Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-09-25
r,scELLANEOUs NEWS.
,,ooxsHISERs SEEK REVENGE.

AZ 90 ossassinate United States Deputy
Gai J. NJ. Davis, who has been the
I SNo.,er o; all the revenue raids in Mid.
l Sp Tennessee during the past six years.
Ie had been attending court in answer
DC charge of having killed
II TSosenh Haynes near that point las,
Nav while on raid, and was walking
y. va Inner, when some unknown party
"a at him from cover, the ball pass
i a,r into the thigh of James Spears, an
n iaS revenue man at Davis side, ia
. o wounding him. The judge i'm
.n''nnd;ate,y referred the matter to the
land Jury, telling that the assassin
mnst be found and punished.
MASSACHUSETTS, REPUBLICANS.
Worcester dispatch of the 10Th says
the republican state convention met
a. noon. Gov. Clatlin was chosen
Ornament chairman. A resolution
Pas offered and referred to the commit
.oe on resolutions, demanding that cor
r,nt incompetent and unnecessary Of
fcers and employees entrenched in the
Roston custom house and other public
offces in the state shall at once be dis
charoed and such places as the public
Good req uires be filled with honest,
1;od.fearing, capable and law-abidlng
citizens.
Benz. F. Butler received two votes on
the informal ballot that gave Talbot
81, and when Buffers name was read
+ was received with Kisses and laughter.
On motion of Nichols, the informal
ballot was made formal, and Hon.
Thos. Talbot declared the nominee for
Governor, with but one dissenting
voice.
Jno. d. Ling was nominated for lieu
tenant governor, Henry Z. Pierce for
secretary of state, Hon. Chas. Endicott
for treasurer, and Hon. Geo. Marston
for attorney general
OREGON sENAToRsHIP.
A Salem dispatch under date of the
18th inst, says this morning the demo-
cratic legislative caucus nominated J.
H. Slater for United States senator.
A ballot in each house of the legisla-
ture resulted in Slater's election. Slater
in being interviewed said he was not in
sympathy with the inf1ationists, but adj
yocates the substitution of legal tenders
for national bank notes, and opposes
fat money and demands currency shall
be on gold basis.
BODY sNATCHING.
A Gle, Gland dispatch under date of
the 18th inst says that on Saturday
morning last Edwin French, an old and
well known citizen of Cleveland died at
the residence of his son-in-law, in Will
lOughby thirteen miles east of here.
The funeral services were held yester-
day afternoon, and the remains inter-
red in the Willough5y Gem etery. This
morning early ii was discovered that
the grave had been robbed. Dete ctives
were at once set at work, and this after
noon the body was found in tank un-
derneath the floor of the ho-
m@opathic medical college of this
city The grave had been robbed be-
tween one and two o'clock at night,
and the body brought to the city in
carnage and thrown into the tank, the
MOOR put back and nailed down. Mr..
W. French, son Of the deceased, i'm
medlately swore out warrants, and
nearly dozen people, including the
dean and members of the faculty, jan
ltor and several students of the college,
were arrested. The faculty disclaim
all knowledge of the body snatching
ana say they are entirely ignorant Of
the whole affair.
POWDER MILL EXPLOSION.
A special from Dubuque, Iowa,
on the 18th inst. says: Lafins &
bands powder mill dry house at Platte
vile, Wis, blew up, yesterday after
noon. The terrific conclusion shook
The earth for miles around. McGraham
d Workman We, was seriously injured. Other
ililils We're badly wrecked. Loss $4,000
10 N2oO0. No lives lost.
WHOLE FAMILY MURDERED.
It, Inc following account of a most hor-
.ioie murder is given in dispatch of
Ihe 10th from Houston, Texas: The
wilt OF George Lynch, respected citi-
re-, zen of Berkeley, Texas, died some
weeks ago, leaving an infant. Lynch |
r naa seven other children, the Oldest,
JJIeihie, being II years of age. On Fri
way night the family retired as usual,
.le lamp being lett burning in the main
a a At midnight, the father was
wv, 10y a pistol-shot and p ball
r M nm IN the breast. He sprang
J Ip ana saw masked man in the mid
T T;, Oh the tIi room pointing a pistol at
e.ill. The assassin fired again, the ball
yWrntering beneath the collar-bole.
"hen he recovered consciousness he
, ,Il himself lying in lane outside of
Ine premises. The assassin thinking
nynch was dead, seized a hatchet
" anu put the children, who were witness
~. out OF the way; he assaulted
5n ,eiiiie and buried the Ratchet in her
tIeau ne also crushed the skulls of three