Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-02-01
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kle Boeert were arraigned on cEaiSo Vi
murder, by poisoning X. f. Burroughs a.
Paterson. N. j., on Thursday. Both pleaded
not guilty. The trial will take place III April.
THr Senate on Thursday made the following
combinations Postmasters- Abraham Ha~-
kins. Rochester, Minnesota; Carroll, White
ws,er Wisconsin; A. J. Coy, Beaver Dam,
Wisconsin: ID. X. Noyes, Baraboo, Wiscou-
SID. -
A CINCINNATI telegram says OF the Nilsson
onera season Just closed, for size and character
~ the audiences, and success in other re-
spects, is unparalleled in the history OF Cln-
cinpati. The receipts for five nights we're ovel
ego, 900.
LONDON Journals. in articles on the assassin-
alton Of Fisk, cite the cases OF RICHARDSON
and Crittenden, and attribute the frequency OF
such deeds to the peculiar CIVILIZATION OF
America. and denounce the laxlty OF pnphc
sentiment.
PROCEEDINGS have been inaugurated by u
&. District Attorney Glover to condemn the
land known az the Postoffice Block, IN Chicago.
This for tho present. would seem to settle
the question of the locality OF the new govern
rnent buildings.
4 PETITION has been forwarded to the state
Senate at Albany, setting forth that proofs are
abundant that the election Of Tweed was the
result OF fraud. and praying that his seat be
declared vacant Evidence OF fraud accom-
pany the petition.
THE President has authorized the adoption
of an additional rule by the advisory civil SEW
ice board, allowing temporary appointments TO
he made without examination, where necessity
l.. Ia. handing the DgrfpctlDp OF a form
Of civil service examination.
A HUNTING camp has been established near
the Republican River, as basis of operations
Of General sheridan and the Duke Alexis
Buffalo and other game are reported plentltni
in the vicinity. II Ii expected that nearly one
thousand Indians will be collected.
The ex-Emperor Napoleon, on New Years
day, il reported to have said - VIII give
Theirs six months of the presidency OF the
French Republic, and at the end Of that time
Gambetta viii be in his place. The change
would be favorable to the imperial cause.
TuF Special Committee of the Senate, to
investigate the charges made against Senator
CLAYTON, OF Arkansas, have entered on their
duties and tho testimony promises to be very
revere If 1t turns out M represented II
will undoubtedly load TO the expulsion OF Clay
ton from the Senate.
The oil cloth factory Of G. NJ. Baily at Win
throp, Mass, took fire in the yarnlsh room on
SUNDAY. The fire spread rapidly, and before
it could be checked, an adjoining mil aud
three dwelling houses were consumed. One
of the houses consisted of xix tenemonts. The
boss viii amount TO near 900, ooO.
The powder house at the granite quarry
near Cedar Point Vinal Haven, Me-, contain
ing thirty-two kegs Of powder, was accidentally
blown up late ON Friday afternoon, killing
BRYAN, one of the quarrymen, and probably fat
ally wounding Austin Mink, the oyerseer of the
quarry besldes seriously njuring three others.
Mas. MARTENS, wife Of the Cleveland ma II
who died few days ago from Tt'eict'nd Spud-
as. has also died from the same disease.
boy, aged 6, s in critical condition. girl,
aged 4, il il believed will recover, The case
excites great interest among the medical men,
and a large number Of physicians and scien
hfc men have visited the sick family
AMAS named Stewart, living in Windsor,
Canada, was, on Thursday, attacked in the
woods near that city by n highway robber, and
was beaten senseless but not until he had
badly gashed his assaiant's throat. Stewart
was then robbed of his watch and money, but
recovered IN time to give the alarm. The ruff
fan was readily traced by his own blood, and
IL now in jail awaiting trial.
Ir il reported that the trustees of the Church
of the Messiah Qate Hepworth's church, have
offered Robert Colyer, of Chicago, 1000
salary, which he peromptortly declined, saying
he would not, under any circumstances, leave
his dear friends and beloved home in the west,
They then asked HIM il $4,000 wodld be any
inducemout and he answered, Could give
my heart for money!
Tnr absence of Greeley from the meeting
of the National Republican Committee in
Washington on Friday, eycites general COM
meut. as he represented the state of New York
uponit: while it strengthens the report that
The Tribune will not support the nominees OF
the Philadelphia Convention, provided Grant
Is one Of the two persons,
II is understood that Messrs. Hooley Il
Aiken will soon commence the erection of n
theatre ON the ground formerly occupied by
kleemau's billiard hail. on Randolph street,
Chicago, adjoining the sherman House, an ex-
change having been made with Mr.. Thomas
Is. Bryan, he giving the new location for the
old site of Hooley's Opera House ON Clark
street.
Foreign.
\ MOVEMENTS ON foot 10 raise subscriptions
for a monument to DIR. JeRner, the discoyerer
OF vaccination at his birth place.
\ ClHLr dispatch Announces the death Of
Henry Boggs, native of Halifax, He was a
prominent merchant of London, ana formerly
Of the firm OF Nunad y Go. lIo Was also q
director Of the Bank Of British North America.
ITis reported that the Mordauut divorce
case will soon he rc-oponed, with the Prince
OF Wales as correspondent, Another divorce