Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-05-11
DOTS AND DASHES.
Telegraphic Intelligence Of the Past
Week Summarized Into
Close Quarters.
Latest Events.

The Illinois house has passed the sena-
torial apportionment bill by 80 to 81.
CHARLES RowELL, the pedestrian, has
sailed for England with three fine trolting
horses.
A TRAIN on the Canada Southern road
took the Vanderbilt party III miles in
100 minutes.
CASEY, n horse owned by President Con
zales, won the chief race at the City Of
Mexico, taking ~ 900.
The bid of a syndicate of $780, 900
for the Sprague properties in Rhode
Island was withdrawn, and the sale has
been postponed to May 2S.
THE Buffalo ball club beat Chicago by
4 to 0; Boston defeated Worcester by II to
4 Detroit made and allowed cleveland
%; Providence conquered Troy by 3 to l..
DENVER took holiday and laid the cor
ner-stone of the national exposition build
ing, in which ceremony several thousand
persons participated.
OSCAR WILDE received $4,000 for his
sidering an offer from Australia for the
summer.
THE first shipment OF strawberries from
Cairo, is two days earlier than was ever
known. The fruit crop in that section
promises to be very large.
Ar recent council of Yankton Indi-
ans. it was resolved to sell to the govern
ment, for the use of Sitting Bull and his
forty lodges, tract of 6,400 acres near
Fort Randall.
SEVEN saloon-keepers of Elgin, Ill E, have
been mulcted in 81 S04 damages, in behalf
of Mrs. Sarah Naughton, for the death of
her husband at the Fox River depot, while
attempting TO board a train when intoxi-
Gated.
Mrs ScovILLE lectured on the assassi
nation Of Garfield on the I'd inst. at an
uptown theatre in New York, to a very
small audience, and announced that she
had forwarded 800 to Chicago to redeem
her furniture.
THE widow and daughter of John Brown
the fanatic of Harper's Ferry, are said TO
be in destitute circumstances at Saratoga,
Gala. An agent is arranging for a mass
meeting in their behalf at Philadelphia.
THE independent republican leaders Of
Pennsylvania have issued a call for a
state convention on May "a. to name a
complete ticket. Representative Wolfe,
the acknowledged leader of the revolt
against Cameron, has apparently been won
over by the stalwarts
AN advance guard Of one hundred
farmers from Holland have arrived in
New York, and will settle on the Missouri
river, in Dakota. A colonization agent
accompanies them, and has influence
sufficient to bring over thousands more
Of his countrymen by favorable reports.
THE work of listing securities for the
Chicago stock exchange has caused post
ponement of the opening. Gould has vol
unteered to place his southwestern roads
on the rolls. and w. B. Strong has tele-
graphed tina. the Santa Fe will list its
bonds and shares. Preparations for the
natural increase in financial transactions
here are being made with vigor.
COLONEL INGERsoLL had an audience of
nearly four thousand persons in the Bos-
TN theatre, Sunday night, to whom he
spoke on " Talmagean Theology" To
ceunteract his effort, the Young Mems
Christian Association gave each of his
auditors an extract from Washington's
farewell address in regard to the necessity
Of religion to state.