Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-11-28

JAMES C. KING, formerly stock broker, shot
one O'Neil dead in New York, on Monday
family difficulty was the cause.
Coal MINES are on fire at Evanston, near the
head of Echo Canon, Utah.
GEN. NEWTON, United States Army, express
Sos y e opinion that the use of gunpowder is
injudcious to stop the pro gress Of fire, CIV
Ing preference to dualine and giant powder,
which do not scatter oombustible debris, but
bcut a building close off to the foundations and
piers, and lets 1t fall vertically.
THE state fire building, police charities and
dock departments Of New York city viii be
abolished by legislative actin this winter.
In the United States Circuit Court, at Now
York, on Saturday, Judge Shipman decided
against the government in suit to recover
S25, O0O from Benz. J. Cahoon, the alleged de-
fauiting paymaster in the navy, and sureties,
holding that Cahoon was lunatic, and una
bic at the time Of entering into his bond to
make any contract whatever
JUDGE SHEA, of the New York Marine Court,
has decided that knowledge on the part of an
agent. not communicated to his principal that
premises are to be used for improper purposes,
.
THE people,of Arizona protest against chang
ing the territory to the Department of Mexico,
and the assignment Of General Howard, or any
one else to the command, in place Of General
Crooks.
THIRTY vessels are in San Francisco to load
with wheat. The inward boundi fleet due be-
fore April LIST s composed Of one hundred and
eighty vessels.
Twenty inches of snow is reported at Ango-
la, New York
The government steam saw-mill at Bedford
D. T., was entirely destroyed by fire on Tues,
day night. BY good luck, there was no wind
NJ the time of the fire, aud the loss Of the
mills constitutes the whole Of the disaster.
The loss is more than ordinarily severe, as the
navigation Of the Missouri River has closed,
and the machinery cannot be replaced before
spring.
On Tuesday night, as a colored man named
John Smith, of Mansfield, Pa, arrived at
home, found white man with his wife. lie
shot at the white man several times but he
escaped unhurt. Smith then kicked and poun
ed his wife, nficting injuries from which she
hrs died. Smith was arrested, and, on his
way to the lookup, shot himself, inhicting a
onnd which NAV prove fatal.
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Charley Humphrey. Murray is very low with
his wounds, and will probably die. Humphrey
received an ugly cut IN his wrist.
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