Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-07-14
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| In double-scull race on Charles river,
Plaisted defeated Trickett making three
I miles in 2l:l3.
ID. 0. MILLS has given to the University
OF California $75, 900 to endow chair of
intellectual and moral philosophy.
Hon. TIMOTHY O. HOWE, of Wisconsin
has sailed from London for his home on
account of the serious illness of his wife.
THE democratic executive committee
in Cincinnati adopted resolutions o. sor-
row at the shooting Of the president.
AN armed lunatic named John Madden,
was Jailed and chained at Dallas, Tex,
for threatening to kill all lawyers. doc
tors and Legislators.
| THERE are 44.495 postoffices in the
| United States. During the year 1884
were established and LAOS discontinued.
The number of postmasters commission
ed is l0.44l.
JOHN L. PIERsoN, of Burlington, Iowa,
now engaged in active business. received
a bullet in his liver at the battle of Wal
nut Hills.
OVER eight hundred Mormon immi-
grants, chiefly Scandinavians, arrived at
! New York the other day. in charge of
Elder Recelli
A NOTABLE golden wedding was that OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Moorhouse at Elk
horn, Wis, in which venerable guests were
present from six states.
! OWING to a break in the fire-a larm ma
chinery of indianapolis, the bells of that
city to!led for an hour recently, conveying
the impression that the president had died
Of his wounds
THE Pennsylvania editors held their
annual banquet at Long Branch. -Four
hundred guests were present. General
| Grant was unable TO attend from indisposl-
ton.
Owing to a break in one of the pump
| ing engines at Milwaukee, fountains and
sprinklers have been cut off, and the water
supply has been reduced to eight million
gallons per day.
RICHARD HAMILTON, one Of the thirteen
volunteers who aided Lieutenant Will
Gushing in blowing up the rebel ram AL
hemarle, at Plymouth, n. C., q cd of pa
ralvsis at Camden, n. j.
Two adventurous men, named Traynor
and Olson sailed from Bath, Me-, in a
dory fourteen feet long and five feet wide
to cross the Atlantic. They are provision
ed for sixty days, and are skillfull sea-
men.
PRINNEAs w. HITCHCoCK, ex-senator
from Nebraska, died in Omaha. the direct
cause being over exertion in the sun. he
| was born in New Lebanon, n. Y, in 1881,
and was a classmate of President Garfield
at Williams college.
The secretary of the State Agricultu raj
society of Iowa thinks the yield of corn
| will be 10000 bushels less than last year
that there will be a half crop of wheat,
and two-thirds growth of hay. The area
of flax sown is three times as large as that
of last year.
MEXICAN official reports states that the
results of the Morelos railroad accident
were l40 persons killed, and 1l2 persons
wounded forty-nine persons escaped, and
about forty are missing. Seven engineers
have been commissioned to examine the
bridge.
| THERE was considerable commotion in
St. Louis hotel over the illness of a
stranger from Memphis. The police were
informed that the patient bad yellow fe-
yer, and he was hurried to the hospital,
where the board of health physicians de-
clared it to be malarial fever.
| THE Yorktown Centennial Commission
| formally accepted model for the monu-
ment proposed to commemorate the victory
and its centennial celebration. The mon
ument according to the plans will cost
about 100000. Secretary Lincoln has
directed that work to be commenced i'm
mediately.
THE attempt on the life Of the president
seems to have had no influence on the
stalwart vote at Albany. Two ballots
were taken in which Potter had A for the
short term, Wheeler SO and Conkling 81.
The vote for the long term gave Depsw
4S, Herman AZ, Wheeler "a, Crowley 49,
and Cornell 10. 1t is reported that sixty
five signatures have been obtained to a
call for republican caucus.
| DAVID WALKER, of Readsville, n. G.,
while serving in the confederate army
was wounded precisely like the president
and recovered without the surgeons beine
able to find the bullet. simultaneously
with the attempt on the life Of the CHIEF
magistrate, Walker represented himself as
suffering intensely from his healed wound
Mrs. S. c. Gardner. the nurse who first
dressed President Garfield, passed away
at the moment Guiteau fired his shots.
Accidents.