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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

| left Boston for that city, Friday, carry
! 3d. 600 worth of jewelry in a hand
sachel, which was stolen from hef be-
| fore she reached her destination. There
is no clew to the thieves.
PATRICK MALoNEY surrendered him.
Self at the jail at Maiden, Mass. saving
that he was the murderer OF Patrick
| Connors. whose body was found on =
railroad track, and who it was sup
posed had been run over by train OF
cars.
CAkPIE BARRhEAD, a young member
of tn. Greek nation, who had commit.
ted several5murders. has been executed
at Eutula, Indian Territory, by being
shot to death while seated on his coffin.
JAMES SALTS, an elderly farmer OF
Jones county, Iowa, has been arrested
for the murder of hiS.wife, whose body
was burl7d Ia pasture last Saturday
He had been marrieR to his victim
thirty years.
ID. Y. MoFFETT, Treasurer of Coffee
County, Kansas. is reported to be in ar
rears to the state for taxes to theamount
of $40, GAO. He has not been sesn at the
county seat since June 80.
JOHN LoHMAN, a young American.
who boarded the steamer Werra az
Brennan just before her departure tor
New York, was caught in the act of
robbing the psrsef's safe, while at sea,
of diamonds valued at $4,000. The Off
Ger had bees chloroformed. Lehman
will be sent back to Germany.
MICHAEL KAHN, an ola citizen of
Wayne Township, Indiana, was found
murdered near his house "Wednesday.
and Patrick Mcclure, a neighbor, who
has disappeared, is suspected and a re-
ward is offered for MS arrest. A broken
rail was the weapon used. There had
been frequent quarrels and lawsuits be.
tween Kain ard Mcguire.
JOHN SEA, a peddler, whose home is
III Anna, ILL.,, got into an alteration at
the supper table of Mrs. jacobs board
ing house in Decatur, III , with Arthur
Kellan, a cigar maker, and Sea shot the
latter four times before the revolver
could be taken from him. The wounds
are serious and probably fatal. Two Of
the balls entered the right groin. Sea
fled and the officers are IN pursuit.
AT Marshfield, Ind, DR.. Aborn, a
physician of extensive practice, while
converting with DR. Boyer, brother
practitioner, suddenly seized q surgeons
knife and plunged it into the throat of
the latter, and also cut severe cash in
his shoulder. DR.. Boyer in attempt
ing to tear the knife away, had lis
hands almost severed from the wrists.
Aborn, who was subject to fits of in
sanity, then cut his own throat, severing
the jbgular vein, and died in a few
minutes Boyer may recover.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13
LATEST, TELEGRAMo.
GENERAL NOTES.

REV. JOSEPH I. DUnYEA, of Boston,
has declined the presidency of the Union
college.
TIE eight annual meeting of the
American Bar Association will be held
at Saratoga Springs, Aug. 1921.
THE visible supply Of wheat is esti-
mated by the New York produce-ex-
change at SO 407, 948 bushels, and of corn
at 5, 75S,304 bushels.
\ A NEW railroad bridge across the
Ohio river at Henderson, Kentucky,
costing 81, 100000, was opened to traffic
Thursday.
NEAR Lampasas, Texas, the discovery
has been made of large and apparent
4 lv inexhaustible bed Of bituminous coal,
the quality being equal, if not superior,
to the Indian Territory article
THE Lake Superior and Southwestern
railway company, which will build and
operate line from West Superior to
Menomonee via st. Croix Falls, has
been incorporated in Wisconsin, with a
capital stock of $4,000, 900.
THE wheat crop of Minnesota is es-
timaCed at 80, 1000, 900 bushels of Iowa
at $4,000, 900 bushels, and of Dakota at
% 600, 900 bushels. Another authority
places the average yield per acre in Da-
kota aG 70 to 10 bushels, and in Mime.
sofa at II bushels. The cotton crop in
South Carolina promises to be the larg-
est gathered in many years.
FROM a tabulated statement published
in a ST. Louis paper, covering over 800
places, received by firm of flour mer-
chants from milling correspondence in
Kansas, Illinois, Indiana. and Missouri,
it appears that the present wheat crop,
compared with 1884, shows thus: Mis-
souri,, 422 per cent; Illinois. 324 per
cent; Indiana, s. per cent; Kansas, 81
per cent.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

