Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-09-12
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indeed and forfeited to the United States.
TuE fires in the vicinity OF Puget Sound con-
time. destroying immense amounts OF Valua-
bic timber
SPECIMENS Of gold rock bearing have been
,eceiy,d in SAT- Lake City, from Tintic, assay
ed over forty thousand dollars per ton.
TnE Irish band hasauother split, had and
two men. with their leader, Richardson, sailed
for Europe on Saturday.
SHERIFF AUGUST WoLF1Nd, of Wlhamsburg'
has fled, warrant being issued against him
for outragng child.
AT Canaan, n. H., on Monday, the wife OF
DR.. Asawbeat died from chlor.f form admins
tered by her husband before extracting
tooth.
Mrs. FREDERICK AsHERnAS, wife Of Ger
man laborer OF Cincinnati set her clothes on
fire, Monday by kiudling fire in stove with
coal oil, and was burned to death.
girl named Maria Alexander, and a child
named Cora Mcgee, were burned to death at
indianapolis, on Wednesday, while attempt
ng to light fires with coal oil.
THE Somerset saw-miIs near Augusta
Maine, were burned Tuesday night. Loss,
$50, OUO-lnSuTdncc, elSOOO.
A SALT LAKE dispatch states that dsas-
trous fire il raging in the timber east OF the
Rocky Mountains.
IL a fight between Ben. Williams and John
Chatham, for 81 600 side, near Washoc Lake,
California, forty-hve rounds were fought.
Williams won. Over $40 600 changed hands.
JonN b. LYON, chief manager Of the Chicago
corner states his liabilities to be SS00,0 900, aud
offers his creditors twenty per cent cash and
five per cent. more in thirty days.
DESTRUCTIVE incendiary fire occurred at
Mount Carmel, Illinois, between | aud 2
O'Clock Tuesday morning, burning eight busi-
ness houses, including the Register printing
Office and lidgeway's new three-storv block.
Loss about s25, 900, with less than $4,000 in
surancc.
Henry REDMOND, gold broker Of New York,
failed on Monday. Liabilities 81 ,0O0,OOO with
less than half that amount of assets.
Mrs. AMELIA WHEAT, aged IL, residing at
No G3 Lombard street, Baltimore, was muir
dered in, her bed, by shooting, at an early hour
Tuesday morning.
REYNOLDS q Co.'S large ham warehouse
was burned down on Tuesday. The loss on
buildings and stock is forty thousand dollars
OK Wednesday afternoon a two year old in
FAINT of Matt Gin, Of Jacksonville, Ind, play
ing on the track of the railroad was run over
by train aud had an arm and leg cut of. It
died three hours after.
THERE is considerable excitement in Salt
Lake City in consequence Of the receipt of
precious gems, by the Savage Company, from
New Mexico. The rubies, emcralds, opals gar
nets, and sapphircs are pronounced genuine.
The lapidarios OF New York are to decide the
diamond question. Another expedition is or
ganlzing there in search OF gems.
SOPHIA PETERS was burned to death by an
explosion OF kerosene at the residence of a
farmer named Crlamer, in Buffalo, Scott coun-
ty, Iowa, on sunday
Ar poughkcopsic, on Friday last, as the wife
Of Or, Roberts, her mother, two children and
the nurse, We're descending the mountain OPP
pustc the city in a one horse wagon the traces
suddenly broke, aud the wagon went down hill
with fearful velocity and then tumbled over a
preciplce. All the occupants were found un-
der the vehicle and all more or less injured,
but none 1t is thought seriously
4 LETTER from 4. j. Alexander, the owner
OF the Grace horse Lexington, says "Oid Lex
iugtou is not dead, and hope he will not be
for years TO come. He has boon somewhat in
disposed but from nothing serious Nothing
has caused me to fear his early death. He il
much improved ia the past week. Lexington
now % wears old"