Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1881-08-25
LATE REPORTS.
A Summary OF --latest Cablegrams
aud kilograms.
latest Events.

ORE6ON reports neT surplus OF wheat
for export at 100000 tons.
THE immigrants arriving in the United
States for the month Of July numbered
56,607.
In the Monmouth park races at New
York, Hindoo beat Lorillard's Parole,
running the last mile in IA. Hindoo
has won fifteen races this season, and suf-
fered no defeats.
GRANTS regiment, the 2lst Illinois, will
hold a reunion at bingham, September
10 to 81, and the general has promised tc
be present.
The drouth in the tobacco fields has
given the weed huge boom. The best
hurley sold in Louisville for $6S per 100
pounds, the highest figures ever reached.
FATHER O'CoNNER, priest of the indie
pendent Catholic church, was prevented
bv mob from delivering lecture at
WATERFOWL, Ont, and had to be escorted
to his hotel by constables.
AGENT TIFFANY, at San Carlos, fears
trouble with the White Mountain Indians,
growing cut of the evil influence of medi-
cine men, and has called for additional
arms
THE quartermaster general of Michigan
has made contract for transportation to
the Yorktown centennial for the governor
and staff, the legislature, and six compa-
MES of militia.
ABOUT fifty delegates were present at
an anti-monopoly conference in Utica,
whose purpose was to prepare the public
mind for restrictions upon the railroads.
l.. f. Chittenden presided.
JAMES G. FARGO, of New York, has been
elected president of the American Express
company, and Charles Fargo. of Chicago,
second vice president.
LEO HARTMANN, the noted nihilist, APP
peared in the superior court in New York
and renounced his allegiance to the en-
peror of Russia, filing declaration of his
intention to become an American citizen.
THE senate of Georgia has passed bill
forbidding any person to encourage the
violation of the laws prohibiting polyga-
my or bigamy, under penalty of hard la
Dor in the penitentiary from two TO four
years. The blow is aimed at the Mormon
elders now laboring in that state.
THE whaler Abbott Lawrence, which
was towed into st. Johns in a disabled
condition, reports that during January
and February the mercury ranged be-
tween Is and rs degrees below zero al
Marble island. The whaling season was
failure, because the ice-packs prevented
the wbalers from moving ships length.
VAy ,ERBILT has modified his PROPOSE
tion to the trunk lines, so that three years
will he the limit of the money pool, but
Mr. Roberts is unwilling to tie up the
Pennsylvania road for so long a time.
The Grand Trunk road has commenced
selling tickets from Chicago to Portland
for $l7, with so rebate. .-.,,-.-
GEORGE DAILY. the mining manager,
was killed in an action with Indians, one
hundred miles northward o: FL Paso, and
Lieut. Smith and four soldiers also fell on
the field. The loss is charged to the col
ored troops, who fled when the Apaches
made their appearance.
MANA and his band of Indian fends are
said to be nearly $50 miles south of the
Atlantic and Pacific railroad in New Mex
leo. Sixty volunteers from Socorro are
engaged in guarding mines Thirteen
men were killed by Apaches at Alamosa
in one day, and a body of two hundred
well-armed men are in pursuit from La
guna.
THE strike of switchmen on the Erie
Todu Is COUuutU w A'hhaio,
and Horrellsville, and there is no deten-
ton of passenger trains. Some trains of
empty freight-cars, manned by raw hands,
passed through Clean Sunday. Sheriff
Higgins has been called upon to protect
the Erie company's property in the event
of an attack upon fresh employees.
MANA, with his band of Apaches and
Navajoes, is moving southwark to Join
Mangus Colorado, who left Mexico with a
party of sixty Apaches, Comanches. and
Kickapoos. In fight with the latter
gang, Lieutenant Burnett was wounded
twice. Every available cavalryman IN
| General Hatch's command is in the field,
and militia companies are being organized
| all over New Mexico.
GuITEAU is reported to be feeling rather
nervous about this time. The movements
of the jall officials and the doubling of the
military guard seems to have led him to
think that crisis in the presidents con-
dition is approaching, and has become
somewhat excited in consequence. he
evidently has great dread of the wrath
of the people, and his attempts to appear
unconcerned and to make it appear that
he considers that in shooting the president
he was doing commendable act are east
ly seen through. He wants to be consid.
| cred insane on certain subjects, but will
| hardly succeed