Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-04-28
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Latest Events.

STATE La league Convention has
been called to meet in Chicago or the lst
of May next.
The supreme court Of Wisconsin has
affirmed the right Of the legislature to ex-
empt certain property from taxation
THE laborers of ST. Bernard Parish.
Louisiana. are on strike, and troous have
been asked TO quell the prospective dis
turbances,
MAJOR JAMES II. NELSON died in the
Albany peniten.iary. He was sent there
for ernSezzling government funds while
acting az paym2ster in the army.
The railway platform laborers at Louis
vile demand increased wages, and negroes
have been brought up from the south to
take their places.
TIE platform hands at all railroad
freight Offices in Chicago struck, the Lake
Shore and Michigan Central hands leading
off, They demand an advance of % to
30 cents a day.
THERE were LOG failures in the United
States during the past week This il the
smallest number for any week for the past
year, and is seventeen less than there
were last week.
{. b. HARGER, of Milwaukee, who was
arrested for violation of the anti-treating
law was discharged by Judge Mallory, on
the ground that the new measure is in am
biguous language.
SAMUEL HOFFMAN, a police officer of
Mckeesport, Pa, shot and killed young
man named Samuel Siediehl, under the
impression that he was a burglar. The
coroner's jury held Hoffman blameess in
tse matter
THERE are said to te thirty cases of
SMALLPOX in the aimshouse near Reading
Pa, and four deaths have occurred. Work
| men we're busy on Sunday erecting a
frame hospital. A strict quarantine Of
the institution has been ordered
STRIKES seem to be the order of the dav
all over the United States. The railroad
| employees at ST Louis to the number Of 500
have struck. They have been getting Fl 10
per day of eleven hours. They demand
$50 per day Of ten hours.
THE iron moulders in the Chicago ma
chine shops and stove factories, numbering
425, struck for an advance OF - cents q
day and ID per cent. on piece work, and
demanding that g. 10 instead of 81 be the
price for floor moulders per day.
0. A. HIcKoK, of San Francisco man
ager of Santa Claus and st. Julien, in
tends TO bring the latter eastward next
month, for exhibition on any track offer
ing an acceptable purse. Santa Claus
will appear in the stallion races at Chica-
go, Boston, and Rochester.
AT meeting Of the Chicago Saloonkeep-
ers' Association, it is urged that the
prosecution Of parties who sell liquor to
minors should be vigorous and unrelent-
ing, as il was not only in the interest of
the trade, but in the interest of decency
and morality.
PATRICK RYAN. who was adjudged in
sane by the court at Erie, Pa, was one of
the party who attempted to seize Earl
Spencer, lord lieutenant of Ireland, and
was at one time only prevented by sun
stroke from blowing up she largest maya
zine in that country.
THE German bark Tiger has arrived at
Baltimore. The captain says the sutterlngs
of his crew, IA reported by the steamship
! Nebo, were greatly exaggerated. They did
not eat his dog, nor cut up their boots for
| food. There was plenty Of salt meat on
| board, but no bread or water.
! THE David bows, the largest sailing YES
| sci ever built on fresh water, was success
! fully launched at Toledo. from the ship
yards of Bailey Bros. The BOWS is 270
| feet in length, $50 feet beam, and ~ feet
depth of hold. She is fve-master, and
her grain-carrying capacity is 10000
bushels although the present depth OF
water In the channel is insufficient to float
| her with more than 100000 bushels,