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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
An OUTRAGEOUS Steal.

PORTLAND, Ore, June 5.-The Ore
gonian's Lewiston, Idaho, special
saws. Isaac Hibbs was appointed
postmaster at Lewiston in March 1884.
Last January a registered mail pouch
was robbed. An official investigation
developed nothing, and the affair was
eventually forgotten. On May 2 last,
Hibbs left for an alleged silver mine
on the Upper Columbia. The postal
inspector. alarmed at his continued
absence, investigated the affairs of the
office and found Hibbs had written
receipts for a large number OF regis
tered mail packages destined for fcti-
tieus Indifferent postotlices supplied
from Lewiston.
The modus operandi was as fol-
lows: Lewiston is mail distributing
point for large number Of offices in
Northern Idaho and Eastern Wash~
ington. Hibbs would issue a money
order for fictitious name at these
offices, drawn in favor of a bank in
Iowa where orders were payable. The
customary letter of advice was for
warded to the paying postmaster. He
then wrote to the banks that he would
shortly visit the town and enclosed a
money order and requested the banks
to cash them and place the amount to
his credit on deposit until he arrived.
Later he wrote the bank that ne
could not make the contemplated visit
and requested that a draft for the
amount of money on deposit be re-
turned by registered mail to a icti-
tious name attached to the money
orders and always at some Office where
the mail passed through Lewiston.
The drafts arrived by registered mail.
/ Hibbs signed fictitious names and re-
turned a receipt card and the transact
ton was completed. Many orders are
limited to $500 in favor of one person,
but with forethoUght and judiclous
distribution of dates and places an
opening offers through which unscru-
pul0us postmasters could bankrupt
the United States.
The amount of the defaIcation ex~
ceeds $40, 600 and is expected to reach
$50 600. The scheme is surprisingly
simple, and officers are surprised il
was never thought Of and worked be-
fore. John Evans, the cashier OF the
First National bank; William Kelton-
back, cashier of the Lewiston Nation
al bank; Alexander, Thiesser and
Woedworth we're his bondsmen for
IS 600. Alexander and Thiesser were
secured before Hibbs' leaving. Hibbs
was last seen May 30, at the second
crossing Of the Canadian Pacific taxi
ing in Mssoula and Helena and gath
ering drafts ordered sent there.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
China.
PEACE ASSURED.

WASHINGTON, June 5.-Rsar Ad-
miral Davis, commanding the Asiatic
squadron, under date of Shanghai,
China, May LIST, informs the navy de
partment that peace between China
and France is assured and that the
difficulties between China aud Japan
have been satisfactorily settled by a
treaty concluded at Tlentsin between
VIceroy Ii Hung Chang and Count
I.o.
1t is understood that the Korean
question, which was the most serious
subject of controversy, was settled by
both governments agreeing TO with'
draw their troops from that country.
The suzerainty of China over Korea
was said to have been recognized by
Japan, and the disputed question OF
sovereignty over the Loo Choo islands
was given to Japan.
Minister Young arrived at Shang
hal April 9th, on his way home on
leave of absence.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
CRIME

WILLIAM JONES, a railroad section
man. threw a pop.bottle at a man nam
ed Murray. The bottle struck Murray
ON the head and broke, the pieces enter
ing the brain, causing death.
THE four meA connected with the
Anarchist plot at Wiener Neustadt have
been tried and convicted. The ring
leader was sentenced to ten years penal
servitude and the other three to seven,
five and three years respectively.
A NEGRO named Townsend Cook, who
had assaulted n whitc lady, was taken
from jail at estminister, Maryland,
and hanged to a tree two miles away,
after making, full confession of his
crine.
JOHN SNYDER, living in the country
fifteen miles from Lincoln, Neb.,
threatened to kill his wife. On the APP
proach Of a policeman sent TO arrest
him, he shot once at hiA, missed him,
and then shot himself fatally.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
LATEST KILOGRAMS,
GENERAL NOTES.

