to the Illinois
shore. Above and below the city, the riyer Is
gorgcd,
YOUNG man, name not known, entered the
house of one of the most respectable families
of Vallejo, California, and, in tho absence OF
the older members, violated the person of u
girl five years old. He was arrested. Intense
excitement exists, and there are fears that he
viii be taken out Of Jail aud lynched.
TnERr was a suicide or an attempt Mt suicide
in San Francisco every day last week.
The subscriptions to the General Thomas
statue fund amount to $3.50
ANGUS MURRAY, engineer, and John Shetran,
fireman, of freight train on the European
and North American Railroad, were instantly
killed. on saturday, by running into gravel
TRAM near st. John, Me. The men were horri-
bly, manglod Only one other employee was in
jurod' a9IfGg but slightly.
IHE dnyibutions for the relief OF sufferers
by the Boston fire received by the Treasurer
of the fund up to Sunday night, amounted to
$4,000.
MARA, who attempted to assassinate ex-Al-
derman MeMnllen, in Philadelphia, has been
sentenced to six years and nine months i'm
prisoumont, and to pay fine OF $1,000.
RoBgRr'S glycouno magazine, Scrub Grass,
Penn, exploded on Saturday, killing Harry }.
Wolfe, telegraph operator, and Il. A. Wight,
torpedo agent, Only fragments of their bodies
were recovered,
SUIT has been instituted by the Erle
Railway Company against Daniel Drew to
recover S., 000, 900, alleged 70 have been en-
be2zled by him whilo treasurer of the COM
psny IN 1868, by salos of $4,000 shares of
watered stock.
President GRANT has directed the issue of
pardon to Reuben j. Young, of Alabama,
convicted in May, 1872, Of being implcted in
n ku-klux conspiracy, and sentenced to be
imprisoned for ten years and to pay fine Of
81 600.
Tur Commissioners to investigate the out
RACES on the Rio Grande border have COM
pletod their report, which is very long. The
Commissioners confined their investigation to
\ a distance of 500 miles from the mouth Of the
Sic Graude to Rio Grandc City estimating
At the Americans included IN the limit have
Mexican raids, suffered 70 the extent of
900, to say nothing Of the murders
by Mexicans.
,Rr1N killed lis wife in New York
til to Saturday evening there
deaths from smallpox IN ST.
marine report, commenting