Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-04-13
A WEEKS NEWS.
Happenings of the Past Week Boiled
Down for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
latest Events.


the death of three aged sisters, from nat
ural causes, within the same half hour.
MINNE.PoIIs had an exciting contest on
the saloon question, Ames, the ropre ,ent-
alive of the liquor Interest, beating Lor-
ing. republican, for mayor by nearly 2 900
votes.
WITHIN the past month the Land
leagues of the United Ssates and British
colonies contributed 100000 to the
cause.
d. w. CALDWELL, OF the Pennsylvania
lines, has accepted the vice presidency of
the New York, Chicago and St. Louis
road.
ScaAKFKR and other billiard experts
have formed baseball club, and will
play their first public game in New Haven
about the end Of April.
COMMODORE LUCE is alarmed over the
non-arrival at Newport of the United
States training-ship Portsmouth, from
Hampton roads.
TIE steamship City of Rome is bring
ing over /, $50 storage passengers for the
United States, and the Partisan has on
board 900 for Manitoba.
THE typographical union of Cincinnati,
after session OF ten hours, resolved to
admit the compositors of the Commercial,
imposing on nine offenders a fine of 81
each.
THE executive committee Of the trunk
line roads has decided to pool the east
bound livestock business, and it is proba-
bic that the rates will next month be adj
vanced to 40 cents per hundred pounds.
RICHARD r. MASON, of Pueblo, Col,
has received letter from his famous
brother, the sergeant. now in the Albany
penitentiary, complaining bitterly of his
treatment.
FAST day in Massachusetts, was celebrat-
cd at the base ball grounds in Boston by
seventeen hundred spectators, the Bostons
beating picked nine by 10 to 0. Tie
Worcester club played game with the
Beacons. of Boston.
JUMBO, the mammoth elephant, ate one
hundred pounds of onions on the voyage
across the Atlantic and consumed consid-
cradle whiskey. The freight bill was
$500. 1t took eighteen horses to draw
the animal up Broadway on trucks.
TIE governor of Texas recommends
the appointment OF commissioner by the
state, to act with another to be provided
for by congress, to establish the boundary
line on the northward. Greene county,
with one million acres Of valuable land is
still in dispute.
THE Illinois department Of agriculture
has reports for April on the coalition of
the wheat crop from five hundred points,
which give promise of more than an av-
erage yield per acre throughout the state,
the northern division being 2 per cent,
above the usual condition.
DR.. VAN KLEIN, of Hamilton, o., who
ia an old acquaintance of DIR, Lamson, now
under sentence of death at Londcn for
poisoning patient with aconite, will send
to the British consul at Cincinnati an afi-
davit showing Lamson's unlimited faith in
the drug for all cases of sickness.
TIE Methodist conference of the St.
Louis district assigned Rev. DIR. George
w. Hughey to a small congregation in
Carondelet. In the course of some words
over the matter, George Hughey, a a.
year-old SON of the preacher, drew clasp
knife and threatened to cut out the liver
of Rev. DIR. B. st. James Fry.
THE funeral train Of Jesse James arriv-
ed at kearney, Mo, at 2;5 a. IN. and was
met at the depot by a large crowd. For
several hours the corpse lay exposed to the
public and was seen by more han thous-
and persons, including the passengers OF
passing trains. Services were held at the
Baptist church, and the remains were in
tered in corner of the Samuels home
stead The old lady still swears vengeance
on the Fords Throughout central Mis-
souri, it is difficult to convince people that
the bandit is under the grass.
HUNGRY Cheyennes ard Arapahoes rep
rescnting all factions of both tribes, gath
cred about Agent Miles. the other day,
and submitted their ultimatum of beef or
blood. The agent telegraphed to Major
Ra ndall at Fort Reno, and was advised
III at the trouble could be bridged over for
a few days by borrowing cattle. The
rapid exhaustion of the appropriation
made by congress forced reduction OF
one-half in the amount of meat issued to
the braves, and they have eaten their
ponies and killed their breeding herd.
The only solution oil the problem is fur
Their vote of money from the treasury
vaults to feed the red paupers.