THE first volume of General Grants
new book will be published in Novem-
Der and the second in March follow
ing.
THE safe in the pOstotfice at Knox
Vile. Iowa, was drilled and blown open
and all the registered letters were stole
en-.
Thu stock of -four at Cincinnati aggre-
gates 1924 barrels-greater than 1T has
been ia any corresponding time for ten
years.
SOME Pennsylyanians have leased
10000 acres of land in Bureau county,
ILL.,, and are already testing the capacity
Of a number of natural gas flows.
SIXTY cases of cholera have occurred
in the province of Valencia, and several
in the city of that name in Spain. A
commission has been appointed by the
government to investigate DR.. Ferran's
system u incubation with cholera
microbes.
THE wedding Of Princess Beatrice tC
Prince Battenburg is to take place from
Osborne in the parish church of Whip
bingham (Canoh Prothero's living OF
Thursday, July %. The whole affair l.
to bs as quiet as possible.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

ed him some. Dr.. Shrady rushed
back, and gave Grant syringe fllI
in each arm. The General revived
the pulse returned to his wrist, and
his life was saved.
DR.. Newman walked into an adioin.
ing room with DR.. Shrady, and asked
Doctor, how is he9"
II don't think he viii die, !" said the
doctor"
Our prayers have been answered .
said DR.. Newman.
~ think it was the brandy, " re.
sponded DR.. Shrady.
The General rallied for few DAYS.
and there was no other severe attack
until the night when the spells of
choking came on. Then he was con,
WINGED that he would soon die. He
went about the room on his hands
and knees, and coughed with great
effort.
''Be quiet, be quiet, you wont,
SAID Shrady; sit will be over in mo-
ment."
Il am choking to death, " ne said,
in a feeble voice.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
Carpets and Civilization.
From the london Society.


Carpets and civilization may be
considered to have advanced together.
There was a time when the floors of
the royal palace were strewn with
rushes, ia which were only half hid
den the odds and ends that were
thrown from the table, mingled with
the mire that YVES brought in by i'll
shod feet from the unpaved roads.
The rush strewer was an important
official of the royal household, and
the rush bearings, which are still
familiar festivals in the country
places. are but the remnant of the
ancient usage connected with the
days of rush-strewn floors. 1t Is
mentioned as a special feature of the
luxurious style of living adopted by
Thomas a'Becket that his dining room
floor was daily covered with straw or
hay 10 Winter aud with green branch
es in summer, that the guests for
whom there was not room at the
board might sit on the floor without
fear Of soiling their clothes. Then
came the FIRST rude carpets of plated
rushes, after which the era Of carpets
was not long in following. In the
East, these accompaniments of lux
ury we're used for centuries before
they found their way> to the cold
northern ATTITUDES where they were
capable of being still better appreci>
ated. From China and India they
were carried forward to Egypt, and
''sdread beneath the ivory feet OF pur-
pied cushioned couches, as Plautus
tells us; from Babylon to Greece,
! from Greece to Rome, the history OF
the carpet may be traced The Moors
took them into Spain, and being seen
there by the Venetians their introduce
1 ton into Italy and thence westward
to England was soon afterward an &C
complished fact 1t was not, how
ever, until the Edict OF Nantes sent
to our shores large bodies OF weayers,
/ in 1865, that the manufacture of car
pets came to be one Of tue recognized
industries of the country; and to the
fact that many of the foreign refur
gees settled in Halifax district we
owe the setting up in the carpet max
ing business.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
Good Breeding,
Boston Budget.

