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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17
rtREs AND CASUALTIES

EVANS oil-mill at Isdianaplis, valued
at $4,000, was burned Sunday.
FIRE at Youngstown, Ohio, Sunday
night destroyed several frame business
houses, causing loss of $25 GOO partly
insured.
A FIRE in the stables Of a contractor
at Youugstou, Ohio, roasted alive IS
horses and two cows
INCEND1ARY fires Mt Livingston, Mon.
tana, led to the serving of notices on
several Migrants by the vigilance COM
mittee.
THE P0merey Sons wooden mill at
Pittsield, Mass. was destroyed by FIRE
Tuesday night, the loss reaching $780,
600.
THE entire fire department Of Loais-
vile, Wednesday night quickly sup
pressed q threatening fire in Avery Is
pillow factory. Tho loss is about $4,000.
SEVEN men were buried by the cav
ing of sewer at Akron, Ohio, Wednes-
day afternoon, four Of them being kill
ed and the others fatally injured.
GBURNuAAf & SruL's saw-min at East
Saginaw, with 100000 feet Of lumber,
was burned Thursday morning, Great.
ing loss of SO eco.
THE Anchor line steamer City of
Bayou Sara caught fire in her hold and
was totally destroyed at New Madrid
Mo-. Monday aight She was bound to
New Orleans and had 1900 tons Of
freight. She was built in the spring Of
1854 and cost $500
DURING the high winds Friday pra-
irie fire broke cut seven miles north Of
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17
CRIME.

WILL A. KEARNEY, a prominen
young attorney at Logansport, Ind.
was sentenced to the penitentiary for
two years and fined 800 for horse
Stealing. His defense was insanity.
E. B. HEATH, clerk of the Kearney
(Nsb.) postoffice, who decamped in
August, after robbing registered letters
OF s., 600, has been arrested in Prescott,
A. T.
MILTON WELLS was arrested at Bris-
toll, Ind, Wednesday night, charged
with setting the fire last summer, which
destroyed half the village. He was re-
leased ON $500 bail.
I. b. Swindler, land surveyor, gave
bail in the United States Court at Oma-
ha Moaday for completely in the land
frauds. Chilly" Wilson wealthy
Colorado cattleman, came to Omaha
and surrendered, ana also gave bail
Other arrests are pending.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

Mr. Beach, of New York, proyidirc
that all eulogies of deceased men,h he
shall be delivered on Sunday: and fas
the appointment of a committee ON cor
stitutional amendments The snaaIav
appointed committee on rules as foI
lows: Carlisle, Randall Morriso,
Rec and Hscock. In order to give IT,
committee tiEe to consider the varion.
propositions referred TO it, on motion ~
Mr.. Morrison the house adjourned nm
til Saturday. :
THURSDAY, DEC. 10.
Senate. The senate committee n,
privileges and elections to-day took mr.
and discussed the presidential succa5
sion bill. The committee Will meet frr
further consideration Of the measnTo
next Saturday.
Sen. EImunds Introduced q bin 70
provide for the establishment of a nost
al telegraph, and it was referred to the
committee on postoffices and postroals
Edmunds said it was the same bill that
he introduced at the last session of cen.
gress, that was reported upon
by the committee so late in
the session. He hoped the coma.
mittee would now take the earliest on
portunity to report on the bill.
Sen. Plumb to open to homestead set
Element certain portions of Indian Ter
ritory. (This is the Oklahoma bill call
of the last congress.
Sen. Vanwyck to establish an addi-
tional land district in Nebraska.
Sen. Plumb to improve the efficiency
of the militia. 1t directs the secretary
of war on application of any state or
territory to recall the unserviceable
ordinance issued TO the militia to replace
it with the kind supplied to the regular
army.
Sen Call, to repeal all enactments
prohibiting pensions TO wounded SOL
diers and officers without proof of 10y
atty.
On motion of Sen. Allison, the sen.
ate went into executive session. and
when it reopened, it adjourned until
Monday.
House The various petitions signed
by the citizens committee, were placed
in the petition box OF the house, to-day
reciting that the president, secretary of
the treasury, American bankers asso-
citation, and the leading newspapers
OF the eastern cities have Joined in
conspiracy to increase the value Of the
purchasing power Of the funded debts
as fixed III coin, through the deprecia-
ton of the general values by the demon
etization OF silver or the suspension of
its coinage, petitioners ask congress
to place the coinage of silver oman
Squality with the coinage of gold, and
also ask that certificates be continued,
that reissues be made of one and two
dollar notes, and that the public debt be
liquidated as rapidly as the revenues
of the government will permit.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

