Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-06-09
LATE REPORTS,
A Summary of --latest Cablegrans
and kilograms.
Latest Events.


Two thousand iron workers Of Cincin-
natl have struck for an increase Of 30 per
cent. on wages.
EIGHT lady physicians were graduated
from the New York Women's Medical Col
lege.
ROCKFORD has eleven cases Of smallpox
under treatment. Special police are de-
tailed at the residence Of those affected.
TIE report Of the business Of the North
western railway, presented at the annual
meeting, shows earnings OF nearly 900
100000, gain of about 10 per cent. on
last wear.
Two Milwaukee boys stole $50 from their
fathers employer, and have started for the
west to become pirates and bandits. Mil
waukee was too good and slow for them
Their whereabouts are unknown.
TIE North Cheyennes have notified
Agent Miller that they cannot live in the
region selected for them. and will depart
within twenty days.. with or without con-
sent.
Ir IL reported in Canada that an Otta-
va manufacturer of friction matches has
been paid 300, 900 in consideration of his
Withdrawing from manufacturing matches
in this country.
THE steamer Faraday has paid out over
nine hundred miles Of the newest Ameri-
can cable, buoyed the end ana sailed for
London. The work has gone on at night
BY electric lights
ALL hopes for the recovery Of Mrs. Lin
coin, widow Of Abraham Lincoln, are
abandoned. She daily grows weaker. and
her attending physicians say that she can
not survive MANY DAYS longer.
A BILL which has passed the New York
legislature provides for the payment Of a
tax Of 81 for each emigrant brought to
New York by steamships, to be applied to
emigration inspection.
A JOKE il an odd legacy for suicide TO
leave A musician Of Buffalo, named
Charles Kircher, before hanging himself
in garnet, pasted into his hat a card
stating tina, the heat was too much for him
and he was going to cooler country.
The possibility of an outbreak among
the Utes has caused the war department to
order the construction of a telegra ph line
from Lake City to the Uncompahgre
agency work which will require three
months.
SMALLPOX made its appearance at Knox
college, Galesburg, the visitor being a
son of Mayor Conkrite, of Freeport, who
was promptly removed from the institu-
ton to the eastern suburbs of the city.
HASLAN, the worlds champion oars
man, has declined the offer of Kennedy, of
Portland, Me. to row in New England for
n purse of 5000. He names Toronto
Bay, and the purse to be 5000.
As we remarked before, Nennor doesn't
know any more about the weather of the
future than the rest Of us. He predicted
frosts for he last Of May, you know, but
we dare sar there was no frost anywhere
this side Of Greenland.
INVESTIGATIONS as 10 its losses through
Pittsburgh scalpers have forced the Penn
sylvania company to limit tickets from
Chicago TO New York to one day. As
similar grievances are suffered by other
roads at Cleveland and Buffalo. prompt
action may be expected by their managers.
The Franco American claims commits
sion rejected the appeal of Joseph \.
Perche, archbishop of New Orleans, for
g., 900 for property DESTROYED by General
Butler during the war, on the ground that
the archbishop admitted having been nat
uralized The decision will dispose of
many similar cases.
A MONUMENT of the finest Carrara mar
BILE, surmounted by statue of a confeder-
ate infantry soldier. was unveiled in the
cemetery at Frederick, Md, in presence of
several thousand persons. 1t will mark
the graves of southern soldiers who fell at
Antietam and Monocacy.
ORRIN HIcKoK has been Frustrated at
Detroit by some spinal ailment. st. Jul,
lien was so unfortunate while Jogging re-
Gently that he will not be put TO fast mile
until he reaches Saginaw. Bad weather
and lack of exercise disqualified Santa
Claus for the stallion race, and Oyerman
il seriously affected by sore throat.
SOPHIA MARsDEN, ~ years old, and
blind is contesling in Philadelphia the
will If her late husband against her son.
The contest involves $40 900, and turns on
the genuineness or falsity of piece Of
paper which Mrs. Marsden's daughter
claims TO have discovered, which purports
to be will of later date than that under
which the son claims the property.
The officers of a railway under CON
strretion near Bodie, Cal, refused to dis
charge their Chinese laborers on the de-
mand of irresponsible characters. Forty
armed men started for the camp o. the
Celestials, thirty miles away, but the COM
pauy transferred its men to an island IN
Mono lake and bailled the mob.
Criminal