Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-10-22
WASHINGTON

THE first Hebrew Christian church
in America was dedicated with appro-
pirate services in New York Sunday.
TEE Postmaster General has q list
made up to-day of postoffice vacancies
by expiration and resignation and of
those offices that become Presidential
this year up to Dec, / There arc sew.
enty-hve that will claim attention in
that time He intends to make appoint
ments just as fast as practicable.
A SPECIAL agent Of the general land
office has submitted q report to Com
missioner Sparks, estimating the value
OF the timser cut from the public 40
main without authority by the North
0rn Pacific Railroad and Montana inn
provement companies at $613,4o2. A
majority OF the stock in the latter cor
peration is held by that company.
THE secretary Of the treasury appoint
ed James A Sneed, OF Georgia, aud l.
r.. Reid, of Virginia, to be chiefs of tho
division in the registers office. Sneed
was formerly assistant postmaster gem
eral OF the United States and secretary
to ex-senator Hill. Reid is resident
of Alexandria, Va, and was formerly
accountant of the Virginia Midland
railroad. The above named appoint
ments were made in place OF Arthur
Hendricks aud j. S. Beatty, who re-
signed by request of Secretary Man
ming.
TIE many friends of General Han
cocks family will learn with pain that
their home on Governors Island has
not been without q sick bed nearly all
summer. Their sons three children
have all been i'll there, and Mrs. Han
cock has worn herself out nursing them
the children have now recovered. The
eldest of his grandchildren, named Ada
fer his indolized daughter, who died
several years ago, il strikingly like that
daughter i'll appearance. Mrs Russell
! Hancock, her children, and her sister,
| Miss Givin, have left New York for the
plantation in Mississippi, where her
/ husbands death occurred last winter.
SHORTLY after II O'Clock Saturday
morning Flood Rock, in He'll Gate chan
mel in the East River opposite New
/ York, was blown up, thus removing one
I OF the largest and most dangerous OBJ,
structions to navigation. Charges OF
dynamite and rackarock aggregating
/ 2S5OO0 pounds placed ia the sueterran-
mean cells were employed 10 accomplish
/ the work. After the removal of the
debris there will be channel 26 feet
deep No damage of consequences was
done to surrounding property, though
the shock was distinctly felt in New
+ York. Brooklyn, and Long Island CITY .
The amount spent for the removal OF
Flood Rock obstruction approximate
| $1,000, 600,
THE citizens of Ashland and Vicinity
have presented a strong petition to the
General Land Office to have the laud
office at Bayfield, removed to Ashland
Ii is represented that the greater per
ton of land requiring the work OF the
Office is adjacent to the latter place
and that Bayfield, was selected at g
time when the principal means OF COM
munication in that region was by steam
boat Ashland is now reached by tins
Omaha, Northern Pacific and Wlscon
sin Central, and to put the land ONCE
there would be a great pubic con
veniencs and economy. General Sparks
has decided TO grant the request, ano
the Office will be removed TO Ashland