Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-03-28
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ing committed a theft.
MRg. CHAPMAN, Of Booth Bay, Me-, strangled
her infant child, on the 4th Of March, whlle IN
q state OF religious insanity.
A FEARFUL storm passed over Helena, Arb
c, Thursday. Hail stones OF great SIZE feu'
breaking windows and Kidding the roofs
TUp Timber yards of II. Il. Deacons, hunlc
ker A. Co. and Patterson d Co., in Philadel-
phia, we're damaged by fire on Tuesday night
to the amount Of SEQ, 600 insurance s54,ooo
SEVERAL prominent Massachusetts Volun
teers, officers in the late war, have formed an
rganization for the purpose of raising funds
for a monument over TIE grave Of the late
Governor Andrew.
Jupag CARpozo has made an order IN the
suit Of Helen Josephine Mansfield vs. James
Fisk, Jr,, substituting Mrs. Lucy ID. Fisk ar
defendant in his place
JONI HrsBEL, white man, has been ar
rested on a charge Of poisoning four children
of coored woman named Libner in East
Troy Two died and the others are dying
Henbel is believed to be crazy.
PART OF the LAGRANGE County, Indiana,
Iniirmary, at LaGrange, was burned on Tues
day. Ono of the inmates who 1t was neces-
sary to keep in close confinement, was burned
TO q crisp. lie was middle aged man, named
Abraham Magundv
GEN. Il. w. HEALY, United States Marsha
at Montgomery, Ala, has applied to Attorney
General Williams for troops to aid him In ar
resting parties indicted at the late term OF the
United States District Court, held at Montgom-
cry, Tor tho trial of Ru-kux outrages. His re-
q lest will be complied with.
A mauwAyMAN stopped stage between
Milton and st. Andrews, California, and de-
manded the treasure box, which was given to
him, when the stage drove on. Discovering
that the box was empty the robber became
enraged, and fired several shots at the stage,
without effect.
CAPr BOaARDUs OF Illinois, will bet from
81 900 to 81, 500 that he can kill 500 pigeons 10
six hours and iorty-fve minutes, using muz
sie-loadng gun, to load his own gun, use no
cartridge, no tape or oil caps. lie wiil also
bet 500 to 81 900 that ho can Kill 100 consecu-
tve birds.
The widow of Prof Chemeriere has com
menced one of series of quits against the
owners OF the Westfcld. She lost her husband
and four children, and sustained personal in
jury,
CARL YoGEL was arrested in Philadelphia,
clated with numbering Cheratier Dubois de
B aincs, in Brussels. last October, setting ire
to his house and stealing suAdres vained at
100000. A portion of the stolen property was
found on Vogel.
GEN. b. G. Howard, one Of the most cs-
teemed and influential citizens Of Maryland,
died on Wednesday, He commanded the Mer-
camille volunteers at the battle of North Point.
in 1914, and wax a member of Congress- for
several sessions, and chairman OF the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations,
The reversal by the Court of Claims of the
ruling OF accommodations Delano concern
ing percentage paid on the sale of proprietary
stamps by parties having private dies under
the informal revenue law, VIII render necessa-
~ the refuuang by the Government TO parties
v hu failed 10 get the proper commission on
their purchases of about $1,000.
IN Baltimore, on Monday, the jury in tho
case Of Townsend Scott Il Son against tho
parkcnburg Branch Railroad Company, IN
diving the liability OF the company for =
fraudulent or over issue of stock 10y Crawford,
late Secretary of the Company, rendered a
verdict for Si5,t10 for the plaintiff.
, Tux steamer San Francisco. from Bermuda,
reports that the ship Denmark, originally and
better known as the Great Republic, was aban-
donoi at sea III latitude 80 north, longitude
G9:40 west, with hfteen feet Of water in her
old. The captain and crew arrived safely ut
ormuda IN the ships boats,
EARLY Friday morning three negroes broke
into the house of an old man of 80 years,
named James Mcneil, near Shelby City, Boyle
co. Ky, and brutally murdered hun. splitting
his head open withA'an AK and stahhing him in
several places EEs Sbjett OF the murdolars
was plumber bucaH this they have failed. Two
of them aro under arrest.
SErn WlLuuR PAINE, proprietor of the Utica
Daily Bee, was on Saturday convicted, in that
city, of libel upon Judge Chas. II, DooGttle,
m charging him with taking or agreeing to
! ko money from Milton IL. Thompson for
refusal to put over the trial Of Mrs McCarty,
under indictment for murder. aud sentenced
TO four months III the Albany penItentiary.
Abroad.
EMrERoE WILLIAM has granted pardous 10
the French prisoners still held by the Germans
Tor civil and military oneuseS.
TuE Berno newspapers say that Giuseppe
Ma2gui Is at Terauo, in Tyrol, making pre-
parahons for It revolutionary INVASION of Italy
A DISPATCH from Melbourne reports that the
British sloop-of-war RasaWe, Commander
Palmer, shellod and destroyed a village iu-
hahltod 10y the murderers of Bishop Patterson.
THE operators in the silk factories Of Leet,
in Stanopishre, To the number Of 3, 500, have
been locked out for refusing 70 accept the
terms offered them by the masters, This
throws third of the towns population GU, OF
work.
STOCKS Of earthquakes We're felt on We'd
nesday afternoon simultaneously in Dresden
Pima, Schandau, Ckemnltz, Baden, Weimar
Bach aud Rudolstadt Thomoyement was not