Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-09-01
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary OF Latest Ceblegrams
and kilograms.
Latest Events.

HOG cholera is raging in Charles City,
Iowa, and vicinity. So far 500 head have
died.
THREE deaths from diphtheria at sum-
mer hotel at Andover, n H., scattered the
guests in all directions.
IT is reported from the Canadian side
of the St. Lawrense, that Roscoe Conkling
has purchased Robinson's island.
INDIANS are said to have attacked the
town of Eureka, New Mexico, and mas
sacred all The citizens, some seventy in
number.
SITTING BOIL and one hundred and
eighty-fou OF his band are still located
near Fort Yates, and guard is regularly
detailed for duty at his camp.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD's aged mother,
who is stopping with niece at Hiram,
Ohio, near GAINESVILLE, is bowed down
with grief, and lives in anxious fear for
the worst.
THE trial of Senator Sessions for brib-
ing Assemblyman Bradley is expected to
begin at Albany Sept. IL, and will be con-
Quoted by the attorney general.
A GENTLEMAN of New York has ordered
from a jewelry house vase costing
81 600, to be presented to the best drilled
battalion of soldiers at the Yorktown Gel
ebration.
w. P. ANDRUs, formerly state senat or
in Michigan, became insane from severe
wound received at Missionary Ridge, but
escaped from the officers on the way to
the asylum at Kalamazoo.
A. LoUTEN, a manufacturer of jewellers
cases in New York, smarting under the
criminal intimacy Of bis wife with a
builder named Jansen, wrote a bill of sale
to the latter for 81. He has since entered
suit for divorce.
SOME strange Indians have appeared on
the Menominee reservation in Wisconsin,
and the federal authorities are making
efforts to crush out a secret organization
called the 'Dreamers," who are holding
continuous dances.
THERE are thirty graveyard insurance
companies in Harrisburg, Pa, one of
which has within eight months issued pol
icies representing $4,000, 900. Judge
Pearson has again charged the grand jury
in regard to these vile frauds
CAPT. HOOPER. of the revenue steamer
Corwin, sends to the secretary of the treas
,ry report of his cruise up to July 4,
when he touched at st. Michaels. lie
found Indians at Cape Serdze who saw the
Jeanette on her way north.
Gov. HAWKINS, of Tennessee, has sent
circular letter to all the state and terri
torial governors, suggesting that, in the
event of the death of the president, secular
business be suspended on the day of the
funeral, and services be held in every
place of worship.
TERRENCE connolly, of Newton, n. j.,
after abstaining from food for forty-three
days, has commenced to take nourish-
ment. When he began his abstinence he
was unable to leave his bed, but Of late
he walked across the room and seated
himself in a rocking chair. He ceased to
eat because his stomach would not retain
food
SITTING BULL and the warriors who sur
rendered with him are to be held az pris-
oners Of war. This was determined upon,
when the Interior Department transferr-
ed them to the War Department to pre-
vent them from exerting any influence
upon the Indians at Fort Yates, the place
where they are now held. The order of
the Secretary of War TO General Terry is
to have Sitting Bull and the other prison
ers removed at once to Fort Randall, the
point nearest Yankton; then to be further
subject to the orders of the War Depart
ment,