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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
Accidents.

A FIRE at Appleton. Wis, DESTROYED
Flemings hax-mills, valued at $4,000,
June 10.
BoHLH. You've i Co., Wholesale glass
dealers of ST. Louis, have made an assig"-
ment to cover liabilities of $4,000
THE army-worm has appeared at several
points in the kanawa valley, but has not
done much damage.
OLNEY +. WILSON, employed in four-
dry at Denver, was crushed by wheel
weighing over two tons.
A LARGE building on Wareham street.
Boston, occupied by several firms of wood
workers. was burned June Is. causing a
lose of 100000.
Four Germans boating on Fox river
were carried over the dam at Neenah.
Wis, June Is. and Mr.. and Mrs. Priest
we're drowned.
TIN negroes and white man sleeping
in cabin in the bed of Two Mile creek
near Winchester, Ky, were drowned by a
sudden food.
RECeNT rains at Denver have rendered
10000, 900 brick unfit for the market. A
waterproof near the city swept away some
wooden houses, and caused loss of two
lives.
WHILE driving gcross Mechanic street
Jackson, Michigan, Lena Sheppard and
Kate Derby we've struck bv the Grand
Trunk express train. The former was in
stantly killed, he latter badly hurt.
A HEAVY hail storm at Indianapolis
fl ,oded Pogues run and washed away a
rotten foot bridge at the depot tunnel, by
which eight persons were drowned. The
destruction to. property Is estimanted at
| $300,0O0.
JOHN NELSON, dry goods merchant OF
Red Wing. Mimi, took his wife and child
and a lady guest fishing on the Missis-
sippi. In returning home the boat caught
on the ferry cable, and Mrs. Nelson and
| Miss Bradley were drowned.
| THE Jacksonville Car company, whose
stock il held almost exclusively in ST.
Louis, has called meeting o! its creditors
to obtain a compromise on Liabilities OF
$l4 600. The msin troublee arose from
the reputation of contract BY southern
| railway.
A FORREST FIRE has been raging for a week
in the timber southeast of Neillssille
Wis, and June 10 the logging camps o
+. d Lindsay were des' royed. At las
accounts the village of Hewettsville wa
in danger. and hundreds of citizens hay,
gone thither to fight the flames.
A TsRRI F.C rainstorm worked serious
damsge Tuesday night in the vicinity o
Gibson, HI. Over three hundred feet o
the Illinois Central track WAC washed out
ami the Wabash railway suffered in a sim
liar way. A bridge over the Ssngamor
river was carried off, and i've engine
plunged into the stream, killing the road
master and iniuring several others.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

AN eye disease of mysterious origin
and destructive in character Is app"r-
emily on the point of becoming epiden'-
ic in Louisville, KY. From the name
slowed upon it, the eye could hardly
be expected to survive an attack. 1t Is
known to medical science under tho
appalling name If muco-purulent con-
iunctiva, and in times past it has occa-
sionally swept over large portions of
the globe. There are now several hun
dred cases Of it in Louisville, and the
eyesight is generally destroyed through
the accumulation of pus confined by
the sealed lids. So far it has batfled
the skill of the most expert oculists.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
Why Hungarians Emigrate.

They have a primitive way in som g
parts of Hungary of proceeding against
persons accused of crime. Miksa Trail.
la, boy of fifteen, employed as g SER
want in the neighborhood of Temesvar.
WAS suspected of stealing about SO
from his master. He was handed over
to tie police, and being suspended by
the feet, head downward, from a hook
in the ceiling, was belabored for two
hours with wet rope. The next
morning the half dead boy was stretch
ed on the floor and beaten on the legs
and knees with a cudgel A few hours
later magistrate ordered him to be
suspended again by the feet, and in
that position he remained until he was
unconscious. In the evening, still re-
fusing to confess, he was held with ma
ked breast and arms against red hot
stove. A brother of the lad, who i'm
plored the local notary to intercede
and put an end to the torture, was
thrown into prison by order of that
functionary, and heavily ironed. On
the third day, by order of higher Off
cials, who had been informed of these
doings, the two brothers were released.
Such occurrences are not rare amongst
the dense, ingorant country population
of eastern Europe.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
OBEDlENr HUSBANDS.
The Experience OF Five Koguish and
BibulOus Husbands.

