Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-01-08
CURRENT EVENTS.
MISCELLANEOUS.

dry goods merchants, have failed for
$4,000. Assets said to be large.
THE Chicago and Northwestern freight
depot at Fond du Lac, Wis, burned on
Christmas. The books were saved.
! DIPHTHERIA is subsiding at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, where it has been raging
with great fatality for several weeks.
BLooMINGToN, Ill.,, has experienced
considerable fright over the appearance
of smallpox there.
A SALUTE was fred at Des Moines, Ia,
| Dec. 2Sth in honor Of the thirty-second
anniversary of the admission of that
state into the union. ..
THE Canadian parliament h as been
prorogued until February Sth, and will
not then be called for the dispatch of
business. ... ....
c. BAILEY, stock-raiser and merchant
of Plattsvile, Wis, was gored to death
Dec. Goth by bah that was on his
farm. .....
JUDGE HENRY SMITH, OF Memphis, an
ex-iudge of the supreme court of Ten
nessee. dropped dead at his residence
Dec. 3lst. .....
A FIRE at Ft. Howard, Wis, Dec
30th destroyed the Grand Central hotel
and barn valued at 5000. Fully in
sured.
JUDGE CHAs r. SHERMAN, formerly Z.
5. district Judge, and brother of Gen.
and Secy. Sherman, died at Cleveland,
Ohio Jan. 1st.
The New York gold room was
closed as a medium speculation Dec.
31st. At the clearing house there will
no longer be gold exchanges. '4
THE sub committee of the Potter in.
vestigation committee, and also the
yellow fever congl essional commission,
met in New Orleans Dec. 30th.
THE schooner Ellen, from st. John for
New Haven, was wrecked on the coast
of Maine, Dec. 2Sth. The captain and
three seamen were drowned.
THE new state capital at Lansing,
Mich, was dedicated Jan. 1st, and
thrown open to the public. The legis-
lature OF that state also met on that
day.
A BosToN telegram of Dec. 2Sth says:
The Emerson piano company's factory
burned tonight. Loss 100000. In
sured. So men are thrown out of en-
ployment.
AFTER five hours deliberation theiury |
in the trial of Joe ST Peters and Mrs. A. |
B. Clark for the murder of the latter's |
husband at La Grange, ILL.,, returned a
verdict OF not guilty as to both Dec. Il
DURING the past year or failures |
were reported in New York with iisblli- |
ties of 500 ,95S ,4O3, and assets ut SIS |
695 ,53l. TINS exceeds the record of
any former year, but large number is |
due to the repeal of the bankrupt act.
A New YORK telegram of December
31st says: One hundred and |
eighty deaths the past week from
scarlet fever--an increase of SO upon |
the previous week-impels the board of
health to take action.
GENERAL ID. G. MCCoLLUM, formerly |
general superintendent of the Erie rail |
way. and subsequently at the head OF
the government railway service during |
the war Of the rebellion, died in Brook |
Ign, Dec. 9th.
The jury in the case OF VIM. Chase,
of Chippewa Falls, Wis, on trial for
numbering Frank Goodhue Dec. 3lst |
brought in n verdict of murder in the
first degree, ana the prisoner was SEN
fenced to imprisonment for life.
THE Atkinson, Topeka 4 Santa Fe |
railroad company, made a sweeping
reduction i'll passenger fare, to take eff |
feet Jan. LIST. The rate Is reduced |
to cents per mile on the main line
and all branches in Kansas, Colorado |
and New Mexico. This is a reduction |
over SO per cent.
A BosToN telegram of Dec. 41tn gays:
One of the boldest highway robberles |
which ever took place in this vicinity !
is claimed to have occurred late last !
night IN East Boston, when Edward |
Revert, n pawnbroker, was knocked |
down by two unknown rutfans and rob
bed of $3.50, and jewelry, etc, valued at
$500 more. He says he lay four hours |
III the street before he regained con- |
sciousness, and was nearly frozen.
MAJ. MORRILL,, of the Engineer Corps, (.
has written letter for publication, IN |
which he shows that Capt. Eads is not
the inventor of the jetty system, but
that 1t has been used by our military |
engineers for fifty years. He also ques- |
tons the success of the lettles at the |
mouth of the Mississippi, as Capt |
Eads' contract looks for depth of 80 I
feet, and he has thus far obtained only /
=, Of oil In. ha-