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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
FEARFUL WIND STORM.
1t plays sad Havoc on the lakes and
sea Coast

A fearful wind storm broke over
the lake region Monday eve and coN-
tinued Tuesday and the greater part
of Wednesday, The loss of vessels
and other property is great, while the
loss of life cannot be accurately
given at this time. Great suffering
was endured by many owing to the
severe GOODNESS of the wind which
blew almost hurricane at times. A
dispatch from Grand Haven, Mich,
describing the wreck of the propeller
II. @. Akley says:
A telegram has been received here
by Capt Kirby from Capt. Blackburn,
of the tug Protection, to the effect
that the Protection left the propeller
H. c. Akely at p. m. Monday, in a
disabled condition. She was pitching
frightfully, apparently at the mercy
of the waves. Soon after the propell-
err was seen to plunge to the bottom.
The schooner Driver, which was near,
lowered a small boat and rescued
twelve of the propeller's crew but
the captain, Edward Stretch of this
city. first mate. steward and two FIRE
men were lost. The former leaves a
wife and two children Capt Kirby
will start with a tug to search for the
wreck as soon as the wind goes down.
The Akely is valued at 500, COO She
is insured for $40, GOO. She was con
sidered the finest propeller entering
this harbor
A telegram from Racine has the fol-
lowing
The large three masted Schooner j.
|. Case, went ON Hog Island reef at
80 o'clock yesterday afternoon and
filled tn two hours. Hog Island reef
is point thirty miles from land at
the lower end Of Lake Michigan, near
Beaver Island. The crew of the Case
We're rescued By the. United States rev
enue cutter Andy Johnson The Case
was sailed by Capt Harry Gray,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
THE FORD BROTHERS.
Attempt to Assasinate Charlie at His
Fathers Home in Missouri. Disap-
pearanee of Eeb.

a dispatch from Richmond. Mo
this city to-day of the attempted ASA
sination of Charlie Ford, one of the
notorious Ford brothers, at his ia.
TIERS house about three miles from
this city, Tuesday night AS nearly
as can be learned the circumstances
are as follows: Ford had been notified
anonymously not to come into the
neighborhood, but he disregarded the
notice. and Monday night after sup
per, while walking out, seven shots
were fired at him in rapid succession,
but none Of them took effect, although
one of them passed through his coat.
The shooting was done by persons
concealed in tall weeds growing near
by. Ford returned the fire, but being
unable to see his assailants, did not
succeed in hitting them, and they
made good their escape. There are
many rumors as to who the parties
were, but nothing is really known as
to their identity. Some say it was
neighbors of F'ord's father, who had
forbidden both Charlie and Robert
Ford to come into the vicinity The
report of the attempted assassination
created much excitement. A mover
who was camped near by stated that
the shots were fired so closely toge
ther that they seemed to have been
all fired at once, and there is a strong
belief that the party was composed Of
seven men who made their escape on
horseback, the horses being in the
timber adjoining.
Ford has stated that he feared some
such an attack, as his life has been
threatened frequently, and that he
frustrated a plan to kill him or his
brother at Peoria by a member of the
troupe with which he was performing,
who had substituted powder and ball
for blank cartridges.
Charlie Ford left here for Kansas
City to secure the aid OF officers in
searching for his brother Bob, who
has mysteriously disappeared, and
whom Charlie thinks has been foully
dealt with.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
CRIME.

