Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-04-14
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary of Latest Cablegrams
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Latest Events.

/ PETROLEUM advanced fourteen cents per
| gallon during the past week. The sales
on the Pittsburg exchange reached one
million barrels since Friday morning,
! AT the closing meeting Of Moody and
! Sankey, in San Francisco, $50, 900 was
raised to cancel the debt on the bulldog
of the Young Mems Christian ASSOCIATION.
TIE Erie and Pennsylvania railroads
! have subscribed 1925, 600 each toward the
worlds fair at New York. Japan prom
ises to make an Unprecedented exhibit.
/ The flood in the upper Missouri has
swept away nearly ali the buildings in
/ Vernillion, Dakota. An attempt will be
made at Sioux City to blow up the ice with
dynamate.
! THEstockholders of the Pullman Palace
Car company voted to increase the mum
Der Of shares one-third, making the api-
tai SS,000,00o
| THE board Of health of indianapolis
| has discovered that, under the guse OF
Michigan butter, large quantities of oleo.
margarine are being received from Chica-
! 20.
| ADvIcEs from the winter-wheat fields in
| southern Wisconsin are to the effect that
! the crop will suffer diminution Of one
fourth to one half by the storms.
| The result Of the state election in
| Michigan for Judge of the supreme
court and two regents of the university is
the election Of the republican candidates
by about 10000 majority.
| THE disastrous freshet on the upper
| Missouri continues, extending southwark
rs the ice, breai progresses. Oyer-tlows
are also reported along Nebraska and
Iowa rivers.
! Thomas JEPFRIEs, young Philadel-
phian eIoped with the daughter of James
| Dobson, the well-known carpet manufac-
turer They were married in New York,
but brought back by the girls father
THE Texas Western Narrow-Guage
road has been sold under foreclosure for
100000. A new company is to be formed,
Of which II. II. Monroe, Of Chicago, is to
be president, and Fred ID. Grant chief
engineer.
THE army of the Tennessee reelected
General Sherman president, and Colonel
Dayton secretary. The next reunion will
be held at st. Louis. Sherman's reminis-
cences of the battle of Shiloh have raised
a row.
GREAT activity is apparent in the work
of grading the Northern Pacific up the
valley of the Yellowstone, where three
thousand men will soon be employed, pref
erence being given those who intend set
Ting lrthe region.
THE Society Of the Army of the Ten
nessee assembled at Cincinnati on the 9TH
inst, preparatory for its annual reunion
aud the occasion of the anniversary of the
battle of Pittsburg Landing. General
Sheridan is president of the society.
TENNESSEE has redeemed her credit at
last The state senate has finally passed
the bill funding the state debt at par, at
ready passed the bill, and the COVER
nor viii certainly approve it.
MAYOR GRACE has preferred formal
| charges against the police commissioners
of New York for failing to keep the
streets clean. A trial viii be held April
! II. The board claims that the appropri-
alton of 81 600 per day is wholly made
qua!e.
SEVEN hostiles from Sitting Bulls
camp have arrived at Poplar River agency.
! They report that the whole outfit of the
great warrior is but fifty miles behind,
| and will surrender on the Sth inst, while
the chieitan promises to ride in as soon
as the ground Is dry enough to make
| travelling good.
TIE land office in Dakota is to receive
| n thorough ovcrhauling. General Fes-
sender, of Michigan, will be appointed
surveyor general, and Representative
| LetcheI, of the Ohio legislature, register
| of the land office The swindling of poor
settlers has been carried a step too far
and new penitentiary has been provided
! for.
At the opening of the trial of John
| Riley, at Austin, Mimi, for the attempted
assassination of Judge Sherman Page, the
| latter read protest against going on with
the case, alleging that fair trial could
not be had, and offered TO make specific
charges against the prosecuting attorney
! The court ignoled the protest, and Judge
| Page withdrew from the trial.
! HARRY q. CHARM, a prominent MIchi-
gan editor was found dead near the rail-
road track ut Lapeer, Mich. He is sup
| posed to have died of drunkenness and ex-
posture, \ bottle of whiskey was found
| on his body. Chaplin was the editor of the
| Tuscola county AdCertjS5r at Caro-, Mich,
| and in very prosperous circumstances.
INDIAN AGENT MCGulICUDDY, of Pine
Ridge, recently issued warrant for the
arrest of Boone May and his party of
hunters for trespass on the reservation,
and gave il to a band Of Indians for serv-
! ice, who boast that they will take him at
any cost. \ squad of whites has gone out
from Deadwood to reinforce May, and
! trouble is feared,