Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-11-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

qusrreled with his wife. His slster-ln-!a"
took the wife's part, which so enrsged
! Mort th at he wen. into his barn, where ne
obtained large knife, with which ne
made savage attack on the slster-lu-laW,
| inflicting wounds which he seemed TO
! think were fatal. He then took down his
| gun, fred its contents into the air. coolly
reloaded il, and placed It under his own
| chin, and fired. The shot blew away the
! lower part of his tsce, tearing away the
| tongue, but it did not prove instantly
fatal, When lying in q pool OF blood, he
noticed that his sister. in.lsw began to
show signs of life, and with demoniac
purpose he dragged himself towards the
PROSTATE body, litted a large stone, and
| allowed it to fall on her head. He was
about to repeat the fendlsh act, when his
| wife came on the scene. She wren ched
the stone from him, and used it on MS own
head, quickly Dispatch him. The sister
ia. law died in few minutes after,
A freight train and gravel train ran
into each other between st. Paul and
Minneapolis, on the Milwaukee & 81.
Paul RoEd, Saturday. The collision re
suited in the death of three men and the
bruising and scalding OF two Others. The
accident is said to be the result Of malice
on the part of Conductor MCCLINTocK, Of
the gravel IRAN. lie had orders to hold
his train on the side track till the freight
train passed tie either forgot the orders
or purposely and maliciously disobeyed
hem The accident occurred at sharp
curve in the road. The persons who were
kille are GEORGE ToRRAHzEE, engineer
OF the gravel train, and ZsPH HANsCoMB,
fireman. MIKE FLOOD, the other fire
man, received serious but not fatal In
juries. McCLINToCK, the conductor TO
whose malice the accident is attributed,
has fed and has not yet been discovered
The Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad
Company have purchased from the Spot
ted Tail and Red Cloud Indians the right
of way through their territories, dis
lance of $50 miles from the mouth Of the
American Crow Creek to the Cheyenne
r yer. The way will be 200 feet wide
and the company pays $40 per mile, and
"a per acre for station ground, and IS per
acre for town site on the west side Of
the Missouri river.
Kansas does not mean that the impress.
sion shall go abroad that it is less devoted
to Republican principles and to the ke-
publican party than Iowa or Michigan.
Some days ago it was claimed that a
Michigan Congressional district gave q
larger majority to Gen, GARFIELD than
any other district in the Union. This
statement wss disputed by the Republl-
cans OF the Fourth Iowa District, who
claimed the honor for their district, ii
having given Is 600 majority for General
GARFIELD, and now comes the Republi
cans of the First Kansas District, which
gave 10000 majority to GARFIELD, and
they clsim that their district is the banner
Republican district of the country.
Ina recent encounter between the Ba-
sutos ard the Colonial troops, the latter
seem to have mad the worst OF it. They
| were obliged - retreat, with the loss OF
five men. The Bssutos were 5000 strong.
The rebellion sec ms to be extending TO all
the South African tribes, and in orGer TO
cope with it the colopists are calling for
large relnforcehents.
A typhoon recently passed over Jspan
which did considerable damage to rer'
sons and property. In the district OF
Toxic alone over 1000 residences were
| comnletely demolished and over 100 fish,
ermen lost their lives by being washed
overheard in Toxic Bay during the storm
Saturday night, FRANK NJ. BIEDEN-
BAuGH, a wealthy young. German OF Bates.
vie. Ohio, came home intoxicated, and
assaulted his sleeping wife and lntah'
sop with sn axe. His wlfe's skull was
crushed by a siogle blow, and then MS
sons throat was cut by the edge OF the
axe. He then went 10 room wner'
Mrs. STEPHENS, visitor, and her chiiu
and servant girl were sleeping, AMI killed
Mrs STEPHENS aud her child. The ser
want girl, awakened, spracg toward the
door lint was knocked senseless sue