Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-11-27

capacity allowed by law. Recruitingwas going
on brskly in Washington.
The National Trust Company Of Pittsburgh
has suspended.
About half the business portion Of Upton,
Mo-, has been destroyed by fire.
A statement is made in letter from
Havana, recently received in New York, that
on the night of the 18th inst, when the news
of the capture Of the Virgnius reached
Santiago, the Spanish volunteers In their
dendish exultation over their triumph, visited
the widows Of the Masons who were shot in
1865, and brutality outraged the helpless wo-
men, and in the struggle Gt is stated four Of
the women were killed, seg en- had since died,
ard several were in such a dangerous condi-
ton that they could not possibly recover. a
petition was being circulated in New York
City, aud being signed generally by the Mas
tiers OF Masonic Lodges residing in New York,
and Past Masters of Lodges residing in the
city, calling for an emergent session Of the
Grand Lodge of the State TO take such action
as might be necessary in the case. Similar
action on the part Of the Masonic fraternity
was being taken in New Jersey and Massachu
sets.
Unusual activity prevailed in the Washing
ton navy yard on the 18Th, and in some Of the
departments overtime was being made. A
large force was engaged in the Ordnance De-
partment making ammunition.
1t was said on the 10Th, that the impression
was general in official and other circles in
Washington, that the Spanish Government was
disposed to make every effort to settle the i'm
pending difficulties, and gentlemen who held
intimate personal relations with the President
asserted their belief that war would not arise
from the existing complications, inasmuch as
Spain, through the Castelar, Government gave
assurances that all the demands of this Gov
eminent would be complied with.
Washington dispatches Of the 10Th say it was
evident that Cuban matters would require
much correspondence, and consequent de-
lay. 1t was asserted in prominent quar-
tiers that no complications need be feared
as the Administration sees its way clearly
and while war will be ayerted the probability
is that Cuba will be free. The Secretary of
State had received a dispatch from Consul
General Hall, at Havana, stating that the
Consulate at Santiago reports under date
of the 18th, that the total number of execu-
tons Of persons from the Nirginius was fifty
three, and that there had been no executions
since the Sth inst. The statements published
there on the l4th, respecting tifty-seyen addi-
tional executions prove to be uniounded.
4 New York telegram of the Goth, says
Captain Montngro, of the new Spanish IRON
clad war vessel, the Arapides, had received
orders from his home Government to get ready
for sea at the earliest moment possible, and
proceed to Cuba. He expected his vessel to
be out of the dry dock in twenty days, when
nothing will remain to be done except TO take
her powder and armament
The Common Council Of New York City
have voted to give the Departments Of Public
Works and Parks S1,0O0,o00 each, to furnish
work for unemployed laborers.
A Jacksonville Ull) special of the Goth re-
ports that some fend or fiends in human shape
had recently gone into the corn-felds of four
farmers near Virden, named Coultar, Crane,
Burns and Ryan, and, lifting the husks from
ears of corn, placed strychnine between the
husks and the grains. Several valuable steers
belonging to these men died Of eating poison
ed corn before the villainy was discovered.