Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-08-11
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A Summary OF Latest Cablegrams
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Latest Events.

SING SING prison reports net prOht OF
"a 029.63 for the month Of July.
THE president is rapidly regaining his
strength, and his voice grows rounder.
SALT LAKE was startled by death list
of seventy-nine in July, the result of I'M
usually hot weather.
THE first bale of New South Carolina
cotton was received at Charleston week
earlier than last year.
IT is announced that Jay Gould has pur-
chased large interest in the National
stock yards at East st. Louis, whose CAPT.
tai stock is 81 100000.
THE mayor of Brooklyn has issued or
ders to use the fireworks purchased for the
Fourth of July but laid aside on account
of the assassi nation
SEVEN HUNDRED cigar makers Of De-
troit are on a strike for an advance in
wages, and nearly all the factories are
close0.
FEMALE operatives in. rubber factory
at New Brunswick, N. j., to the number of
$50. have struck for an increase of 10 per
cent, in wages.
A COMPANY has been incorpo rated al
Portland, Ore, to run vessels to any port
in China, transport laborers, and deal III
Chinese goods.
NORTH CAROLINA recently held an cleo
ton on the liquor question. The prohibit
tionists failed to carry county, and are
defeated by 10000.
SITTING BULLS party will be divided up
at Standing Rock, and distributed among
different agencies, receiving the same
treatment as other Indians.
A POLICEMAN of Hyde Park, Ill.,, caught
two novel-reading lads of Is, armed with
hunting knives, dark lanterns and bullets,
who had started out to grow up with the
new west.
TwENTY-sIx large vessels, suitable for
wheat carrying, have within three days
reached San Francisco from foreign ports,
and given an impetus to the grain mar
ket..
THEODORE DAY, of Muscatine, Ia. for
merly telegraph operator, became in
sane from religious excitement and struck
his wife five times on the head with a
Ratchet.
THE corn and tobacco in central Ken
lucky are being killed by heat and drouth.
Oats and hay have done well, but only
half crop of wheat, barley, or rye is ex-
pected.
GEN. HATCH has gone to Fort Craig to
direct the movement against the renegade
Apaches from the Mescalero agency. His
forces comprise five companies of cavalry
and forty Indian scouts.
DlssENTERs from all denominations to
the number of 500, residing in the vicini-
ty of Charlotte, Mich, have organized
I .,,, 4 of nT
the number are at work upon bible.
THE democrats of the second district of
Maine have nominated Franklin Reed for
congress, fatty refusing to follow Cover
no. Garcelon's advice and endorse the
greenback candidate, Washington Gilbert.
THE railroad ticket war at indianapolis
grew so hot the other day that rates to
New York were forced down from SO to 30
cents, on the rebate plan When the
scalpers quit for the night the kankakee
line advanced to $3.50,
john GUYAMBER, the Polander who for
$50 days has been in comatose condition
in Pennsylvania poor-house, has rallied
and given fellow-countryman some light
into his wanderings. About the last thing
he remembers was visiting friend IN
Baltimore for two weeks.
A STRIKE of the printers employed in
the New York job offices has been ar
ranged for September Isl, and the union is
gathering in the compositors at the rate of
thirty per week. The newspapers in that
city are nearly all paying more than the
scale.
AMBROSE LoMPRAX has reached San
Francisco from chihuahua. He reports
himself IA the sole survivor of a survey
ing party of fourteen al work south of FL
Paso, who were attacked by party of for
ty-fve Apaches, six of whom were killed
and nine wounded in the fight. Lomprax
was held for ransom, and taken down to
the Gulf of California. whence he escaped
10 Guaymus. He will proceed to Wash
ington TO lay the facts before the secretary
of state