Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-28
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| company lalu across tue NdiloW6 peio"
New York a cable $500 feet long and
weighing IS tons.
THERE is reason to believe that the
government has come into possession OF
new and valuable evidence within two or
three days in the star-route cases.
NELLIE BURRELL, the mistress Of Capt.
How gate. has suddenly disappeared from
| Washington, despite The efforts of the
detectives to keep track OF her move
| meRta.
THE Milwaukee & st. Paul railway
company has been admitted on equal
terms TO the great Iowa pool, on both
passage and freight traffic.
JUDGE CHARLES j. FoLGER, secretary of
the treasury, was nominated for governor
by the republicans Of New York, after a
warm contest in which Gov. Cornell was
a close second.
PROF. Boss of Dudley observatory,
| Albany, believes The comet we now see
| near the gun is the return of the great
comet discovered by DR.. Gould in South
America, Feb. 5. 1880.
AT Georgetown and Central City, Cal,
| at about II O'Clock on the morning of the
| S,h inst, comet vas p lainly seen with
| the naked eye about degrees from the
sun. The direction il trife south Of
west
THE republican ticket of New York
complete, is as follows: For governor,
! Charles j. Folger; for lieutenat governor,
| b. Plat Carpenter; for congressman, at
large, a. F. Hepburn; for Judge of the
court of appeals. Judge Charles Andrews.
The democratic state convention of New
l,..,-
| delegates from both Tammany and anti
| Tammany and thus secured a harmony Of
| the factions. Grover Cleveland, mayor
of Buffalo, was nominated for governor on
the fourth ballot.
THE New York democratic ticket com
plete il as follows: For governor, Grover
| Cleveland mayor Of Buffalo; lieutenant
governor, David B. Hill, mayor OF Ell
| mira; congressman-at-larse Gen. Henry
w. Slocum; judge of the court of appeal,
VIM. G. Ruger. Thomas M. Patterson
was elected chairman of the state central
committee.
Ex-Gov. LUDISGToN, Daniel Wells and
A. G.. Van Schaick of Milwaukee, have
sold a thirty-second part of the Ludington
Iowa, mine fer $4,000. Al this rate the
whole mine would be valued at 81 100000.
This mine Joins the celebrated Chaplin
mine of the Menomonee Iron Mining co.
and il one OF the most valuable in the
country.
JUDGE +. JEFFsRDs is the republican
candidate for congress in the Third dis
trict of Mississippi, and She democratic
convention which met at GreenvIlle de-
cided to make a nomination agar nst him.
But an independent candidate has APP
peared in the person of Judge &. w.
Clark, a native of o hio, who served in
Garheld's regiment. and is very wealthy.
w. w. KER, ere Of the governments
prosecuting attorneys in the star route
cases, says it is the intention of the gov
eminent to bring the accused before jury
again q, speedily as possible, and that
energet efforts would be made to convict
Brady, Dorsey, and their associates in the
frauds. He thought it more than likely
that the cases would be called again on
the first Monday of December. The
cases" said Mr.. ker, will be tried until
the conspirators are either convicted or
acquitted.
DURING the celebration over the pro-
gress of the Mexican Central road, con-
CALCULATIONS were exchanged by telegraph
over a single circuit between Boston and
Chihuahua. The latter city ia 224 miles
over the border. and has population of
10000 who are said TO be remarkably
orderly. The visitor from Boston ard
Chicago find that the better class of Mexi-
cana rejoice at the opening of railway
communication, while the less influential
portion look with Jealous eyes or the IN
| gestment of American capital on their
soil
THE keEuebec Journal will publish full
official returuB from all the state of Maine
except from six small plantations, the
vote OF which will change the result but
little. The total vote was 13S $50; Kobe,
-, 554; Plsisted, 1885, Chase, l,2S6;
Nintou, 262; Eustis, 3O5; Robes plurali-
tv. SOS. The republican candidates Tor
congress were elected by pluralities little
in excess of that for governor. The re-
publiCans carry fourteen of sixteen coun-
ties. Of the senators tweuty-eight are
republicans and three fusionists. OF the
members of the house los are republicans
and forty-one fusionists. In two districts
/ the elections are not yet determined
A New YORK dispatch says work on
the new steamer without masts, the Me-
| teor, which was launched on Thursday at
Nyack, ~ progressing so rapidly that 1t Is
| believed she will start on her initial ocean
voyage from Boston early in October. A
ship-building enterprise has been organ
lied by a number of Boston and New York
| capitalists, under the name OF the Nation
al Construction company, with capital
of 100000. The company has pur-
chased at Bay Ridge twenty-sevea acres
of land, with a water frontage OF 10 feet,
On this property it is proposed to CON
struct shops with facilities for the build
ing of steel iron, aud wooden ships. This
new model for an ocean steamship IL q
novelty, because it has no spars or m a-ts
It's deck is domed. and with the exception
of the tops of the ventilators aud the pr
dollhouse there is nothing above the decs
10 catch tn. wind and retard the speed o
the snip.
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