Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-29
THE WORLDS WORK.


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lars come from the western states.
Gov. Il. d. VANCE was elected L. S.
senator by the North Carolina legisla
ture Jan. Dist.
THE Governor Of Michigan is about
to nominate from 1,000to 1900 persons
yof both sexes for notaries public.
THE Indianapolis legislature elected
ID. w. Voorhees, for u. S. senator long
and short term, Jan. 2lst.
A FIRE at Gaiva, ILL.,, Jan. 18th de-
stroyed $4,000 worth CT property in
the Union block
O. III. PLATr was nominated for U. S.
senator by the Connecticut republican
legislative caucus January 18th.
ARCH BISHOP PURCELL, of Cincinnati,
is in financial trouble with liabilities of
nearly half million dollars.
Gov. HILL, of Delaware, and Coy.
Hoyt, of Pennsylvania, were installed
in office Jan. 2isi.
The lower house of the Louisiana
legislature repealed the charter of the
Louisiana lottery by a vote Of 60 to 20
last week.
GEN. JAMES SHIELDS, for the short,
and Col. G. Vest, for the long, term,
were elected u. 5. senators from Mis-
souri, Jan. 2lst.
GEN. SHIELDS senatorial term to
which he has Just been elected in Mis-
souri,. will last only six weeks, expiring
March 4th.
JOHN A. LOGAN was nominated by the
republican members of the Illinois leg
islature, on the first ballot, for U. S.
senator Jan. 18th.
A FIRE at Grundy Center, Iowa, Jan.
II, destroyed eight business houses. in
Guiding two banks and the postoffice.
Loss estimated at 10000.
THE Omaha banks are glutted with
gold. They receive the deposits of the
Union Pacific railroad. which are now
made largely in the shiny metal.
Roscoe CoNKLING was unanimously
nominated for U. S. senator by the re-
publican caucus of the New York leg
islature Jan. Goth. At the same time
the democrats nominated VIM. Dor
sinner.
Gov. CRossELL, of Michigan, in his re-
cent message stated that last year So
986, 1890 were spent on the public
schools in the state, the percentage OF
attendance being only 81 per cent. of the
whole number enrolled.
GEN. JOHN A. LOGAN, in Illinois, Ros-
coe Conkling, in New York, and o. II.
Plat, in Connecticut, were elected U. S.
senator's, Jan. Dist. Also upon the
same day the Florida Legislature elected
Wilkinson, colored, senator, to succeed
Conover.
NEwFoUNDLAED was promised 81 ,0OO,-
600 of the fishery award before the
award was made, and that sum has
been placed to the credit of the Prov
ince in the Bank of England. 1t will be
used to build a railway across the island.
THE new senator from Connecticut,
Mr.. Platt, has only a local reputation.
He has been in both houses of the legs-
lature, and speaker of the house, serv-
ing with credit in every office he has
held.
A CINCINNATI dispatch of Jan. Goth
says that VIM. +. Coffin, for many
who has been missing for few weeks,
is defaulter to the amount of $50, 600.
THE Worth and Church streets FIRE in
New York city caused the suspension OF
six or eight small insurance companies.
The block in which the fire occurred
was regarded as valuable, in goods
stored there, as any single block in the
city.
IT is rumored IN Canada that the
British minister at Washington, while
on his recent visit to the Marquis of
Lorne, conveyed to his excellency de-
sire expressed by the Washington catl-
net to renew negotiations for a reciproc-
ity treaty with Canada. The story is
not credited in well-informed Canadian
circles.
The stove manufacturers, in session
at Rochester, New York, last week,
adopted a resolution demanding a law
IN all states forbidding the employ
ment of more than one-tenth ofthe con-
victs in prisons in any one line of man
ufacture, and ordered petition drawn
embodying the same, to be sent to the
various legislatures. New York was
selected as the place of next meeting.
A CONFERENCE between chief Red
Cloud and a member of Gen. Crooks
staff occurred at Fort Robinson, Neb.,
Jan. IS. The object of it was to secure
the services Of some Sioux war; Tors as
scouts in the expedition against the
rebelious Cheyennes. Red Cloud very
reluctantly decided to allow the United
States officers to enter his camps for the