Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-06-23
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary of Latest Cablegrams
and kilograms.
Latest Events.

RACE hrsoe named American Boy was
killed on the Albany track by striking a
buggy shaft, which pierced his heart.
NEARLY $13 600, 900 has thus far been
expended on the Brooklyn bridge. and a
year will yet be required to complete the
structure.
ST. LOUIS grain merchants are appeal
ing for lowering or the grade on corn,
| claiming that large shipments are being
diverted from Iowa TO Chicago.
TIE soil of Kentucky, high up on the
Cumberland mountains, bids fair to be
drenched in blood by war between tan
bark cutters employed by rival firms.
r.. J. HUsToN, of Terre Haute, who was
lately made gusrtermaster's agent at Pierre
| Dakota, made an attempt on his life while
evertasked by an avalanche of freight.
A LABoRER whe was recently injured on
the Canada Pacific railway and is now ly-
ing in the hospital at Winnipeg, confesses
that he is the lost Sir Roger Tichborne.
WARNED by the disastrous floods of the
| spring, the st. Paul road has determined
| to change its route from Sioux City to
| Yankton.
A REDUCTION Of five cents per hundred
pounds on the Chicago and New York
basis has been ordered by Commissioner
| Fink on the seventh and ninth classes and
on live hogs.
THE anniversary of Bunker Hill will
give Roston holiday. Story's statute of
Colonel William Prescott will he nnveil-
ed, with an Grafton by Hon. Robert c.
Winthrop.
| A BaKcKINRIpGE (Col.) dispatch says
that near that to ~ four feet of carbonates
have been struck at depth CT 100 feet.
| The ore assays 1875 ounces of silver and
| five ounces of gold to the ton.
| ALLEN Ct. THURMAN writes to his son
from Paris that he cannot accept renom-
nation for governor of Ohio, but will re-
| tire to private life on the completion of
his duties at the international monetary
conference.
| A lady OF San Francisco has written to
/ Lieutenant Berry. asking to be taken on
the Arctic expedition, with the provlso
| that if found an incumbrance she may be
thrown overheard to the whales.
| A SPECIAL agent of the post office de-
partment, who was sent to Chicago to re-
| port on the system of letter-carriers, re-
commends the addition of twenty-fonr
men to the force, and an allowance Of 81
| 100 per annum for car fare.
A NEW station of the Denver and Rio
| Grande road has been established on the
| Southern Ute reservation, with the usual
accompaniment of saloons and dance
| houses, and the commissioner Of Indian
affairs asks that troops be instructed to re-
move the intruders and their effects.
| THE socialists of Chicago, TO the num-
Der of one thousand, formed in procession
and marched out to Ogden's grove to hold
! picnic John Swinton, of the New York
| SIN. delivered an impassioned eulogy on
the assassins Of the car
PETER LEMsN, of Detroit. in the belief
| that his stomach contained living lizard,
| fr tied himself to death, his weight having
| decreased from two hundred pounds to
sixty. An autopsy DISCLOSED a fbrous
tumor OF the duodenum,, and his career
was closed by actual starvation.
| THE aggressive political attitude of the
negroes o. North Carolina has eliminated
| in the discharge Of white clerk in the
Raleigh postoffice, to be replaced by col
ored man. This is regarded as the fore
runner of a clean sweep, and the radical
politicians express great alarm.
In addressing the graduating class at
West Point, Secretary Lincoln warned
them Of their responsibilities in bringing
together the lines Of frontier steadily adj
vancing from the east and west. General
Sherman cautioned the lads not to look
down on citizens.
GEORGE ARMOUR, of Chicago, died of
heart disease at Brighton, England. he
was native of Scotland, was one OF the
contractors of the Illinois and Michigan
canal, the heaviest elevator owner In the
country, and ex president of the board OF
trade He leaves widow and three sons
ISAAC w ENGLAND. publisher of The
New York San, was last year indicted at
Troy for publishing and circulating lot
tery rotices The case was tried recently
and a verdict of guilty rendered, but sen
tence suspended for forty days, to obtain
an opinion from the supreme court OF the
state. James Gordon Bennett has been
indicted for similar otfense, and notice
has been given that his trial will take
place in September.
A RESPONSIBLE grain merchant of New
| York has used the cable to ascertain the
actual condition of the crops in Europe.
The prospects in France are fine. and the
Russian harvest will be the best for TWEEN
ty years. 1t is asserted that Europe Will
not only be Independent of American
wheat. but that Russia will offer consider
able competition TO our grain-growers.
Germany, Austria, Roumauia, and Swift
erland sends ont ire most encouraging
reports.
Accidents.
New ORLEANS reports FIVE cases OF sun
s,roEe tuo Of which proyed fatal