There were five of them together,
and it was late. They had been drink
ing. Finally one of them looked at the
clock, and said "What will our wives
say when we come homer"
Let them say what they want to.
Mine Will tell me 10 &c to the mischief"
responded No. 2.
"I'll tell you what we will do. Let
us meet here again in the morning and
tell our experiences. Let the one who
has refused to do what his wife told
him 20 do when he got home, pay for
the nights entertainment"
chats good idea. We all agree
to that" So the party broke up, and
went to their respective homes. Next
morning they met at the appointed
place, and began to tell their expert
ences.
Said No. L:
"When / opened the door my wife
was awake. She said, "a pretty time
fol you to come home. You lad bet
ter 90 out and sleep in the pig-pen,
for that's what you will come to sooner
or lates." Rather than pay for what
We had drank last night, l did what
she told me to. That lets me out"
No. cleared his throat and said
"When I got home ! stumbled
over chair, and my wife called out:
There you are again you drunken
brute! You had better wake up the
children, and stagger about for q while,
so they can see what drunken brute
of father they are afflicted with
So woke up the children and stagger-
ed around until my wife limited to me
to stop. She used chair in convey
| ing the hint.-1hat lets me out"
"Nextp
No. 5 stood up and said:
81 happened to stumble in pan of
dough, and my wife said: Drunk
again? Hadn't you better sit down in
that Dough- SO sat down in it, and
that lets me out"
"Next!"
No. said
81 was humming a tune, and my
wife called out: There you are again
Hadn't you better give us concert? l
said certainly and began to sing as
loud as / could, but she told me to
stop, or she would throw something al
me, 80 l stopped. That let's me out"
No. looked very disconsolste. He
said:
81 reckon I'll have to pay. My
wife told me to do some
thing that none of you would
have done if you had been in my
place"
"What was il? ?"
"She said: $50 you thought you
would come home at last Now, hadn't
you better go out to the well and drink
couple of buckets Of water just to
astonish your stomach ?" That was
more than | had bargained for, SO it's
my funeral. "-1eras Sytings.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
DOTS AND DAsHEs.
Telegraphio Intelligence Of the Past
Week Summarized Into
Close Quarters.
Latest EventA-

ALaKRNoN SAKroRIs, son-in-law Of
| General Grant, is hunting and fishing al
Sturgeon Bay, Wis,
THR Illinois supreme court, sitting at
Springfield, entered an order admitting to
the bar 1913 applicants.
THE Friend iron-mill at Pittsburgh
which has been closed for two months for
repairs, is about to start up with noH-un-
ion men.
THE Apollo ron-works of Laufman &
Co., near Pittsburgh, have started up sue
cessfully with men from outside the
union.
AN invoice of s 1000 bushels of new Tex
an wheat was sold at auction on the pro-
duce exchange in New York for 81 5 per
bushel.
A. X. CAzAURAN, the famous play
wright, who for some time has been quite
i'll, is in private asylum at New York,
and his death is an ev ent of the hear fu-
ture.
A PARTY of sixtv-two Roumanians, ac-
comprnied by an interpreter, have landed
at Castle Garden, and will settle 10 Min
nesota. They brought along nine black
bears, a number of monkeys, and Curl
Gus collection of wooden implements.
IT is alleged that combination of CT
gar manufacturers in eastern cities have
entered into a contract with the Six Com
panies of San Francisco for the labor Of
one hundred Cinnamon, who are to be
speedily forwarded.
The republican state convention of
Maine nominated Col. Fred Robbie for gov
ernor; and Messrs. Thos. B. Reid Nelson
Dinghy, Chas. A. Boutilie and Seth ID.
Millenken for congress. Resolutions
were adopted endorsing President Arthur's
administration.
THE wife of Frank Mason, one of the
Brookfeld bank-robbers, accom- panied by
Harry Moore. went to the farm, and got
the bottle of gold which she had secreted
in the ground under the shed. The fact
was quite apparent that other persons had
been digging for it.
Representative RosECRANs desires it
known that the Ocean Shore railroad is
incorporated in California, Nevada, and
Utah, is backed by some of the most
prominent railroad men in the country;
work will be commenced az soon az an en-
trance to San Francisco is secured.
THE trunk-line roads are alb )ut to have
four new competitors for the commerce Of
Chicago with the seaboard The New
York, Chicago, and St. Louis road will
be in operation by September; The Buffa-
10 extension of the Lackawanna road will
be finished early in the fall, and can easily
secure entrance to Chicago; The Chicago
& Atlantic will soon be available to admit
to the western metropolis trains of the
Lehigh Valley and the Erie roads, and
the Ontario 4 Western might furnish a
New York outlet for the Wabash. At
present the new roads are outside of the
pool.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

