Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-09-21
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yellow FEVER is said to have spent il
| force at Matamoras.
THg Pensacola fla board of health
declares yellow fever epidemic.
BEN HILL, JR,, writes to the governor
of Georgia ikat a seat in the senate is be
yond his aspirations.
THE British rife team won the Creed
more match by score Of 1875 to 1863 foI
the Americans.
Mrs. GARFIELD purchased the resi-
denee of Ralph Worthington, on Prospe ct
street, Cleveland, for $4,000.
A VEIN OF red iron ore, more than
twelve feet in thickness, has been struck
| near Kelsey. on the narrow-gusge road
north of Des Moines.
IogNE was given reception at San
Francisco and then took a trip on the
government steamer about the bay.
AFTER prolonged contest the Repub-
lican territorial convention of Dakota,
nominsted John B. Raymond, for dele
gate to congress.
RoPEsoN carried the republican pri-
maries in Camden. New Jersey. but there
are continued threats of an independent
ticket.
THE Richmond, Va, Banking and In
suraDce Company has suspended, due, as
is claimed by its officers, to recent heavy
Withdrawal of funds by large depositors.
JAY GOULD has been elected president
of the Texas Pacific railroad. The an
nual report showed the assets TO be ~.
$40, 1873, and the current liabilities 80 95, :
562.
THE comptroller of Milwaukee has sud
denly discovered that the funds for neces-
sary public works in we wards have been
exhausted. and that street cleaning must
be suspended for the year
ONE THOUSAND civil-service reformers
OF Massachusetts have signed manifest o
declaring their intention to vote for no
man who is not a consistent and aggres-
sive supporter Of the movement in which
they are enlisted.
A CALL has been Issued for meeting of
representatives OF the American public
health associ alton, the national board of
health and various state boards of health
to be held in indianapolis Oct. Is to con-
sid2r the question of holding a national
medical and sanitary exhibition in 1888
AN infected mattress thrown into the
Mississippi river lodged on Staten island.
and carried the smallpox to laborer
named Hunter. He went to Prairie du
Rocher, Illinois, where he died, and there
are now five cases under treatment at that
point.
A LARGE number Of leading Georgians
have petitioDed Governor Colquitt 10 an
point Ben. II. Hill. Jr., to fill the unex-
PRED term of his father in the senate,
and it is probable tina; the no. ement will
succeed. The governor and the CHIEF
justice are candidates for the full term.
THos. j. Cox, owner Of two OF the larg-
est Touring mills at Bloomington, H., has
failed, owing TO a loss of $l5 600 bv specu-
lating in oats in the Chicago market. His
total liabilities are about 800 600, of which
he has secured all but $4,000, which il
due to option dealers.
MICHIGAN retail liquor dealers in CON
vention at Detroit condemned the rising
prohibition sentiment, promised to prose-
cute the lowest class of saloons, the re-
sorts OF low characters. The general
sentiment of the convention was in favor
of supporting the Republican ticket.
ANorHER informal conference of manu-.
facturers and puidlers was held at Pitts
burg, at which the manufacturers refused
10 touF lOWlAe dt gp''p per lOE, anu IN
formed the puddlers that they would not
sign the scale for more than last years
rates. The euddlers then withdrew, but
it is believed that they will shortly agree
to return to work at the old scale.
The republicans of New Hampshire
nominated Hon. Samuel w. Hale for gov
ernor, on the fourth ballot. +. j. Tenney
b. w. Hovt and Stillman Humphrey
were placed on the ticket for railroad
commissioners. The platform indorses
the protective tariff, favors the re-estab-
lishment of the American navy and mer-
chant marine, and applauds the presi-
dent for vetoing the river and harbor bill.
THE death list of one lay contains the
names of Rev. Chandler Robbins, ID. D.,
who succeeded Ralph Waldo Emerson in
the pulpit of the Second Unitarian church
of Boston; Isaac Murphy, of Arkansas,
who alone cast his vote in the legislature
against secession, and was elected COVER
noi after the war; Colonel William ii.
Jacobs, of Milwaukee, owner Of the Sec
on9 Ward bank. who left several millions,
and Erasmus b. Owsley, leading packer