Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-02-27
THE President has signed the act amenda-


thread manufacturer of Newark, N. j., died
suddenly on Thursday last, of heart disease.
His estate is valued at So, 000000.
A CONVICT at the penitentary at joliet, H.,
hung himself with his suspenders Thursday
evening.
AT Morristown, New Jersey, David Moore
charged with the murder Of his wife, was
found guilty OF murder in the second degree
MICHAEL ALDAaI pledges himself to give
toward the cause to free Cuba an amount equal
to that contributed by the rest of his country
men in the United States. 1T is expected
$500. 900 will DO collected within a few weeks.
ORFICrRs Of the Pan Handle Road have dis
covered svindls practiced by conductors
and ticket agents, and several desirable
situations will DO vacant in few DAYS.
The inauguration ceremonies on the Attn of
March will prob IDLY be the grandeat display
ever witnessed in Washington.
The Pension and Indian appropriate on bills
have received tho approval Of the President.
The American Register, printed IN Paris, is
informed that the French Government pro-
hibited NJ Pardonnet, Kansas Emigration
Agent from ecturing in Belfort.
IT is reported that from the wreck of the
Atlantic Mail Company a new line of American
steamers will be organized, to run between
New York and Havana.
JOSEPH SAW JR., has been re. elected State
Treasurer, and Charles Wilson elected Super
intent OF the State Prison, by the Legislature
of New Jersey.
! CHAs. VAsNEss, Train Master on the Jack
son, Lansing and Saginaw Railroad, wa
crushed to death ON Thursday at East Sag
| NAV, between two cars, while directing tho
shuntng OF cars.
| AN unknown man, name supposed from his
! papers to be J. Il. Giller, was run over and
/ killed at Birch Station on the Flint and Pere
! Marquette Railroad, while ondesyoring to get
on the train while in motion.
/ DISPATCHES from Montgomery, Alabama,
/ state that great excitement prevails in legisa-
tive circles in that state, owing to the attempt
cd assassination ON Wednesday, of N. S.
McAfee by j. w. Mayberry. The proyocation
ID al eyed to have been a speech mado by
/ McAfee in the House Of Representatives We'd
nesday. Mayberry Is said to be one of the
/ bogus Senators from Barber county, who was
ousted from his seat by the late compromise
/ between the conflicting legislatures. McAtee's
wounds are represented to be fatal.
/ PRESIDENT GRANT recently pardoned VIM.
/ II. Carrick, who vas convicted of r0bbing the
mails while Route Agent on the Iowa Central
railroad, some two years ago, and received
sentence for ten years at hard labor.
TnE officers Of the Cleveland Society for
Savings publish a card stating that clerk in
their employ has embezzlcd funds TO the
amount of twenty thousand dollars. The
amount has been made up to the Society.
The name Of the guilty party is not men
toned.
The town Of San Vincento. in Salvador, has
been destroyed by an earthquake The houses
being chiefly of adobes, are easily shaken to
pieces. No lives are reported lost.
A FIRE broke out on Tuesday morning in
the married soldiers quarters at Fort Schuy-
leT, and destroyed the row Of buildings, con-
ssting OF tfteen tenements.
A YOUNG man named Winslow Simonds, COM
mtted suicide on Tuesday, in Chelsea, Mass, !
y throwing himself from tho window.
THE retort aud friedrich factory OF Geo. C.
Hicks, at Locust point Baltimore burned
Thursday evening. Loss SO, 600
BERLIN dispatch says that the Prussian
Ministry have required OF CouncilQr Wagner,
the protege Of Bismarck, an explanation OF
his conduct in permitting concessions Of the
uldllmonts OF state railway contracts by which
rauds were committed on the government.
Several designations have already occurred
JONI GAFFSEY was hung in Buffalo on Fri
day, for the murder OF Patrick Fahey.
lHE freight depot of the New Haven and
Harlem Railroad, in New York city, was burn
ed on Friday, together with adjoining build
ugs. Total loss 100000.
TINS wooden ware factory of VIM. Brown, in
st. Louis, was burned on Friday. Total loss
$4,000.