Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1880-09-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

COuitCCu YChIo usp, obO JAN &c III iA4iNio
disappeared from Somerset, Ind; one
KIMLEY was caught and imprisoned for
the imputed murder year or two since,
and is now in Jail at Somerset A brother
of KrMLEY has just discovered MnRus
alive and well at Ford's Ferry, KY.
MILRIs is on his way to Somerset, to estab.
lish his identity aud secure KIMLEY's re-
lease.
Ed j. MURDOCH, q promising youth If
Cincinnati, has robbed his widowed
mother of 81 900, the extent of her fortune,
and disappeared.
REBECCA RoTHsCHuD, 3 handsome
Yong Jewess of Indianapolis, sues THos.
NJ Dickinson, a wealthy lumber merchant,
for $50 900 damages for seduction and
breach of promise.
A violent shock OF earthquake was re.
( Gently felt on the west coast of the Island
OF Java. A stone lighthouse on point
OF land was thrown down, and this seems
to have been the extent Of the damage. !,
continue TO burn with unabated vgor, and
II is feared that should there be no rain
soon the damage will be many times
more than 1t is at present. Already some
100 families have been rendered hone
less and their cattle and other proper "
destroyed. Relief committees are beng
organized in many districts. A consider
able sum of money has been subscribed
at Montreal, Quebec and st. Hyacinthe.
Application Will be made to the Dominion
Government Tor a grant to relieve the un-
| fortunate people and to rebuild their
homes. Rain is ardently wished tor AMI
prayed for, that the flames may be
checked.
On the 4th OF April last French expe.
dition, under command of Capt. GALLIE.
Nj, started up the River Niger, for the
purpose of exploring the country. On
the 1lth of May the expedition was at
tackled near the village of Dis, IN the
Barbary country, by q native force num-
bering 000, and the French were obliged
TO retire with the loss OF their baggage,
aud fourteen men killed and eleven
wounded. The expedition has been re-
fitted, and will soon start by new route.
The naval demonstration against Tur-
key has been again postponed, in the ex
pectstion that the Porte may yet be
induced to come to terms. Russia wanted
to take immediate action, but was dis
suaded by England. The French and
Austrian Ambassadors have called on the
Turkish Foreign Minister with view to
induce him to advise his Government to
comply with the demands Of the Powers
RITA PAsHA has invited the principal
people of Dulcigno to q conference and
has advised them to yield peacesbly, but
there is no reason to think that many of
them will act % els advice. In fact,
should they conclude TO do so, they would
only bring on themselves the wrath of the
hill tribes, whose leaders only day or
two ago resolved on resistance to the bit
ter end.
Justice CREIGHTON, of Tennessee, has
decided that sutton may recover money
at law lost during game of chance, and
that the question whether the game was.
Square" or "robbery" has nothing
whatever to do with the case.
Last week 553 496 additional standard
silver dollars went into circulation. This
numb Der is 1913 800 greater than the out
flow from the mlnts for the same week in
1879.
A committee of prominent citizens OF
Pueblo, Col waited on NICKEL SMITH, a
rsvisher, at his residence, and after briet
parley took him out and hanged him to a
tree
Eight thousand Montenegrins, with
eight cannon, are reported to be on their
way to Dulcigno with the intention of
taking the city by force il their peaceful
occupation is resisted.
Another serious railroad accident Is re-
ported from England Four persons were
killed and thirty injured by the collision
of q passen ger trsin with locomotive
between Waterloo Station and Hampton
Court.
A serious Instruction has broken out
in Herat, and the Governor Of the city has
been murdered. AyOoB KHAN, the de-