Boston Bsdget.
There would be fewer broken friend
ships, fewer unhappy unions and
family quarrels, were it not SO much
the custom amongst intimate friends
and relations to neglect the small
courtesies of life, TO show less and less
mutual Difference as they grow IA
miliar. 1t is the foundation of
misery in marriage, and many a
serious and lifelong arrangement has
begun, not from want of affection so
much as from lack of that delicate and
instructive appreciation of the feelings
of others, which makes person
shrink from saying unpleasant things
and finding fault unless absolutely
obliged; and in any case avoid wound
| ing the offenders sense of dignity or
stirring up within him feelings of OPP.
position and luminosity, fer although
many persons profess to be above TAX
/ ing offence at honest censure. and
even seem to court criticism, yet 1t
must be carefully administered not to
be unpalatable. Very kind and gen
erous actions are often so uncouthly
performed as to cause the recipient
| IAOIC Ddll btlfsll lACaobAiC3 nh4AC a 10
proof or denial may be so sweetened
by courtesy as almost to do away
with any sense of modification or
disappointment. True, good breed
ing is always inclined to form a
favorable judgment, and to give others
credit of being actuated by worthy
motives; it does not wish or seem to
know more about people than they
themselves desire should be known,
but it is always prepared, when neces'
sary, to take an interest in the affairs
Of others, while self is not suffered to
obtrude unduly. A show of respect
never falls to beget respect. The
stronger an individual, the more i'm
pressive is his gentleness, the wiser he
is, the more gratifying and compli~
mentary his Difference; and in world
where there is so much unavoidable
discomfort and unhapplness, it is
surely every ones duty to cultivate
those gracious manners under whose
magic influence the restless and dis
satisfied grow more content with their
surroundings, by which the difhdent
are encouraged, the invalid is reused
and Interested, the young are inspired
with self.respect, the old are kept
bright and hopeful; which, in short,
! beams sunshine everywhere, and in
creases a thousand fold the aggregate
of human happiness.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
Flashes from the Capital.
NEW PosTMAsTERs

NEW IOoI MAS EANot
WASHINGTON, June 5.-The press
dent to-day appointed the following
postmasters:
A. ID Tinsley at Sibey, Iowa.
Thos Ingalls, at Marblehead, Mass
Henry A. Belts at Winsted, Conn.
Richard n. Han at Grenada, Miss, vice NJ. n
Mister, suspended.
SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
WASHINGTON, June 5.-The com
mlssioners of the district 10. day APP
pointed VIM. b. Powell, of Aurora,
H., superintendent Of public schools
of the district of Columbia. Mr.
Powell Is younger brother of Major
Powell, of the geological survey.
PENSION INFORMATION.
Sidney l. Wilson, pension agent
for the District of Colunbia, says that
the statement that the names of 200
pensioners Of the district had been
dropped from the rolls because they
We're not legally entitled TO pensions,
is an entire mlSapprehenslon OF the
facts.
OF the 200 above mentioned ISL
were pensioners who have died since
1882 and whose names had been taken
from the rolls. In an official report
he says 1T is plainly stated when
death occurred in each state and vixen
the list payments were made. In
many instances the government owes
the estates Of thsse pensioners for the
time elapsing between the last pay
ment and the date of their death.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

THERE are now eishty-tour miles of
marrow gauge railway on the island
of Newfoundland. The line COM
mences at ST. Johns and ends at Har-
Dor Grace to the westward, which
he's q population of about 5000, st,
5ohn's having about 25 600. The road
was built by a company subsidized by
the government, who undertook to
build the road from st. Johns to Notre
Dame Bay, ON the east coast, a dis
lance of $40 miles.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
FURTHER INFORMATION.