ACCORDING to the report of the first
grand jury appointed for our northern
territory OF Alaska, recently submit.
ted to Judge McAllister of the United
States District Court, there's room for
much Improvement in the administra-
ton of the affairs of that territory.
The existing judicial system is declar
ed to be inadequate to the needs Of tho
people Of Alaska. Among the sug~
gestions contained in the report are
the following, viz; That regular
terms Of the court be now held al Ger.
tain suggested places; that justices of
the peace and constabes be appointed
at all the principal fishing places
that steps be taken to settle the bound.
airy between Alaska and the British
Possessions; that appropriations be
made for the construction and i'm
provement OF wharves and for cree
ton and maintenance Of lighthouses
that an examination Of the extent and
resources Of the fisheries be made, and
that non sectarian schools be estab-
hshed. The report also expresses the
opinion that the distance of the terri
tory from the central government and
the length Of time necessary to COM
municate with tue heads ofthe depart
meats render it necessary that the
territory should have "A represent alive
in Congress, or that an agent familiar
with the needs of Alaska should by
appointed TO remain in Washington
during the sessions OF Congress.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13
An Unlueky Man.
Merchant Traveller

A venerable old tramp entered an
Austin business house, and said to
the proprietor:
II am the most unfortunate man in
the world. Please do something for
me. "
81 don't know who you are, re-
piled the merchant You may be an
lmpostor.
Here is certificate from Parson
Jordan, of Galveston, that | am a
hard working honest man who has
been unfortunate.
"a certificate from Parson Jordan,
of Galveston9" asked the merchant
Yes, sir, here it is" replied the
mendicant, handing the merchant a
paper. The merchant looked at the
paper and said:
"Parson Jordan, of Galveston, is
my brother. l know his signatue very
well, and his signature on that Ger.
tihcste is forged.
Just as | expected" whined the
mendicant. II told you was the most
uulucky man ia the world. just think
of me coming to the brother of Parson
Jordan, of all the people in this town,
and showing him that forged certi6>
cate, when there is not another man
in Austin who knows his signature. "
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

At dinner time there was the dish.
1t was a pig roasted whole, stuffed to
bursting with light bread, onions, etc,
standing erect as life, hanked by
Irish potatoes, and having big red
apple in its mouth.
The pig faced Judge Dooley, and
the judge faced the pig with quiz
zical expression.
sThe carving knife and fork were
handy; lawyers were all around the
table. No one offered to carve the pig.
Dinner ended with the pig as perfect
aslwhcn it began Supper came, and
the pig came and went. The same
thing was repeated at the three meals
next day.
The second morning, when Judge
Dooley came to the table, there was
the pig. Making bow, the Judge
said:
Good morning, Mr.. Pig. / am
afraid you have lost your appetite,
seeing you have not eaten that apple
yet, and / presume you are tired of
attending court. Mr.. Sheriff. you may
discharge him on his own recognition
until the next session of court, of
course, seeing we will have no further
use for hlm this season.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

4 YOUNG man just about attaining
his majority was released from the
New Jersey State Prison the other
day, after serving five of of a sentence
OF fifteen years, for an oifense of
which it is said he was entirely limo,
cent. Tie was mat at the railroad
depot in Newark by his sister, who es.
corted him to his former home.
Upon entering he anxiously inquired
about his mother. Tke sister hasta-
tingly told him that both mother and
father had died, which news so affect
ed him that he reeled and fell to the
hoer in a stupor. BY the prompt aid
of a physician the grieved mans life
was saved, but his reason is so far
gone that his incarceration in a hos
pital for the insane it is thought will
be necessary.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

THE New York Supreme Court de-
cided that q band of gypies that land
ed in New York City, recently, with
a small menagerie Of monkeys, but
with no visible means Of support,
must be sent back to France, whence
they came. It would be a good thing
for this country If all persons shipped
from European ports, having no
visible means Of support on arriving
here, we're to be sent back in like
manner.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

A FRENCH scientist has Just invent
ed a chaageable chart for the use Of
railroads. which will do away COM
pletely with danger from collisions.
1t consists Of a sheet of opaque glass,
in Which the rails are indicated by
horizontal lines, and the stations by
vertical lines numbered, Little ar
rows representing the trains move
along the horizontal lines and allow
the operator 90 see every movement
on the section he controls. If one
train gets dangerously near another
he can signal il at once, and the engl-
neer can take whatever precautions
are necessary. The whole apparatus
is worked by electricity.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

