Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-12-25
TELEGRiMS.
GENERAL NOTES.


PITTsBUhe nad manufacturers advise
the closing of all the mills until trade
/ improves.
II. K MCCOY, United States Judge
+ for the Northern district of Georgia.
is said TO be becoming mentally IN
sound, on account of trouble with a SON
4 in-law.
BECAUSE of the statute that stock
shall not be kent on cars longer than
4 tw nty-four hours without being I'M
loaded, the Lake Shore Road is endeay-
oring to establi.h a fast stack train be-
/ tween Chicago and Baltimo G, TO make
/ the tip within the specified time.
a REVOLUTION. has broken cut in the
Kingdom of Corea, in Southwestern
Asia. Two United States war vessels
/ have been dispatched thither to protect
/ American Interests
AT Omaha Monday Hawley & Lang
worthy, wholesale grocers, executed a
chattel mortgage on their property
They say they have assets of sac, 600.
with about $4,000 liabilities
A TERRIFIC snow storm-the wors t
known in thirty yeaTs-is raging in the
Willamette valley, in Oregon. Railroad
trains have been abandoned, and bust
ness generally is suspended.
AT a convention Thursday at Des
MONIES, Iowa, of representative temper
ance people, il was decided to call
state convention for Jan. 2 to consider
the outlook for the prohibitory law
AT meeting of exhibitors in the
exposition building at New Orleans.
Thursday, it was unanimously resolved
to demand the removal of Samuel Mul-
len, Chief of Installation, for certain
unbusiness like acts.
THE people of Nevada rejected at the
late election q proposition to hold cou-
vention to revise the constitution Of
their state, the vote being 357l against
1t and 2,Sl0 in its favor, a total vote OF
8, 3S1 against IL 797, cast at the same
time for presidential electors.
GENERAL SHERMAN states that Sena-
tor Vance is ia nc way connected with
the jeff Davis matter; that Vance has
managed the affair and that he (Sher
man), when he gets ready, and newspa-
per agitation qpiets down, will make
statement through the War Depart
ment.
THERE is soon to be erected monu-
ulSHI over the grave, IN CLARENDON W.,
of Theophilus Harrington, who was
from 1903 to 1918 Supreme Court JUS
tice in that State, and 2iea in the Office.
1t was he who first officially refused to
return fugitive slaves 10 their masters,
replying to a slavs hui ter who asked
him what proof of ownership he would
require, II want bill of sale from God
Almighty"
THE majorities for the four amend
ments to the Iowa Constitution, voted
for at the November election, ranged as
follows: First, changing day of election
from October to November, "a, 402; sec
ond, in relation to the number of Dis
tiict Judges, 30,799: third, reducing the
number Of Grand Jurors, 40, 247; fourth,
providing for a County instead of
District Attorney, "a, 729.
AT the inquest Saturday at White
water, Wis, touching the mysterious
death of Anna Koran, testimony was
given by Prof Bode, OF Milwaukee, that
he found strychnia in he stomach OF
the deceased and another witness swore
that few hours before Annals death
she partook of powder procured by
her sister Nellie, against whom there are
grave suspicious. The jury recommend
ed the arrest ard examination OF the
latter for administering the poison.