PETER SMULL, the horse-thief who
tasted for thirty-eight days IN the jail
at Belvidere New Jersey, escaped Tues
day night
Two Milwaukee lads, of the class
who read dime novels, have confessed
shooting a car-driver in the attempt to
steal his cash-boX, Their victim is still
alive.
j. Il. ALLEN, who viii be remembered
in Chicago as the builder of the original
Globe theater, was murdered in the the.
atQr at Nicksburg by Frank f. Starke,
whom he had discharged from the posi-
tion of advance agent.
WALTER CURTIS, an Englishman, was
arrested at Indianapolis for using the
mails to defraud. His game was to
guarantee situations as copyists for 81.
A DRY-GooDs store IN the northwest
ern quarter of Chicago was burglarized
Saturday night, and a few hours after
ward a patrol wagon loaded with otii-
GERS swooped down ON n barn on West
Chicago avenue, where six young roughs
were found dividing the stolen goods.
Two residents of Caldwell, 1daho.who
Law asleep i'm their blankets in an unfin-
ished hotel. were killed with coupling
pins by "a brace of desperadoes. The
murde~crs were captured, but is believed
that they viii be left TO the sheriff TO
execute.
THE policy-shops of Baltimore were
swindled out of large sums by collision
between "a telegraph operator and deal
er. The operator solved the cipher used
in transmitting the Louisville draw
ings, but lost his situation for his adven-
ture.
A QUARREL about a fence between
farmers at Arnold Station, Missouri, re-
suited in the killing of ). and j. IL. Ar
mold by George Noll The latter was
taken 90 jail at Liberty.
THREE men have been Jailed at Mil
yankee for vagranCy, one of them being
a grandson of solomon Juneau, the piO-
ueer settler. They had formerly been in
railroad employ, and thought to get free
passage to the Pacific by ordering q
superintendent stamp TO use on their
requests for passes.
FOUR robbers entered Peter Olsen's
( house at Petersburg Grove, near Den
/ YER Col. Wednesday night, and upon
/ the old man refusing 20 tell where his
money was concealed, scourgcd his low
/ err eNtremities until he was covered with
4 blood. Olsen still refusing 70 divulge
+ the ruAians built fire in the yard car
ried him out, and literally roasted his
\ feet. Then he was compelled to walk
into the house, where a scutlle ensued,
+ i'm which the stove was overturned and
a box containing 5000 was revealed.
With this the robbers decamped 1t is
i believed Olsen is not fatally injured.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

and was on her way from Chicago TO
Buffalo with ffty-four thousand bush
els Of corn. She viii probably be
wreck. Her owners are +. M. Knapp
and J. l. Case, of this city. The for
mers interest in the vessel is insured
for S15, 600 or about two-thirds of his
interest. Mr. Cases interest is unin-
sured. Mr. Knapp has chartered the
tug Leviathan, and viii leave to-mor-
row morning for the reef The Case
was built ia 1873 and cost $50, 600.
She was one of the fastest and best of
the large lake craft.
The schooner Arab, went down at
$50 Sunday morning off Racine, TAX
ing w Kelly, the pump engineer with
her.
A Buffalo dispatch says. The pro
peller Newburgh, which arSved this
forenoon, reports many vessels at an
Choir below Point Peelee. A large
number are showing signals of DIS
tress.
Capt. Drake, Of the propeller Buff
falo, which arrived early this morn
ing, says he saw a large three-master
sunk in the middle of Lake Erie, fifty
five miles below Point Pelee, showing
only her topmasts. The Buffalo spent
Tuesday night under Long point.
There were two schOoners on the point.
One was fast going to pieces, and the
other. though full of water, was not
in serious danger. Only one vessel,
the schooner Leadyille being previous
ly reported, is stranded on Long point.
The Union line passenger propeller
Nyack. ashore on Traverse island,
Lake Superior, has been scuttled and
fears are felt thatshe may 60 to pieces,
as aid is scarce She has 4, 600 barrels
Of flour and a quantity of wool on
board Her hull and cargo are in
sured.
Other disasters ofminor Importance
are reported from all points on the
lake.
= From the sea coast comes tidings of
a terrible storm there. a Baltimore
dispatch says:
Particulars. received here tonight
at ia late hour indicate that the storm
ON the Chesapeake on Monday, was
the most severe ever experienced on
the bay, and the wrecks and loss of
life are without parallel. It's believed
that no less than twenty
five persons have been drowned
and dozen or more YES
sells wrecked The storm is described
as simply terrific. Staunch boats were
hurled hither and thither like mere
cockleshells. Steamers built especial
ly for trade on the bay were COMPEL
ed 10 seek ports of safety. Thus far,
fourteen persons are known to have
been drowned. In one instance, as
telegraphed last night, nine persons
We're drowned by the laundering of a
sloop, and this evening it is learned
the captain and crew of three of the
unknown schooner were also lost in
the gale. On the shores of the bay
some forty vessels are reported
aground, and it is probably the loss
of life other than referred to has
been very severe.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
nS.nepsta uurderr sleep.

