Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-08-09
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pine forest.
1t cost j. j. Mclaughlin, of Tacoma,
Washington territory so. 30 to bru-
tally kick a cub bear one day last
week.
The supply of amber ON the shores
of the Baltic is said to be sufficient to
last the world thirty thousand years.
A poor little fish with moccasin
in tow was one of the sights in the
river at jacksonville, Florida wharf
recently.
A couple of idiots from ST Louis
were married in the surf, III bathing
suits, at Ocean City one day last
week.
Two one-armed men applauded in a
Stockholm theater by Shaping their
remaining hands together.
A ieweler in Jacksonville, S. c., is
to be tried for perjury for swearing to
false inventory Of his stock.
The Pierce county, Washington ter
ritory, farmers sell their wool for 10
cents per pound.
" ~. NIiytdlis ~ fOuiS man VI
Walla Walla, Washington Territory,
appears to have reason to believe that
he has fallen heir to share of for
tune of 500 200, 600.
Minnie Lambertson, a pretty seam
stress of North Buffalo township,
Armstrong county, Pa, has been ar
rested for attempting to bury her IL
legitimate child alive.
A little child in Montreal ate bios
som of the wolfsbane, or monkshood,
which she found in her fathers gar
den, Thursday, and died in half an
hour
Charles Hervey, of West Newton,
Allegheny county. Pa, recently cap
tured pike i'll Youglogheny river
which weighed forty-two pounds.
The smoke of the engine on the
Green Mountain railway at Mount
Desert can be seen on a clear day
from Belfast, forty-tive miles distant.
A Peruvian bank bill worth ninety
six cents was found recently among
the rags in tin and barter shop in
Waterloo, n. Y.
Some self-appointed statistician de
clares that $4,000 Americans 90
abroad annually, and spend on an
average 81, 800 each.
The altitude of Chihuahua is 4, 700
feet while that of FL Paso is 3,762,
and the highest point on the Mexican
Central between those two places is a
few miles south of Galleys, with an
elevation of 5, 4S6 feet.
OF the persons pulled in" by the
Boston police last year about one in
five were women. As Boston contains
10000 more women than men the fact
speaks very well for the gentler
sex.
A brakeman fell from the fourth
story of the Clarendon house. at Port
land Oregon, recently. He struck
the telegraph wires and landed with
but slight bruises on the porch of the
hotel
Granite posts five feet high, set at
intervals of mile, are to indicate the
boundary line between Pennsylvania
and New York, which is now being
resurveyed by commission
A Saratoga girl was very much sur
prised the other night wheE she went
TO her closet for some article of appar-
ell, to discover burglar who had fall
len to sleep in snug corner.
At Wilmington, O., recently, Lydia
Fisher swore out a warrant and had
Leslie Watson, 8 years old; Frank
Watson, u; Ira Mulladore, 10; Frank
Mulladore, II, lodged in Jail on "A
charge of assault with intent to kill.
The trial is set for Monday.
Two yearling heifers, the property
of John Shollenberger, farmer resd-
ing near Hamburg, Pa, were bitten
by copperhead snakes while grazing,
and died after terrible suffering from
the effects of the venomous wounds.
About fifteen hundred carloads of
Georgia watermelons have been
brought to Cincinnati, O., since the
melon season opened Two-thirds of
them have been consumed there, and
the rest forwarded to other points
Miss Alice Montgomery and Will
Findley, o., died within twenty-four
hours OF edcn Ollef, ana were Duileu
in one grave. The funeral was the
largest ever known in that section
Two schoolma' ms, two milliners,
one music teacher, and two dressmak-
ers were booked to arrive in Phoenix,
Arizona, the other day At which The
Gazette exclaims: Let them come,
God bless them
in tearing down an old house near
Warm Springs, n. c., the skeleton OF
Of mail-carrier has been found, with
leather mailbag containing over
thirty letters dated 1927, some contain
ing old bank bills
The Seneca Indians, whose reserva-
ton is in New York state, are civilized
enough to have had election frauds.
Investigation show that a few indians
sold their votes for 10 and 20 cents 70
the victors.
Dallas, Tex, is said to be built over
a graveyard of mastodons, and for
five or six years past excavations for
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