Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-04-09
THE WORLDS WORK.
MISCELLANEOUS.

AT Lebanon, KY, March 31st, sixteen
houses were destroyed by fire entailing
loss of $4,000.
THL wife of Jacob Morris, of Philo,
| H., attacked her husband with bread
knife April LIST. inaicting fatal wound.
| THE centennial celebration at Lexing
ton. Ky, on the 2nd inst, was a grand
affair.
THE trial Of the assassin, Buford, who
/ shot Judge Elliot at Frankfort KY, has
been set for Monday, April 2S, at a
! special term Of court.
! ANOTHER fierce storm prevailed off
| the Massachusetts coast April LIST, and
it is feared that many lives were lost at
| sea.
Gov. Monks, Of Tennessee, has signed
| the bill providing for the settlement of
the state debt at fifty cents on the dol
lar and four per cent interest.
THE United States pension agency at
Milwaukee, Wis, paid $3.50, 0S1 .3S army
pension during March, and $1,191 81
navy pension-a total of S259, -272.75.
REPORTS from many points in south.
ern Illinois, Ohio, Kentucky and Ten
nessee indicate that the peach crop is
going to be seriously injured by frosts.
A BosToN special states that "the
coming twelve months will probably see
more done to advance the business in
terests of Boston than any similar peri
cd for long term of years.
The Northern Pacific contractors on
the extension to the Yellowstone have
entered into a contract with a st. Louis
man to furnish 500 southern negroes at
$120 per day as graders. This was
worked up 10y the friends of Senator
WINDOWS colonization scheme.
A DISPATCH says the following is the
amount of hard wood that has been gut
into the streams tributary to Oshkosh,
Wis, during the past winter: Embarass,
! 100000 feet; Main Wolf, 100000
feet; Little Wolf, 100000 feet; oak
ties, $4,000; cedar posts, 10000; hub
timber, 10000.
A Minneapolis special of the 3lst
states that the city Touring mills of that
city, owned by the first national bank,
were entirely destroyed by fire Sunday
morning. Loss about $4,000; small
insurance. The fire caught from the
smoke stack of the mill.
A FIRE at Madison, Wisconsin on the
Goth destroyed the large stone block
belonging to the Fairchild estate intlict-
ing Il loss on building and stock of al
most $40, 600 During the fire two ex-
plosions occurred injuring somewhat
dangerously twenty-seyen iiremen and
citizens.
A TORONTO, Ont, dispatch of April
3D. says, the largest party of emiSrants
| for Manitoba that ever left Ontario
started this morning from Windsor. 1t
| consisted of two special trains, contain
ing for!y-eight cars. The capital at
their disposal amounts to over a quar-
ter of million. A large mber of
farmers left Plctou, n. S, yesterday for
Manitoba. Another party, numbering
100, leave to-day.
some interest is excited in the New
York iron trade by the fact that Mr..
| Vanderbilt has bought. in England,
10000 ions of steel rails at price which
equals $50 per ton landed here, while
| the price for the best American would
! be $45 delivered. The rails are guaran-
teed for fifteen years but the trade are
reluctant to regard this as the reason
! tor paying SO ton advance upon the
home prices, and wonder what the
other motives may be.
DISCOVERIES Of rich silver mines were
recently made twenty miles south of
Santa Fe. They are true assures, car
rying galena and carbonates, assaying
30 to 200 ounces. The silver is near
the surface, and the quantity Of the ore
is inexhaustiblc. The district is four by
six miles in extent, embracing several
old Spanish mines. Anthracite coal,
iron and fire clay are abundant in the
district.
FORTY failures were reported in New
York city during March, in which the
total liabilities amounted to $3.50, 449,
and the assets to S2ll,755. Compared
with the preceding months March
shows decrease in number Of eight
failures, and $4,000 in the amount OF
liabilities. During the month of March,
1873, eighty-tive failures were reported,
in which the total liabilities amounted
to SS,4S0,0oo.
A MAN in st. Paul took out hfe-in-
suranc policy for $1,000 one of the
printed conditions being that the COM
pany should pay nothing if he commit
ted suicide. He became insane, and
killed himself. His widow sued for the
s., 600 on the ground that being driven
to self.slaughter by insanity, a disease,
| does not constitute violation of the
suicide clause, which can be applied to
criminal selt-destruction only. TIE
! Minnesota supreme court decides for
! the widow.