Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-11-17

summary OF Latest CanieRrsms
and kilograms.
T.atesC Events.

HE Transit Oh mercury vas eiNb e"Siufi'
observed at the Lick observatory in Cali
fornia,
THE republicans Of Connecticut carried
both branches Of the legislature by reduced
maiotities.
CnsrgAcroGs on the Canadian Pacific
road in British Columbia are ut to
import one thousand Chinese iaborers.
| Six men, charged with an attempt to
llynch Voskamp, at Grand Haven, Mich.
we're tried last week, but the jtY failed to
agree.
The Arctic relief steamer Rogers made
the discovery that Wangrell Land is an
| island. A sledse party will he sent out
from winter quarters to explore the coast
of Siberia.
RETURNS from all the towns in Massa-
majority of 1912 Not an avowed
greenhacker was elected 10 any office in the
state.
THs water melor trouble has broken out
afresh at the Michigan agricultural col
| lege. Thirty-three students in various
classes asked an honorable discharge and
were suspended.
| THE sanitary authorities Of New York
have commenced a vigorous raid on the
cheap lodging houses, which are simply
nests OF disease. Two proprietors were
| fined $50 each for violating the health
laws.
A LEADING democratic journal of Rich
mond comedies the election Of Cameron
as governor by 5000 to 5000 majority,
with a readiuster majority Of ~ in the
legislature on Joint ballot.
| TnoMAs MooNLfGHT, democratic candi-
date for sheriff OF Leayenworth, is declared
10 be four votes short of an election. lie
| has secured affidavits from 10 citizens that
| they were not permitted TO vote, and will
make strong contest.
| PHILIP Il. SULLIVAN, one OF the Arkan-
sas train-robbere, a young man of intelli-
gence and good manners. died of broken
| heart in the penitentiary at Little Rock.
to which he had been committed for sew
enty years.
| The bank clearings Of the chief cities
for the week were 81, 365, 4l3,297, a show
ing which was only surpassed by that of
month ago. Chicago stands third in the
| list, and remarkable gains in business are
exhibited by all the western cities.
The wedding eff a prominent lawyer Of
Ottawa, Ont. was stopped at the opening
| sentence of the ceremony by friend whis-
pering in the ear of the bridegroom the
fact that his fnncee was desperate adven-
| tn .Ist
JtpaE MAYHEM, of the superior court
of California, has ordered the sheriff of
| Nevada county to stop hydraulic mining
in the foothills and turn of the water, on
account Of the injury to the agricultural
region about Marysville. The miners
union will pay no attention to the injunc-
| ton issued
A PROCESSION of about twelve hundred
| Germans of Brooklyn marched out to
| Cypress Hill cemetery, and planted an oak
| in memory of President Garfield. A
salute Of twenty-one guns was fred, and
orations delivered by Sherin-eleot Steg-
man, and others. The throng of specta-
| tors was immense.
Mrs. EDWIN B0oTu died in New York,
of consumption. She was . daughter OF
Mrs. j. H. McNicker, of Chicago, was
born in 1919, and after successful thea
trical career was married, in 1869, to the
distinguished actor whose name she bore,
1t is thought that the fatigues of the
European engagement FASTENED her
death
FIFTEEN hundred persons atteaded the
grand ball given the Frrnch and Germau
visitors at the Casino, in New York. The
leaders of society, including the Astors,
Nanderblts and Belmonts werere present,
as were alo such distinguished gentlemen
AS Tilden, Evarts, Fish and Jay. The tot
lets were magnificent, Que OF the most
brilliant being that Of the Marquise de
Rochambeau.
THE democratic candidates in the state
of New York have doubtless received av-
erage majorities, and that party has Sc
cured an effective majority in the legisla-
ture. Rollins, republican, is probably
elected surrogate in the county of New
York, and the Tammany and Irving hall
ticket was stamped out w. w, Aston
was defeated for congress by 1000 votes,
and Tom Murphy was worsted by Hardy.
AT Marion Station, Miss, a band of ne
groes opened FIRE on the whites 1T the POLLS,
by which four white men were fillad and
two seriously wounded. A. 7. Harvey,
democratic candidate for county assessor,
was slain. Two armed squads went to the
scene of the trouble from Meridian, and
found 100 negroes barricaded in the house
Of Edward Vance. After fight. in which
John Vance, colored, and A. G. Warren,
Of the sherltis Iosse, were killed, about
thirty negroes escaped to the woods, under
hot fire.