Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1879-04-16
THE WEEKS WORK.
A Record Of Important Events,
Domestic and Foreign.
MISCELLANEOUS.

A FIRE at OconOmowoc, Wis, April
9TH, destroyed $4,000 worth ofproper,y.
The Straits of Mackinac were still
frozen over on April 9th, and teams
were crossing daily.
SENATOR CARPENTER, of Wisconsin,
opposed the admission Of Bell as sena-
tor from New Hampshire.
THE Vanderbilt brothers have stopped
litigation each against the other, and
have published the amicable agree
ment.
TUE largest party that ever left Can
ada started from Renfrew April Sth,
bound for Manitoba.
THE business portion of Cotleeville,
Mss, was destroyed by fire April Sth.
Loss $4,000.
MARCH earnings of nineteen western
railroads show an increase over the
same month last year of $263,O00.
ARTICLES of incorporation of the Free
port, (Ill., and Monroe, wis, } railroad
were recently filed at Springfield.
A TORNADO passed over portion of
st. Louis county, Mo-, April 9th doing
considerable damage.
THE report that Sitting Bull was rest
less and insubordinate Is contradlcted.
He is represented as quietly in camp.
A FIRE in Philadelphia on Sunday
April 9th, on Race and Crown streets
destroyed property valued at $3.50, 900.
The ninth annual session of the wo-
mems foreign missionary society met in
Milwaukee on the 9th inst. with $50
delegates present.
JUSTICE CLIFFORD regards the decision
that he rendered 10 the Chicago whisky
cases as the most important one that he
has ever delivered upon the bench.
The funeral of Madame Bonaparte
took place at Baltimore April 9TH.
The chief mourners were the grand
sons, Col. Jerome Napoleon and Charles
Joseph Bonaparte and family.
A BILL has been introduced in the
Pennsylvania legislature to appropriate
$250,0O0 for the relief of the widows and
orphans, Of those who were killed in tn e
Pittsburg riots IN 1877.
THE United States Supreme Court
mas rendered its decision in the first
batch of Chicago whisky cases. The
decision is adverse to the whisky men,
and reverses the judgement of the Chi,
cagO court.
THE Union Pacific, Kansas Pacific
and Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail-
way companies have formed pool on
Colorado business. This ends all COM
petition and places the public entirely
ut the mercy of those great corpora
tons.
The will of Nine. Elizabeth Patter-
son Bonaparte devises all her real and
personal estate equally to her grand
sons, Jerome Napoleon and Charles
Joseph Bonaparte, who are also
made executors. The real estate is de-
vised for life to her grandsons and after
ward to their children.
A LETTER has been received by Arc h.
Bishop Purcell, of Cincinnati, from Car
dinal Simeon, secretary to the Pope,
declining to accept the archbishop's re-
signation on account Of his long SER
vice to the church. The archbishop
was instructed to select n coadjutor,
with the right of succession to the See
of Cincinnati.
A Cincinnati dispatch of April 9th,
says SProf. Vaughan, we'll known
throughout the United States and
Europe as an astronomer, linguist, and
arithmetician, died in hospital to-day,
this city, aged 5S. Prof. Vaughan was
born in Ireland, but came to this coun-
try when quite young and for the past
% years has been IL resident OF this
city.
THE decoration of the confederate
monument in Greenwood Cemetery at
New Orleans took place April 9th. Be-
tween 5000 and 10000 persons were
present. Local military organizations
and associations participated. Apron
inent feature of the ceremonies was the
reception of delegations of the Grand
Army of the Republic and Union sail
ors and soldiers, who presented floral
offerings.
AN Omaha special ofApril says Chief
Moses and n number of Indian friends,
in charge of an army officer arrived
from San Francisco. A delegation of
Indians for Washington leaves to-mor-
row to confer with the president and
Secretary Schurz, by whom they have
been summoned to the capitol. They
represent the principal tribes in Oregon
and Washington Territory, numbering
1900. They wish to adjust some old
treaty matters, and permanent peace is
expected.
\ MARsHALLTowS, Iowa. special says
terrible double tragedy occurred at Gift
ford, Il small station on the Iowa Cen
trail railway. John Bell, station agent,
10 years Old deliberately shot Miss
Robbins, his lady friend, through the
heart twice, and then telegraphed for
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