Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-02
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motive over steep eHlpalihiHtni, ipahthS Il
total wreck Of the train. John 'Be.ch, eng-
neor, George Golfer, fireman, and Henry
Rooms, brakeman, were instantly killed.
ISfo.mrI,S has been received that ex-
Minister Catacazy has not faien into disgrace
with the Car. He has just been employed to
adjust certain ecclesiastical difficulties between
the Pope and the Russian government con-
corning The appointment OF Catholic Bishops
in Poland.
THE Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad
is completed to Dennison, Texas.
A PAIR of carriage horses ran away IN
Brooklyn Monday night, and jumped into
East River, drowning Mrs G. +. Adams, the
occupant.of the carriage, and themselves.
A TELEGRAM from Wabash, Iud,, on 1aes-
day, states that upwards OF sixty locomotives
were frozen up and out of water between
Huntington and Peru, Ind, for nearly forty
eight hours. Cattle, hogs and sheep were
frozen to death. No fatal caseh Of freezing
employees have been reported, though many
had limbs badly frozen.
LUCK's box factory and Funks' piano fac
tory in New York were burned last night.
Loss 100000, Insured.
BABBER's elevator, in Brooklyn, was burned
on Monday night, Loss $4,000.
A BUILDING in Duane street, New York, was
damaged to the extent Of 100000 on Tuesday.
HEyny SElGLER was stabbed to death by
Frederick Wise, in Williamsburg, \. y, Mon
dav night. Wise escaped.
J. BALEY, shoemaker, suicidCd at Cory,
Pa, on Monday.
The Standard carpet mills in Blair street.
Philadelphia. Alters carpet mandatory and
Rings yarn spinning establishment were total,
ly burned Monday evening. Loss $4,000.
ALEXANDER REAK froze to death at South
Bend on Sunday. On Saturday Samuel Osten-
der was found near Grand Trunk Junction
frozen to death. In Cincinnati, Saturday
night, Benjamin b. Cameron iroze to death in
the streets.
THE official estimates Of the wheat product
o Minnesota for the year 1872, based upon re-
liable data, are az follows: The average yield
per acre, seventeen and threc-fourths bushels,
makes the total wheat product of the state
during the year no less than $4,000, 00D bush
els. The amount necessary to be retained
within tho limits OF the state lr home con-
sumption will hardly .ch six millions of
bushels LEAVING .or export or sale over 20
100000 bushels, more than double that Of
The preceding year. This places Minnesota
third, if not second, in the wheat -produeing
states of the Union.
THE Boston Board of Aldermen refused
Ii.,u,a J., ly,nlb,Ii and tilafi,, tn tprturp
FIFTEEN hundred and thirlv-one buildings
have been erected in 81. Lons the present
year at cost of 50, 6Si,oJ0
TIE beer brewers OF New York. Now Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Massachusetts
have resolved to form organizations to oppose
the additional tax OF three and a half cents
per barrel,
Gro, PALMER Putnam, the weli-kno~n pub
Usher OF New York, died suddenly on Friday
evenings o! apopexy. .
YOUNG man named Melvin, recently from
Adrian, was cut in two bya freight train near
Detroit, Thursday night.
Tur citizens of Moline, Illinois, have sub
scrbed So 900 for public library. Moline has
only 4 800 Inhabitants.
has lil'ti tiiN Al'iii
nations John T. Coxton, of Kentucky Min
lister Resident AT Bolivia ei"e l.. Markohert,
recalled William +. Crosby, of New York
Consul General at Rome, rice y. H. Arm
strong, resigned; b W. Brisbane, of Wiscon-
sin, Consul at Neryies, rice G. ". klolberg re-
called Horace Grant, postmaster at Stevens
Point John Macarthur, postmaster at Chi
cago.
SUPERVISING ARCHITECT MuILErT says, il
the appropriation for the erection OF the st.
Louis postoflice is increased to 81, 000, 900, the
building will be built OF red aud gray granite,
the former tor the basement story, and the
latter for the main building
WASHINGTON is nearly deserted hy Congress
men, Two committees sit during the recess
the House Appropriation Committee, which
expects TO complete the army, navy, river and
harbor fertilization bill before reassembling,
aud the Senate Caldwell Bribery luyestiga-
ton Committee.
AN explosion occurred at the Hercules pow.
der works, six miles from San Francisco, ON
saturday afternoon, Two Chinese workmen
were killed, one being blown to atoms. VIM,
Cook, the foreman, was seriously injured after
wards by burning acids.
II is reported that extensive coal fields have
been discovered near San Diego, IN Temraas
Mountains.
ArmE nj Oregon, H., on Saturday night
destroyed five buildings, Loss $4,000.
ELISHA GHEuopy one of the proprictars OF
the Canterbury Concert Saloon in New York,