Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-07-19

retreated, dividing iuto two parties, one of
which was going toward the Big Horn
Mountains and the other eastward.
1t was reported in Milwaukee on the 10th
that the propeller st. Clair was burned on
/ Lake Superior the night before, and that
twenty-six lives were lost
Sentences were pronounced OH the 10th,
| against the Milwaukee whisky conspirators,
| the penalties inflicted ranging from one day
to six months imprisonment and from $500
| to 81 ,000,in fines.
| The Chicago papers Of the Sth announce
an unusually brilliant meteor having
| passed over the city on the evening previous
which lighted up tie ground ten or twelve
| times more than it is illuminated by the full
! moon, and leaving a very bright track,
which was visible for fully four minutes
| The same meteor was observed from several
| other localities.
| The heat in Washington on the 10th and
! 18th was excessive, and for the first time in
| the history of the Capital, building opera
| tons were suspended because of the heat.
| Since the sth there had been twelve deaths
| from sunstrokc, and numerous other per
| sons were in a dangerous condition. The
| thermometer registered 1903 degrees in the
! shade.
| The petition of James Bagley and Others to
| set aside the will Of A. T. Stewart has been
dismissed by Surrogate Colvin. The dis
missal of the petition does not prevent pro-
cecdings TO break the will in other courts
nd counsel for the claimants say they will
| press the matter.
A band Of 500 Mormons, who recently ar
rived from Europe, started from New York
on the 18th for Utah. Some of the men
have as many as eight wives.
About sixty fatal cases of sunstroke oc-
CURED in New York City on the 10th, ex-
ceedng in number those Of any previous
day for thirty-fve years, except July 3 1872,
when sixty-eight were reported. A number
of fatal cases are reported from other East
crn and Southern cities. In Philadelphia the
thermometer indicated l02 in the shade, and
| the number Of deaths from sunstroke was
fifteen.
A Sioux City Uowa) dispatch of the 18th
says a man who had arrived ut Fort Sully
! on that day reported that certain claims at
Dcadwood were paying $1,000 per day. As
high as S2,700 in one day had been taken out
of some of them. Rich discoveries were
continually being made.
During the two months ending on the
the evening of the 10th, 2,076l06 persons
had visited the Centennial Exposition, at
Philadelphia, and the total cash receipts
were 1854 $50.
A Philadelphia special telegram to the
Chicago Journal says that on the Exposition
grounds on the 18th seventy-one persons
were overcome by the intense heat and had to
be carried to the hospital in the Landsdowne
Valley. Several similar cases occurred on
the 18th, and the thermometer stood at l04
degrees in the shade.
The famous building in New York city
known as Castle Garden has been destroyed
by fire. 1t had been in use for number
OF years rs an immigrant depot.
On the 18th President Grant sent letter
to ex-Sec'y. Bristow stating that lie had
learned that he had declined to testify before
the Congressional Committee investigating
the whisky frauds, claiming that what oc-
| Cured in the Cabinet was of privileged
character, and that committee of Congress
had no right to demand its divulgcnce.
While approving of the proprety of this ac-
ton on the part of Mr. Bristow the President
bcgs to release him from all obligation of
secrecy on the subject, and adds that he
desires mot only that you may answer all
questions asked relating to it, but wish that
all members of my Cabinet and eX-members
of the Cabinet since | have been President
may also he called upon TO testify in regard
to the same matters"
A fearful tragedy was enacted at Newark,
n. J.. on the 18th. Three brothers named
Thielhorn, notorious rs bad and desperate
men, IN resisting an attempt to arrest them,
shot and killed one police officer and fatally
wounded another. After seriously wound.
Ing eaother man, the hlOodthirsty trio
charged upon tannery near by, in which
they used TO work, where they killed two
workmen. The tannery operatives, recover
ing from the first shock of terror and
CONSERVATION, and armed with their curry
ing-knives, drove the murderers from the
factory and pursued them some distance 10
the bank of the Passaic River, into which the
hunted men plunged la the hope of escape.
There the Infatuated populace assaulted them
with stones and other missiles, ana the
three men were killed in the river, The
tragedy thus resulted in the death of seven
men and the serious injury of another,
Personal.
Jacob Rchm. one of the leading members
OF the Chicago whisky ring, and who was ac-
ccpted by the Government counsel as a wit
moss ayninst his cp.cpuspirutprs and there.