Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-07-30
GENERAL NOTES.

ST. LOUIS quarantined against Mem
| phis July 2lst.
FIVE new cases of yellow fever were
reported in Memphis, July 22d.
! CINCINNATI es ablished strict quaran.
tine against Memphis July 21st.
ANOTHER genuine case of yellow fever
was discovered at Brooklyn, July Odd.
NINETEEN new cases of yellow fever
were reported in Memphis July 23rd.
THE yellow fever has broken out at
Tampico, Mexico, says dispatch ofJuly
| Gath.
! THE Orange demonstration in Ottawa,
July 23d, was not attended by any serious
consequences as predicted
| SEVERAL hundred railroad employees
struck for higher wages in st. Louis July
2lst
Two cases of yellow fever brought
from Memphis were discovered in Louis
vile July 22nd.
| THE revolution in Central America has
ended, says u dispatch of July 23rd
About 600 lives were lost in the struggle
a VIOLENT outbreak among the strik-
ing weavers at Fall River, Mass, oc-
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several mills was very serious.
a New YORK dispatch of July oath
says the Episcopal order of the sisters of
st. Mary will send nurses to their Mem
phis branch.
| THE historical camp, Father Matth.
ew," was re.established near Memphis,
July 22d, for poor refugees from yellow
fever.
PEOPLE fleeing from Memphis filled
the trains July 22d. Every one who was
able to leave the city seemed to have
taken flight.
THE Louisiana constitutional conven-
ton, July 22d, adopted provision max
ing the intermarriage of whites and
blacks felony.
A REPORT from Atlanta, Ga, July ped,
gave brief particulars of the shooting OF
a Mormon priest who was proselyting for
converts in that vicinity.
A DISPATCH from Ft Benton, July 2lst,
gave the particulars of Gen Miles de-
parture from that place the week previ-
Gus. Miles left the fort with $40 men
An early engagement was then looked
| for.
a DEATH from yellow fever occurred at
Brooklyn, July 22d. The victim vas a
| fireman on Cuban steamer. Three
deaths of the same nature had already
occurred at the quarantine station in
New York harbor.
| Two eccentric maiden ladies living at
Hyde Park, near Chicago, committed
suicide July 2lst but their bodies were
not discovered until the 22nd. Their
names were Trow bridge. Trouble about
property led to the act.
| A DISPATCH Of the 21st SAYS: At the
request of Representative Casey Young,
of the Memphis, Tenn, district, the sec
rotary Of war will forward to Memphis
| $1,000 tents and rations for % days, to be
used in aid Of the sufferers from the vel
low fever
A SPECIAL OF the DIST says boat has
started for Old Fort Peck Gen. Miles
supply depot, with battery of six Rod
man & Hotchkiss guns, 40 boxes of
grape and $4,000 pounds of revolver
cartridges, 200, 600 rounds of rifle car
tridges and other supplies.
| A New YORK telegram of July 2lst
says the brig l.. f. Munson, from Car
denas, saw a brig flying the signals of
distress, ran to her and found it to be the
brig Akbar from Havana for New
York, with captain and three men sick
with yellow fever and one man having
died the day previous, and her former
| Captain, Loving, died in Havana A nav
! igator was put on board,
A BISMARCK dispatch Of July 22nd
says Joseph Lambert, woodman, and
| family, living six miles above Wolf
Point 4 rency on the Missouri were at
tackled by the Indians on the Goth inst,
| Lam bert, wife, and four children, were
killed aud scalped. Two other children
were seriously wounded, and cannot re-
cover, and one little Z irl carried into
| captivity,
A BosToN telegram of July 23d says
| Gov. Talbot, having considered the mat
ter fully, has, by the advice of his friends,
and in accordance with what he deems
his duty to the republican party, concln-
| ded to allow his name to be presented TO
the republican convention. This means,
of course, that the republican ticket wi
be Talbot and Long, and the opposing
ticket Butler and French.
A DAVENPORT, Iowa, special of July
2lst, says it seems to be pretty we'll set
| tied here that the Davenport and North
western Railroad, which runs from
Davenport to Fayette, and from Daven-
port to Maquoketa-in all, 140 miles
| will pass into the hands of the Milwaukee
and ST. Paul Railroad company on
August l. The purchase by the latter
company is actually made and the
papers duly signed and delivered, sealing
the entire transaction.