Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-05
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary of Latest Cablegrams
and kilograms.
Latest Events.

a STATE Land League Convention has
been called to meet in Chicago on the LIST
of May next
THERE are 127 Smsll-pox patients and
lO7 typhus fever patients on Blackwells
Island, New York
The Pennsylvania house has defeated a
bill to equalize rates of transportation by
railroads.
CONTRACTS have been made in England
to carry sixty thousand Swedes and Nor
wegians to the United States
ABOUT 100000 has been subscribed to
found new Hebrew orphan asylum in
New York.
A PHYSICIAN of Cincinnati claims to
have found genuine trichine imbedded in
the backbone of some fish
IN the prohibition convention at
Raleigh, n. c., every county in the state
is represented. the delegates including both
races.
GOVERNOR LEW WALLACE, Of New Mex
leo, is taking energetic steps to break up
the Stockton gang Of outlaws who infest
the territory
THE sixty-second anniversary of the in
PRODUCTION of OddfeIlowship into this
country was celebrated all over New Eng
land, and also in the west.
IT is rumored that Jay Gould has for
weeks been negotiating with the foreign
shareholders and bondholders of the Hi
nois central line to New Orleans to secure
control thereof.
THE strikes in Chicago have practically
ended, and as the demands of the strikers
were just and moderate and made in the
proper spirit, the employers have yielded
them.
ExMtSIsTER PGERREPoNT gave dinner
in honor of the Duke of Sutherland and
the Marquis Of Sta ford. Among the
American guests were Secretary Blaine
and Gov. Cornell, of New York.
In a case before the Spanish-American
commission, the state department h olds
that naturalization papers issued by COM
petent tribunals shall be accepted as con-
elusive proof of citizenship.
Two steam ferry boats from Nebraska
City have been picking up sufferers by the
food. securing several hundred of them,
for whom purse of 50 900 was contrib
uted.
A DRY-GooDs firm in New York, Joseph
and Isaac Bloom, with debts probably ag-
gregating 100000, filed an assignment.
The senior partner was afterward found
dead in hotel on Broadway.
BISHOP BORGESS., of the Catholic diocese
of Detroit, has issued pastoral letter for
bidding the holding of any picnic excur-
sion by water or rail, and pastors are
commanded to enforce his instructions
TYr <, 7 ,,,:, ,,.,ot oo g, ,,lovaat s.r;I,o
continues. The efforts of the companies
to run cars has been miserable failure,
and came very near ending in bloody
riot. The sympathles of the people seem
to be with the strikers.
THE steamer City of Austin has been
wrecked on the Pelican Shoals, mile in
side the Fernandina bar on the coast of
Florida, owing to the carelessness or in.
capacity of the pilot. The cargo consist
ed of cotton, sugar, sponges, and fruits.
The loss is estimated at 10000. No lives
lost
The first instalment of Mormon con-
verts IRON Europe this season arrived at
New York recently. They numbered
l97 en'women, and children, and were
in charge of eleven elders, Fifty addi-
tional missionaries of the Mormon church
will leave New York next week, for prose
lyting labors in Europe.
WHIrELAw REID and Miss Elizabeth
Mills were married at the residence ofthe
bride, in Fifth avenue, New York, April
IS Among the guests we've Hugh Gull
loch, MIR. and Mrs. William II. Wander
bilt, Henry Waterson, General and Mrs.
Mcclellan, and Ahram S. Hewitt. 1t is
rumored that the bride had dowry of
81 100000.
THE Union Pacific road has filed with
the court of claims demand for S5S0,56t
for the transportion of mails. The COM
pany insists that it should be paid the
above sum for service, and that a similar
amount Of its earnings should be applied
by the government to the extinction of
bonds issued to aid in the building of the
line.
SUPERINTENDENT HOLMES, of the Chi
cago City railway company, has recently
spent several weeks in San Francisco in
vestigating the cable system of moving
cars. His enthusiasm over the matter
has caused the company to hasten its
preparations for a change in motive pow
err. 1t is expected that work will be com
menced on State street by May 10, and
that the expenditure for this year will be
81, 800 600.