In Alaska in midsummer, according
10 a late letter, the almost continuous
light Of day shines upon bright green
slopes, shaded here and there with
dark timber belts, rising up from the
deep, blue waters. An endless yarie'
ty Of bnghtrhued flowers, the hum of
insects and the melodious song Of
birds, together with a degree Of heat
dispensed by the solar orb which to
our thickened blood appears oppres-
sive, would cause a stranger suddenly
transplanted there TO think himself in
any country but Alaska.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

THE Signal Service Bureau has
madeSa step Of progress in deciding to
publish weather predictions thirty six
hours in advance of the time concern
ing which precautions are made. This
system is one which must necessarily
improve with time and experience,
since after a close study of years it is
possible for those whose duty it is to
prepare preditions to discover those
exceptional factors. which now and
then have made their estimates Of
probability entirely different from
subsequent realization. In ten or IF
teen years more II would not be strange
II those in charge OF the Signal Ser
vice were in position to make toler-
ably accurate forecasts of weather,
three or four days in advance. for the
gain already made is but the first step
IN an Improvement which must be a
continuous one.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

Do Lewis in his new monthly pub
LEGATION, "Dio Lewis Nuggets, gives
the following preposterous remedy for
STOPPING: | don't believe in shoulder
braces. Nature furnishes the needed
braces TO keep the shoulders in posi-
ton; and when you use the artificial
these natural ones become weak for
want Of exercise. The best way to
cure STOPPING shoulders is to carry a
weight on the head half hour n2orn>
ing and evening. Make the weight
large. There is no other single exer.
else so valuable as carrying a weight
on the head. A bag OF sand weigh
ing from twenty to eight pounds Is a
good weight.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13
Too Much for the Judge.

A very pretenuous landlord in one
OF the counties of the northern Ju-
dicial circuit, says the Savannah News,
keeping q very common hotel, was
always going to have great improves
ments to his house, table, furniture,
etc. After many false promises OF
this kind at last a court day came,
when he redeemed them all by dish
of which any landlord, as he thought,
should feel proud,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13
CRIME

IN an election row at Athens, Ken
lucky, Bud Harris shot and killed two
men named Walker and n cal, and was
himself wounded.
MISS NELLIE HARRISON, of New York
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13
ASHINGTON.

ATTORNEY GENERAL GARLAND has
given an opinion that under the law In.
dams have no authority to lease their
lanss to cattlemen.
SECRETARY LAMAR aud Attorney Gen
eral Garland will remain in Washing.
ton during the Presidents absence. The
other members of the cabinet will take
a vacation.
OWING to the illness of Mrs. Bayard.
| IL is expected that the secretary of tate
will spend much of the simmer in
Washington.
A NEW design of the face of the pos
tal-card will soon make its appearance,
and it will be a decided Improvement
on the present desiga, which has been
in use for several years past, The new
design was prepared at the bureau of
engraving and printing. The printing
of the new card will begin at once.
IT is understood that the various
roads affected by Land Commissioner
Sparks ruling in regard to railroad in.
demuity lands will unite in an appeal
from that decision. 1t is not known
whether the case arising in the Walla
Walla Land Office, on which General
Sparks made the decision. will be taken
as a test case or not, but it il known
that there will be a combination and
that this best legal talent availabl. i the
United States will be employed on the
case.
ACTING COMMISSIONER WALKER, of
the general land office, has prepared a
circular to all registers and receivers,
which has received the approval of the
secretary Of the interior, restricting the
power OF LAND grant railroads in making
selections of indemnity lands. The
circular requires the roads to furnish
lists of the lands they claim to have
lost, making oath to their correctness
before being permitted to make any Sc
lection for indemnity, and land officers
are instructed to carefully compare the
lists with their records in every case.
THE board appointed to examine the
plans and specifications for the propos-
ed cruisers has adj surE ed, subject to
the call of Commodore Walker, Presi-
dent. The acceptable portions of the
various plans were placed in the hands
Of Commander Goodrich and Naval
Constructors BowlCs and Gatewooi,
with instructions to .embooy them into
one plan.
THE leave of absence of four months
granted to Lieut.. A. w. Greedy has been
extended one month and twenty days
on account of Sickness. Lieut. Greedy
is now in Massachusetts, His physical
condition has caused his friends to en-
terrain apprehensions that he will not
recover his health. Since his return
from the Arctic regions he has had the
appearance of an Invalid, and has not
gained the strength that it was hoped
he would gain.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

