Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-05-12
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary of Latest Cablegrams
and kilograms.
Latest Events.

HE commiss oners of the Freedmen :
Bank have on hand over 100000 OF UNI
claimed dividends
MAsKELYNE won the Prince Of Wales
stakes at Newmarket; Valentine took sec
ond, and Mistake third place.
A TRAIS-LoAo of live oysters, in barrels,
Is on the way to San Francisco. where they
will be placed in beds
EIGHTY-roUR thousand immigrants ar
rived IN Chicago last month, and were dis
trIbuted in different directions.
THE Pennsylvania Railroad Company :
Directors have declared a per cent. semi
annual dividend TO the stock holders.
THE swollen rivers in Minnesota are
reported falling Great damage has
been done by oyeraows, but the worst is
! over.
A NEW and dangerous counterfeit SO
gold piece has made It's appearance in San
francisco 1t is heavily plated and resists
the acid test successfully.
Now that the plans for marking the
birthplace of Washington with a monu-
ment are all prepared, ii is learned that
the Father of his Country was not born
on the spot selected
DURING the month of April, SS,S93, 900
worth of eagles and half eagles were coin
ed at the various United States minis
Only 100000 silver dollars were coined
during the same period.
A FARMER digging a post-hole at Bu-
reau Junction, H., came upon pot of
counterfeit silver dollars which was buri-
ed forty years ago by band of thieves
who fiourished in that region.
An insane woman of Cincinnati, named
! Whitaker made an assault with cow
| hide on Colonel Wappenstein, ex-chief OF
| police, alleging that he had testified that
| she was of unsound mind.
Is the first game of the season, the
| Chicago nine beat the Clevelands, by to
/ D. Ia a contest at Worcester, Mass, the
club of that city defeated the Troys by
to ..
The striking mania has extended into
the Dominion. The ship-latOrers at st.
John, \. b., struck, the other day and the
switchmen on several of the Canadian
roads threaten to strike unless wages are
advanced.
! THE 1000 guineas race at Newmarket
was won by Peregrine. Lorilard's Iro-
quios was second and keene'5 Don Fularo
third The May stakes were won by De-
vone, Lorillard's Wallenstein taking sec
ond place.
THE Nanderbilts decended upon Detroit
and gave the Michigan Central officers an
other year of duty The gross revenue
for the year was 80 0S5.74S; the net in
come. 81 500, 404. The terrible disaster at
Jackson, Mich, last year, cost $4,000.
In the California legislature "a resolu-
ton was introduced calling on California
senators to use every endeavor to break
a l,,,l u %
! in order TO obtain consideration of the
! Chinese treaties.
| IN the case of Payne, the Oklahoma
raider. the United States court at Fort
Smith decided, after reviewing various
treaties and acts Of congress, that the
| lands in question are rot subject to rre-
emptiun or homestead entry. Many rep
resentatiye Indians were present at the
| trial
THE Cunard Steamship Company find
| it necessary to dispatch four vessels per
week IL order to accommodate emigrants
who intend to make their home in the
/ United States Each vessel will transport
about ! 600 persons to this country. A very
| large percentage ofthose coming are Sean
! dinaVlans.
! MAsPERo has opened some more of the
! Sahara pyramids, lncIoslng the tombs of
| the kings of the fifth dynasty, Discover
les were made which completely upset the
| Masonic theory and al other previous
conceptions. No discoveries since finding
of the rosetta stone in 100 equals these in
scientific value.
! THE latest information from Sitting Bull
1 is to the effect that he is at Ouahpelle two
| hundred miles north of Woody mountains,
with twenty lodges. Twelve lodges of
hostiles are reported about three days
north of Poplar River agency, and Lieh
| tenant Robinson hal gone out with caval-
ry to capture them.
OKLAHAMA PAYNE, the man with an in
satiable desire TO colonize Indian Terri
tory with white men, presided over a
meeting of his would-be followers, and
urged them, Notwithstanding the unfavor
able result of his trial in the United States
court nj Fort Smith, AK, TO stand by their
Denomination. They resolved to stand
! THE switcnren employed on the Chi!
cago roads, although offered 2 general adj
vance of - per month, insisted upon a
| strike While some Of them met In the
evening and passed resolutions deprecat-
| ing interference with those who might
accept their vacant situations, another
party wontorly stopped Two Rock Island
| frei ght trains from going out at Twelfth
| street
The mayor and leading citizens and
officials at Fargo on the line OF the
| Northern Pacific railroad. send statement
| correcting the impression that the recer
| floods extended 10 northern Dakota. They
state that the recent disasters were con
! hnEd TO the southern portion OF the terri
! tory. and that in the northern part and IN
the red river valley the crop prospect Is