Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-04-19
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CHICAGO pac kers have slaughtered and
-alied 1863 600 hogs since March /, against
5000 Tor the corresponding period last
year.
THE outlook for winte wheat in Ohio
il poorer than il has been FIR eight years.
On the other hand, the condition of live
stock has rarely been better.
Qqsrintine will be established at south
ern ports unusually early this season, the
station at New Orleans bting opened
May /.
A Troy journalist has perfected a
sleeping car invt ntion in which the seats
| fill the width OF the car and can be
changed at night into private state-rooms.
| MANITOBA has entered protest against
the action of the Dominion government
| looking TO nm increase in the duty on sg.i-
cultural implements from the United
States.
PsTER CCoPER's will has been fled. 1t
| hequeaths 800 0C0 10 Cooper Union, and
$500 COO for special purposes, and gives
the residue--about 81 88),000-to his son
and daughter.
THERE seems probability that the sup
! ply OF logs for the st. Paul and Minnea-
polls mills will fen snort Of the demand
tHt 'oh'AR SedHou, III p~fA DtCduSe OF the
insufficiercy Of water for rafting purposes.
THE New England conference Of the
Methodlst Episcopal church advises that
the temperance work of the church be
kept from free ENLARGEMENT with woman
suffrage and other irrelevant issues.
DR.. GEORGE II. MARSHALL, of Pitts
burgb, Pa, ia accused OF attempting to
extort money from the step father of Mary
Anderson, the actress, by threatening to
publish letters purporling to have been
written by that lady which, he alleged,
would affect her reputation.
THE Rhode Island democratic conven-
ton has Endorsed the nomination of Ex-
Governor William SErague the independ-
ent nominee for governor of the state.
% JAY GOULD has announced that he will
paw ont OF his own funds the dividends on
$25, 000,0 600 Of the Western Union ptock,
amounting to 81 100000, the payment of
which was recently enioined by New
York court.
OLIVER, the Is wear old son Of the Sioux
chef Spotted Tail, eDroute for the
west In charge Of government phys-
clan, died on train near Plymouth, Ind,
Of consumption. He had been attending
school at Carlile, Pa.
BILLS were introduced in the Pennsyl-
vania senate to prevent the manufacture
and sale of internal machines, and TO
prevent stage represent alton of any
dramas in which Divinity figures.
DAVID w. BRUCE, the New York type
founder, has been sued for breech of
promise by Ernestina Cloos, who wants
$4,000 dollars.
A PHILADELPHIA journalist was fined
$40 st Hamilton, OHtario. for using vile
language in speaking of Gu cen Victoria.
tie paid HIS fine and took a train at once
TOR a country where such verbal irregu-
lar.ties as he was guilty of may be COM
mitt,d at less onst.
A NOTABLE instance of early piety was
the holding Of an experience eeyIgg in
Decatur, Ill, at 8 o'clo OK the other morn
ing, iuaugurating The day OF jubilee over
the two thousand conversions Effected I'M
the administrations of the evangelist Har-
risen.
ONE OF the mysterious disappearances
that caused 30 much word r in Mil yau-
kee the latter part of 1882 has been ex-
planned by the finding of the body OF Mrs
Mary A. Nelson in the river, weighed
down with heavy piece of iron, giving
evidence that she committed suicide.
SEVERAL years ago, Cornelius Brinker-
hof, OF New York, made a deed Of his
property TO his wife, from whom he WAS
afterwad divorced for drunkenness. Hav-
ing reformed, he now brings suit against
the former Mrs. Brinkerhoff to recover
the property which is valued at about
$4,000.