Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-11-06


--~~ RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
A St. Paul dispatch under date
October 30th says: a construction
train on the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul road near Sheldon ditched.
yesterday and J. 6. Patterson, of Charles
City, attorney for the company, was
killed. Fred Merrill, nephew of S. s.
Merrill, general manager, and Frank
Church, superintendent of the United
States express company, were injured.
All'were riding on q freight car.
FEVER EPIDEMIC ENDED, AT NEW ORLEANS.
A New Orleans dispatch Of Oct. 3Oth
says for the past two DAYS deaths from
other causes have exceeded in number
those recorded as having been caused
by yellow fever. 1t is therefore proba-
BILE that the board of health Mt its regu-
lar meeting tomorrow will declare the
epidemic at an end.
THE WESTERN UNION RAILROAD.
Milwaukee special telegram of Oct.
Both says: Walter S. Gurnee, of New
York City, has retired from, the board
of directors of the Western Union rail-
road company drumming from Racine to
Savannah, ILL.,, on the Mississippi liver)
as he had previously retired from the
St. Paul company, on account Of his
approaching visit to Europe. 1t is also
probable that q complete change will
take place in the Western Union COM
pany, and that it will be totally absorb
ed in the st. Paul company, Of
which, since 1869, it has been a sort of
parasite. The capital stock of the Wes-
tern Union Company is ~, 100000, Of
which the St. Paul Company purchased
$4,000, LOCUST majority-in that
year, and since that time the officers of
the two companies have been in part
the same, and their reports have been
published together, although the Wes-
tern Union had its principal Office in
Racine and the management has been
separate. After the failure of the Glass
gov bank, it transpired that among its
assets were 500, 10000 of the 7 per
cent. bonds of the Western Union COM
pany, valued at E436, 500, and 1892
$40 Of the stock of the same company,
valued at ELI, $50. These two amounts
of stsck-the $1,000, 100 held by the
st. Paul company and that in the
Glasgow Bank-nearly make up the
full amount of $4,OOO,OOO Of the
company's stock. Growing out of this
fact, it is likely that the St. Paul Com
pany will become the owner of all the
Western Unions stock, for it is worth
nothing to anybody else; and that the
auxiliary road will come under the
same ostensible, as it now is under the
same actual, management; and that
the fiction Of two separate companies
will disappear.
ANGEL, THE PULLMAN CAR co. THIEF.
A New York telegram Of Oct. Goth
says: G. w. Angel, the secretary of
the Pullman Palace Car company, who
ran away from Chicago in August last.
taking with him $4,000 of the COM
pany's funds, was seen about ten days
ago in Canada. Detective SkefingtoD,
of Quebec, traced him to II small hotel
at Cape Rouge, small ;illage about
twelve miles to the west of the ancient
Canadian capitol. He had been stop
ping there for some time. Detective
Sketington at once telegrephed
to Pinkerton's agency in this
city, and two of their most
trusted detectives were detailed to pro-
coed to Canada and capture the fugi-
tive. Angel. however, having discov-
cred that he was Swallowed by Detec-
tive Sketington's subordinates, hurried
~ left the hotel the night before the
American detectives reached Cape
Rouge. He was traced by them, how
ever, to the town of Three Rivers, on
the st. Lawrence, between Montreal
and Quebec. There he only stopped
for one night, and in the morning he
boarded market boat bound for Sorel
He stopped there for some days, but,
having learned that the detectives were
after him, he left the village, and was
last seen in the woods to the south of
Sorel. Pinkerton's men are still in
Canada looking for him.
ETHERIDGE, THE ST. PAUL ROGUE.
Says a Milwaukee dispatch under
date of October 2Sth: Charles Ether
idge, the st. Paul absconding insurance
agent and financial Representative of the
New York loan and trust company,
made his debut in this city Thursday,
and being well known had no difficulty
in being identified. At the Milwaukee
national bank he realized on SIS, 1000
draft drawn by the Merchants national
of st. Paul on the American exchange
bank of n. " The Wisconsin marine
bank cashed draft for $1,000, drawn
by the Northwestern National, of St.
Paul, on the Tradesman's National of
New York; and Cramer & Co. took a
5000 draft by the First National, of