Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-07-07
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary OF --latest Cablegrams
and kilograms.
Latest Events.


| Mrs. McVicker have reached New York
| Mr.. BEEcHER tells his people that labor
strikes are working great benefit to all
classes of workingmen.
! THE experimental cargo of wheat
shipped from st. Paul for Glasgow reach
ed New Orleans in perfect condition.
| UNITED STATES FISH COMMISSIONER
ELLIS has placed 100000 young shad in
the Mississippi River at Dubuque, Iowa.
Mrs ABRAHAM LINCOLN has summoned
Senator David Davis to Springfield fos
consultation as to the disposition of her
property.
| The Hebrew rabbis of New York have
collected 81, 500 for their prosecuted breth-
rem in Russia, and propose to make it
$4,000.
THE consumption Of coal on ocean steam
ers has been reduced from six tons to
ton Of freight to one-ffth Of ton since
the days of the old side-wheel Cunarders.
| A FAIR purse has been made up in New
| York to enable Professor King to make
an aeronautic trip from the Mississippi TO
| the Atlantic.
| Four barges and steamer have reached
Buffalo with a load Of 3,250,000 feet of
| lumber from MIcnlRan.
THE excess of American exports over
imports for the year ending May 81 was
$266, 773, S66.
A RAILWAY to the summit of Mount
LAFAYETTE, $3.50 feet above the sea, is 10
be constructed this season, at cost of
$l50,0G0.
The harvest in southern Kansas is
about over. The wheat is of excellent
quality, but the average is fifteen bushels
per acre az compared with sixteen last
year.
JOHN SHEPARD, Of Boston, has given
his team record of 2:35 5, beating the
attempt made last Saturday, and it is rl-
mored that Vanderbilt has offered $50, 900
for the pair.
TUE Illinois railroad and warehouse
commission is preparing a new schedule
Of rates, making a reduction of 20 per
cent in passenger fares. and but few roads
will be permitted to exact over three cents
per mile.
PROF. PETER LTrCHFIELD, the Hamilton
college Utica, N. W astronomer, says
the dark line through the center of the
comet is the shadow of the nucleus. He
does not believe this is either the comet of
1909 or that Of 1872.
In the eight-oared race of four miles on
the Thames river. near New London,
Conn, between the Harvard and Colum-
bia college crews, the former won by three
lengths in twenty-one minutes and forty
five seconds.
THE ball game between the Worcester
and Cleveland clubs, which the latter won
by 5 to 3, was one of the most remarkable
Il -, L..
been played. Buffalo beat Boston is to 10,
and the Chicagos vanquished the Troys by
s too.
HUGH II. GORDON, taking exceptions to
a recent newspaper statement that his
father had robbed Georgia of all that he
could, sought out the author, W. S. Pas
kell, of Atlanta, and forced from him a
written retraction. As w. A HUFF, ex-
mayor of Macon, is also involved. there is
still chance for duel.
A NEGRO woman who was born in Lou
isiana prior to its cession to the United
States fled a claim before the Franco
American commission for $4,000 for loss
of property. A decision has been rendered
that the treaty intended that all residents
of the coded territory should be citizens of
the United States, and the claim was dis
allowed.
q INTERVIEWS with leading steamship
men at Montreal leave no doubt that that
city is capturing much of the foreign trade
of the west which formerly entered the
port of New York Western importers
are said TO gain per cent. in freights,
and one agent claims to have laid down
goods in Chicago sixteen days after their
departure from Liverpool.