AN agricultural station has recently
been established at Aurora, ILL.,, by
the United States government, in
connection with the chronological
division of the Department of Agri
culture. Mr.. Nelson w. McLane has
been appointed TO take charge of the
station, and Professor R LEY has ins
structed him 10 pay particular atten-
ton TO the following subjects: To
secure the introduction and domesh
cation of such races of bees as are re-
ported to possess desirable traits and
characteristics; to test the claims Of
such races of bees as to excellence,
and to prove by experiments their
value to the agriculturists of the
United States, and their adaptlon to
this climate and honey producing
flora; to make experiments in the
crossing and mingIing OF races, and
by proper application of the laws OF
breeding endeavor to secure the type
or types best adapted by habit and
constitution to the uses Of practical
beekeepers in the United States; TO
make experiments in the methods OF
artificial fertilization, also to test the
various methods of preparing bees for
winter; to gather statistics concerning
the beekeeplng industry in the United
States, to make experiments with and
observations concerning varieties OF
honey. producing plants for beeforage;
to study the true cause or causes OF
disease yet imperfectly understood,
and to obtain incontestible results by
experiments upon sclen-
tific methods as to the capacity OF
bees, under exceptional circum-
stances, to injure fruit.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

4 New Orleans paper refsfs editori-
ally to the wonderful restoration to
health of Mr.. I. Posey, druggist, 22S
Canal street, that city, who some time
ago was Frustrated by an excruciating
attack of sciatica. After much suffer
ing his wife applied st. Jacobs OIL,
which cured him promptly and entirely.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

sumo you would exchange the horse
for jeff Davis ''You have said itn
exclaimed Grant; 81 would exchange
him for his old master, but for moth
ing else in the world "
There are thirty two glue factories
ia this country.
Black is the popular color now for
Long Branch bathing suits.
Of the 1,O25 voters registered at
Walla Walla, w. T., 400 are women.
According to traditions, fanines
occur in Japan every forty on ffty
years.
There We're 700 left handed men in
the tribe of Benjamin, all of them ex-
pert singers.
The waters of the Eastern shore of
Maryland have been supplied with
$4,000, 600 fish eggs this season.
The British Bible Society issued
New Testament at cents a copy..In
nine months $50, 600 have been sold.
The widespread belief that ivy
trained against the alls of dwell
ing house is productive of dampness
is fallacy.
Pauld;ng County, Ga, has sixteen-
year>old youth who measures seven
feet in height and weighs but ninety
pounds
In the novels produced in the last
wear it is estimated that 372 of the
her0ines have been blondes, and only
100 brunettes,
Philadelphia is about to have
crematory. tits to cost $40, 600, II acres
OF ground having been secured near
Mauayunk.
The spores of smut found in smutty
grain are so small that 2, 500, 600 can
be placed side by side in the space of
one square inch.
The value Of one vote was shown at
a recent election IN McDuffie County,
Ga, when a law was passed by ex-
actly that majority.
An election for a champion liar is
to be held at Giles, Arizona, and the
successful can sidate is TO get a medal
and a serenade.
The American Missionary Board
began work in Japan only sixteen
years ago Now there are in that
country 100 Protestant churches with
a membership of 5000
Syndicates of English capitalists
and noblemen own II. 600, 600 acres of
grazing land in the Western plains,
together with the stock thereon.
There are said to be IL 600, 600 acres
OF uncultivated land ia the state OF
New York, OF watch 600, 600 are COW
cred with forests.
1t is estimated that the falling off
of the hay crop from that of last year
in the states of Maine, New Hamp-
shire, and Vermont will be 465, 800
tons
An inch day FOR thirty-eight days
is the rate which a Barnes Co, d T.,
farmer claims one of his fields of bar
ley grew.
Figs sell in Georg at two and a
half cents per dozen.
In the East they close and darken
their houses except at night, and so
keep cool, but the American house
wife knows more about such matters
han mere heathens who feed their
girl babies To the crocodiles.
Reuben Jones, of Albany, Ga,
lately exhibited fifty melons which
averaged fifty one pounds each. The
largest weighed sixty six pounds.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13

