Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-30
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A HAVANA letter states that's cargo Of sever
hundred Coolies arrived there recently. They
command six hundred dollars per head.
IT Is reported in Havana that large expe-
dition Of friends Of fhe Cuban revolutionlsts
with arms and ammunition, had landed safe
ly near Guar tomario.
THE Committee on Elections in the case Of
Bowen, contestiug the seat of Delarge, ma
that the statements on both sides show that
the frauds and irregularities in the conduct
of the election were 80 great that 1t Is lmpos-
ible to determine which had a majority of the
ballots legally cast, and therefore recommend
the adoption of resolution that neither Bow
en nor Delarge is entitled to the seat.
UNION BLOCH, in Ottumwa, Iowa, was burn
ed on Sunday. Loss $4,000
". II. BuMsTEAD, the Boss Tweed OF Jersey
City, who was sent to the ponltentiary Tor
nine months for stealing money from the city
under cover Of a real estate operation, has re-
gained his liberty. lie has occupied two
Handsomely furnished cells converted into a
suit for his benefit. He has spent 81, 600 while
in the prison IN providing himself with choice
food, liquors, cigars. furniture, fuel, &c. He
paid sixty cents a day to the state to escape
labor.
THE Legislature of Arkansas, on Saturday,
elected S. w. Dorsey U. ). Senator, III place o
VIM Rice, whose term expires on the ith Of
March.
RuMoR has it that there has been some ag-
ration among tho members Of the House of
Congress, looking to legislation for an in
crease of the salaries OF Representatives and
Senators to SlO,O 600 4 year.
Ar Gloverrville, n. Y, an incendiary fire
destroyed the shoe factory OF Arnold JOY
Grifiths, together with its contents ; also the
factory Of f. f.. Hotchkia5. Loss $50, 900 in
surance $50, 900.
THE saw and planning mills Of tho Mitchell
and Rowland Lumber Company, at Toledo,
were destroyed by fire. Loss $50, 600 covered
10y insurance.
Ono. +. DUSNISo was arrested in New York,
on Friday, on charge of embeH2ellng funds
Of the United States Assay Office while super
intendcnt. He B held in default of $50, 600
bail.
JUICE BIATCHToBp, of New York, has de-
tors and bankrupts must be open and fair and
that william G. Bean, assignee in bankruptcy
orCh0rles s. Keutzinger, OF st. Louis, shall re-
cover si6275 from Louise Armsinck and
others, who while signing compromise with
other creditors, made secret arrangement
with kentzenger & Co., TO have them COM
promise notes discounted for an amount equal
10 per cent. cash.
TuG small. pox epidemic is creating grave
apprchonslons in Boston and vicinity. Three
thousand cases are now reported to exist in
the city, and the per ceutagc OF deaths is much
larger than by all other causes combined
Nearly all of the burias are made in the night
The epidemic has had serious cflcot upon
commercial interests generally.
rnH schooner Henrietta, formerly Bonnett's
yacht, was lost on the 10th ult. She was driy
en- ashore near Honduras, and totally wrecked.
The crew were saved.
GsoRar Brown, OF Halifax, will soon chal-
longo the world TO row "a single sCull race for
$1,000 TO take place nest summer in Halifax
harbor or kouueboc river, or at Springfield,
Mass. A preference will bc gwen to Sadler,
English champion, who will be allowed his cx-
pcuscs II he will row there.
lr is freely stated that the principal scheme
OF the SANTANA BAY case is to tillibuster San
Domingo into the Union as state, after the
Kansas fashion.
THE bin TO relieve eS-Collcctor Jusson, of
Chicago, has passed the House.
TUE Denver News states the feeling through
ont the territory Is unanimous against the re-