Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1884-09-18
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

SINCE January list, 1852 immi-
grants landed ia Canada, Of whom
1920 were destined for the United
States
OKLAHOMA PAYNE and his confeder-
ates were indicted Thursday by the
United States grand jury at Wichita,
Kan, and will be given hearing at
Topeka, Nov. II. II
THE National Bank of New Bruins
wick, N j., has been wrecked by its
/ Cashier, who has made way with him
self after having absorbed at least
/ 100000 of the banks funds.
A RAILWAY accident near Arcola, H.,
a few.days ago, necessitated the setting
at liberty Of a number Of Texas cattle,
which mixed with local stock, and fears
are now expressed lest Texas fever
1 should break out.
A REPORT that an oil-well was pro-
/ ducing very big things caused a sudden
decline in prices and a panic in the
| Pennsylvania petroleum market The
| prices went down from So per barrel to
IS cents.
LUCAS KEUHN, president of the
Wabasha Mimi bank, upon which re-
Gently a run was made, assigned We'd
nesday. His failure is traceable to the
collapse of the Minnesota Elevator Com
pany.
THE special commission examining
| VIM. G. Rhinelander as to his sanity re-
ported at New York Wednesday, one
declaring him TO be of sound mind, and
the other two asserted that he was in
sane.
JUST before tho audience gathered
in the Congregational church at Ocono.
mowoc, Wisconsin, Tuesday night
gas-machine exploded, severely injuring
two men and damaging the structure
$500
THE splits among the democrats in
the Fifth Louisiana district Thursday,
resulted in the holding of two separate
conventions and the nominating of two
candidates. G. I. Walton, democrat,
who recently came out for Blaine, will
probably be the republican candidate.
TIE remains of Senator Anthony
were inferred Saturday, in Swan Point
Cemetery, near Providence Services
wcra held in the First Congregational
Church, in which President Arthur,
Senator Edmunds, and other State and
National officials participated. A long
procession followed the hearse to the
cemetery.
SERGEANT j. r.. FREDERICK, who was
a member Of the Greedy expedition,
denied at indianapolis Saturday that
fractional differences prevailed, and was
not aware that canni6alism has occur
red. He was one of the three men who
executed Henry, whom they warned
before they fired, and who was then in
the act of stealing seaskins.
THERE was much excitement among
petroleum spectators in the Pittsburg
and New York markets Saturday, the
bears depressing values eight points,
and holders rushing TO sell. 1t became
known toward the close that IL e panic
had been caused by a telegraph opera
tors error, and values reacted few
points, the closing figure at Pittsburg
being 79lc. The opening price was
$3.50.
THE rivers at Eau Clare began falling |
Thursday noon, after reaching the |
greatest height ON record. The loss by |
the flood between Chippewa Falls and |
Eau Claire will exceed 81 100000, and i'm |.
Eau Claire alone more than 200 houses |
were swept away, Forty buildings We're
carried off from Chippewa Falls, and the |
loss in that city will approximate $1,000, /
600
VILLAGES Savings Bank, at New
Castle Pa, closed iJs doors Saturday, |
with liabilities estimated at 100000. |
The assets are not worth men tioning ]
Some time ago the bank was embarrass- !
ed, but the creditors helped Wallace
out, and he continued running until
now, when the suspension of the bank
in W hich his son is concerned destroyed
bubble trust, and caused a run, with
the above result.
THE now quarantine regulations af
fecting the transportation of American
cattle through Canadian territory in
bond have received the signature of the
governor general, and so into effect inn /
mediately. The regulations are, in sub
stance, the adoption of a system of
quarantine for Manitoba and the north |
west territories, and e rigid system of
inspection. The collector of customs at
Emerson will enforce che quarantine /
Rigid inspection vii. be imposed at
Fort McLr0d and Fort Walsh.
THE towns of Clayton and Clear Lake, [
Wis, and Marine and White Bear Lake /
Mimi, We're swept by a cyclone Tues |
day evening, The greater portion Of /
White Bear Lake is i'm ruins, and In the /
other places devastation marks the path |
of the funnel" At Marine several per- |
sons We're injured, and in White Bear
Lake many boats We're capsized and /
others sunk at their moorings. In the
section north Of Saltwater scores Of |
people were hurt, some seriously, and
near Hudson, Wis, half a dozen houses
were leveled. Horses and cattle were
blown against th9 barb wire fences and
badly lacerated At Grant, twenty-five
houses were demolished, and IN the Hud-
son Prairie districts. six dwellings were
torn to pieces and one person killed. |
The loss in crops, barns, and outhOuses
les very heavy.