Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-04-21
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary of Latest Cablegrams
and kilograms.


SEVERAL fatal cases of smallpox have
occurred at Turner junction about thirty
miles from Chicago. The disease is OF a
very virulent type.
The territory overlooked in Dakota is
estimated at quarter of million acres,
and the settlers needing help are not less
than eight thousand,
Two Of the Trappist priests expelled
from France addressed congregation of
fifteen thousand persons in Montreal, on
the cause Of their Punishment.
GENERAL STEEDMAS rises to remark that
! General Sherman basely made his escape
from General Forrest at the battle Of
Shiloh,
Mrs. CHARLES BALLoU, of saranac,
Mich, known as the Mammoth Queen, Is
dead. When travelling with exhibitions
she weighed so pounds but wasted away
TO 400
DoMISICK BOOKER, a negro waiter Of
Louisville, the first of his race TO attempt
to reach the Arctic regions, will 20 out on
the Mary and Helen with Lieutenant
Berry.
THE self-starving insane woman at
Iowa City has finally expired, after having
refused TO eat anything for forty-seyen
days. She weighed about 100 pounds be-
fore refusing food. and after death what
renamed OF her weighed fifty-two pounds
WILLIAM DEGENER and his wife and
several children, of Cleveland, are suffer
ing from trichiniasis. Some pork of
which they had eaten and piece of flesh
from Degener's arm was found 10 be alive
with wiggler',
DR.. j. s. ALLEN, of Atlanta, H., died
of paralysis His legs turned black and
grew so hard that they could not be punct-
ured with a pin. 1t is believed that pet
rifaction has commenced and that his
body will turn into stone.
THERE are said to be thirty cases Of
smallpox in the almshouse near Reading
Pa. and four deaths have occurred. Work
men were busy on Sunday erecting a
frame hospital. \ strict quarantine Of
the institution has been ordered.
EBEN WRIGHT, prominent merchant
of Boston, who lately passed away. be-
queathed nearly all of his fortune to the
wife of a banker TO whom he was not re-
lated He gave his confidential clerk
$685. 900, his valet 8, 600 and an English
friend $4,000,
4 MYSTERIOUS disease has appeared
among the I hlnamen employed on the
Canada Pacific road in British Columbia.
1t takes the form of sudden swelling of
the legs, from which point the vital parts
are reached in ten minutes. More than
one hundred have been stricken in this
manner.
The wife of Edwin Booth the great
American tragedian "a Chicago LADY, is
in critical condition of health, which the
peculiar atmosphere of London aggravates.
We are, therefore not surprised TO learn
that Mr. Booth has determined to cancel
his engagements in England, and return
home with his wife. Mrs. J. Ii. McNicker,
her mother, is now with Mrs. Booth, hay
ing reached London the later part of last
week
GENERAL HANCOCK, as is we'll known, is
heavy weight. Somebody told him the
other day that Garfield had lost forty
pounds in weight since his inauguration.
"That is the first thing | have heard,
quickly responded the general, which
caused me 10 regret that was defeated
JOHN T. RAYMOND and Miss Courtney
Barnes were married in Philadelphia and
appeared on the stage at Washington in
the evening.