Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-09-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

a Mexican Roman Catholic priest re-
Gently melted Greaser mob to attack
party of Protestants engaged in the dedi-
catory services at place of worship 10
Guadslajars. Several OF the uneffending
Protestants were essass ated and the sur.
pliced scoundrel had the inhumanity anc
fendishness to tauntingly offer the vic
Tins OF his fsnatical followers the sacra-
ments Of the church which he had dis
graced.
Two stage-coaches, one from Cave City,
KY, to the Mammoth Cave, and the other
from the Cave to the city, were stopped
Friday night by band of highway rob-
bers, and the passengers and coaches were
rified OF all their vsluables. To compen.
safe their victims for the losses sustained,
or, mayhap, to cheer their dropping spir.
its, the highwaymen treated them all,
temperance men and topers alike, to some
excellent Kentucky whisky.
EDWARD T. HEALy, q lawyer of Custer
City, d. T., is the victim Of misplaced
love. His wife deserted him some time
ago and took up her residence in Sioux
City bagnio. He rode horseback from his
home 400 miles to forgive her, TO forget
her crime, ard to take her once more to
his bosom, but she refused to give up her
wicked ways. HEALY attempted suicide
by taking laudanum at q Sioux City hotel
Thursday night, but the physicians saved
him by judicious application of emetics.
Mr.. HEALY returned to Custer City Satur.
day, and will doubtless try and forget his
his false and faithless wife.
Mr.. HENRY GREER, of Newberry county,
South Carolina, went to a river hard by
his residence Saturday morning to indulge
In his tavorite pastime Of fishing. He
baited his hook and waited some time for
bite, but as he got none he proceeded to
examine the water to ascertain If it was
clear enough for fishing. His feelings
may be imagined, when he discovered ly-
ing in the stream the dead body of his
SON. A little farther down one Of Mr..
GRIER's companions discovered another
body, which turned out to be that of his
second son. Both were perforated with
bullet-wounds, and it is evident that the
young men were victims Of foul play. The
old gentleman has been overcome by grief
at his horrifying discovery.
The grain and produce trsde of Mil
waukee for the past crop year shows an
aggregate Of nearly $1,000 900 bushels of
grain receipts, against "a ,OO0,OOO bushels
the previous year-s falling off in receipts
of nearly 5000 900 bushels. Total re.
ceip,s: Wheat, 100000 bushels; flour,
100000 barrels; corn, 1000 600 bushels
barley, 100000 bushels. There was a
large increase in cattle receipts, and in
wool, lumber and pig iron.
A thousand-ton floating tank of kero.
sene which was being towed on the river
Volga, towards Baku, exploded, and
caused the death of thirty men. A boat
man brought light In too close prox-
unity to the tank, and caused the dis
aster.
A party of disguised men entered a
house in the county of Kerry, Ireland,
from which family had been evicted,
and cut off the ears of two men who had
been left in charge of the premises.
A Paris dispatch states that the harvest
throughout France, Baden, Switzerland,
Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Holland,
South Russia, Servia and Egypt, will be
fully up to the average; that in Upper
Italy, Roumelis, Bavaria, Swabis, South
Italy, Hungary, Poland and Belgium, it
will be from to 25 per cent. above the
average; but that IN Great Britain and
Ireland, Saxony, Nor thern and Rhenish
Germany and Central Russia, it will be
from 10 to 40 per cent. below the average.
A criminal warrant was issued at For d
du Lac, Monday, for the arrest OF How
ARD NJ. KUTCHUN, editor of the Daily Com
m0nuea!th, for charging Gen. BRAGG,
mem Der of Congress, with selling cadet
ship.
CHARLES MILLER, attorney. at-law and
son of eX State Senator VIM MILLER, at
tempted to commit suicide, Monday
night, at Columbus, O., by taking heavy
dose of morphine. He had been discov.