Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-09-09

! crop, which was scanty at best, has been
attacked by q worm similar in appear.
ance to the army worm and almost com.
pletely destroyed 1t is stated that folly
25 900 people living in that section are in
absolute want OF the very necesssrles OF
/ life. Gov. ST JOHN at first stated that the
/ State would come to the relief of these
| people and minister to their wants, but
50 far this promise has not been fulfilled
/ He now advises the people to leave the
/ district as soon as possible. Subscrip.
I lions for the relief of the sufferers have
4 been taken up in some portions OF Mis-
souri, and Kansas, bat 80 far only about
/ S12 900 has been collected. The railroad
companies whose lines pass through the
district have acted with great generosity
/ in advancing seed to the people on thir-
/ teen months time.
/ DR.. CHARLES THOMAS JACKSON, an EN-.
4 inent physician and scientist of Boston,
has died a. the Somerville Insane Asylum,
near thai city. DR.. JACKSON was consid-
/ cred enc of the ablest men in his profess
sion, and made many valuable additions
10 medical and scientific literature, as
we'll as many important discoveries as to
| the character and treatment of diseases.
! The Upper Canadian Indians are dying
Oft very rapidly from small pox several
bands have divided up, and are travelling
/ north, leaving their dead unburied.
Immigrants are arriving in great mum.
bers at New York from Hamburg. They
are OF the most desirable classes, having
/ friends in The West who sent them tickets
! in the spring and summer, which they are
now using. Most Of the immigrants 60
direct to Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska,
| Kansas and Wisconsin, and become farm
ers or mechanics.
On the occasion of the expected birth
of an heir to the Spanish throne, the
Government will grant an amnesty to the
Cuban insurgent leaders now imprisoned
in Spain.
| Important changes in the overland
| lines OF telegraph connecting with the
Auglo-American cables have been com
pleted at Bangor, Me. Unier the new
arrangements the cable facilities between
this country and the Old World are fully
| doubled, and the danger OF error in trans
mission also greatly reduced. Bangor
will hereafter be the only repeating sta
ton between New York and the cable
! landing. The New York wire has been
| quadruplexed, and will be- used in con.
nection with the new cable just landed.
"FRITz" EMMETT has again been arrest
| ed at New York on complaint Of his wife
/ on the charge of being an habitual drunk
ard and neglecting to provide for his
/ family he will be incarcerated in an
asylum Tor inebrates.
In April last, THOMAS KLINK, OF Phila
/ delphia, eloped with the wife of his neigh.
Dor, GEORGE BRICK, taking with them
her daughter LILLE, aged -. LILLIE
/ has just returned to Philadelphia, and
says that KLINK murdered Mrs. BECK in
California. The affair is being investi.
gated,
1 Tuesday night, several small boys In
/ Cook street. New York, fell into fight;
their friends, learning of the disturbance
FASTENED TO the scene, and = general fight
J ensued, with sticks, stones and other mis-.
siles. One STEPHEN HARTMANN, having
! his skull fractured with stone, fired into
| the crowd with his revolver, killing Isaac
EVANS The police quelled the riot with
difficulty,
The Norfolk (Va) Knitting and Cotton
Manufacturing Company's factory has
been burned the loss is partially covered
by $4,000 insurance.
All the Scranton, Pa, coal miners have
resumed work on full time.
Coinage at the Philadelphia mint dur.
ing August was valued at 40G,S00 dol.
lars, 06 1000 eagles, 63 200 half eagles,
HOO 600 silver dollars, and the remainder
cents.
A citizen OF Grand Rapids, Mitch,
thinking he had cancer of the stomach,
abstained from food for sixty-fge days
and died of starvation. A post norton
showed his BRAIN to be the only diseased
part OF his body.
Senator CoNKLTNG has written to a