Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-12-26
-isor of Internal Revenue, rice S;las B. Dutch

err resigned Alexander ID. button, supervisor
of Internal Revenue, appointed during the
recess ofCongress Alex. Knowles, Associate
Justice OF the Supreme Court IN Montana
Territory F.; Nelson Rustler, United States At,
torney for Indiana.
A FIRE at Galva ILL.,, on Thursday destroyed
one of the largest business houses left by the
recent conhagration. Two Swedes are under
arrest on SUSPICION of having caused the fire.
CAPTAIN A. H. BoGARDus, the celebrated
crack shot, met with a serious accident near
Elkhart Indiana, on Monday. He was riding
in a wagon when a sudden jolt discharged his
gun, sending its contents through his thigh,
making hole six inches in length by one and
a half inches wide and deep. The wound,
though serious and painful, is not necessarily
fatal
The bridge on the Congaree River destroyed
during the evacuation OF Columbia, 5. g., in
1865, was reopened Saturday.
GEORGE G. WATKINS, OF Little Rock, Ark,
died in st. Louis, Saturday. He was for many
years Chief Justice and Attorney General Of
Arkansas.
FRED s. WISsLow, the defeulting President
Of the Scandinavian National Bank of Chicago,
is in China.
FRED PuddENscHE fell into vat of boiling
slops at Dickinson, Leach & Co.'s distlltIy in
Chicago, and was literally boiled to death.
MARTHA SMITH, atlas Maui Merrill, pros
titute, was shot in New York on Tuesday even
ing. The person who committed the murder
said in passing out Of the house where she
stopped, that he had shot his niece, and would
give himself up, but did not do SO, and has
not been arrested.
THREE men were precipitatedto the ground,
a distance Of forty feet in Chicago, on We'd
nesday, by the fall of scaffold at the new
Turner Hall, ON North Clark street. One man
received fatal injuries.
GEN. VAN BuREN, United States Commits
sioner to Vienna Exposition, and Clayton Nc
Michael, of Philadelphia, assistant Commits
sioner. were before the House Committee on
Foreign Affairs on Wednesday, to urge the
propriety Of an immediate and liberal appro-
pration by Congress to secure proper repre-
sentation Of United States products at Vienna.
Secretary Robson was present at the meeting,
and stated that the Navy Department was
ready to send two vessels TO transport the
goods as recommended in the message of the
President. An appropriation will be recon-
mcnded.
Ar billiard tournament in Boston, We'd
nesday evening, an exhibition game of 100
points was played between Miss Bessinger and
Mr.. Tobn. The lady played with much skill,
and won tho game nv n nointa
DENNIS SHEA shot and MORALLY wounded
James Laughlin at Louisville, late Monday
night, in saloon brawl.
The name of the man found dead at Union
City, Ind, on Monday, was c. Z. Raining. The
Coroner's verdict was that he was murdered
and carried out to the woods. The doctors
say he has been dead two weeks.
RETURNS from Schooloraft county, Michigan,
complete the vote of the state. The whole
number of votes is 227 $40 has 138, 81 !;
Greeley, 1850 others, Ais. The majority
for Grant is 60,16l. Grants vote exceeds his
vote in S6S by 10, 26i Greeley's, 18,4l9 less
seymour's. The whole sas -
4 ,0i0 less than in 1865.
YOUNG German named Heinrich Mohr
W MS aCClutHtailS Shtt anu hlhNu ~ PiStoi III
the hands of companion named Henry
Smith, at Chicago, on Monday.
COMPTROLLER GREEN, of New York city,
having refused to pay Court Justice QUA
$4,000 salary, allowing the legal salary to be
$4,000, suit was brought by Justice Quin.
Judge Fancher, OF the Superior Court, decd
ed in favor of the plaintiff that the salary was
legally raised from $1,000 to $4,000 by the
Mayor and Municipal Council.
EBpIS PORTER, living near Columbiana,
Ohio, murdered his two children, aged one
and two years, with Ratchet, on Thursday.
The steamship st. Louis sprung leak and
sunk, on Sunday last, 40 miles from South
west lar, Florida, The passengers and crew
were rescued.
Abroad.
A HEAVY gale Friday wrecked several vessels
at Cow Bay, Nova Scotia.
4 BILL has been introduced in the Spanish
Cortes providing tor universal compu lsory
military service.
THE French Assembly, after the most vio-
lent discussion ever witnessed in the Chamber,
rejected the petitions for dissolution by
large majority.