1T is said that Mrs. Sartoris, General
Grants only daughter will make a
short visit to England this fail, and
will then come back TO this country
for the purpose of educating her
children and bringing them up as
Americans. 1t was the wish of
General Grant that the children
should be so educated. Be
side this Mrs. Sartoris is anxious to be
with her mother Tor some time at
least. Mrs. Grant wishes 70 have her
children about her.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13
MINERAL POINT, WISCONSIN,

RUSSIA is ct present without an ex
ecutlouer. Froloff, the former hang
man of the empire, has been discharg
ed and sent to Jail for, theft. More
over, heis suffering from severe at
tack Of delifiqm tremens. his sue
cessor has been discharged TO. incom"
potency, aud the authorities are
hunting among Che jails for another
artist, whose debut liz the profession
will be watched with interest.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-08-13
Grants War Horse

The General was particularly nro,a
and fond of ms stud of horses H;.
war charger was an especial favo1ta
He took great delight in exhibitinn
his horses to friends with WHOM, bss
was intimate. Once at his stablaa
with friend he said: "Perhaps vo,'
would like to see the horse rode dnS
ing all the campaigns commanded1p
The animal was ordered to be brongb.
out. The gentleman was surprised ~
find the horse no larger than a ladv,s
palfry-small, slender, agile ,limber
ed, black as coal, intelligent, mild
an eye like hawk, and lick on tha
name for all the world like a bov,S
cowlick. It was such an animal as
wChaen and children would make info
family pet. The gentleman pro,
nounced the animal beauty. but ev>
pressed his doubt as to It's endurance
"Endurancel" said the General "tbis
animal exceeds in endurance anv
horsetlesh | ever saw. | have taken
him out at daylight and kept in the
saddle till dark, and he came in as
fresh when | dismounted as when wa
started IN the morning. There isp't
gold enough in America to buy him
Heis an imported horse of fine breed
and was once on jeff Davis planta.
ton" This was just before Davis was
caught, and the visitor said 81 pre-.
sumo you would exchange the horse
for jeff Davis ''You have said it"
exclaimed Grant; 81 would exchange
him for his old master, but for moth
ing else in the world "
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-04-12
NORTH INDIANA CONFERENCE.
Procee dings of the Forty-Second Session In
Convention st New Caslle.
Special to the Sentinel.

Special to the Sentinel
NEW CASTLE Ind, April 1.-THE Bishop called
The session to order. and Of prayer scrip
tural reading and song was enjoyed uatil
O'Clock
On motion of stabler the following COMMITTEES
on the womsn's Foreign Missionary society was
appointed: J. W. Lowely, c. H. Brown, J. Len
nsro.
ON motion The same committee was appointed
FOR the Momsn's Home Missionary Society.
J. B. Ford read the report of the stewards on
spportioDment OF the preachers aid fund.
w. 8. Birch moved to adopt the rules of the last
conference governing the distribution OF the fund
fo1 superanuates. Adopted.
The Bishop called Issec W. Singer, i. C. Gruber
NJ s. Marble. I. ID. Thsrpe. L. Z. Knox, George ".
Carpenter. William NJ. stranshsn, A. A. Pittinger
and J. B. Alleman, composing the class entitled
TO admission into full connection.
The Bishop addressed the Glass at length, ex-
planning fully the nature OF the disciplinary cues
who were not already deacons were elected 10
EW Osborn and f. G. Brown were elected
ED rs.
D.. J.. Neal, T.. L. Albertson and Thomas ".
Smith. locel preachers, were elected deseons
Local deecons, were elected elders. '-'
Dr Martin. President OF DePsuw University.
sddressed the conference and read the re oort OF
the Committee on Education. The report con-
Guided es follows:
We recommend for adoption the following:
Resolved That e a conference pledge
selves anew 10 carry out our obligations and do
our part toward securing the success of this great
undertaking.
- That we will aid in collecting and trans
mittine to the Treasurer. Colonel John W. Ray.
at Indianapolis. the sums that may be due in our
1 several charges.
- That we viii keep the interests OF the uni
versity before our people ard friends and encour
age the attendance of.students seeking instruc-
1 ton in the highest departments OF advanced
education
~. That Judge James A. /. Mitchell be re-
| elected Trustee for the ensuing term OF three
! years.
rs. That T. Stabler and A. I. Mshin be elected
! conference visitors
% That IL be the duty of these visitors 20 make
written report to this conference a. its next an
nual ion OF the condition, wants. ETC.. OF our
pniv1rkifYi