Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-06-11

about s2,7oo.
The public debt statement for the month of
May il as follows:
Six per cent bonds. $,2l396l 800
five ner cent. bonds 5l0219,00D
Total coin bonds. ........,...... $l,'A,24o'S
Tsw,pl money debt. $l4,o7S 600
Matnred debt ................... ABB go
Legal tender notes Observation-Disclosures. 5s2,0io.It
Certificates of deposit. bb,05oOVo
Fractional currency. ...,......,,..... 9o'o0o "a"
Coin certificates ...,,............. 33,l7950
Interest ,,.....,....... 30, 1854 093
Total debt. .....................s2 294, ass JIG
0"7i CON I'll ssi 95s. 979
CURRENCY. Observation-Disclosures. l,lt7,iO3
Special deposits held for redemption
OF certificates Of deposit rs pro- 80.
Wded by law. .........'..'''.''''.' 'oVoo'''o
Total In Treasury. ............... sla9 le6'bS2
Deht ress cash IN Treasury 81 145 26s ,t37
Decrease during the month. 49,. Si,45o, S3S
Bonds issued to the Pacific Railroad
Companies, interest payable IN law -.-
full money, principal outstanding, So4,oI3'5l2
Interest accrued aud not yet paid 600. l.olo,jS ).
Interest paid by the United States. 22,3So,S9l
mails. etc '.....'......... 5,095 $50
Balance of interest paid by United
States, ......,.'..'.'''.''. i"~'i'S'i
A painter named McCullaugh, while work
ing on the bridge on Three Sisters Island,
Niagara Falls, on the LIST, fell off the scaffold
and was carried by the current to the brink of
the falls, where he lodged against rock.
He was rescued by John Conroy, who tied
rope to his body and was let down by persons
on the bridge to where McCulaugh was
clnging.
The extensive establishment Of NJ. ID.
Wells q Co., of Chicago, manufacturers OF
and dealers in boots and shoes, was recently
destroyed by fire, the loss on building and
stock aggregating over 100000.
The insane wife of Michael Dwyer, of Brook
lyn, N. Y, on the morning of the I'd attacked
him with a cooper's adze just rs he was rising
from his bed. He wrested the weapon from
her hands and ran to the police-station. OH
GERS sent to secure the woman found that she
had killed her three children. 1t was thought
that Dwyer would also die.
The Illinois Board Of Railway and Ware
house Commissioners commenced another
suit Mt Springfield, on the I'd, against the Chi
cago Il Alton Company This suit is similar
N~''A
pauy.
The Secretary of the Treasury has givcnno-
tice that the principal and accrued Interest OF
the bonds below designated, known as 40
bonds, will be paid at the Treasury Of the
United States, in the city OF Washington, ON
and after the Sd day of September, 1874, and
that interest ON the said bonds will cease on
that day: Coupon bonds known as third series,
act of Feb. %, 1862, dated May |, 1862, as fol-
lows: Coupon bonds, $50, No. l0,60l
to No. 1900, both inclusive; $780,
No. 84,ool to 34,400, both inclusive,
$500. No. 1901 to No. 1880, both
inclusive $1,000, No 4l,00l to No. i6,lOo,
both inclusive Total, 1900, 900. Registered
bonds, $50, No, LII to No. l,450, both in
elusive; 800, No. l0, SCI to No. l06S0, both
inclusive; $500, No. 6,30l to No, $500, both
inclusive: $1,000, No 25,65l to No. 26, 100,
both inclusive $1,000, No. 5, l0l to No $500,
both inclusive; $4,000, No. 1881 to No. 49,
500, both inclusive. Total, S500,0 900. GRAD
total So ,0o0,O00 United States securities for
warded for redemption should be addressed to
the Loan Division of the Secretary'S office,
and all registered bonds should be assigned to
the Secretary of the Treasury for redempuons
The stockholders in the Chicago X North
western Railway, Mt meeting held in Chicago
on the 4th, passed resolution stating that
they approved of the action OF the Directors
and officers in coutestug the validity OF the
recent Wisconsin legislation, declaring a be
lief that all legislation of that sort was IN vio-
lation Of the rights conferred upon railway
companies by their charters, and that 1t was a
withdrawal of the protection which the laws
Of the State afford to all other property-hold-
ers, Us well as a practical confscation Of pri,
waite property.
4 suit under the Potter law was decided in
the Circuit Court at Milwaukee on the 4th.
The case Was brought by Henry NJ. Aekley
and George Villas, Of Oeonomowoe, against
the Chicago, Milwaukee 4 ST. Paul Rail-
way Company &The plaintiffs shipped
two car loads Of lumber from Oshkosh
to Olouomowoc, and teadered the legal
rate Of freight therefor, which vas $50. The
company demanded SIS and a suit for re-
pleyiu was brought Judge Small decided the
law constitutional and the jury aecu. 'jaGIy
gave j verdict for $500, the value q the l..a,
Der, in favor osthe plaintiffs, and awarded siN
cents damage, together with tAe costs If lie