Destroys appetite renders life miserable
Wen has IT been depicted as a fend which
Ceaselessly torueuts It's victim Though 10
cannot be driven from It's stronghold, the stom-
ach 10y ordinary means, it may be auuihilateJ
With Hostetter Stomach BitterS Weakness of
the digestive organs lies at the root Of Dyspepsia
heently seorerel by the organ whence t takes
It's source, aH3 the raw material upon which t
should act lies Ike lump Of lead ID tae STONE
ach terneatlae and causing heartburn, and the
AN this trouble IS removed bY the htters, Wnial
promotes sufficient secretion ot tine gastric
juice hv stimulating and strengthening tbc eel
luiar tissue If the stomach Debility bilious
ness fever and aEue, ailments Of tie urinary ST
gans and rheuma sisla are also reinediable by the
Bitters
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
FROM THE CAPITAL.

THE firm of Willis & Co. of Wash
ington, pension agents, have been finally
disbarred by order of Secretary Tel
Ter
THE reports of the trial of Guiteau are
apparently in demand. A member of
Congress said that he had been offered
$50 for the three volumes of this trial,
and had refused it.
THE Fish Commissioners sent out an
other lot of carp last week, to be dis
tributed in the far west. The years
work of the commission has been very
successful, and Notwithstanding Il pre-
JUDGES of fishermen engaged in private
interest, it is gaining ground rapidly
SECRETARY FoLGER has instructed the
collector at San Francisco, in case of
suspected fraud in the importation of
Chinese to refuse them permission to
land unless satisfactory evidence Is pro-
duced, leaving injustice TO be righted by
writs of habeas corpus.
THE value of the exports of breadstutfs
for October, 1888. was St4. $40
against S15,363, GS2 during the same
time in 1889. For the ten months ended
October, 81, 1883, the value was $lt5.-
ESP. 034, against $3.50, 300 5S1 during the
same period of 1882.
THE postmaster general, on being in
formed of the blockade of mails on the
Northern Pacific rord, has ordered AS
sistant SUPERINTENDENT jameson TO 20
over the entire line and report what is
necessary to be done Superintendent
Thompson charges that the postal clerks
ON the route combined to compel him to
double the force.
LIEUTENANT DARLINGTON testified be-
fore the Proteus court Of inquiry Tues
day. He repeated the story of the sup
plement orders, as related in his report,
and said the Nantic was of practically
no use, and was sent Is tender to the
Proteus merely TO satisfy public opin-
ion.
The marble statue of Chief Jastice
Marshall Y MIR Story, towards which
members of the Philadelphia bar con-
tributed SEQ. coo and Congress appropri-
ated a like sum, is expected i'm Washing
ton early in December The intention
+ is to put 1t somewhere in the Capitol
grounds, but the site has not yet been
decided upon.
THE Austrian Minister promised Sena-
tor Vest and Congressman Carlisle and
Casey Young at Washington Thursday
that he would use his best endeavors t.
effect "a transfer Of the late Vienna cleo
uical show TO the World Exposition at
New Orleans next year ForeigR coun-
tries are greatly interested in the latter
exposition.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
Milwaukee Market,

MILWAUKEE, Nov. 10.-Flour Quiet and steady
Wheat Dun and lower; 95 for seller November;
SO for seller December; 9i3s for seller January
i05 for seller May. Corn Unsettled; No. p 30.
Oats-U Unchanged; No ., 2S94 Rye Unchanged;
No. /, 56A; No. 3 %. Barley-Sronger; No.
2, 613l; extra No. 3, 5l34 Provisions Higher;
mess pork. 400 for seller November; II 20 for
seller January Lard-Prime steam $50 for
seller November; g. 50 for seller January. Live
hogs Firmer; l2504G5 Butter Quiet and
steady. Cheese Quiet Eggs Firm; @125.
Recepts-Flour, 1900; wheat, 5o,00o barley,
5000 Shipme 'ts-llour, 5000: wheat, 5000;
barley. 1900
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

AND now Mr.. Moses rises in the New
York Museum to say that he never
sold the body Of his fat wife on the
contrary he impoverished himself to
employ senuies to guard her grave
from the prowling resuTectonists.
He SAYS it was his funeral but f he
is molested any more about it II viii
be the funeralo somebody else pretty
quick
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

Prince NAPoLEoN's eldest son has
been for some time pupil in Chelten-
ham College. His studies have, how
ever been suddenly cut short, as he
has Just been summoned back to
France in consequence of his having
been drawn in the CONSUMPTION for
army service
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

