Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-01-05
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SCARLET FEVER Of malignant type is
raging in New York, there having been
eighty-two deaths from that disease dur
ing the week.
The business of New York for the year,
as exhibited by the returns OF the clear
ing house, reach the unprecedented total
of $49, 100000, 600.
TIL. fund for the endowment Of Gar
field professorship at Williams college has
swollen to 1886, coo, and only SIS, 600 remain
to be raised
Cor. Riley, of Virginia, was remem-
bered to the amount of s25 900 in the will
of Col. Preston, an Englisbman, for res
cuing his son from drowning.
GOLD to the amount of $4,000 was
brought TO San Francisco by the Austria
liam steamer The Germania landed $780,
900 at New \ ork from Europe.
A PARTY Of over five hundred negroes
from Edgefeld county, South Carolina,
leadership of colored preacher named
Hammond. Still more are expected to
follow.
HENRY MoNETT, a railway man of Pitts
burg, and few associates have purchased
the ohio State Journal, published at Co
lumbus. The new company has a capital
of $l50,000.
TIE Peace Hill Indians have destroyed
portion of the British telegraph line
near Edmonton. in the Northwest terri
tory, carrying off miles of wire.
q. r. WOODWARD, well-known citizen
Of st. Paul. found in his kitchen note
from the house girl announcing that she
conid be found at the bottom of the well.
which proved to be the fact.
THE Standard Coal and Iron company,
which is about to be organized in Boston
with capital of $4,000, 900, has already
purchased eight furnaces and twenty five
Thousand acres Of mineral lands in Ohio.
c. w. KEENE. of San Francisco, has
brought suit for 1886. 900 against min
ing operator of New York, named George
ID. Roberts, for refusing to account for a
share of the profits in Joint undertaking.
BRIDGET CLARKE, an aged woman re-
siding in Avenue A, New York, who for
twenty years has but once voluntarily
gone into the street, preferriDg the life of
a hermit, died on Christmas day of melan-
cholia.
Col. T. II. TALBOT, Boston LAWYER,
residing at Brookline, Mass, has sued
weekly newspaper for 5000 for falsely
announcing that he had come out for Ben
Butler, thereby causing Talbot to lose a
nomination for state senator
THE patients in the smallpox hospital
at Chicago number 1l2. An eruptive dis
ease of a serious nature has broken out
among the students of the medical college
at Dubuque. 1t is said to have been OBJ
tanned from the dissection of a cadaver
from Chicago.
THE organ of the prohibitionists of
Kansas states that Governor St. John will
call special session of the legislature to
amend the whisky law 30 that it can be
enforced. 1t is intended to make liquor
found on any property d witness in the
case.
A SPECIAL. agent sent out to invest gate
matters in the land Office at Miles City,
Montana, found a shortage. of $4,000 III
the accounts of the lats receiver, T. 2.
McIlrath, who is son of the former
partner of Horace Greeley. G. II. Gould.
Of Lincoln, Neb., the new appointee, has
taken charge of the office.
THE facility of the medical college at
Keckuk now admit that the stricken stu
dents have smallpox of the virulent
type. Henry HUFFMAN, of Seneca Falls,
New York, died in a large building known
as the Estes house. Ten fully developed
cases have been reported TO the board of
health The college has been closed, and
the students remaining in town are being
hunted from their boarding places. 1t is
difficult to obtain vaccine virus in suffi-
cient quantities.