Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-19
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary OF Latest Cablegrams
and Telegrams
Latest Events.

+ for sine die adjourn nsut M~v p.
THERE i prospect Of q war between
Z The rival cable cox -panies, and consequent
low rates
I A MAD dog in the streets Of Spring Hill,
+ y >, bit seven children, three men and
one woman.
/ REF7ogTS from eighteen counties in Kan
+ s4s indicate that the wheat crop this year
viii be the biggest ever known.
/ CT. SIMMONS, a carriage manufacturer
3 Of Cincinnati, has made az assignment.
with liabilities q $500.
! MARSHALL POOLE and posse Of fifteen
men have gone from san Francisco 10
I evici the settlers Ia Tulare county.
TREES by hundreds OF Thousands in
southern Wisconsin were DESTROYED by
Z ground M &C during the rnow blockade.
{ A JoIST stock company at Omaha has
/ signed contract for the site Of q large
1 hotel. 10 be erected this season, and called
! the Willard
! The census compilers have made the
/ discovery that the people % the L nited
T States pay annually s26, 30, 100 for their
+ daily newspapers.
I NEW YORK CRY il to have a horticui-
1 tural hail on the plan Of one in London.
7 80 900 having been subscribed already and
I $1,000 more promised.
TIE theatrical people of Cincinnati are
/ indignant because Mayor Means issued
! license to Bob Ingersoll TO lecture Oh Sun
! day night on Noted lnfdels
{ The Grand Trunk Railroad Company
/ will give sher mschini-is al Montreal an
I advance in wages Of - per cent. The
+ men have agreed to return 10 work.
IL the pedestrian contest a. Chicago.
+ Charles Hartman made lI74 miles in
1 the first twenty-four hours, beating all
I previous heel and-tOe records by about two
miles.
Ex-Governor WAsHBURs, OF Wiscon-
Z sin has presented an elegant residence
/ and thirty acres OF ground at Madison to
/ the 81. Regina academy.
/ The Duke Of Sutherland and party are
at Montreal. After visiting Quebec they
/ will 90 to Chicago, and extend their trip
to 81 Paul. when journey 10. California
will be in order
| The building erected at Poughleepsie,
1 Y. Y. at cost Of 10000, as home for
| old men, by Matthe and John Guy Vas
/ sar. has been formally presented TO the
trustees, with 80, 90 in cash a an endow
/ ment fund.
/ MosE PHILLIPS who dropped dead in
Chicago, wss a character known on every
| racing track in the United States. He in
I herted stake OF 5000 il Europe, Of
which he managed 10 rid himself in few
years.
/ Osg curious piece Of evidence in the
contested election case Of Smalls against
/ Tilman, in the sf;h congressional district
/ Of South Carolina, is a strong, A1oucd,
{ L II IL ri
1 having been in contact with negro skull.
| FRANK K. WALTON, prominent banker
! OF Philadelphia, accompanied bv an elec-
/ trician and two directors Of the National
/ Underground Electric com pany, have left
/ for Chicago, to organize company. Their
/ invention means death TO telegraph poles.
The elegant church on the Back bay Of
I Boston, built for the Brattle Square Uni
tartan Society at cost Of s2Si 900, has
| been sold at auction to J. Montgomery
| Sears for ySl 900 and will hereafter be
used for literary and musical purposes.
TaE chief stockholders in the Hone
| stake mine, at Deadwood, have hsed arti-
/ Giles for the incorporation OF a company 10
| build narrow-gauge railroad one hun
/ drel miles in length, TO connect all the
| cities in the Black Hills with he coal
| fields
SpARTASBURG, :. C., held its revolution
AIRY celebration in the dedication Of the
! Cowpens monument. in the presence OF
/ 5000 persons There was a review OF the
| military forces OF the State by General
/ Henry Hunt, L ). A., assisted by promi-
/ nent officers and statesmen.
Prominent republicans Of New York
| have for some time had under considera-
ton mass meeting 10 develop support
/! fer he administration, and are only wait
! ing to see if Judge Robertson i not quiet
, lv confirmed /, is limited that among the
/ speakers will be the postmaster general.
OWNERS Of large herds in western Iowa
and eastern Nebraska are greatly alarmed
over a widespread outbreak OF inhamma-
ton Of the bowels among their cattle.
| Healthy animals seem TO be instantly at
! fected by the presence OF diseased ones,
and medical effort has thus far failed.
TYrHus-FKvER and smallpox show no
sign of abatement in New York city.
/ There are now sixty-three typhus-fever
and 1876 smallpox patients in Blackwell :
Island hospital During the past week
ifty-nine new cases of smallpox and TWEEN
;y-une new cases of typhus-fever were
found in the city.
HE bodies OF three more Victims 81 tue
Elgin di saster have been found. That Of
Leo TAYLOR was floating in an eddy three
/ miles from the scene of the calamity, and
that Of Emery Huntly was lodged against
the driltwood at the It. Paul railroad
bridge The corpse OF Frances Creighton
was also found
The Cherokees drove of the surveyors
on the Muskogee branch OF the Missouri
Pacific road Judge kelso. the assistant
counsel OF the corporation, went 70 the