Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-11-05

President had already, through the fost-
master-G General, requested them to resign,
but they had as yet made no response Sec
retary Bristow was convinced that changes
ought to be made among certain Treasury
officers in Texas, and this would be done at
an early day The business, in some cases,
has been loosely transacted, Ito the loss OF
customs and internal revenue.
The United States Supreme Court at wash
ington on the. 18th denied the motion to al
vance the Granger cases. This decision VIII
lut over the first case as far as March or
April next.
A lock out of coopcrs began in New YORK
city on the Goth owing to the refusal OF the
iourneymen to abandon their trade society
co operative shop was determined upon by
the workmen.
George Reynolds, Of Salt Lake City, has
been indicted for polygamy under the Con-
gressional law of 1862 and held to pail in
50, 800. This is the first indictment in that
city under the act Of Congress, the prior in
dictments being found under the Territorial
law.
At its recent session the Missouri State
Grange decided to loan money to outside par
ties to establish an implement mandatory
at Bonneville, without interest, pledging sup
port to the same in the purchase OF nipple
ments
At st. Louis few days ago, Lizzie Golf,
nine years of age, attempted to klndle hre
by pouring coal oil from can upon burning
paper. The usual result followed, and she
died in six hours.
| The First National Bank of Salt Lake City
suspended payment on the 2Sth 1t hoped to
| resume again in a few days
| President Grant has issued a proclamation
setting apart Thursday, Nov. 26, as day OF
| National nksgiving.
| The fourth annual session of the American
| Bee Keepers Association is to be held in
Pittsburgh Pa, commencing on the second
Wednesday of November
The suspension of X. w. Burke, petroleum
redner in New York city, was announced on
the Goth
Gov Leslie, of Kentucky, has offered an
aggregate reward of $4,000 for the capture OF
a band of masked rufians who recently shot
young colored girl and committed other
outrages on negroes in Shelby County.
In New Orleans on the afternoon of the
| 29th a collision occurred between Gov Kel-
| logg and Maj. +. A. Burke, of the Naturaliza-
| ton Committee of the Conservatives, which
| grew out of a correspondence between them
relating to the manner in which the votes OF
citizens who had been naturalzed by the
Second District Court should be cast, the
Governor having instructed that they be de-
posted in separate apartments or boxes AS
Gov Kellogg was riding in his carriage with
Judge Atocha, Maj. Burke stopped him, and
while engaged in conversation drew whip
and attempted to strike the Governor, when
the latter fired pistol at Burke, who retail
ated in kind, firing three orfour shots. Neither
party was wounded.
fire at Greencastle, Ind, on the night OF
the 2Sth destroyed thirty buildings in the
business portion of the town, inilicting loss
of 1855, 500, on which there was an insurance
of 3d., 900. The fire started in furniture
factory, and is believed to have been the work
of an incendiary.
An Indianapolis dispatch of the both says
reports of extensive forest fires were being
received from all points along the lines of rail
roads centering i'll that city, Like fires were
also reported as raging in many portions OF
Ohio.