THE table Of disasters to lake ship
ping, during 1885, is published. 1t
shows that sixty vessels passed out of
existence during the year, involving
a loss Of 81, Ole 200. OF these, % were
steam and 9S sail; 80 went ashore and
pounded to pieces, 10 were destroyed
by fire, fourteen foundered, four
were capsized and broken up by seas,
and 1 was blown to splinters by an ex-
plosion of boilers. There were25
wrecked in Lake Michigan. 10 in Lake
Huron, in Lake Superior, in Lake
Erie and 10 in Lake Ontario. With
the loss Of these sixty vessels seventy
four persons persisted The most
notable of these disasters was the
wreck of the Algoma, at Isle Royal in
Lake Superior, November, by which
forty eight lives were lost.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17
The Malignant Ingenuity of Fiend.

Could scarcely devise tOrtures more eXcruci-
uting than those 10 which the victim Of rheuma-
tism, in the iutiammatory, stage, is subjected
ward the heart and stomach. Among the benign
qualities Of Hostetter's Stomach Bittets Is that OF
expellng from the circulation those aerid impuri-
sis proves that, in cases Of rheumatism, the kid
neys fail TO eliminate these impurities from the
blood The Bitters, by stimulating these organs
TO activity, enables them to perform this all in
portant function, and therefore, averts the dis
ease or remedies il at the outset. The functions
of digestion, aud secretion of bile by the liver,
are also beautifully stimulated 10y the Bltters,
which conquers dyspepsia and liver complaint
and remedies fever and ague bilious remittent
and other ailments of malarial birth. II is also
the leading tonic Of the age.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

Burton, Kan, and swept over an area
of about thirty miles. Enormous guam
titles of hay and grain were burned.
and sheep, hog, and cattle sheds were
destroyed. Three persons are known
to have been fatally burned. The fire
is supposed to have originated on the
Pottawattomie Indian reservation.
FIRE broke out in the Daisy Touring
mill at Milwaukee, Tuesday morning,
and when the fire department turned
on stream an explosion followed THAI
blew the roof from the structure and
GENT the flames high into the air. The
Empire mill, adjoining, then caught fire,
both stru ctures being entirely destroy.
ed, with loss in excess of 5000, 900 ..
One fireman was fatally and several
others seriously injured. TIE insurance
amounts to $50, 600,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

ACoMPARATTyE table Of the strength
Of the merchant navies OF the world,
which has just been published in
France, shows that great Britain pos
sesses %, 800 trading vessels, with an
aggregate tonnage of II, 200 600 tons.
OF these vessels A, 6s9 are steamers,
with tonnage of 5,919, 600 tons, or
rather more than one half the grand
total OF burden. The United States
makes q very bad second, with 6 600
sail and 3 100000 tons. Norway has
A, 200 vessels, with /, soc, 600 tons, and
Germany, which comes Immediately
after her, has 5000 sail, with a total
of / 100000 tons; France, Italy and
Russia bring up the rear, each with
less than 5000 vessels, The proper
ton of steamers is, however, Of great
er importance than the total number
Of ships engaged in trade, and in this
regard France stands second, although
she has but 45S steamers, of G67, 00C
tons in all, to Englasd's 4,649. Ger
many presses her closely with 42l
steamers and 476, 600 tons.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

THE present custom of raising flags
to half mast AS an emblem of pub
mourning is a curious one. Unques-
tionably the original custom was to
lower flags at forts and military sta
tons as a sign OF public grief. The
dag is supposed to be ordinarily flying
from the masthead at such places.
This is the sign Of security, posses
sion, and, in time Of war, OF defiance.
Ii is always an emblem of satisfac
ton, and sometimes of joy and tri-
umph, 1t was then fitting that in
recognition Of public sorrow the flag
should be partly lowered. But such
is no! the existing custom. Now on
the death of public man all haste is
made to run up tag to half mast on
every available flagstaff, though, but
for such death, the staff would per-
haps have remained Asgless fer
months. The effect is to give a city a
far more festive air than it would
have worn had no such death oc-
CURED. This is 8 curious evidence of
the gradual perver5ion of a custom.
But one phase Of the new develop
ment deserves positive reprobation.
That is the flying Of business banners
at half mast.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17
Ina few days the Danish Rigsdaa

