Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-05-04
A WEEKS NEWS.
Happenings of the Past Week Boiled
Down for Convenient and
Ready Reading.
Latest EvenJs.

AT Fayette, Mo-, decree of divorce
was granted to John L. Clark, Jr., mem
Der of congress, for incempatibility OF
temper.
A TEN-sToRY building, to cost $750,OOO,
il being erected on the site of the old
World building in New York, where the
recent calamity occurred.
A SYNDICATE of Minneapolis millers
has purchased controlling interest in
thirty elevators scattered along the line OF
the northern Pacific road.
THE corner stone for library for the
Congr egational seminary of Chicago, has
been laid. Colonel G. q. Hammond has
given 1877 ,377 for the building.
A SCHEME has been proposed by Roches-
ter, n. Y, PARTIES to use n iagra Falls az
a gener ator Of electricity to light Chca-
20 and New York.
road with the Crest Western of Cana
da, was perfected in London, recently,
by the election Of single board of d.
rectors.
THE steamer Mark Lane, which arrived
April Goth, at Halifax, reports three
weeks of continuous battling with icebergs
She has cargo of Scotch potatoes for
Philadelphia.
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.
CAPT. NAT. WHITcHER. well-bnown
ward from Deadwood ,he Sioux stamped
,I nd L. az VITA Of
cattle with arrows.
Mrs. SALTzsMAN, of st. Joseph, Mo-,
who owns the house in which Jesse James
was killed, has filed with Governor Crit.
tenden a claim for 81, 900 damages, caused
bv relic hunters She holds the 81 ate re-
sponsible.
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 ia arranging for mass
meeting in their behalf at Philadelphia.
THE governor of Massachusetts has
pardoned Rev. James G. Powers, who was
sent to the house of correction at Ded-
ham or charge OF vagiancy. Grief at
the death of his wife made him tramp.
He will now be aided to obtain employ
ment.
THE American forestry congress was
organized at Cincinnati to encourage the
planting and protection of trees. Hon.
Geo. b. Loring, commissioner OF agricul-
ture, was chosen president, and d. d.
Thompson, of Cincinnati, secretary.
THE immigration at New York last
week aggregated l9.505. The superin-
tendent at Castle Garden says he can pro-
vide 5000 persons with employment every
day in the year. A shirt manufacture err
in Pennsylvania, endeavored to obtain
200 Russian Jews.
Ii. A. w. TABOR. Lieutenant governor
Of Colorado, filed in the district court of
Colorado demurrer, stating that his
wife 8 complaint does not make il appear
that she suffers for the necessities of life,
and, as no divorce is asked he begs that
her application be dismissed.
REPRESENTATIVES, in real estate, inter
ests in southern Minnesota, feeling ag-
grieved at the course pursued at st. Paul
and Minneapolis in turning the tide of
immigration to British soil, held meet
ing at Mankato, and orga2ized an i'm
migration association to promote the set
Element Of their region.
GENERAL w. l.. BURT, who died at
Saratoga of paralysis, was president of
the Hoosac Tunnel road and enc of the
most active railway builders in the coun-
try. He graduated at Harvard, was udge
advocate general of Massachusetts, under
Governor A ndrew, and postmaster of Bos-
ton under President Grant.