Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-06-16
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was born at Peoria. H., the other day.
A LAW student of Cincinnati, named
Fred Swarz, has been rendered deaf by
smoking cigarettes.
GRIscoM. the Chicago faster, has lost
over eighteen pounds during his week of
sef-mposed torture.
OVER one hundred children have died
of diphtheria at Ludington, Mich, and
the public schools are closed
A PARTY of nearly two hundred negroes
from Virginia have reached Corning, O.,
to work in the coal mines.
BELIEVING that the world will come to
an end on Friday next several farmers in
Ontario have neglected to put in crops
IN regard to his stolen Jewels. General
Grant says he thought his japanese serv-
ant lett them at Chicago.
PETER LEMEN, of Detroit has decided
to submit to a surgical operation for the
removal of a lizard from his stomach.
THE Ute Indians are not at all pleased
with the new move in their behalf proposed
BY the Great Father at Washington.
THE Carada Pacific Railway has sold
two hundred Thousand acres of land to
French agricultural society at 1875 per
acre.
THE graduating class at West Point is
led by John Mills, of Michigan, and that
at Annapolis ny John S. Schock, of Penn
sylvania.
THE Yorktown Centennial association
has secured 1900, and the work OF con-
structing suitable buildings will soon be
commenced
SOME farmers in Russell county, Ont,
believing that the world will come to an
end on the 10th inst, have neglected put
ting in crops.
You've cells, from one to three inches
long, have been shipped to the waters of
Michigan, from the Hudson river, to the
number of six hundred thousand.
MAYOR MEANS, of Cinninnati, has issued
orders to the police to prevent Sunday
picncs at the hilltop resorts and public
parks.
/. Z. MORTON, our new minister to
France, will delay his departure until
July, on account of the advent of an in
FAINT daughteriin the household,
A CONVENTION has been called for the
American Bankers to meet at Niagara
Falls August 10th. at which leading Eu-
ropean and Canadian financiers are ex-
pected.
CLovERSooK, the former home of Alice
and Phoebe Cary, near Cincinnati, has
been purchased by Alexander Swift, who
will preserve the homestead and dedicate
a memorial to the dead poets.
TIE ladies of Ottawa, H., are about to
present Mrs. r. b. Hayes with a set OF
silk tapestry hangings and six bound al
buns containing the autographs of the
-. i'~t;~"nshed men of the union.
| The board of managers of the blind
asylum at Jacksonville, ILL.,, has asked
Prof. John LOOMS for his resignation.
He has held the position for twenty-one
years, and no charges are made against
him.
TwENTY-EIGHT counties of Texas were
represented in the state prohibition con-
vention at Dallas. A grand crusade at
the polls is in process Of organization.
The issues is between the rural regions
and the centers of industry.
THE st. Louis funniest has resulted in
, some wonderful athletic achievements.
Hugo Maionwisky, OF Chicago, raised fifty
six pounds in one hand and held il uplltted
forty-seven consecutive times. William
Ioeller climbed fifty feet, hand over hand.
FIFTEEN thousand people attended the
St Louis funniest. William Iollen, of
Chicago. won the first prize for rope
climbing, and Herman Kochle, of Milwau-
kee, the first prize for hi4H leaping. In
the evening the Chicago Norwartz gave
> commers in the grounds of the Ger
mania club, which were brilliantly illumi-
mated,
TIE employees of forty brewing firms in
New York and Brooklyn have struck for
sn increase of wages or a decrease of
hours A few hreweries made the conces-
sion, but seventy-six firms have resolved
to close up rather than yield to the de-
mand Twelve hours per day might be
conceded, but Sunday work is declared
necessity
SENATOR MALONE, has gone home to
Petersburg, well satisfied with his weeks
work at Richmond The democratic con-
yention meets in August, and the most
prominent candidate tor governor is Will
liam II. Payne, of Fauquier county, a
confederate brigadier Next comes GEN
eral Fitlhugh Lee, the famous rebel cav
airy leader, and ex-Congressman John
Goode bids fair to have a large following.