Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-09-22
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary OF --latest Cablegrams
aud Telegrans
latest Events.

REV. J. II. BARRows, Of Boston, has
accepted the call Of the First Presbyterian
church of Chicago.
In the vicinity of London, Ont, cattle
are reported dying in considerable num-
bers on account of the drouth.
The Baltimore and Pennsylvania roads
are selling s. tickets from Chicago to
Philadelphia. Baltimore, and Washington.
The coal miners Of the Pittsburgh dis
trict demand an advance of cents per
bushel, which will be conceded .by the OPP
orators
MRs. BURKE, Of Omaha, made 81 600 at
the Nebraska state fair by riding ten
miles in 20 minutes and 81 seconds. She
used four horses, and made six changes.
Iii reported that General Grant clear
ed $40, 700 by the sale Of tract of swamp
land in California to the Atlantic and Pa
cifc railroad.
The Greeley Arctic expedition reached
Lady Franklin bay August 3, and estab-
lished station at Discovery harbor. A
house was erected on the site used by the
English expedition Fourteen musk-oxen
were killed on the dav of the landing.
The survivors of the 18th Indiana vol
unteers will bring suit agains, the city of
indianapolis for 100000. On their re-
enlistment in 1854 they were offered 800
each to credit themselves to the state cap
ital, but were paid only $50.
The South Chicago and Southern Rail
road company has filed articles of incorpo-
ration at Springfield with a capital sock
of 100000. The road is to run from
South Chicago to a point on the lsdiana
state line in Thornton.
THE cotton strike at New Orleans yield
ed to heroic treatment. The labor asso-
Citations agreed to abandon attempts to
control the business of their employers,
and the factors conceded an advance in
wages. The militia has been relieved
from duty.
The supreme court of Minnesota hav-
ing pronounced the old railroad bonds for
5000, 600 a valid claim against the state,
Governor Pillsbury has decided to con-
vene the legislature in extra session Octo-
her 10, to mature plans to adjust the debt
on the basis Of 30 cents on the dollar in
accordance With the proposition of tue
bondholders. The governors action will
develope the latent hostility of the public
TO the settlement.
Two of the most prominent families in
Virginia, the Wises and Lewises, are at
swords points. An article in Richmond
journal by General Peyton Wise de-
nounced l.. l.. Lewis in very severe terms,
and challenge was at once sent by the
latter. Warrants for the arrest of both
gen.lemen have been issued, but the police
can not find them. 1t is also said that a
son of Hon John +. Lewis will meet
Congressman George ID. Wise on the field
of honor.
AMBROSE i. Burnside, senator from
Rhode Island, expired OF spasms of the
heart, at Bristol, on the 18th inst. He
was born at Liberty, Ind, in 1924, and
graduated at West Point in 1917. He
was lieutenant of artillery in the Next
can war, and in 1860 became treasurer of
the Illinois Central railroad company.
He was colonel Of the First Rhode Island
regiment at the battle of Bull Run, served
at Antietam as major general. and super
seeded Mcclellan in command of the army
Of the Potomac Just before the defeat at
Fredericksburg. lie served three terms
as governor Of Rhode Island and was
sent to the senate in 1879.