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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30

the national importance and the condi-
ton of the work Of the bureau. Adopted
The resolution introduced by Sen
Dawes, on the second day of the session,
instructing the committee ON finance to
inquire into aud report what specific re-
ductions can be made in customs duties
and internal taxes that will reduce the
taxes to the necessary and economical
expenses of the government without i'm
Pa!fiDg the prosperity of home industries
or the compensation of homo labor. was
taken up and adopted, and then at 1885
the senate adjourned until January 4th.
House The speaker announced
Messrs. Forney, McAdoo and Hop
kins as conferees on the bill increas-
ing the annual appropriation for the mill
tia. On Motion OF Mr.. Toole, of Montana,
the bill vas passed granting to the St.
Paul, Minneapolis 81 Manitoba railway
company the right of way through GER
tain Indian reservations in northern Mon
tana, and northwestern Dakota.
The committee on postoflices and post
roads reported the bill repairing all land
grant railroad companies to construct,
maintain and operate telegraph lines,
with a few unimportant amendments.
Referred TO committee of the whole.
The house then, in the morning hour,
resumed consideration of the Oklahoma
bill. Mr.. Springer addressed the house on
the bill, and at the conclusion of his re-
marks the committee rose and the matter
went over, and the house at $3.50 adjourned
until Jan. 4.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30
ELnEo AND CASUALTIES.

A Wild freight train on the Rurlingt ION
road collided with passenger train near
Moline on Monday evening. Engineer
Heady received such injuries that his re
coyery Is doubtful.
TuE Duluth, Red Wing and Southern
Railroad, to ran from Douglas County to
Pierce County, in Wisconsin, was incor-
porated at Madison Monday, the capital
stock being $l,5o0,000.
EIET a, Galveston, Texas, early Tues
morning, swept away twenty eight dwell
ing houses and two groceries. The loss
is $4,000 with insurance aggregating
$4,000.
DuEING fire at Cheboygan, Michigan,
which consumed tie opera house and the
city hall, two prisoners in the lock Hp
were burned to death.
THE opera house, Times building. a
large furniture store and bakery at
Oskaloosa, Iowa. were destroyed by fire
early Wednesday morning, creating a
loss OF 100000, insurance $2S,O0O.
A DISPATCH from Tacoma, Wash. T.,
says: After the explosion of train of
blasting charges which hung fire in the
west end of Cascade tunnel, three men
were killed and five others injured, one of
whom has since died. The names are un.
obtainable.
4 RAILWAY collision in Dayton, Ohio
sent locomotive running wild through
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.

WILLIAM RTD, treasurer of the south
Boston railroad, who embe2zled SS0,71S
and issued 1853 shares of radulent stock,
has been sentenced to seven years in state
prison.
CHARLES ALLEN shot and killed John
Crocker at Grand Junction, Michigan,
Saturday the murder being the result of
a feud.
TUESDAY at indianapolis United States
Commissioner Van Buren, Sentenced
Samuel Il. Perkins to ninety days i'm
prisOnment for contempt in refusing to
testify in the election fraud cases.
GEORGE KApEs, an old man, was SEN
fenced Mt Cleveland Ohio, to thirteen
years imprisonment for killing his stem
daughter because she refused to rise from
bed when called.
JoHN Il. JACK, forger, whose term in
Joliet prison was finished Wednesday
morning, was arrested at the gate by the
sheriff OF Van Buren, County, Iowa, to
answer charges of forgery in that state,
committed in connection with the sale
of pianos.
THE governor of New York is about TO
commute to life Imprisonment the sen
tence of Mrs. Druse, of Warren, who
shot ker husband dead for his brutality,
Her daughter is now in the peniteHtiary
for participation in the murder.
EN ALDERMAN MoQUADE, of New York,
who vas convicted Of bribery and corrup-
ton in connection with the granting of
the Broadway railroad franchise was, on
Monday sentenced t9 seven years i'm
Prisoument in Sing Sing and to pay a
fine OF $1,000.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30
LUCK N WALL STREET.

The Case of q Broker Who Went Crazy ON
ON Black Friday How a ltYcarold Boy
Saved His Father
New York sun
a well-known broker of Wall street was
chatting few days ago with some
friends, and somewhat surprised them by
asserting that luck mas had more to do
with the matter of sudden and immense
fortunes in the street than is commonly
supposed He referred Tor one example,
to his own experiences, and said that twice
he mad found himself 100000 better off
at night than he was il the morning. and
had at once realized, al.aoQgh when he
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30

