Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-16
GENERAL NOTES.

The people began leaving Memphis
by the thousands July 10Th.
The eighth annual convention OF the
Catholic Total Abstinence Union Of
Ohio, was held at Tffin July 9th.
THE New Orleans board of health de-
clared July 10th that the city was never
healthier that at that time.
THE ninth annual convention of the
national bill-posters' association met
al Toledo, o., July 10th.
MANToN MARBLE, of New York, was
married to Mrs. A. Williams Lombard
July 9th.
THE Semple Il Birge manufacturing
company. st. Louis, announced sus-
pension July 9TH.
A YOUNG lady aged II, daughter of
well-to-do farmer living near Albany,
Wis, committed suicide by shooting
herself. July Sth.
A LITTLE RoCR, telegram of July
Sth says JOSIAH M. Giles, ex-sherif of
Pulaski county, and the last surviving
officer of Dunby's company of Z1ls
Arkansas regiment in the Mexican war,
died and was buried here to-day.
A BRIDGEPORT, Conn.,, dispatch OF
July Sth says the one-hundredth ami
versary of the burning of Fairfield by
the British troops, under Gen, Tryon,
was celebrated to-day on the court
house green. The exercises consisted
of salutes, speeches, prayers and
banquet.
A DUBUQUE, Iowa, special of July 9th,
says an old man named Foust, living
near Humboldt, committed suicide by
hanging himself with fence wire. His
relatives ordered him buried under the
tree from which he swung.
A CHICAGO special of July Sth says
the Times claims to have discovered
that Jim Keene has been in the city
for the past week, quietly directing the
movements of his brokers on the board
of trade, and that he left for New YORK
in private car last night.
A BIsMARK dispatch of July l0th
says: The last steamer reports that
oats in the Valley OF the Yellowstone
are almost waist high, and new pota-
toes are as large as mans list. Ne%I
Fort Custer is a tWo-hundred-acre neiu
of oats as fine as can be found. 1here
is every evidence of bountlful harVes'
for the pioneers.
A BIsMARK special of July 9th says
the steamer Bachelor came down
from the mouth ofthe Big Horn river
in fifty.two hours. beating by iou4
hours the hitherto unprecedented ulne
OF the steamer Far West, when sne
carried the Custer wounded to BIS
mark. The Bachelors actual running
time was forty-three hours.
A MEMPHIS telegram of July 9th says
intense excitement prevails over 'ng
fact that a death from well-developeu
case of yellow fever occurred ms sl'ei
noon. The deceased was named ffahh
Mulbrandon, a shoemaker, resluhis ."
the corner of DeSoto and Pontoe stlee's'
He was taken sick while at WORK IN hl'
shop last Saturday, and, although Ie
ceiving the best medical attention, uieO
as stated to-day.
THE Memphis board of health issT W.
the following order July ION; 20 ""
WOuUu sly N'iN'S ,,,,Il
your families to place OF salety IN" -
we can at least see whether the &c"
cases of yellow fever will assume ~, a.,
epidemic form. To the people aIons
the lines of different routes OF ira,e',
we say there can be no possible dai,5e
of infection for many days to come
A MILWAUKEE dispatch of July ."
saws: This morning Peter Gersllne,,
keeper of a saloon and summer gaiue+
on Mills street, committed sulcld tn y
cutting and shooting. He ilrsl 9pe .hen
the arteries at the wrist, anu ~
placed the muzzle OF a gun nnutI ~, ~,
chin and pushed the trigger on WIZ, i HI.
ramrod, the charge passing throusf b;s
mouth and through the crown 81 Cd
head. Gerstiner was of unsounu .ia;de
and had once before attempted su'' en-
A San Francisco dispatch OF july -, zee
saws: In the circuit court today 19ss he
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