In a few days the Danish Rgsdag
will again meet The upper house
supports King Christian and Premier
E5trupp, but in the popular branch OF
the RigSdag the Government las not
half dozen friends. II is a noticeable
fact, also, that each time the Danish
King has dismissed his Parliament
the members have returned more os-
tile to hin than before Kings are no
longer baheaded, but several have
lost their thrones Of late years, and
King Christian stands in extreme
danger of sharing their misfortune.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

The Medical Summary thinks that
the theatrical people are too much in
clined to drink absinthe, and considers
the taste especially unfortunate, as
the dipsomania resulting from it IS
very violent and almost incurable.
The imitation article drank in the
United States is said to be made from
a mixture of essential oils and indigo
mostly poisonous.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17
Street Car Soda Engines.
Chicago News

Mr.. Zimmerman, as the representa-
tive of Moritz 1Onigman at Aachen.
Germany, is in the city to introduce
new chemical motor, the soda locomo-
tive engine, which is to ievolutioniz3
the mode OF propelling street cars.
The propelling power which is soda
in solution, the capacity of which is to
absorb large quantities of steam and
its contained heat, without giving off
vapor and.thus storing up large gusn-
tity of power in the form of heat, was
discovered accidentally by Mr.. HONG
man, a caustic soda manufacturer in
Aachen, in May 1888. The soda loco
motive is already used on street rail
ways in Augsburg and Aachep in Ger
many, and in Copenhagen, Denmark
Negotiations have been concluded by
which, in short time, the soda loco.
motive cagine will be tested ON the
Adams street line or street
cars. The engine itself is now
on the way from New York.
The process of propulsion by the
soda locomotive engine is, as explain
ed by Mr.. Zimmerman, by placing
a quantity of disoluted soda lye, rails
ed to boiling point, in closed tank
in intimate contact with the steam
boiler of the engine Glled with steam
and water IN the usual proportions
and at the usual working pressure.
Even whers the water is put in cold,
steam is raised by the heat Of the dill
uted soda I've. Upon opening the
throttle steam passes into the cylinder,
does its work and then passes into the
soda solution through the exhaust
pipe, which ends in a perforated tube
extending through the soda, the re-
naming heat being absorbed into the
latter. The increase of temperature
in the soda represents the work done
in the cylinder making the machine
an automatic heater, responding by
greater heating to the larger amount
of work called for. By reason OF this
after a long run with crowded cars,
the temperature of both steam and
soda may be higher at the end than
at the start When however the pow
er stored in the soda and steam together
by its steady diminution, no longer
maintains the lecesssry difference OF
temperature, the soda I've is discharg-
ed and new charge of hot condensed
soda is taken in, which takes place at
the company's stations.
Mr.. Edward Koch of this city who
visited Germany last Summer and
saw the operation of the HonIgman
cars, said to a Daily News reporter
yesterday that in Germany the engine
was usually placed in a separate car
and drew as many c3rs-one or two
or more-as were required for public
accommodation. They cLuld be made,
however, so as to accommodate passen-
gers in the car itself where tue ma
chine was, as in case of the cable cars.
II was built like railroad engine,
only that it was charged with heat
before it went out, and therefore emit
ted no steam, or fire or smoke II did
not make any heat. The machine
took up little room, and as it furnish
ed the motive power no difficulty eoulo
arise such as resulted sometimes from
the breaking Of a cable or machinery
on a cable road. Street railroads
could be operated with such engines
st so per cent. less in operating expen-
ses than with horse power. The use
of the engines would save both time
and money,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17
". H. & B. ]. BENNETT, Publishers.
MINERAL POINT. WISCONSIN,

w. II. VANDERBILT, the great rail-
road king, died very suddenly at his
residence in New York city, Of par
alysis of the brain, at four o'clock
Tuesday afternoon. The sudden news
created quite a sensation IN New
York and especially in commercial
circles. Mr. Vanderbilt was Ga years
and seven months old on the day Of
his death, having been born May s,
1921.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

The rapid increase Of the Canadian
public debt is in part accounted for.
The Canadian government furnished
the money with which the Canadian
Pacific railroad company paid fraud
ulent contractor 81, 200, 900 more than
he was entitled to for work done on
his contract
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17
THE Emperor William OF Germany
is reported seriously i'll at Vienna.