Ia thu United States Senate, during
:, cent debate, Senator Vest, &c Missouri,
l-ld high tribute to the merits OF St
lcobs OIL Other prominent men have
also found it prompt in its cure of rheu-
maiism and neuralgia. Price, fifty cents
q bottle.
Dr.. Samuel S. Adams, OF Washington,
-. c., is so impressed with the dangers
and evils of promiscuOus kissing that
seven columns OF medical journal Is
devoted to his exposure OF them. he
gives long list OF the possible results of
kissing, Wis: syphilis, tuberculosis, diph-
theria, infectious fevers herpes, eczema,
stomatitis, cancrum oris, injury of the
ewes, rupture OF the ear drum. or course
the la.t on the list resulted from too
loud smack right over the ear. Cautious
parents in sending their babieS out in the
care Sf nurses might do well to hang q
painted sign on the front OF the baby
carriage. mo Kissing Al owed. IRON
Dr.. Foote's Health Monthly.
Throat troubles yield promrtly to Red
Star Cough Cure, as vouchsd for by I. ,.
Architect Clark. It's ingredients are pure
ly vegetable and free from opiates 70
csnts.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30

FnrrGn years ago that portion OF
Washington which is now the center OF
fashionable residences was the fayorite
camping ground nf negro squatters
Some of the more frugal squatiers pur-
chased bits Of ground at mere nominal
sum, which they cling to yet. What cost
800 at the time mentioned can now be
sold for prices ranging from $4,000 70
100000, according to location. One
aged negro woman who still works by
the day when she can get work, has been
offered $4,000 for her cabin and bit of
ground. As she would not know what TO
do with that amount of mony should she
accept the offer, she declines to part with
her property.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30

the city at the rate of a mile a minute.
ut passed through tho union depot at the
highest rate of speed, and exhausted
itself at a point on the track ten miles in
the country.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30

ArErrioN is being extensively circulat-
cd in Maryland calling the attention of
congress to a system Of slavery existing
on vessels engaged in oyster-dredging
in the waters of the Chesapeake bay and
its tributaries, which, in its brutality op-
preston, and horrible treatment has
rarely been equaled in history, Men are
enticed, 10y false representation, to ship
for @ short period, and often are kiduap-
ed by brutal force, and kept against their
wills by forca as slaves on these vessels
q the bay for three, for, and five months
being transferred from one boat to an
other, kept at hard work without proper
provision, without pay and under the
most cruel and horrible treatment. Many
of them have been murdered. and the
murderers never have been brought to
Justice; and the suffering of these poor
men from maltreatment, d well a. the
exposure TO cold and elements without
proper protection of the law, as there is
no police supervision over these waters;
and your petitioners pray that a commit
tee may be appointed your honorable
body to inquire into this great grievance,
and that such laws may be passed as will
remedy this cruel wrong.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30

AT the rate of one mile per day the
Mexican international road IS pushing
southwark to a connection with the Mex
lean Central at Laredo. 1t is claimed
that the distance from Chicago to the
Mexican capital will next summer be
thereby lessened 600 miles.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30

A GERMAN botanist has discovered
source of br@ndy and alcohol poppy. 1t
appears that the pulp which covers the
poppy seed contains saccharine matter
which, after due fermentation and dlstil-
lation, pooduces kind Of brandy of an
agreeable flavor. AS this pulp has been
hitherto thrown away, the discovery, it IS
said, affords poppy planters an oppor-
tuniiy of realizing more profit their
crops without very great expenditure OF
capital
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30
Mineral Point Tribune,

TIKI supreme court of Alabama has de-
cided that all sales of lands made by the
Alabama z, Chattanooga railroad before
completion arc void. Millions of dollars
worth of territory in the richest mineral
districts are involved.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30
Unwilling to Promote Murder,

you don't get out of this alley you
hear from me-" shouted a Spencer street
woman to a couple of boys VINO VERY
pounding on the fence.
How queried one.
I'm call for policeman"
You will, Ell? If you are that klna o.
a woman that wants to see two or thre0
policemen hammered to death by two des'
nerate boys who will never be taken awe
blow your whistle! We wash our hahus
of all possibility"
The sober second thought seemed ~ :,
prevail with her, and she retired ana lev
them masters of the field.
Something you wanted Madam ~
oueried. as she was going out OF 'n0
store. .toas
"why, | came in for pair OF shoes'
and | have waited twenty fiye minutes
and no one has come near me. We so'
tired A;arsd
eWait Just one minute he wnlspe ls;s
"Tve spent twenty five minutes Win sn.s
LADY with the big feet, but 1t won IAN
five to fit your little No. rs with SONY
thing nice" iled and
sat down to wait.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30

THE Emperor William has subscribed
81. 100 to the fluid for the relief Of the
families of the llfe-saving men Of South
port who perish d during the recent storm
It is possible that this liberal act O.
charity was inspired by President CIege-
lands generosity in the case OF the
Charleston earthquake sufferer; but the
difference between $40 and fifty times
that sum is 80 large that it require VIC
lent effort Of the imagination to connect
them.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30
WEDNESDAY. Dec. 81.

