Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-11-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


and type of Radical paper, and put the
printers and publishers into Jail.
Gen. MCCooK recommends Congress to
pass a law authorizing the enlistment of
$50 young men-being one for each mill
tary post,-who are qualified to act as
schoolmasters, and who shall have the
rank and pay of Commissary. Sergeants.
The Marquis de Boishebert, Viscount
de Lssssss, Viscount de Amelot, and NJ.
Cochin, q journalist, we're sentenced The
latter to months, the three others to
fortnight's, mprisonment-Satu for
having obstruCted the Partisan police in
executing the DEGREES against the religious
orders.
Special postal arrangements have been
made between the United States and
France by which after the 1st of January
packages OF merchandise not exceeding
twelve pounds in weight, and of dimen-
slons not exceeding twelve inches in
length, eight inches In width and four
inches in thickness, can be sent from one
country to the other through the mails
Lieut.. KIsLENBURG, of the Eleventh
Infantry, and twenty-tiv men, were fired
upon by an ambushed party of Sioux near
the mouth Of Musselshell river on the
7th inst None of the command were in.
jured. RenfoIcements were sent TO the
Lieutenant from Fort Keogh, and he
went in pursuit of the redskins. 1t is
feared that some of Sitting Bulls band
will reinforce the Sioux.
The country round Agram. in the Prov
ince of Crotis, Austria, seems to be the
root OF seething caldron. Shocks Of
earthquake continue to be felt at varying
intervals, two mud. volcanoes are In erup-
ton, and several hot springs have made
their appearance. The people of the dis.
trict are naturally panic-stricken, and
some of them have lost the greater por-
ton OF their property, To the credit of
the Austrian Government, it must be said
that its representatives are working with
all possible energy to relieve the distress
and to repslr the damage.
Evidence has been given by A P. Nc.
DONALD, q contractor, before the Cana
dian Pacific Railway Commission, that
Mr. ONDRRDoNK, a San Francisco con-
tractor, paid 100000 for obtaining con-
tracts to build two sections Of the Cana,
dian Pacific Road through portions OF
British Columbia. Col. SMITH, a Brook.
Ign contractor, testified few weeks ago
that hs psid 100000 for his contract.
The Comm ission has not yet finished It's
labors, and Will come upon some other de-
yelopments before 1t does. ONDERDoNK
and SMITH paid the money to contractors
who underbid them, and to some Cana.
dian politicians, who seem to know some
thing of the policy of addition, division,
and silence.
The wife 0. SAMUEL DAVIDSON, a prom
inent lawyer of New York, was found
murdered, Monday morning, on the porch
OF her house, in Patterson, n. J.
Miss JENNIE SPENCER, well known in
the social circles of Burlington, Iowa,
hanged herself, on Sunday, with piece
of rope taken from bale Of hay.
The recent failure Of the two banks OF
Hackensack, N. j., caused by the embez
element OF specializing cashier, is the
cause of great distress in that community.
About every person in the town and vi.
cinity had deposits in either the savings
bank or the other one, both Of which went
down together, being under one general
management (or mismanagement)
The epiz potic Is interfering with trade
and transportation In some localities in
/ the west
! 1t is believed that the barge Morning
! Star, Captain j w THOMPSON, has been
! lost on Lake Erie, witb all hands. She
was valued st $4,000, and had cargo of
! 10000 bushels of wheat
/ The schooner Hoobray, loaded with 40
tons OF nitro-giycerine, aground In Erie
! pa hsrbor, has given the people OF that
place great concern for some days past, q
terrific explosion being anticipated; but
Monday her cargo was successfully re-
moved to q scow and anchored three miles
of the port.