Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-05-22
TELEGRAPHIC.
GENERAL NOTES.

A SWARM ST loCusts, nine miles wide
has settled in the canton of Texmalca,
Mexico, destroying all heritage.
AT Burlington, Iowa Thursday,
Henry Hector fired at j. w. Murphy,
editor of the Saturday Post, but failed
to hit his mark.
AT Lancaster, Wis, Saturday after
noon, the Excelsior newspaper building
collapsed, three persons receiving slight
injuries. The furniture, type, presses,
etc, were badly damaged.
THE board of regents of the Iowa
state university, Thursday decided TO
award the new 500, 900 building, which
is to be erected at Iowa City durinb the
summer, TO the school Of Natural sci
ence.
+ A NEW YORK dispatch states that the
Liabilities of Grant g. Ward, according
TO statement Just completed by Receiv-
er Davies. are $14501, 53l, and that the
colaterals held by creditors amount to
about $40, 100000
THE Northwestern manufacturing and
Car company, of Saltwater, Mimi, OF
which q. S. Senator Sabin is president,
failed Saturday, with liabilities of about
81 000. 900 AMI assets that will aggregate
$4,000 600. j. II. TOWNSEND * Co., nil
lers. also suspended, their liabilities be-
ing estimated at 100000.
TIE sheriff of Brown county, Neb.,
lodged in Fremont jail Wednesday
evening Orion Wells the 18-year old
murderer Of j. J. Longear, near Valen-
tine. May 3 Also a young man nam
ed Lucas, supposed to be a member of
the notoriou. Kid Wade gang Of des-
peradoes.
GEN. GRANT has transferred all his
property and Mrs Grant has transfer
red all of hers, to Mr.. VIM. II. Wander
bilf TO indemnify him for the check Of
s150O0O. This transfer includes two
houses in Washington, one in Phila-
delphia, aHI a farm near st. Louis be-
longing to the General. and the house
they live in at B East Sixty sixth street,
and the cottage at Long Branch bclOng-
ing 10 Mrs. Grant.
A New YORK dispatch annouRces the
death at Nantucket, of Hon. Charles
O'Coror, the celebrated New York law
yer. He refused u support Greeley in
1879, and was nominated for president
by the straight-out democrats, but onlys
received a few hundred votes in the en-
tire county.
A CHICAGO dispatch announces the
seath Of Hos Cyrus ii. Mccormick,
the wealthy manufacturer and original
inventor of the reaper. His father IN
vented reaper as early as 1916, but 1t
did not work. The son took up the
work left by his father and in 1881 when
he was 81 years old brought out Il e
machine which gave him werld wide
reputation, and made him millionaire.
Rosa MOORE, aged IS, who ran away
from the Industrial school at South
Evanston, H., was. rearrestsd Monday,
at Freeport. She alleges ill-treatment
at the hands of the superintendent, and
charges that inmates are oftentimes
whipped, and kept in dark room fed
on bread aua water for a long period.
THE special grand jury to investigate
the riot reported at Cincinnati Monday
returning iifty-four indictments, includ-
ing ono against 4. G. Campbell, the
criminal lawyer, and another against
a deputy sheriff for playing cards for
money with members of the Berner
jury. The grand jury highly com
mtuds the action of the Fourteenth
Regiment,
THE bark Thoreas has reached Quebec
with the balance of the survivors Of the
State of Florida disaster. Agents of
the steamship company are busily en-
gagged in stopping the mouths of the
talkative, but enough has been told to
establish beyond doubt that the steam
ship was res oonsible for the fatal col
lision. All the survivors unite in con
demning the conduct of the officers of
the steamship City of Rome, which
passed within stones throw of the
Thereas wit. out stopping in answer to
her signal of distress.