THE actual and estimated earnings
of the Western Union Telegraph com
pany having shown a decrease, the
executive committee of the board of
directors resolved to recommend
reduction Of the quarterly dividend TO
1 80. onuaA
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17
Noted Laaies, seminnry.

In no institution of learning in the
country is a more complete education
given than in the celebrated Notre
Dame, near Baltimore, Maryland. The
Sisters in charge say they find that Red
Star Cough Cure successfully removes
all colds and throat troubles among
their pupils. 1t is absolutely free from
poison, and costs but twenty-five cents.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

PARNELL appears TO have over
reached himself. His friends the tor
les are preparing to throw him over
board by forming a coalition with
enougho OF the wings to defeat all Irish
measures. Some of the liberals are
disposed to treat with PArnell, but
Gladstone will not hear of it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

A lake, comprising 125 acres, near
the village of Riverhead, l.. l., has
been drained, and the bottom, which
is found 10 be sandy, IS being leyeled
and stumps pulled up and holes filed,
fer The purpose Of establishing an i'm
mense anberry marsh
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

A professor OF dentistry has been
appointed for the schools in Surrey,
England. His business is to look
after the teeth Of the pupils.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17
WASHINGTON

The bill intro uced by Senator jones'
of Arkansas, to secure cheaper tele-
graphic correspondence is that known
as the postal telegraph bill of the last
congress,
Mr.. JORDAN, treasurer of the United
States, reports that the duty paid on
circulation by the national banks for
the fiscal year was 50, 795, 5S4. The small
notes are decreasing at the rate of about
$28, 100000 per amman.
CAPTAIN j. A. HOWELL and brother
officer of the navy have been expert
menting for some weeks ut Michigan
City with cigar-shaped torpedo invent
ed by the former. A rate of speed
Of eighteen miles was obtained for
two hundred yards, with perfect di.
rection and great regularity of submer-
gence.
4. +. WARREN, governor of Wyom-
ing, in his annual report to the secretary
Of the interior states that tine popula-
ton of the territory is now about 5000
and is increasing, The largest industry
is stock raising, the value OF the cattle,
sheep. goats horses and mules being
$75000,000 More thar one.half the
acreage of the territory is in grazing
lands.
THE second comptroller Of the treas
ury has disallowed the accounts of Pay.
master Smith Of the array, who paid the
experts who We're employed in the
Whitaker court.martial in 1881 The
experts were paid 500 pr day,whereas
the comptroller holds that witnesses
are entitled 30 not more than 81 q day.
SECRETARY LAMAR has prepared for
submission to congress, in connection
with the DAVIS bill opening the Sioux
Reservation and the resolution of the
senate for information, all the treaties,
conferences, correspondence, and
other documents, bearing on the open
ing of the Crow Creek aud Winnebago
Reservations last February. The whole
mass of papers make n wagon load.
LAND Commissioner Sparks, has is
sued an order informing those interest
ed that the conveyances and agreements
to sell or transfer pre- emption commit
ed homestead or other conditional before
patents are issued for the same, are in
fraud. II enforced, this order will
create a panic among Northwestern
banks and wherever lands are being pre-
empted,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

While Lordon chemist was testing
a bottle of mix it exploded with 2
loud report, scattering fragments q
glass all over the room.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

The New York Chronological Socie
ty has officially promulgated the op-
inion that the excessive use of com
mon salt is one of the main factors in
the destruction of human teeth.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17


1t was only a short time ago that
the discovery OF Cocoaine was paraded
as one of the most important scientific
discoveries Of the age lis wonderful
powers OF deadening local pains and
aches, as well as its general efficiency
as a general al ssthetic, promised 10
take halt the lerrorS way from suffer
ing and d seaso Men, women and in
some cases children, were allowed to
use 1t without a thought that any
danger lurked ia its wonderful proper
ties. it has just been discovered,
however, that instead of being all that
it was hoped and claimed 10 be is in
reality an extremely dangerous aud
poisonous drug, use of which produces
all the evil effects of morphine. This
information comes none too soon.
Several victims have already paid the
penalty of their lives by a reckless usO
of this presumably innocuous pain
killer. The faculty should now use
every effort 10 fad its true place in
pharmacy, and label il, as ought TO
have been done at tirst. Poison.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-12-17

