Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-26
Accidents.


burgh, were recently damaged $4,000 by
FIRE.
2 A LOSS of $4,000 was caused by the
burning Of the Brazelton house, at Mount
Pleasant, Iowa.
FIVE colored convicts employed in cut
ting wood near Little Rock were drowned
while crossing stream in rowboat.
HERR MAUsRR, of Wurtemberg, in
| ventor of the rifle which bears his name,
is dead.
LORD LuRGAN, who died in London,
seems to be remembered only "a the owner
of the famous coursing- hound Master
McGrath.
A CASE of varioloidRt Amherst coll eye
causes great excitement Hanford M.
Burr, the unfortunate student, has been
duly quarantined.
DEACON w. w. ELLIS, of Providence.
r, L., cut his hand while opening bottle
of communion wine, and has been seized
with lockjaw
A CHICAGO family, named Strese, was
filed with trichina by food taken at a
wedding breakfast. The wife is dead and
four others are PROSTATE.
AN alarm of fire in theater at Rotter-
dam caused panic, in which several per-
sons leaped from the balconies and suf-
fered slight Injuries.
JOHN SULLIVAN, Memphis fireman,
has been stricken with smallpox. Twenty
new cases developed at Pittsburgh in one
day, recently.
A COAL OIL explosion fred the house ef
Geo. &. Smith, ut Lewis. Mo-, and his wife
and four children, sleeping in the second
story were burned to death.
In the counting room of The Sentinel, at
indianapolis, Greenbury B. Hawkins, the
night clerk, was accidentally shot dead
by a carrier named John Greene.
MARY MCCABE, of Davenport, has
broupht suit against the owner of the
wrecked steamer Jennie Gilchrist :or
s., 900 damages by the loss of her husband
JAMES K. MOONEY, the chief wne r o.
the American oak tannery burned at Gin
cinnati on Monday, refuses to rebuild un
less the city will furnish better protection
from FIRE.
WHILE bnll-fght was in progress at
Matapzas, Cuba. the fall of scaffolding
prcipitated three hundred persons into
the stables. one being killed and many i'll
jured.
The second brother of the hey of Tunis
was arrested by the ministers of war and
marine, on suspicion of cont piring against
the hey, and is a close prisoner in the
Bardo palace.
HAVING considered the cases of the
Irish suspects who are members of par
Lament, the British cabinet has decided
that the leaders of the land league have
no claim to eycepti0ral treatment
THOMAS MiLLNEE, dropped dead in a
drug store at Waukegan. Ill. He settled
lii Chicago forty years ago, built the old
court house. and was a leading member of
the Clark street Method st church.
In the inquest on the Spuyten Duyvil
disaster the conductor of the unfortunate
Wagner coach testified that he believed
some passengers applied the air-brakes, as
a party of senator's. ascend lymen. and al
dermen were passing around bottles of
whisky and smashing hats.
WILLIAM Fox, who was badly injured
by falling from the top of bare, at
Chenoa, ILL.,, has died from his injuries.
He was % years of age and highly es-
teemed. His name was James w. Johns
ton, but he was adopted by Mrs. William
Fox when he was an infant, and she
brought him up. He has several brothers
and sisters living.
Tue six-story building of the American
Oak Leather company at Cincinnati was
swept away by flames. The structure,
grounds, and appliances, which were
among the best in the union, cost $500, 900.
and the business had but recently COM
menced. The damage is estimated at
$4,000.