DEMrNG, N. NJ, June 5.-The In
dams who passed Duncan station yes
terday state that 20 horses were
killed by man named Woods. A
band of Indians passed this morning
near Hudson station. going south.
The telegraph operator says that there
were two bands going as fast as their
ponies would run. Whether the two
bands were hostlles, or hostiles pur>
sued by Indian scouts could net be
determined. The limo of the Southern
Pacific railway is now thoroughly
guarded TO prevent the likelihood of
any more Indians crossing into Mexi-
co. 1t is impossible to get any lnfor-
nation regarding the number as they
have scattered into parties of from
two to SIX
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

IT is said that the white brick now
made in France from the immense
accumulahons of waste sand at glass
factories, is likely to prove a valuable
industry. The process Of production
consists in subjecting the sand 10 an
immense hydraulic pressure, and then
baking ia furnaces ot a high tempera>
ture, so as to produce blocks OF yari-
GUS forms and dimensions of a uniform
white color, and of almost pure slick.
The products unaffected by the heay.
lest frosts, or by the sun or rain.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
WASHINGTON

WIN. Ii. ARMSTRONG, assistant to the
solicitor of internal revenue, has ten.
dered mis- resignation to take effect June
Both.
THOMAS SI1IoNs, assistant attorney
general in charge of government cases
before the court Of claims, has resigned.
Robert Howard, of LiCtle Rock Ark.
succeeds.
IT is currently reported that there
will soon be . number OF changes among
the examiners and assistant examiners
of the pateAt office, For some time
those holding such offices have been
thinking that - they were experts they
woull not be disturbed.
THE secretary OF the trersury has re-
ceived from the managers Of the eNposi-
tjop at New Orleans, statement Of
their indebtedness, as follows:
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
Marauding Indians.
They Again Move South, Lat
est Reports of the Number
Killed.
The s. z. Railway is Guarded
to Prevent an Escape to
Mexico.
The Apaohes.
INpIANs SILL on TnE MovE.

INDIANS STILL ON THE MOVE.
SAN Francisco, June 5-The fol.
lowing dispatch has been received
from the assistant adjutant general OF
the department of Arizona, dated june
9Th: Gen. Crook telegraphed yester-
day from Fort Bayard that the In
dams are again moving south" Gen.
Crook telegraphs the following direct
from Fort Bayard: From the best
obtainable information, the following
number of citizens have been killed
Seven on the Blue river and around
Alma; five near Silver City; two near
Old Camp Vincent; and three near
Grafton. There may have been Others
killed, but can get no reliable infor
nation.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
FIRES AND cAsUALrIE ;

JOHN EBEBGER, a German, 65 years
old, threw himself under a train al
Wenona, H., and was cut to pieces.
THE Hecker Patent Felt Roofing
Works, at Jersey City, Mo-, were dam
aged 70 the extent of $4,000 by fire on
the day of opening.
FOUR million feet Of yellow pine lum-
b-r were burned at G. NJ. Worthin2t0n's
mill. in Baldwin, county, Ala Loss,
SAT, COO; insurance, $4,000.
FIRE destroyed a shingle factory in
the northern quarter Of Buffalo, valued
at $500 and the shoe factory of
Nudge & Co. and three stores at Den
vers Center, Massachusetts, the loss
being $4,000.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
GABLEGRAMS.

PRINCE CHARLES, the Hohon zollern
head of the Catholic branch of the royal
family is dead.
THE special medical commission APP
pointed to investigate the matter, have
reported that the outbreak of disease
which is at present scourging Valencia,
Spain, is cholera. Measures nave been
ordered to prevent the spread Of the
melady.
The intention of presenting the Ber-
Der railway material to the government
of Cyprus has been abandoned, owing
to the difficulty Of landing the plant
from the vessel in which it was carried
from England. The vessel will return
to England.
THE emissaries of El Mahdi nov daily
enter Suakim. The sick soldiers in
Saukim are increasing in numbers The
The Indian troops suffer terribly. The
rebel forces are beginning to renew
their attacks upon Suakim. More of
the tribes hitherto friendly to the Eng
lish are waveriag in their fealty. I'll
Madi has sent ten gun to Osman Digna,
ard a supply of arms and ammunition
will follow.
THE Vale of Cashmere, in India, has
been visited by a disastrous earthquake,
causing great loss of life and destruc-
ton of property. The city of Serina-
CUR, one of the capitals of Cashmere,
aud near the center of the Vale, suffer
ed severely, a portion of the town be-
ing destroyed anu the soldiers barracks
RACED to the ground. Fifty soldiers are
known to have been killed and over
100 wounded. The inhabitants fled
from the city, and are now camped in
the open fields The full extent of the
disaster he's not vet been ascertained.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

