Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-30


stanty killed WEIGH, an employe, had both
legs broken, and four others were more or less
hurt Jared Caswell seriously, his face and
head being terribly burned. He and Mr..
TYLER, the Superintendent OF the mill, wore
blown fifteen feet down an ombankment and
rendered senseess for some time.
The steamer Tybee brings full coniirma-
ton of the lease Of SANTANA Bay to the Amer-
can company, ard of its ratification by the
Dominion government.
COMMISSIONER VAN buren, is sending to the
! Governors Office Of the several states circu-
/ lar requesting that each state shall send TO
/ the Vienna Exhibition examples OF the ma
terials used in common education with state
/ ments Of results obtained.
| MEssRs. FOLEY McKenny and Barnes, OF
! Covington, who went to Osecola, Ark, hunt
| ing, and were supposed to be the three men
found frozen to death in .kitf near Memphis,
are alive and well at Osceola
! Ar Muscatine, Iowa, the jury in tho case OF
the State against Wilmering, for killing his
father short time since, has just returned
verdict Of murder in the second degree.
Doctor JONES, homeopathic physician at
Toronto, died suddenly on Wednesday, after
taking dose OF chlorato hydrate, which had
been administered at his own request after
painful surgical operation.
REV JOSHUA LEAvIrT, d. D., associate editor
OF tho New York Independent, died in Brook
! Ign on Thursday from apoplexy, while at the
residence of his son.
REV. j. ID. L. ZEuTEn, NJ. D., editor of the
French Almanac, and Minister OF the Congre.
gational Church, died on Thursday, in Brook
lyn.
The report Of finding bottle Of strychnine
in the cell lately vacated by Stokes is er"o-
neous. The drug was aur uomicd, and had
been medically prescribed.
The levying of tonnage dues on American
steamers, running between Bremen and the
United States having been stopped by Ger
many tho same course was adopted here, at
the New York Custom House, Thursday, by
order of the Secretary of the Treasury,
RLv. w. c. CLARK has been expelled from
the New York Conference Of the Methodist
Church, for carrying on lottery ostonsibly
for the benefit OF a mission house and free
reading room. Clark continues to serve
church OF his own in Brooklyn, apparently
successful.
A BOILER explosion on Wednesday, on the
Chattahoochie river, killed two persons and
wounded several.
DEsIssEsY, French Minister of War, has
written letter TO Marshal Mcmahon. prohib-
itng the circulation of Bonaparte5 addresses
in the barracks Of Fronch troops, and urging
the severe punishment on persons found dis
trlbutng such papers,
A srARCH-LADES canal boat at Glencovo,
Long Island was sunk by ice on Thursday
night. Loss $40, 600.
M important decision was made by Judge
Boterick in the Muscatine District Court on
! Monday, dlssolvng an Injunction heretofore
| granted restraining the collection Of five
| per cent. tax voted to the Muscatne Western
Railroad Company, involving 100000 The
tax will probably be paid without further OPP
position, as but a comparatively small share
OF the taxpayers were concerned in the suit.
The brigantine Mary L.. Jones, of the Clyde
river, has been lost at sea. Her crew was
saved, but two passengers, daughters of Da-
yid Sutherland of Clyde river, were drowned
in the cabin.
! COOPER, REEs & Co., BANKERS of Baltimore
were swindlcd to the amount of $4,000, on
Saturday last, by payment OF bogus draft for
! that amount, purporting to be drawn by Glib
Casanova & Co, bankers, Now York. and pay
able to the order of II. S. Knox, Baltimore
AMONG the amendments that passed the
House with the Appropriation bill was an inn
portant one by McCrary, OF Iowa, which pro-
yidos that hereafter no money from the con-
! tingcnt fund of the House shall be paid to
! contestant for a scat In the House.
The committees of both Houses have agreed
to report in favor OF giving the Kentucky Salt
Company s22,O 600 for the destruction of their
works near Manchester, Ky, by Gen. Buell.. to
keep them from falling into the hands of the
rebels.
TUESDAY evening the planning mill Of Messrs.
/ Trlmble, Mcintyre u Co., in Allegheny CITY,
together with five dwellings,, was entirely
destroyed by fire. The total loss Is $4,000,
on which there is small insurance
! NEWFOUNDLAND journals announce the loss
of the schoonors Elizabeth and Magnolia. the
first with the loss of her entire crew, and the
second with the loss OF her captain and four
men.
The Senatorial contest in Kansas has mar
rowed down to Pomcrov, GOV. Harvey and
Judge Lowe. Seycuty-cight members are
pledged in opposition to Pomeroy. Sixty-seyen
votes are sufficient to elect.
MATILDA HERoN, who arrived in New York
from San Francisco a few days ago, is an in
mate Of the Park Hospital suffering from nj.
cohohe hystcra. Her little daughter is cared
for in tie same institution.
\ Nc-wEulIN named Ben Anderson was in
stont.y killed in Chicago. on Wednesday, by
ialhng through a stairway hole in the new
NAttOn NNus.. 4 l.,tunrn Of forty INT