Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-07-29

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Col. HATCH reports tina; hostile Indians
are still raiding the New Mexico ranches
near Chihuahua, but not killing anyone
JOHN hNAEBEL a Brooklyn attorney
and formerly assistant corporation conn
sci, has suddenly left the city and gone 10
New Mexico; his finances are in had
way, and several clients are out large
sums.
Adiutant General DRUM thinks thu mil
itary prison at Leavenworth, Kas, is one
OF The best reforma,ory institutions in the
country. 1t has been five years in opera.
tion, and contains 354 prsoners-soldiers
who have been sentenced by court.msrtial
for felonies. The prisoners are TAUGHT
mechanical trades. The Superintendent
OF the prison and his assistants are
officers OF the regular army.
The prisoners in the Tazewell county
tlll) Jail set ire to their bedding, in the
hope that they might gain their liberty,
but as nobody had a key but the jailor,
who was at distance, they were com.
PEELED TO await his return. When he ar.
rived on the scene the culpriis were so
exhausted that they could not have es.
capped II they had been given an opportu.
nifty.
smart shock of earthquake was ex.
perienced in southern New HAMPSHIRE,
Tuesday morning; buildings trembled
ana pictures were shaken down. The
motion was rapid, with southeastern
tendency, and lasted several seconds.
Thirty-two grain vessels which sailed
from the ports of New YORK, Boston,
Baltimore, Philadelphia, Portland, and
New Orleans, in the year ending July,
1880, were never heard from again One
million four hundred thousand bushels of
wheat and $50 lives were lost in these yes.
SIS,
at the Chicago Jockey Club races, Tues.
day: Weather fine and attendance nearly
5000. Sport was excellent and contest
close The feature of the day was the
magnificent speed of Monroe Chief, who
won the free-for-all stallion race SPIRIT of
the Times stake; time, 2;2015. Ia the
Novelty Carriage Works stake, 2.21 class,
John Grant won. In the special race,
2;2O pacing class, Sorrel Dan made the
fastest first half mile on record.
Count LOUIS FRANCOIS DE PouRrALEs
is dead in Beverly, Mass. The Count
came to this country about the same time
as did AGAssIz, whose pupil and fellow
worker he became. After the death of
AGAssIz, he was appointed keeper of the
Museum of Comparative Zoology, which
position he retained to the close of his
life.
At its annual meeting, Tuesday, The
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
adopted resolutions asking the Congress
sional delegation from California TO advo-
cate liberal appropriation for extending
the work Of the United States geogrsph-
icsl and Typographical surveys west of
the one hundredth meridian, and for
marine survey of the coast from Califor.
MIA to Alaska.
During the month of June this year
S2S ,049 $50 worth of breadstuffs were ex-
ported from this country, against Sl7,210,.
ITO worth exported in 1879. During the
year ending June 80 the value of the
breadstutfs exported was s277, 226 762,
against $201 ZIG, 400 worth exported dur.
ing the preceding year
Arrangements are nearly complete for
the resumption of work on the WASHING.
ton monument, suspended tor twenty-five
years.
The colored men of Illinois met at
Springfield, Tuesday; 1877 delegates were
present. An address was adopted, urging
al colored voters to support the Re.
publican party, TO which they owed every
tn lng and to which alone they could look
for that recognition which they desired.
A State Central Commute was organized.
A report has reached Sioux City that
the surveyors of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul Railway, who started to run
line from the Lower Bruc Agency to the
Black Hills, have been driven back by
the Sioux, who object to the railroad
crossing their reservation.
In The Cabinet meeting at Washington,
Tuesday, the Interior Department sub
mtted the information that Spotted Tail,
becoming dissatisfied, had removed his
children from the school where, with sew