Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-02-06

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ton by crane, falling on him.
The old market house in Davenport, Iowa,
was burned on Thursday night. Loss s4,700.
From Bordentown, n. j., we learn that
three boys, Morris L. stradIing. Robert B.
Grinshaw and James Mullen, who resided
there, were drowned at Horner's bridge.
Their bodies were soon after recovered. Their
ages were eight years each.
! G. J. AcKLEY, the local express agent at
Fairfield on tho Hastings and Dakota Rail
| road, in attempting to get on the train before
it came TO a stop at tho atation, missed his
footing and fell, tho cars passing over him,
covering ono leg from his body and otherwise
| injurng him. He lived but short time aftor
| the accident
| BUCKINGHAM Palace has been placed at the
disposal OF the Shah Of Persia for his resi-
dence during his visit to England.
| JoHS COSTELLO was convicted ut Peoria,
| H., OF tho murder Of John keenan,, and sem
fenced by tho jury to imprisonment for one
year.
THB steamer Edgar Stewart proceeded to
sea from Key West on Thursday night.
FRAscK and Italy threaten to withdraw
their representatives from Athens if Greece
refuses to submit the Larium mines question
to arbitration.
A WAsHfsGroS telegram states that DR. W.
G.. Tilden, Professor of Chemistry in Howard
University, was accidentally shot in the Ma
tional Hotel on Thursday.night, by a ball from
a pistol, which fell from the pocket OF q. C.
| Wall. The ball entered the abdomen, making
a very serious woHnd.
A. ID. WILLIAMS & Co., New York bankers,
report the loss of 800 shares of W. Z. Tele-
graph stock, in the name of Z. B. Wesley, and
valued at s25, $50 The transfer OF the stock
has been stopped.
THEoDoEE MIcAEs was hanged in Denver,
Col, on Friday, for the murder OF Geo. NJ.
Bonacina, near Denver, in August, 1871.
FouR locomotives, attached to a freight
train going cast on the indianapolis, Bloom
lngton and Western Railroad, jumped the
track at Champaign, H., on Thursday night,
aud ran into train Of freight cars standing
on the side-track. The engines were all bad
~ damaged, aud three of the freight cars arc
a total wreck.
Tar trial Of Eugene Wahrer and Max Wah-
rer Tor tho murder Of their mother at West
Point, Lee county, Iowa, on Sunday, June
30th 1879, was concluded on Friday in the
District Court f Dos Mones county, Iowa, at
Burlington. The jury returned a verdict of
mauslaughter.
TIE Treasury Department has prepared a
bil which will be sent to Congress, making
I (tty Ipua an "a Milgntsri riy
Of entry.
lr is stated that Hon. Schuyler Colfax has
decided to institute criminal proceeding
against Ames for perjury. He swears posi-
lively that Ames lies and that the check is a
forgery.
THERE is n far prospect that the Presiden
will veto the Rock Island and Pacific land
grant bill, which pasael Congress on Friday
but whether h votoes or signs it there is a
movement contemplated or an investigation.
Charge continue to be openly made that tho
! lobby we're paid to push the bill through.
| OWEN NORTON, workman at the st. Louis
lead and oil works, while oiling tho presses,
WAS caught in the machinery and had his head
cut Of
a W. NciFb bui Sliis were "EShteu IN Bll-
falo on Wednesday evening, with large
amount otiewolry in their possession. Among
the articles are valuable gold hunting-case
chronomoter watch, No, 80, 493 n largo gold
hunting-case watch, With the name parity
erased, but supposed to be Annie or Alice
Funk, and heavy gold cross set with pearls,
marked Il, NJ Burton.
An l.,
six men attempted to cross the riyor in a skiff,
coming, apparently, from Green River When
opposite this city the skiff fell into the open
iceand was overturned. They were heard to
shout for help, crying that they were freezing
to death, but none Of tho steamers at the
wharf could set out to them, and their cries
ceased after fcwmnutes.
OK Friday family OF nine persons were res.
cued from Kcnns' Island, opposite Hayre Dc
Grace Md, where They had been driven from
thoir homo by the flood. They were nearly
dead from exposure.
Abroad.
PRESIDENT There has signed the nos treaty
of commerce between France and Great
Britain.
lHE anoant remaining on hand of the fund
raised for the reliei a operatives in Manehes-
ter, during the cotton famine, five hundred
and twenty thousand dollars, is to be applied
to the foundation Of hospital for conyales-
cents in London.
DISPATCH from Bordeaux SAYS vessel,
supposed to ho British, went ashore Sunday
night on the coast near that city; ali ON board
probably lost
TUE st"'mer which ran down tho emigrant
ship Northheet- IN the English channel, proves
TO be the Polayo, bound from Antwerp for
| Havana.
THE comm ittee on the arbitration Of sI,x,ry