Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09
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controlling interest in the Pittsburg CONNER
cial, for 100000.
ASSOCIATE JUDGE STRICKLAND, of the United
States Court Of Utah. will soon resign.
The Senate Committee on Privileges and
Elections viii. on the 10th of January, resume
their investigation Of the charge against SEN
ator Caldwell, that he was elected by the
bribery OF certain members of the Kansas
Legislature.
THE Commission to inquire into the depre-
datious ofMcxicans on the Texas frontier ex
pect to leave Washington on the 7th OF jan
nary to resume then labors. Meade, one OF
the Commissioners, has resigned
The Secretary Of the Treasury has author
lied the Assistant Treasurer at New York to
buy 81 100000 bonds and sell IL 900 coin
each week during the month of January.
COLLISION on the Erie Railroad, near Wee
hawken, resulted in the destruction of five
freight cars and serious injury of two locomo-
tigcs.
The body Of Jane Stewart has been recover
ed from the ruins of the Centre street fire.
FREDERICK CAMPBELL, son OF the President
Of the Pacific Bank, suicided in New York on
Friday.
Doc. TowNLEY, business manager Of the
New York Grand Opera House and well known
as journalist, died Sunday morning.
EDWARD A. EVERETT is under arrest in Chi
cago on a charge of stealing one hundred
thousand dollars in bonds of the Selma and
Gull Railroad, which u Miss Shortwe had
been entrusted to deliver to Gen p D, Rhod-
dy, Of Alabama.
W. G. ROBINSON, a prominent Pittsburg
manufacturer, is dead.
FIVE immense land slides have occurred in
Oregon on the line Of the Northern Pacific
Railroad. Two hundred men will be employed
two weeks to put the track III order again.
CHARLEs kEAEGER, a merchant in San Fran
cisco, committed suicide with razor. He had
adesperate struggle with his clerk, who tried
to prevent hln, before accomplishing the
deed
HEAVY rain storms have flooded the streams
in California. Much damage is reported.
SEVERAL collisions are reported between the
miners Of the Phoebe PhUuix and Raymond and
Ely mining companies in Nevada One miner,
Thomas Ryan, WAS killed on Saturday evening,
aud another, Jacob Swetzer, dangerously
wounded The Raymond and Ely miners have
struck against ten-hour shifts.
The report that Governor Warmoth has
abandoned the contest in Louisiana is authori-
tatycly denied.
TREMENDOUS scar have prevailed on the At
lautic for the past zen days.
The new public school building, No. s. Jer-
sey City, was partially destroyed by fire on
Monday evening. The loss on the building
and furniture is estimated at sixty thousand
dollars insurance forty thousand dollars.
About one hundred and fifty girls in the school
at the time escaped without accident.
The atmospheric wave which caused such
Intense cold here Monday and Tuesday reach
ed the eastern states Tuesday night. At Con-
cord, n. II , on Wednesday, the mercury indi-
Gated 30 degrees below Lancaster, N Y,
from Is to so below. At Bath, Me, % below.
which was the coolest with perhaps one or two
exceptions since 1857
An old lady named Potter, residing in Keo-
kuk, Iowa, was burned to death Monday even
ing by her clothing taking fire from stove at
which she was cooking.
CorIous rains nave fallen in every portion o
California, from San Diego to Yreka. A boun-
tful harvest is promised next year.
KATE CoNNoR, the servant injured by
cooking range explosion in Cincinnati, on Sun
day, is dead.
THE Porto Rico emancipation bill provides
that slave owners shall receive 50 per cent.
indemnity. the slaves to be free within four
months after the passage Of the bin.
kAMru,MEHA King of the Sandwich Is
lands, dlcd at Honolulu on the 18th of Decem-
Der, he Is the last of the royal line named.
No successor had been chosen when the
stoar.r left.
A NIGHT express train on the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad ran of the track few
miles north of Harvard, III. All of the cars
except the sleeper, six in number, were thrown
OIL, and the conductor, Murray Milmine, ongi-
noer stephen iotting, and a brakeman named
Ben Hin, were slightly njured.i
JAMES WAY, an engineer, WAS caught in the /
machinery Of imcad's chair factory ut Ian
sing, Michigan, on Thursday aud hurled to
the floor with such force rs to fracture his |.
skull, causing death in a short time.
Mrs, FEM, a widow woman residing near
Charlotte, Michigan, has been insane for some /
time ON Monday night she had to bo tied in
bed. Hot bricks and hot cloths were put in /.
With her as part of the prescribed treatment
to quiet her. From the bricks, however. some
OF the bedding caught fire, and she was fatal F.
y burned before she could Be released.
YaCNG man, named Andrew Powell, while (
oui hunting on Wednesday, near Pkcyile, .
OHIO, was shot 10y the accidental discharge of
bis guu
IN Lafayette township, Indiana, on Wedncs-