Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-03-19
CURRENT EVENTS.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A FAMINE is raging in Bolivia.

si11e die March 18th.
THE iron trade is booming, so say the
Pennsylvania manufacturers.
The Manhattan Savings bank OF New
York, which was robbed few months
since, resumed business March 18th.
TIE amount of claims alreauy nlo!
against Archbishop Purcell amount to
So, 100000
THE republicans elected a mayor Of
Bangor, Maine, on the 10th inst. by 146
majority.
THREE suits were brought against
Arch Bishop Purcell of Cincinnati on
the 10th INST
THE Indiana p,ohibitionists will hold
a STATE convention May 21st to put in
nomination full state ticket.
The acknowledgements candidate
for mayor Of Biddeford, Maine, was
elected by seven majority on the 10th
inst.
THE secretary and treasurer Of local
fire insurance company in Vermont is
$4,000 short in his accounts. HIS
name is A. q. Woodland.
Ara fire in Georgetown, near Wash
ington, last Saturday night, three color
ed children named Martin burned TO
! death.
So many attempts having been made
recently to burn the city Of Columbus,
O., the citizens have formed vigilance
committee and patrol the city nightly.
O'LEARY broke down utterly on
March 18th III the championship walk
at Gilmore's Garden, New York, and so
| lost the race.
A DISPATCH from Passport, Maine
says the ship Turkish Empire went
ashore on Big Duck island one night
last week and was completely wrecked.
The captain and six men were drowned
No tidings having been received of
the fourteen fishing vessels which went
out from Gloucester, Mass, to Georges
Bank, it is believed the whole fleet was
swamped in the recent gales, and that
all on board have persisted.
The regular session Of the Indiana
legislature failed to make the appropria-
tons necessary to carry on the state
government, an extra session was call
ed by Gov. Williams to meet on the
10Th.
A DISPATCH from New Orleans dated
March 18th says that the Bonnie
Lee, with eleven hundred and fifty
bales Of cotton, sank in Red River. A
wrecking boat has gone to her assist
ance.
Mrs. GEN. THOMAS w. SHERMAN died
Of consumption at Newport, X. L.,
March 10Th. At the time Gen. Sh er-
man himself was very i'll and his recov-
cry seemed doubtful. He was not in
formed of his wife's death lest the blow
should be too great for him.
A LETTER received at Ottawa, Canada,
March 18th, from Mr.. 7. Breeland, a
Manitoba trader at the Moose Noun
tain, near Sitting Bulls camp, states
that the snow is disappearing and the
buffalo are moving north. There is
strong talk Of joining the American hos
tile tribes in the spring.
The floor of Mechanics Hall in
North Berwick, Maine, gave way while
a town meeting was being held on the
10th inst, and precipitated the mass of
people to the floor below. Many peo-
pie were severely, and some fatally in
jured. Public sentiment is bitter
against the builders of the hall.
A NORWICH, Connecticut, dispatch Of
March 10Th says that Mrs. John Tay
lor and two sons, Willie, ten years old,
and Johnny, five years old, were drown
ed in the Mantle ice company's pond,
at Mantle, to-day. The children went
for pail of water ard fell in, and Mrs.
Taylor hearing cries, ran 10 their assist
ance and also drowned.
IT is thought that the fishing vessels
lost in the storm off the Massachusetts
coast Feb. Goth number fully ii. Such
Il long time has elapsed since the storm
that all nope of ever again hearing from
the vessels is lost. By this disaster 1i6
men have died at sea while Al widows
and 100 orphans are left without sup
port.
\ FIRE in East st. Louis, on the 9th
inst, commencing in II wagon shop
owned by Mrs. Henrietta Bousch, des-
troyed about $4,000 worth of property.
In part of Mrs. Bousch's shop, used
as a residence, there were sleeping three
Of Mrs. Bousch's children, Henry
Schmpperketler and Mrs. Catherine
Boorst, all of whom were burned to
death. Mrs. Bousch jumped from a
window and fatally injured herself.
A Green Bay, Wisconsin dispatch
of March Sth, says: A fire at
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