Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-04-04
THE N e w S
At Home.

OIRGs dt IlbBii19p'ab .
Friday morning. Loss, s20,0Oo.
JuE stea mer Charmer struck a rock whle
descending the falls at Louisville, on Thurs
dav, and sunk. TIL boat was valued al Civ
000. p.
Tur Touring mill of Zesighouse d Brother,
corner of North Second and Jefferson Streets
waa burned on Sunday morning. Loss 7oo'-
000.
The harness and saddle mandatory OF T..
?. Mover & Bros, 720 Market street. Phladei-
phi.. was burned on Saturday night. Loss
s85, 900.
The Methodist Episcopal Church at New
York Mills was destroyed by fire on saturday.
Lose $50, 0O0-insured for 10000. The hre
war caused by a defective fiue.
HARTFORD, Conn, has voted TO purchase
the Trinity College grounds for the extension
of the park and site for a new State House.
The price to be paid therefor is s6OO,ooo.
Turse were about II, 900 bushels of wheat,
10000 bushels of corn, and 10000 bushels OF
oats destroyed by fire in the Ohio %elevat-r at
Buffalo.
RuuaIARs entered the warehouse OF &
Moorman, in Shelbyville, Tenn, killing a clerk
named Michael Murphy, blew open and robbed
n safe Of $500, and then burned the building
A hoy named Rowe, nine years old, got on
behind an omnibus in Covington, Ky. The
driver drove him off, and the lad fell down.
and Il baggage-wagon ran over hum ana kllled
him.
Ir is stated that fully Sl2,0 geo, 900 of Erie
stock are now under control Of Jay Gould,
half of it his private property. 1t is rumored
that he retired from the board merely to en-
able him to renew the fight.
TIE New York Post calls on Connecticut to
strike a death blow to tho Democratic party
before the national CANVASS begins, on the
ground that in Connecticut the Democracy
have adopted tho same old platform.
The typhus and typhoid feyers are prevalent
in tho House of tho Good Shepherd, Brook
lyn. There are forty-two cases now there,
including four of tho Sisters OF Mercy, while
another of the latter has died.
CORRESPONDENT recently returned to Eng
land from the Cape diamond fields, gives the
following account During the spring of this
year the value of the stones discovered did
not exceed c25, 900 per month while at various
camps no loss than 80 0G people were engaged
in digging or supplying the wants of dlggers.
Since then, however, the supply has been
nearly tripled, owing TO the discovery OF a
small field of extraordinary richness. Nearly
fonr-brths of the whole amount of diamonds
come from a little hillock of only twenty acres
oxtent. to which half the mining population
has flocked
BosroN had a snow-storm on Friday last,
in which about half the flakes consisted of
greonish brown worms, an inch long. They
crawled away IN a lively manner IA soon as
they struck the ground The same phenom~
enon was witnessed at Somerville, Mass.
The subscription books for a monument to
Con. Thomas will be opened the lst of May.
1t is proposed to raise 800, 200, or 70, 900 from
zach of the twenty states. The monument
will be at Washington, West Point, or in New
York Central Park.
Tar aggregate issues of the Chicago relief
and aid societies to March I'd were | ,460, III
articles or yards of goods. Among these are
over u, 900 mattresses, over 60, 900 blankets.
81, 700 pairs OF shoes, 1893, 600 articles of cloth
ing, Il, 200 bedstoads, Il, 900 stoves and 80, 600
tons of coal.
IAwRENCr GIBBONS. shot on the steamer
+''hfh " Viith hoN ~ 'NAA" ''iIh'tht
diod on Saturday Mt the Marine Hospital in
Louisville. He had not lain down since the
afiray. The only sleep he has had since he
was shot, was 10y laying his head ON Il table
wh,le sitting IN a chair.
Tive Americans, Capt. Cunningham and
Mr. simpson, we're severely wounded by
Nlearauguan soldiers for uoglocting to remove
their hats IN presence of u religious procession
at Nicaraugua. Both had been in the country
but a fortnight, and neither understood Span
ish, Tho american minister is moving IN the
matter.
A NEW review of the candidates for Mayor OF
New York, gives the name of Comptroller
Graen, ex-Shend John kell, Senator OBrien,
W, IL. Wichham, and T.. Hayemeyer, Chairman
of the Committee Of Seventy. The Germans
name Ottendorter, Whithars, Augustus Scholl,
and Emit sauor. Banker Kelly, is still Tam,
many's %fayorite, and Wichham, Of Apollo Hall.
Abroad.
Tue first steamer Of the new French line be-
tweonyalparaiso and Panama has arrived in
tlo Pacific.
II is rumored that General Bourhaki has
sont a challenge to Marshal Baraguoy de
~tlilliors.
rRlSoE NAroLeoS, who is now in Rome, has
had an interview with His Majesty King Victor
Emmanuel.
SEVEN persons vera drowned 10y the upset
ting Of a boat OF the British steamer Bagota,
at Eteu, on Feb. ID.
fHE several parts Of the monument to be
erected % Gen. Roimau Of Rock Island. have
arrived at that place.
fur bark Delta picked up at sea seventy
three persons, who escaped m boats from the
Burning French bark Oriental.
PENSION Of fl,0oo has been granted to
Lady Mayo, and t1N,0oa has been settled on
her children lis the British government.
SPOTTED FEVER ls prevailing 10 an ii rming