4 Mr. LAWS, OF Newcastle, England
has submitted to the Tyne Port sani~
tary authority a scheme for a floating
infectious diseases hospital OF novel
construction. He proposes to float
the hospital upon circular pontoons
ten feet apart, with a platform Of iron
and timber four feet above high water
level. There are three large wards,
with Ten keds each. The wards are to
be Of wood, with a double SKIN, and
the roof is to be Of zinc or wood.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

EVERY railroad ticket in Russia has
two sums upon it. If the price of the
ticket were thirteen rubles, it would
show thirteen and three, and the price
Of the ticket would be sixteen rubles,
the explanation of which is that the
three rubles is a special tax by the
government upon the railway travel
ers to pay the expenses of the last
Turkish war.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

A New YORKER has patented a rail
road indicator, to be used to indicate
the time at which trains pass a station.
The indicator is composed OF clock
set in a case about eight feet above
the ground. The dial looks like an
ordinary clock; the hands are station
airy except when a train passes on the
track where the indicator is attached,
when the hands suddenly move to the
hour minute and second, giving the
correct time when the train passes.
The hands point at this time until am
other train passes, when they move
ahead as before. The invention has
been satisfactorily tested.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

THE number of workmen affected
by the IRON workers strike in the diff
ferent States is estimated as follows;
Western Pennsylvania, 20,342; West
Virginia, 8, asa Ohio, 10. 053; Indiana
6,2S4; Illinois, IA 564; Wisconsin L.
226; Michigan, 1000; Tennessee, 140;
Kentucky, $50. One hundred iron
sand thirty -fourrail factories have
closed down.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

The consumption of chocolate IN
this country is largely on the increase
New York manufacturer stating
that last year he made 1900, 0OO
pounds and used a ton of sugar day.
The best cocoa beans come from
Venezuela and Mexico, and the cheap
est from San Domingo. The two
great chocolate consuming countries
are France and the United States.
The Star Horse Railway Com,
pany.n Of Chicago, with a capital
stock of 81. 0o0, 900, has been licensed
by the Illinois secretary OF state.
The number Of goats in Angora ID I
creased 199, $40 last year, and the tax
upon them now reaches 772, 65S pas
tres.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11
France.
STORMY soENE IN THE CHAMBER

STORMY SCENE IN THE CHAMBER.
PARIS, June 5.-The scene in the
chamber during the debate, yesterday,
was exceedingly stormy. Many angry
personalities were INDUCED IN, and
several duels have been: arranged in
consequence of the insulting eplthets.
which were freely exchanged. Flo
quet, president of the chamber, threa-
ened to resign, but has been persuad-
ed to remain in office.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

A TELEGRAPH operator who copies
directly from the sounder upon a
type writer is reported from Nash
vile, Tenn, the first and only opera
tor in the world who has succeeded in
doing this. One night recently he re-
ceived and copied $4,000 words Of
press matter, delivered it TO the news
editor in handsome type writer copy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

THE annual encampment OF the
Grand Army Of the Republic is to be
held in Portland Me-, this year, be-
gianing on Jane %. Already large
delegations from various parts OF the
country are preparing TO attend.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

WHEN the price Of wheat IS drop
ping and the grain refuses to move by
lake or rail or ocean, the bulls take
an extra dose of baking powder and
up she goes.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-06-11

AN explosion in the Philadelphia
colliery, near Durham, England,
caused the death OF twenty-five men
and boys. Fire at once broke out,
imprlsoning a large number Of miners,
for whose release energetic efforts are
being made.