Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-08-18
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary OF Latest Cablegrams
and kilograms.
Latest Events.

AN earthquake shock at Contocook. n.
H., was so violent as to alarm animals in
the fields.
THE striking brickmakers of Cincinnati
have been granted an advance of 80 cents
per day.
ONE county in North Carolina gave 81
majority for prohibition. Seventy-three
others report SO, 965 majority against it.
EIGHT HUNDRED members of the Pal
mer family are holding a reunion in a
mammoth tent at Stonington, Conn.
THE main exhibition building at Phila-
delphia, which cost $1,6O0,00O, was sold
for $97 600 TO an agent of the Pennsylvania
railroad company.
Four companies of the 14th infantry
under Lieutenant Colonel Douglass have
left Salt Lake for the Uncompahgre Ute
agency.
Four colored men have gone on duty
with the police force at Philadelphia
They are the first on record, ard are re-
garded with great curiosity.
ADRIAN FLAvELL, noted Millerite, who
died at Newark, N. j., had given away
three fortunes because of his belief that
the end of the world was near.
MAUD s. lowered her record to 2:l04 in
mile on the Rochester track, ard was
greeted with deafening yell. Wander
bilt was present to witness her triumph.
IT is gravely announced over the wires
that very rich vein of silver, two feet
wide, has been discovered at Moretown,
w., on the mountain-top.
In the Monmouth park races at New
York, Hindoo beat Lorillard's Parole,
running the last mile in 1:44. Hindoo
has won fifteen races this season, and suf-
fered no defeats
PARKER, the Adirondack guide who as.
saulted a lady relative of Senator Plat, of
Connecticut. and was run down and shot
by constable, died of his wounds at
Forked lake.
THE funeral of Orvile S. Grant was
held at Elizabeth, N. j. The general, his
mother, Col. Fred Grant, and Mrs. Abel
K. Corbin were present.
NEARLY all the fish in Clear Lake, at
La Pore, Ind, have died from some mys-
terious cause, and gangs of laborers are at
work scooping them up from the surface
and burying them in trench.
TwENTI EIGHT feet of piling on the har-
Dor improvement at Waukegan, Ill.,, wash
ed away. Engineer Whitney declares that
the appropriation of 10000 by congress
is insufficient to commence a substantial
harbor.
REPRESENTATIVES, Of nearly all the roll
ing-mills west of Pittsburg, convened at
Cincinnati and passed resolutions to pay
only Pittsburg prices for skilled labor and
to employ only non-union workmen.
In lecture at Chautauqua, on the re-
vision of the Bible, Rev. DR.. Philip Schaff
acknowledged the assistance of the muir
dered car of Russia in procuring Sinaitic
manuscripts, the oldest of which dates
back to 800.
In New York, for two hours, the other
day, the Panhandle railroad sold tickets
to Chicago for 90 cents, on TIE rebate
plan, and the Cleveland road followed
with a rate of 81, The cut arose from
false information given by ticket-buyers
WIN. GALE, the English pedestrian, fin
ished 5000 quarter miles in 5000 consecu-
tive ten minutes, and continued on the
track for fourteen additional quarters.
He then shouted out that he would bet
$500 to 81 600 that he could commence at
once and cover five hundred miles within
seven days.
A BAND of Apaches made raid on a
small village in New Mexico, near the
line of the Atlantic & Pacific railroad and
killed twenty-seven citizens. Charles &.
Cough reports having been attacked by
seven Apaches at point only l6 miles
from Santa Fe, and that he killed one and
wounded three.