WILLIAM III. WILLS and Norma B.
Willis CHS Wife, of Washington,
have been disbarred from practice be
fore the Pension Bureau, after care
ful examination of the charges made
against them Of using deceptive circu-
lars i'm their business.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

The most profitable industry Of the
new Swedish colony in Aroostock
county. Maine, IS that of raising potaa-
toes for the starch factories, of whlch.
there are twenty-six. The largest Of
these made last year 392 tons of starch
from IS, 600 bushel of potatoes, The
process of starch-making is simple
consisting merely of grinding the po-
tatoes. washing the pulp, and settling
the starch ia three watts successlyely
after it has been thoroughly washed
with clean water to remove all lmpuf
tiles. Furnace heat is employed Tor
drying.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

THE business of shipping pauper
immigrants to this country must stop.
A family Of such consisting of a
man, wife and four children, was sent
back to Ireland Wednesday from New
York. They reached that city by way
Of Canada last Saturday
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

Is New York last week, All You,
Chinaman, aged 25. applied for his
first papers asa citizen of thiscountry.
lie has been a resident of this country
for the past five years, is "a Christian
and a teacher in the Sunday school of
Trinity parish Judge Brown, In the
United States District Court, decided
that under the act of Congress All
You could not be natWalized as q citi-
zen Of this country.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
Uncle SANS Navy.

In communication published in the
.lrmy and Navy Journal Commander
j. B Coghlan, y. S. n, states that the
consultations of eminent naval and
other surgeons, respecting his rheumatic
attack, failed to afford HIM the slightest
relief. BY advice of DR., Hoyle he used
St. Jacobs Oil, which wrought a com
plete and, as he says, wonderful cure
John Carr Moody, Esq, lawyer at Vale
10, Cal, was likewise cured of a severe
Joint trouble.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

GENERAL FRANZ SIGEL, the fighter
of Baden and Missouri and Virginia,
is now editing a German paper in a
suburb of New York 81 fight NIT
Sigel" was one Of the slang phrases Of
the war time
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

THE trial Of the assailants Of Miss
Emma Bond, the school-teacher of
Christian county, H., is expected to
take place this or next week If the
brutes who outraged Miss Bond should
get off withop6 severe punishment,
Christian county ought to change its
name at once.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

THE experts summoned to Madison,
Wis, declare that the iron columns of
the tumble-down wing Of the State
House were too weak to bear their
load, and that they stood ON masonry
not strong enough to hold them up
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

Two MACHNE-GUNs have just been
completed by Pratt x Whiney's
works at Hartford, Conn. for General
Grant as presents to the Niceroy of
China and the Mikado of Japan. The
guns of Pratt x Whitaey are am i'm
proyement over the gun once known
rs the Gardiner gun. Gums Of the
model after which they are made have
a Government record of 505 shots per
minute, and have been fired at the
rate Of ZOO shots per minute and 5000
Shots i'm ID minutes ana % seoOnds.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

TUE steel works Of the Rolling Mill
Company at Cleveland, o., are about
to shut down. The President Of the
company says We've concluded
not to continue to make rails at a
loss
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

BRITISH stock-raisers are alarmed to
observe the continual increase of cat
tie importations from America, A
new war win be waged, ON the basis
of pleurO pneumonia.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

At PARIS, France, Schaefer and
Vignaux'the billiardists, are practic-
ing daily for the championship game
TO begin the 26th instant, continuing
five nights. They viii play the balK
line game-600 points each night
Thestale is $4,000. The American
bridges are forbidden.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

T. G.. EIEALY, the Irish agitator and
member of Parliament for Monaghan,
was black balled by the Dublin law
students on his application for admis-
sion to the bar
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

THE imports Of merchandise at
New York during last week were
valued at SIS, 496, 600 The imports of
specie for the week amounted to ST.
$40 600
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22
A Conscientious Conductor.
Life

