Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1876-01-05
leries Of the Vatican or from the workshops

lerics of the Vatican or from the workshops
over which he has control. The letters OF
the Pope are couched in the warmest terms
Of friendship for the United States.
| Patrick Kanen, who was recently con-
victed at Cleveland, Ohio, Of manslaughter
| for starving his idiot son TO death, has been
sentenced to the Pcnitentiary for ten years.
| At Cincinnati, few nights ago, Mrs. Law
renee dropped a coai-oil lamp, which was
broken. TIE fire caught in the carpet and in
her clothes, and in moment she was
| wrapped in flames, and was fearfully and
| probably fatally burned. Her husband and
daughter made efforts TO save her and were
themselves badly burned about the hands.
The mercury In the thermometer rose to
eighty degrees above zero ut Memphis,
Tenn, on the 18th.
II was reported from San Francisco on the
18th that United States troops had gone to
the Sonora frontier to protect American soil
from invasion by the Mexcans.
The Pacific Mills, at Lawrence, Mass, en-
ploying $500 operatives, gave notice on the
9th Of reduction Of from 10 to Is per cent
in wages, to take effect jan /, owing to the
corporation announce that they are obliged
either to stop the looms or reduce the cost
Of production.
The Hudson River sugar refinery, at Hast
ings, N Y, was burned on the Goth, and $50
men were thrown out Of employment. Loss
$500,000; insurance less than 100000
News from San Diego Cal, received in San
Francisco on the eth says the report that
revolution was in progress at San Rafael,
Lower California, was canard.
The ninety-eighth anniversary of the bat
tie Of Trenton which occurred Dec. %, l777,
was celebrated at Trenton, N. j., on the 27th,
in a mock engagement between troops rep
resenting the Federal ard British armies.
After the surrender of the Hessians the victors
and vanquished were sumptuously dned at
Washington Hall.
A woman named Iloldson, living at Merom,
Ind, IN attempting to set lamp on man
tel, the other evening, dropped and broke it,
scattering the coal-oil over her clothes,
which took fire and burned her so badly that
she died short time afterward.
Fifteen States have taken census of popu.
lation la 1875, and the total increase since
1870 Ia estimated at little over 2,000, 900
As these States had in 1870 something more
than one-ihird of the population of the United
States, common average progress through
out would show All aggregate increase in five
years Of upward of 5000, 600, or a total popu-
lation of a 100000.
A Labor Convention In session ut Tyrone
Pa on the Goth appointed National Com
mittee of thirty-seven to issue call for a
convention Of representatives of labor and
industry from all parts of the country, to be
held in Pittsburgh in April next.
A recent Washington dispatch says the
work of consolidating the revenue collection
districts throughout the country has been
completed, and the number is reduced from
300 To 1853.
The Secretary OF the United States Treas
ury has given directions for the retirement
of 1914 $50 legal-tender notes on account OF
National Bank circulation issued during
December. This will leave outstanding legal.
tenders, until Il further reduction, $31, 49,
722 The amount of additional National
Bank notes issued since Nov. | Is 81. 7G1, $50,
and the total amount issued since the
passage OF the act Of June IA, 1874, is
sl2,7l5,o75. The amount OF legal tender
notes deposited by National Banks for the
purpose OF retiring the circulation, since
Nov. /, is s2,os, ,206
In the case of the $4,000 illegally collect
ed AS income tax on dividends OF Illinois
Central Railroad stock held by non resident
aliens, Atty.-Gen. Pierrepont has de.
cided that the money should be returned To
The company aud not to the stockholders
The money was unlawfully exacted from the
company, and should, therefore, be paid back
10 the company, from which the alien stock
holders can recover.
A San Diego (Call dispatch received in san
Francisco on the Goth says almost the entire
Mexican population in the vicinity of Campo
were implicated in the recent raid Tuscou
news received on the same dayreports fight
between the State and revolutionary forces,
twenty-five miles south of the line, in which
the former were defeated, with ten killed and
number wounded and taken prisoners.
The revolutionists We're marching on Her
mosstllo. Most of the Americans Mt san
Francisco eympathiEe with the rcyolutionists
considering that they represent the better
class OF Sonora.
Several whisky distilleries aud rectiryiug
establishments in Chicago were seized by
Government officers on the 10Th, the pro
prietors being charged with revenue trauas
The residence Of Mrs. Rachel Gordon. ten
miles west of Rising Sun, Ind, was burned
ON Christmas night, and the next morning
the remains of Mrs. q. and her three chill
dren, aged eight ten and twelve years, were
found in the ruins. 1t is surpassed by some
that they were murdered and the house set