THE Tribune makes these comments
upon a fact it alleges to be true, mean
ing probably Mr.. A. j Cassat: THE vice
president of one of the most powerful
corporations in the country threw up
his Office last week with all its enor-
nous emoluments, avowedly to save
his brain in time from the strain of re-
sponsibility laid upon it, and which he
felt to be more than could be borne
with safety. The president of the
company, n man of exceptional force
of intellect, was not so wise, and died
In the prime of life. crushed by over
work. Both these men have worked
their way up from poverty, both de-
served success, and both were defeated
by the same"
In every profession or business there
Is repeated the same story. Mer-
chants, philosophers, miness, lawyers,
publishers, actors, the heads of CHAIR
table organizations, totter at their daily
work, and disappear, followed by the
same mysterious whisper. Now there
was no talk of softenipg of the brain or
paralysis of the spinal cord with our
fathers. The leaders of the revolution
and founders of the republic had as
suredly as heavy burden of responsible
ity and executive management to car
nv as our railroad directors or Wal
street brokers. They had grosser APP
petites, as a rule, and drank more liq
nor than We; yet they liv>d ,.ntil hale,
peaceable old age. What is the fata
weakness, then, with this generation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
Russian misiAry Of the interior, and il
succeeded by Count Toisto.

Russian misisry Of the interior, and il
succeeded by Count Tolsto.
GEORGE s. WraarS, an old and respect.
ed citizen of Rockland, Me-, has been
weakened In mind and robbed of a 600
by a female blackmailer.
GEORGE TALBOT, acontractor of BuSalo
residing at the Tiff house, was robbed bv
snesk-thief of 81, 900 in cash, a watch,
and diamond stud worth 81 900.
The German Reichstag, after a lively
debate, and notwithstanding Bismarck 3
protests, rejected the tobacco MONOPOLY
bill. The Reichstag will soon be pro-
rogued until fall.
GLADSTONE has agreed to an amendment,
TO the repression bill bv which eyicted
tenants who re-enter their holdings shall
not be punished, unless the re-entry is eff
fected by force.
ITALY's policy on the Egyptian aues-
ton, AZ enunciated by her foreign n mis-
ter, is to refuse assent TO armed interven-
tion by any power but Turkey, and that
only rs a lesser evil.
The president of the board of trade was
questioned in the house of commons touch.
ing the importation of American lard
cheese. He thought its sale in England
would be governed by the adulteration
act.
The French and British ambassadors at
Constantinople, supported by other diplo-
mats. urge the immediate assembling of
the conference npon Egyptian sfairs
Gladstone announced in the house of COM
mons that all the powers are heartily CO.
operating with England, and that the sui
tan is in complete harmony. -Four steam
ers leaving Alexandria carried full loads
of Europeans, and it il stated that many
heavy capitalists are calmly arranging to
leave. The English consul general de-
sires all British subjects to depart but
hesitates to produce panic by official re-
quest The bodies OF an English officer
and two seamen, killed in the riot. were
buried at sea to avoid an outbreak on
shore.
The number of Europeans killed in the
riot at Alexandria liz now believed to be
$50, as multilated bodies are constantly
washing ashore, Dervisch Pasha express
es full confidence in the loyalty OF the
Egyptian troops The panic at Cairo
CREWS worse hourly. All shops are clos
ed and several Frenchmen are fortifying
themselves in their houses. French troops
at Marseilles and Toulon are kept ready
for embarkatlon, and the British channel
fleet has sailed east from Giberalter. The
khedive SAYS $50 ring-leaders in the riot
have been arrested. and will be kept on
board ship in the harbor, and he hopes
that force of $4,000 Turks will shortly
start for Egypt. Admiral Seymore seized
the steamer Msrengo to carry British
fugitives from Alexandria.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
FROM the Capital.