How did ] become superintend-
ent?" answered the railroad official.
" Why, it was this way l was con
ductor of the morning passenger ex-
press, and one day as we were coming
down by the junction we struck a
misplaced switch and ran into a
freight train that was standing on
tie siding. AS we were running
about thirty-five miles an hour, of
course it piled things up a good deal,
Our engine was smashed all to pieces,
the smoker telescoped the baggage
car, and the forward passenger coach
ran up on the heap ard rolled over.
| was standing on the platform at the
time the thing happened. and luckily
was slung off about thirty feet beside
the track. When ! picked myself up
everything was confusion, the air was
filled with clouds of escaping steam.
and about fifty passengers were some
where in the wreck. OF course, it
was what you might call am 'emer-
gency, but there's no such word as
that in the company's dictionary /
had my orders, and knew what to do.
The roof the smoking-car lay near me,
and heard a man crying out from
underneath it, After about ten nm
utes' work | got the stuff all cleared
away and reached him. He was very
weak and groaning. Oh, heavensr
he said, this timber presses on me
so, can't move. Both my legs are
broken below the knee. Think
you'll be here till the next trainP l
asked Oh, yes, he moaned.
Then you'll need a stop-ever check,
sir | said and I made out a paste
board and gave it to him. Young
man, he said, i observe that yod
have neglected to fill in the day of
the month, but, under the circum-
stances, your omission is eXcusable.
| am a director of the company, and,
if l survive, your attention to duty
shall be rewarded. The old gentle
man pulled through and is now Vice
President. That's how I'm superin-
tendent, and he continued, mus
mgly, as he fingered his lantern
watch-charm, ~ believe in the old
saying, that the company has rights
which the public is bound to respect
and rules which it must conform to. y
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

The expenditures OF the United
States navy for the last fiscal year
amounted to SIS, 724, SOC.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

1t is well enough 10 embroider
Good Night" in sleepy colors On q
pillow sham, but when the bolster is
stalled with prairie hay and the mat
tress Is preparing to celebrateits golden
wedding, the hospitahle wish is too
sarcastic TO be pleasant
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-11-22

A converted Indian is lecturing in
Pennsylvania on the question, Can
the Indian be civilized and Christian
ized3' We think he can; but whether
he can or not, he can and should be
washed Soap him well and put him
to soak over night in the Missouri
river and he Will be ave were going
to say cleaner Indian but having
thoughtlessly specified the Missouri
river as the place of soaking, candor
compels US to admit that after thirty
minutes bathing in that turbid stream,
he would be the dirtiest, muddiest
slimiest savage that ever scared a
brick yard All the soap between
here and Colgate couldn't wash a man
clean in the Missouri. Burlington
Hawkeye.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1883-04-12

To the People ef the state IF Nichigon:
At session of the Legislature for
the year 1881 the following resolution
was adopted:
ReSelred, That his Excellency the
Governor be and is hereby requested
10 ell the attention of the people of
tie State TO the Importance of plant
ing trees for ornament, protection and
shade, by naming a day upon which
this work shall be given special proni-
nence, TO be known and designated rs
Arbor Day
While, in view OF the economic and
climatic advantages, tie importance
of ee-planting can be hardly over
estimated, Arbor Day would seem more
especially designed for such planting
ns will tend to make our home sur
roundings more comfortable and pleas
ing
The attrGctiveness it adds to the
home is no sIuall argument in its IA
vor-indeed the difference between a
home shaded by trees. furnishing de
lcious fruits i'm their season, and whose
branches echo the songs of birds, and
one where scarcely n tree softens the
surroundings, iuay be the influence
which shall attract the young TO home
duties and home enjoyments, and thus
save them from ptrilous temptations.
I'm passing through the State have
observed with regret that but little at
tention is given TO the planting of trees
in school grounds Indeed, the alb
sence of trees il one Of the surest indi-
cations that building is used for
school purposes. Let me therefore ask
that in this year 1882 especial atten-
tion may be paid to the planting of
trees near the school buildings. The
school and the home, where the char
acters of the young are so largely
moulded, should in this respect receive
equal care and attention.
Now, therefore. pursuant 10 the lore
going resolution, do hereby designate
THURSDAY, APRIL 2G, 1883,
to be known as Arbor Day and
recommend the general observance of
the same throughout the State.
IN testimony whereof, have hcreunto
set my hand and caused the areat
seal of the State TO be herounto'ai-
fixed, at Lansing, this 22d day of
March, 1888.
JOSIAH w. BEGoLE.
BY the Governor:
HARRY \. CoNANT,
Secretary of State.