Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1872-09-12
Miscellaneous News in Brief.

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murdered in mysterious manner at
Winetka on Sunday last. A German
! laborer named VIM. Schweiger has
been arrested on suspicion of commit
| ting the deed.
/ THOMAS BOWLING and John McCor-
mack were shot by colored waiter in
st. Louis on Monday night last.
G. II. REMINGTON, foreman of the d.
and l. G.. Machine shops, and Charles
Hargus, little son of the City Record
er, were drowned on Monday, at Du-
buque.
G. w. MARTIN, of Pixley county,
/ Tennessee, who few days ago muir
dered his wife and threw her body into
a pond, was taken out of Jail on Sun
day night by twenty armed men, taken
few rods from the Jail, and twelve
charges of buckshot, from as many
guns, emptied into his body.
VIM. H. PYNE, agent of the Roberts
Torpedo Company, was blown to atoms
at Titusivlle, Pa, on Monday, by an
explosion of nitro glycerine.
A LOCOMOTIVE and two freight cars
! laden with whiskey were smashed, and
the whiskey burned, Tuesday, at Jersey
1 City, by collision with another train.
Loss Sal, 000
FORGED drafts for large sums have
recently been presented to various
banks IN the West.
REV. JAMES ROOSEVELT BAILEY of
Newark, has been appointed Arch
bishop baltimore, vice Spaulding, de-
! ceased.
JOHN B Lyon & Co, and Hugh
! Maher, managers of the great wheat
corner have been expelled from the
! Chicago Board of Trade.
ROBERT DEAL, his two grandchildren,
Miss Snyder, and a coachman, were all
killed at a crossing near Philadelphia,
Monday night, by a LOGON olive smash
ing their carriage.
Two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars worth of property was destroyed
/ by railway smash-up at Philadelphia
on Tuesday.
The yellow fever is epidemic at Car
thagena.
RIrrAR, LEvERsoS & Co., London
!
| to the Times, state that few months
ago an American came to this city and
bought large number of diamonds in
the rough. These, they intimate, were
used by the alleged DISCOVERIES of dia-
mond mines in Arizona to sustain their
assertions.
The cholera is reported raging in
India and fatalities are enormus. Thou
sands have died in the city of Lahore,
and other large places.
RELIABLE reports from all parts of
/ Alabama represent the destruction of
cotton by worms more thoroughly than
ever before. Fears of almost universal
bankruptcy among planters are enter
! tanned.
A COAL breaker at Hyde Park, Pa,
burned on Friday. Loss $50, 900.
KETIs' card and trimming factory, at
Hunters Point, n. T., is burned. Loss
| $500, 600. One hundred and fifty
hands are thrown out of employment.
Two cases of silks valued at Sc, ZOO
was stolen by burglars, who cut through
brick walls of the bonded warehouse
on the Cunard dock, Jersey City,
Thursday night.
THE recent failures in London had
the effect to iatten consols and cause a
general feeling of insecurity in hnan.
ciai circles.
Francis MoRoSEY, a young stone
cutter in New York, is reported to have
fallen heir to an English estate valued
at $500, 900.
Some days ago two desperadoes, Nc
Clellan and Wright, got INTO quarrel
at Hays City, Kan, in which Wright
was killed, and Mcclellan badly
wounded. Mcclellan was placed in
Jail, and chained to post with Pony
Donovan, noted horse thief. The
second night after the murder band
of citizens visited the jail and killed
/ both Mcclellan and Donovan.