The Senate passed the House bill to d.
vide Iowa into two judicial districts.
THE treasury department purchased
240,U0 ounces of silver for the minis.
Miss Pr GBE CouzINs is at the capital
urging her claims for a place on the Utah
commission.
A. A. Low, of New York, las declined
to serve on the Tariff Commission in place
of Mr.. Wheeler.
No application has been made to JUS
dce Bradley for writ of habeas corpHs
in the Gu case.
TUE president has nominated Daniel
II. Pinney, OF Illinois, to be associate
iu-tce of the supreme court of Arizona.
Tue president has made the following
nominations: Postmasters, Soloman
Kaufman, at Gsrnot', Ka,, and Hiram
O. Pane, Fremont, Neb.
QUEEN VICTORIA, through Minister
Lowell, expresses her pleasure ut the re-
cepIion of copy of the international
stamp. bearing the likeness of the late
President Garfield.
The Hon. William lie Due. ex-comnlis-
sioner of agriculture. of Minnesots, il in
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

the city on a visit for few DAYS. He is
looking around with the view Of purchas-
ing a residence in Washington.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has received an in
vitation from the Union League Club of
Chicago to visit that city this summer.
and thinks favorably Of the proposition.
THE Hennepin canal interest threatens
to antagonzs the Mississippi river aspro-
priation. The canal gets no support from
the southwest, owing to the Influence OF
| 81. Louis.
THE Japanese indemni bill was up for
consideration in the senate June 18th. the
principal feature in the debate being war
Of words between the two Kansas senator's
on the one side, and Morgan, of Alabama,
on the other. The bill went over as untin-
ished business.
WHLE the legislative appropriation
bill was under consideration in the house
angry words passed between White, o:
Kentucky, and Kelley. of Pennsylvania.
resolution censuring Mr.. Kelley was
introduced, but was finally Withdrawn.
The appropriation bill then passed.
SENATOR DAVIS. of West Virginia, gave
a dinner this evening at the Arlington
hotel, to John w. Garrett, president OF the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad company
There were present besides the host and
guest, Secretary Folgsr, Postm aster Gen
eral Howe. Senators Bayard, Sherman.
Window, Pendleton, German. and Cam
den; Representatives Hoge, Kenns, Will
son. McLane, and Flower.
Mr.. Kelley, chairman of the ways and
means committee, says that after the pas
sage Of the river and harbor appropria-
ton bill, which is the next bill in order
after the legislative bill, he will ask the
house to take up the bill to reduce inter-
nal taxes and will raise the question of
consideration on every bill that antago-
nizes the measure till it is taken up and
disposed of.
The commissioner of pensions asks the
appropriation of 81, 1877 900 for clerk hire,
with which amount he proposes to finish
every claim within three years. The gov
eminent has already paid over, 100000
600 for pensions TO the soldiers of the late
war, and the amounts required for some
years to come will be greater than the in
terest on the public debt.
Among the bills introduced in the
house is one by Ex-Governor Curtin, of
Pennsylvania, granting medal TO each of
the survivors of the $50 Pennsylvania sol
diers who passed through Baltimore April
lS, 1861 on their way to defend Washing
ton. The bill further provides that in
case of the death of any OF these soldiers,
the medal, suitably inscribed, should be
presented to the nearest male relative.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

BISMARCK has sustained a telling de-
feat in the German parliament, the
Reicnstag rejecting his pet measure
the bill giving the government mo-
nopoly of the tobacco traffic rs reve-
nue. measure, by vote of AZ against
276. And this, too, after the venerable
leader had made two-hours speech
in support of the bill. 1t would seem
from this that Bismarck's power is
weakening in his old age.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
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A Brides Suicide.

