Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-01-09

year. and for whom further appropriation OF
$780, G0 is provided for in the Indian Appro-
priation bill, which has just passed the House.
These parties propose to file afidayits with
the Senate Appropriation Committee showing
that the disbursement of the moneys to the
so-called tribe, especially under the agency OF
superintendent Wall, were made on fraudu-
lent vouchers"
A CONFEDERATION in Elmira, n T., on Tues
day, destroyed a number Of buildings be-
tween Railroad Avenue and Main street. in
GLIDING tho Pennsylvania House. Loss, $780,
600.
A MISUNDERSTANDING between two families
named Wilson and Broughton, living near
Marion, Ohio, led 10 the deliberate murder of
Henry Wilson by William Broughton. The
tragedy occurred on Monday. The murderer
has been arrested.
ABOUT lN feet of the roof Of Whtney's rail-
road car wheel factory, on 18th street, Phila-
delphs, fell in by the weight OF the snow on
Thursday. Five workmen were buried in the
ruins, but rescued with slight injuries.
Two serious fires occurred in Chicago on
Sunday. One destroyed a row of wooden
000 The second destroyed three brick dwell
ings on Cottage Grove Avenue. Loss $780,
600
IT is stated, upon the authority of Whitelaw
Reid, that the reason why Mr.. Cofax declined
to edit the Tribune was because Mr.. Orion
wished the paper to be run in the interest OF
the Western Union Telegraph Company.
DupTNp he cold Spa,, e SafprJo, " n,nb+ mo
ter froze in the pipes III many buildings in
Cincinnati, Cleveland and Harrisburg. In
the first named place four explosions of cook
ing ranges occurred, fatally injuring one per-
son, a girl named Kate Conner. In Harris
burg Mrs. Samuel Knox was killed by the ex-
plosion of range. In Cleveland a range ex-
ploded, demolishinS fixtures, but injuring no
one
THE daily returns from internal revenue are
reaching toward the close of the year. quite
six hundred thousand dollars per day, and
show in the aggregate an increase so far
above the estimate as to fully justify Congress
in further reducing taxa ton by abolishing the
stamp tax on checks aud matches.
SEVERAL towns west of Boone Iowa, are re-
ported suffering from want of coal, and have
to burn furniture to keep from freezing. This
is especially the case in Carroll, Iowa.
GsoRaE CArL1N, the celebrated American
Indian painter and traveller, died on Monday
III Jersey City, n. j., aged IS,
YOUNG man named Charles Kendall was
found murdered in some woods near New JET
ferson, Iowa, on Monday. 1t seems to have
been done by shotgun in some unknown
persons hands. The deed is shrouded in
mystery, and nothing definite can be learned.
InE model of the Franklin School Building
III Washington, aud one Of the finest in the
East, 9 being prepared for the Vienna Expo
sition. The model will be made in sections so
that it can be taken apart The building will
be represented just as it is, and the system of
heating and ventilation will be fully demon
strated. One of the rooms will contain all the
school furniture in miniature.
Abroad.
The Paris Gazette says Prussia is treating
with Portugal for accession to the former
power of Delazoa Bay, an island of the Indian
Ocean, in Southeastern Africa.
A PARIS trsdesman has been sent to prison
for two years for displaying in his shop pla-
cards containing remarks insulting to the
National Assembly.
PRESIDENT THtERs visited the English En-
bassy in Paris on Saturday. On leaving the
building he fell and suffered slight confusion
of the hip and elbow.
NJ. BouRaoNG, French Minister to the Papal
Court, has resigned because some French
laval officers in Rome, at the beginning of the
holidays, called on the King and Pope on the
same day, and rendered the compliments of
the season.
VERY Rev. EDWARD BANNERMAN BARNsrY,
Dean OF st. Johns Cathedral, Edinburgh, is
dead
GEORGE KING, who confessed he murdered
Pook, at Greenwich, England, has been dis
charged from custody, having been found in
sane.
The North German Gazette denies the |
that Germany has consented to CO. /
operate with Austria in an effort to effect
settlement of the Laurium silver mines dis |
pute.
1HE Spenersche Zeitung strongly opposes |
the decree OF the Brunswick Council of Minis !
iers, issued on the 9th of December, providing /
that On the demise of the present sovereign, |
who is unmarried, Duke William First, the |
ax-Kiug of Hanover, or his son, shall succeed |
TO the throne:
The volcano of Santa, in the northern part I
IF San salvador, is erupting, aud il is feared .
many valuable coffee plantations will be de- |
stroyed.
BoGorA has been seriously inundated, many
people being drowned, and much property de- /
stroyod.
TINS election for municipal officers at Tam
pico, Mexico, Is reported rs dsordorly. Dur /
ing the counting Of the votes disturbance .
arose, and eight persons were killed and .
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