Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-10
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NEARLY i've hundred boiler-makers OF
Detroit have struck for an advance OF
| twenty-seven cents per day, which the
manufacturers declare they will not pay.
THERE are twelve cases of smallpox at
Madison, Ind, and two deaths have oc-
Cured, The trustees have ordered the
schools closed.
AN advance in freights equal to 5 cents
per hundred on provisions, from Chicago
to the seaports, is ordered by the Penn
sylvania and Baltimore roads
A GOLD mine in the Summit district of
Colorado is said by reputable experts to be
Welding 500, 900 per ton. An offer Of So,
100000 in cash for a half interest was
refused.
john G.. ZENG, a mechanical engineer
of Chicago, has brought breach of prom
ise suit for $4,000 against Miss Louise
Frengel, OF Indianapolis, sister of the
bankers, and leader in German society.
nine HUNDRED cigar-makers in Mil
waukee struck for an advance Of one dol
conceded it., but the largest establish
ment holds out
CHIEF JUSTICE HUNTER, of Utah, has
decided that no naturalization papers
have ever been issued to George q. Can
non in that territory, and that he is not a
citizen Of the United States.
A DEATH by smallpox at Bellevue. Iowa.
was. followed by the appearance of five
more cases, which have been removed to a
temporary pest-house, and citizens are
fleeing from the danger.
AMONG the witnesses sum moned for the
trial of Guiteau are Mrs. Augustus Par
ker, James q Herman, George T. Bur
roughs, Francis NJ. Scoville, and j. Lewis
Lee. of Chicago, and G. s. Joslyn, of the
Oneida community.
THE Flipper court-martial suspended
operations to learn whether that trouble
some darky would voluntarily agree to
stand trial on both the original and addi-
tional charges at the same time.
ONLY eight of the assemblymen of New
York who stood by Conkling in the sena-
torial fight have been renominated, and
but one stalwart senator is on the ticket
for reelection.
THE Canadian government has made
complete change in its policy regarding
emigration to the States. Repatriation
agents Who we're kept employed on this
side of the line have been withdrawn, and
all opposition to the exodus has been
abandoned.
JUDGE MAYHEM, of the superior court
of California, has ordered the sheriff of
Nevada county to stop hydraulic mining
in the foothills and turn off the water, on
account of the injury to the agricultural
region about Marysville. The miners
union will pay no attention to the injunc-
ton issued
THE president of an insurance company
at Hartford has received through the
mails block of sawed pine with the cayi-
ties filled with rosin, and friction match
in the end. A letter following it stated
that it was a sample of the torches used
by fire-bugs. 1t is great wonder that
the pouches were not get on fire.
THE Metropolitan bank, of New York,
recently found among its assets $4,000 ir
stolen registered bonds. placed in the
vaults by middleman of the thieves, and
the offender is serving a term in prison.
Bank examiners will be ordered to make
a re-examination of securities coming I'M
der their charge.
ONE winter night in 1880 Jacob Clan
became intoxicated at saloon in Dixon,
H., and froze his feet so badly as to neces-
state amputation. His wife entered suit
under the dram-shop act. claiming dam
ages from the liquor-dealer, John II.
Burke. The trial consumed seven days,
and the Jury deliberated tbirty-six hours
before rendering a verdict for $25.