DUBUQUE, June 16.-Last Sunday, at
Platteville, Wis, were celebrated the
nuptials of Louis Sissler and Miss Big
ford, both well known and highly re-
spectacle residents of that village.
Everything went off in the most happy
manner, and after the ceremony the
young couple started for their new
home, four miles distant, with the con-
gratulations of hosts of friends. Moth
ing unusual occurred until yesterday,
when the bride, after dressing, pro-
cured revolver and deliberately shot
herself, causing instant death. Not the
least cause is known for the rash act
but it is supposed to be the result OF
temporary insanity.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
Gabiegrafns

FORTY. FOUR lives were lost during the
recent food vi yersicz, in Hungary.
THERE were 1896 outrages perpetrated
in Ireland during The month OF May.
BURGLARS a. Toledo blew the safe of r
A. Barley, n Summit street groce r, and
obtained 1873.
The members OF the Garibaldi family
have agreed to give the island of Caprera
to the Italian nation.
In the British house of lords the second
reading of the bin legalizing marriage
with a dead wifes sister was reiected-lS2
TO 1913.
GENERAL lGSArIgFr, at his own request,
has been released OF the portfolio OF the
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

Hor words are said to have passed
recently between Postmaster General
Howe and United States Senator Van
Wyck, of Nebraska. 1t is alleged that
Mr.. Howe took Mr.. Van Wyck to task
for not voting for the confirmation of
Worthington rs collector of the port of
Boston, and the irate senator retorted
that it was none of Mr.. Howe's busl-
ness. Verify, great men have their lit
tie diffe. snces like the rest of us.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

FROM the case of surgical instru-
ments Just developed by digging in the
ruins of Pompeii it would appear that
the ancients understood surgical SCI
ence to high degree of perfection.
Theyappear to have had the facilities for
carving the human anatomy into fan
tastic forms and of looking into the
physical mechanism of man as far as
the physicians of the present day can.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

AS a squad of seventy-fve Bohem-
ian iron workers were beng escorted
from the mills to the street cars, IN
Cleveland, by file af police, the
strikers set upon them with stones.
The rioters dispensed their dornicks on
Bohemians and police with generous
impartiality and nearly every man in
the procession was struck and more or
less bruised.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
A letter from Rome says freq

visitor at the home of U. S. Minister
Marsh is the Countess Gigliucci, with
two daughters, This lady, who is ex-
tremely popular in society from the
charm of her quaint and witty converse
tion-a wit which is never ill-natnred-
was formerly known TO fame as the
great English songstress, Clara Novello.
In spite of her sixty years she retains
the purity and brilliance of her wonder
full voice in most astonishing manner,
but never sings now except occasionly
to give pleasure to one or two very
intimate friends.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

A BRUTAL prize fight between two
New York pugilists Maloney and
Weeden-took place in West Virginia.
They fought forty rounds, and the at
fair ended in "draw," mob of Ma
loney's friends overawing Weeden, who,
it is claimed, would have won the fight
if outsiders would have given him a
fair chance. Maloney was badly pun
ished.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

"EyERY senator his own secretary
was the sense of the senate on the
cheme to provide a 81, 200 amanuensis
for each of the dignitories of that body
at the public expense. This Is de-
cidedly the sense of their constituents
and that is where they got their in
spection on the subject.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
Adolpb Sutro. who gave the name ts

Adolph Sutro, who gave the name to
the FIN Gus Sutro Tunnel, is interested
now in a scheme to establish a large
summer resort on the seashore, near
San Francisco. He has transformed
sand hills into woodland already, and
expects to make the landscape attrac-
tive. in suite of its barren soil.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
Eafheris Getting We'll.

Ny daughters say How much better father
is since he used Hop Bitters. He is getting veil
after his long suffering from disease declared in
durable, aud we are SO glad that he used your
Btters--a lady of Rochester, \. y.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

THE Wisconsin forest fires which
have been devastating the pineries are
now under control, the elements hav-
ing accomplished what man could not.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
POINT, WISCONSIN.

CoNTETING seats in congress is com
ing to be quite an industry. The
claims for this sort of service in the
present congress aggregate $S5,OOO.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22
Two Young Men.

A friend of Senator Sherman's, who
delights 10 do that gentleman honor.
recalls that SHERMAN made his debut
into political life at Baltimore in COM
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-06-22

The art conuoisseur and exhibitor,
Prof. Cromwell, was cured of rheuma-
tism by St. Jacobs Oil-Norfok Vir-
0inidn.