Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-09-19
Miscellaneous News in RrieY

SENATOR SUMNER sailed for Europe
from Boston on Tuesday.
AIKEN. the New York buglar noI;o.f
man, has been sentenced to twentv
years Imprisonment.
An Irish boy named Morrisev WOO
hung at Buffalo on Friday, for the mr.
der of his mother last June.
NORTH CAROLINA advices say Jndoa
Merriman has decided not to contest
/ Caldwell's election.
Four persons We're killed by an ar-
plosion of the powder mills at Honn.
slow, England, on Friday.
The schooner Emily Gorham was 70.
Gently wrecked at Prince Edwards
Island, and nine lives lost.
Rev. GEo. F. HOWE, New York citv
missionary, was arrested for swindGne
several thousand dollars.
A CAR driver named Thurston has
been arrested in Brooklyn, for fatally
beating H. Hahn with a car-hook IN
Brooklyn.
THE New York Bar Association in.
tend to institute measures to have
Judge Cardozo disqualified from prac-
tice at the Bar
JOHN STRATHMAN, a New York ruff.
fan beat his wife badly, and concluded
by smashing kerosene lamp over her
head, burning her fatally.
The Y'DRYcH, Welch paper saws
Stanley real name is John Rowlapds.
and that he was born in Denhigh, North
Wales.
A DISPATCH from Bombay confirms
the report that the cholera is raging
III India. Numerous deaths occur
daily.
A HEAVY thunder storm occurred on
Wednesday, at Bolton, Lancashire,
England, causing the loss of several
lives and much damage to the crops.
The Rinderpest has appeared among
the cattle III several places in Yorkshire
England. Precautions have been taken
to prevent its spreading
TWENTY thousand dollars worth of
property was destroyed by an explosion
and contlagratiop at Lombards oil
works in New York, on Friday.
On MONDAY, a train on the Long Is
land Rail Road, ran over a carriage near
Vestburg station, containing two ladies,
boy aged seven and a girl aged four
teen. All were killed or fatally injured
The victims were a family named
Castle, residing near New York.
JOHN Hoy, Chinaman, waiter in s.
l.. NJ Barlow's family, was murdered
at Glen Cove, Long Island, by drunk
en- Captain of sloop named the David
Ayres. The Captain was arrested.
The decrease in the public debt dur
ing the past month is so, 1876, 635S5;
Coin in Treasury S73, 9S1, SIT; Currency
balance, 500, 347. ~ Coin certificates,
S2S, 965, 500.
A DISPATCH from Springfield, ILL.,,
SAYS a boiler in SCOTS mills, twelve
miles from town, exploded Saturday,
afternoon, instantly killing two of MIR,
SCOTS sons, and severely injuring sew
eral other persons.
JOHN LIyINGsToNE brother of DR..
Livingstone, has been interviewed at
Lstowell, Canada, by correspondent,
as to the genuineness OF the Living
stone letter. He states that there is
not the least doubt that the letter he
received was in his brothers own hand
writing.
A MYSTERIOUS murder was committed
on Saturday last, near Round House
Station, Green county, I'll A farmer
named Scott, not returning from work
at the usual time in the evening, was
sought by bis wife. who found him dead
in the field, bullet hole through his
brain
TIE cathedral at Canterbury, Eng
land, was seriously damaged by fire on
Tuesday The fire caught over the
shrine Of Bishop Beckett by the upset
ting of a brazier used by workmen III
repairing the dead roof. About one
hundred aud fifty feet Of the roof was
destroyed, and the interior of the SPLEEN
did edifce seriously damaged.
EDWARDS. the Jamesburg bank rob
ber escaped from the New Jersey state
prison on Wednesday bv filing the IRON
bars and letting himself down outside.
JUDGE LEWIS DENT was arTaigned IN
the Washington police court on Wed-
nesday for an assault upon Mr.. Reed,
one OF the editors of the Daily Cap,
tai, aud fined five hundred dollars and
costs.
Ar Providence, r. l., ON Wednesday
Morton e. Hoard late cashier OF the
Rhode Island National Bank. and koo-
ert Pierson. late teller Of tie same IN
stieltlon, were each sentenced to nlnee
wears imprisonment for embezziement
the former TO pay five Of $1,000 IN
addition.