Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-15

for Mrs.Cobb, acorlite and arsenic which
she administered to her husband.
A FIRE at Charleston, S. c., on New
Years destroyed the. large cotton-press
warehouse of the Union Cotton-Press
company together with 1921 bales Of
cotton. The property contained four
cotton presses. Only two presses
were running. The buildings and
presses were valued at about
$100,OO0i insured, $4,000. The loss
on Gotten is estimated at $475 900.
The insurance amounts to $472,25O.
Several rame dwellings in the neigh
borhood damaged about IS 1000, most of
which is covered by insurance. The
fire was the work Of an incendiary.
A LoUs vILLE, KY, dispatch of jan
uary 9TH bays another Ditch in the his
tory of kentucky's dark deeds was
added lai night, the victim being Bob
Malone, torekeeper and postmaster OF
Beckly's station, sixteen miles east of
Louisville Malone was in Louisville
Monday, but returned home in the
afternoon At 8 p. m. he separated
from a M mber of persons who frequent
cd his STOP. and was never again seen
alive. Ills morning Malone was found
murderedt an assassin having killed
him by dow from Ratchet. Malone's
packets wee rifed, and it is suspected
he was SLAM by tramps, as $40 in money
are missing.
The shipments of cheese, made in
Sheboygancounty Wis, the past year,
foo. up 1T,7S5 boxes, or, S27,476
pounds. These figures show an increase
over 1877 Il 1,627 $50 pounds. About
1000, 900 pounds were shipped to Liver
pool, nearly 100000 to Chicago, and
the remainder to New York, Milwaukee,
and the South. S. II. Conover, shipped
2,010,SOO pounds, the largest
amount by any one man or
firm, w. q. Tillson being the second
largest shipper, having disposed of l.
200340 pounds. Hiram Smith, the
pioneer cheese-maker of this county,
shipped S0j,440 pounds. Sheboygan
is the bannet cheese county OF the west.
The annual report of the state audi
tor shows TIA. there are 16,714,34S
acres of land assessed in Minnesota at
an average rate of 81 72l per acre, and
that the total value of the real and
personal property is $222,791 ,042 upon
which the total state, general and spe-
cial, county, town, and city assess
ment, and assessment for the sup
port of the state university, IS
So, 800, 1889, The average rate of
taxation, exclusive of special taxes for
seed grain, is Is 4 10 mills. There are
81 ,403, 5S3 acres more land assessed
than in 1877, at 81 cents less average
price per acre, and a total increased
valuation of SIC, 33S, 041, but there is
decrease in the taxable value of town
and city lots of $2,501,2S2 leaving the
total increase of taxable property at
81, $780,
4 TERRE HAuTE dispatch OF Jan.
3rd says: Two men, Noah Williams
and Modoc Gainey, living in Green
county, made arrangements to burg
larize the store Of Walls & Bond,
at Oaktown, 40 miles south of
this city last night. The citizens had
previou sly obtained information of their
intended visit, and a large party waited
in a saloon near Bonds store, having
put out the lights. The burglars APP
peared soon after midnight, but went
first to the saloon to get liquor. The
citizens opened fire and in three min
utes over thirty shots were exchanged.
Williams was shot through the neck
and killed. Carney was dangerously
wounded in the breast and arm and will
probably die. Henry Morton, one of
the citizens, was shot in the face by one
of the thieves and slightly hurt. With
the robbers was captured a complete set
of fine burglars tools.
A CHICAGO dispatch of January
7th says: A bold robbery oc-
CURED on east Madison street, at 7
o'clock this evening. Two men, yet
unknown drove up to a goldsmith's
pawn broking establishment, i'll a cutter;
one of them unlocked the door while
the other entered and broke in a show
case and secured two trays of diamonds,
claimed to be worth seven thousand
dollars; the two then drove rapidly
away, and nothing has been learned of
them since.
PREPARATIONS for the inauguration of
a direct steamship line between Balti-
more and Barrow, on the coast
of England, are nearly completed.
A half-dozen iron steamships are
being built on the Clyde, and
will be fitted up especially with
a view to the prosecution of the cattle
export trade Each steamer, it is I'm.
derstood, will have a Transporting ca
pacity for 1900 head OF cattle. In
anticipation OF this new line the