An autograph Of the Mikado Of
Japan, upon silk, with gorgeous red
background, Illuminated with letter
ing of gold, has been received from
Yokohama by Governor Sherman, of
Iowa.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-02-28

WHEREAS, There are in this State sew
cral railroads which cross the public
roads at grade, and therefore endanger
the lives of the people, and whereas, it is
the duty of the State to use all reason
able and proper means for the protection
of her citizens. Therefore, be it enacted
by the Senate and House of Representa-
tiyes in General Assembly met.
SECTION l., Be it enacted that after the
passage Of this Act, the board of Road
Commissioners in the respective hun
drcds of this State, the city councils or
commissioners of any incorporated town
or city are hereby duly and fully author
lied to require all railroad companies
whose railroad track do now or shall
hereafter cross the public roads at grade
to place safety gates at such crossings, and
keep said gates closed in the dav time
during the passing of all trains at such
crossings, as the said road commission
crs, city council or commissioners of any
incorporated town shall deem it neces-
sary to have such safety gates placed to
protect the lives of the people, And be
it further enacted that all railroad conf
panies where any tracks crosses the
public road at grade shall be required to
have red light not less than ten inches
square fixed ut some conspicuous place
during the night, between six o'clock p.
M, and six o'clock u. m.
SECTION ., And be it enacted that any
railroad company failing or neglecting to
comply with the requirements of this
Act, longer than one month after being
notified by the road commissioners, city
council or commissioners of any incof-
porated town shall be subject to penalty
of one hundred dollars, one-half to go to
the informer and the other half to the
State.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-02-28

Last week Messrs. Henry Steele and
j. lihccd the leading butchers of New
ark, slaughtered for show beef, the largest
and finest steer that ever grlced the New
ark market. The animal was fed by Mr..
Nelson Warner. Good beef will always
sell. Stand back SINNERS, you have no
show We saw this beef ourselves, and
know what we are talking about.
CoMMCNICATED
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-02-28
DONATION PARTY.

On Wednesday evening about forty
members of the VI. f. Church assembled
at the Parsonsgc to express their kind
regards for their pastor and his excellent
lady, by few small gifts and to spend Il
social evening. The evening was most
happily spent in pleasant social inter
course cnlivcncd by charades and other
sources of amusement. Refreshments
consisting Of cake, fruit and lemonade
were served by the ladies. The people
Of this church are becoming more and
more firmly and warmly attached to their
pastor and his family, and are trusting
and expecting he will remain another
year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Haynes will accept our
thanks for quantity of delicious cake.
The Delaware ledger. (Newark, Del.) 1879-19??, 1885-02-28
Glasgow News.

On the 10Th, David Thornton of this
town, and Miss Ollie Lowell, were joined
in the holy bonds of matrimony The
services were performed at the brides
unclc's residence, Mr.. Thomas Lyndell.
We wish them many years of happiness.
Sidney Stump, colored man living
near the school house, had slight fire
on Monday last. A dress hanging too
close to the stove caught fire.
On Tuesday, Feb. oath, Mr.. James
Cam and wife celebrated their golden
wedding at their residence near Glasgow
Del. About noon the guests began to
arrive, and soon the spacious parlors
were filled with relatives and friends. \
mock wedding ceremony was performed.
Rev. ThOs. NJ Cam OBLIGATED, The
bridesmaid, Mrs. Il. T. Cam, was indeed
the bridesmaid fifty years ago. Mr.. An
drew Ellison acted as groomsman. The
The old couple after fifty years of mar
ricd life, asscntcd to the usual questions
as readily, and the bridegroom salutcd
his bride Us cordially us though this were
their first experience About . o'clock
the dining room doors We're thrown open,
where Il table laden with all the dclica-
Cies of the season was set, The guests
did ample justice to the good things
offered II is 4 remarkable fact that this
IL tho SppnuI celebration of n Golden