senate Sen. Conger, OF the com
mittee on commerce, reports the
bill to authorize the construction and
maintenance of bridge across the Wis.
consin river by the Duluth and Black
Hills Railway Co. Placed on the
Calendar. The committee on pen
sions reported the bill to amend
the laws relating TO pensions.
placed on the Calendar. Sen.
Hoar offered resolution direct-
ing the committee ON commerce
to report on the river and
harbor bill as to each public
work for which appropriation is made
therein ana the facts which render such
appropriation advisable AND u
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-12-30

THE United States not only have more
wheat and more breadstufs to sell this
year than last, but are finding foreign
purchasers for their surplus. The total
export Of breadstulfs for the mouth of
November just closed amounted to &12,-
598,8il as against $Il49,765 for the
month of November, 1885. The value of
the export of breadstutTs for the first five
months of tho present fiscal year was
SG5,215,l los, as against $49 ,s21 ,55i for the
same period of 1885. For the eleven
months Of the current year ending No
vember 30 the export reached %l35,07G,-
GA, rs against sl19572,s5s for tho first
eleven months OF 1885. A country in
which bread is SO cheap and plenty aud
which has SO large a surplus to sell to
poorer neighbors must be a pretty good
country in spite of the assertions of So
cialists and anarchists to the contrary.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09

Mr.. HOLMAN of Indiana, a leading
Democrat in the House of Repre-
s~entatiyes, said 10 aspeech the other
day, We are not keeping our
pledges to the party or the people.
Instead of reducing the public ex-
penditure it has been increased. The
amount Of the appropriation bills,
independent of the pension bills, has
been increased s23, 100000, in excess
of what il vas for the present fiscal
year ending June Both That is the
record up to the present time, and 1t
certainly viii not be improved so
far as this Congress is concerned.
Extravaganza and improvidence
have marked every step of the DEM
ocratic majority, and as it is general
" at the close of a session, when
bills are being railoaded through,
that profigacy rules the roost, we
may expect that yet many more mil
lions viii be added to the public ex-
penditures.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09
A Young Lady's Terrible Fall.

ASPEN, COL. June 3.-Last even
ing a party of young ladies climbed
10 the top of the fire bell tower 60
feet high, for the purpose OF obtain
ing a good view of the city. Eppa
Stewart stepped to the edge of the
tower and was leaning against the
corner post, looking over the coun-
try, when the janitor. not knowing
Of the presence of the ladies, seized
the bell rope to call a meeting of the
company. The sudden clang of the
great bel! startled Miss Stewart,
and, losing Der balance, she plunged
from the dizzy height to the pave
ment. She was carried into a
neighboring house. where it was dis
covered that both her legs were
crushed to such an extent
that the feet were within a few
inches of her knees. Her left arm
was broken into splinters, and five
ribs on the right side were broken
and torn loose from the spine. She
is still alive, but recovery is impos-
sible.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09
Saved by the Barking OF Dog.

EAsroS. June 3-Tte barking OF
a large family dog saved Otto 4.
Shalier and family from being burn
en- to death last night in their resi-
dence at Mountain Home, Monroe
county. The family were asleep
and upon seeing the flames issuing
from the house the dog barked con-
tinuously until Smaller appeared at
the window. fne flames came frots
his sons bedroom, and while trying
to save him Smaller was nearly sui
located by the smoke. The children
in an adjoining room were easily res
cued. The building and contents,
except the furniture in the two low
er rooms and what clothing The
family were able to gather In their
flight, was buried. The loss Is
$1,000; insurance $4,000. the fire
was caused by a defective iue.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09
A Defiant Mormon.

SALT LAKE CRY, June 1.-The
latest cases of sentence for unlawful
cohab;tation are those of Jens HaH-
sen and George C. Wood. Hansen,
in reply to Il question az to his in
tention in respect to obeying the
law. said he would obey Just so far
as his conscience would permit. He
received the maximum penalty OF
the law. Wood, already under SEN
tence OF five years Imprisonment
for polygamy, was convicted last
month of marrying a seventeen-year-
old girl last January.
He was very defiant. interrupting
the Court from time TO time. In re-
ply to the usual question as to
whether he would in the future obey
the law he said: No, sir. 1t is
my intention t. obey the law of God,
though | he imprisoned for life. l
know I'm in the right, and | will
never obey the lay of man, pri son OF
no prison, life or death"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09
Boycotted by Women.

ROCKFORD, III, June 5.-Some
days ago Mr.. Leonard, president of
the Leonard Ice Company, signed
with others an application Cor a
liquor license for Mrs. Henry, a re-
spectacle woman, who has kept a
restaurant for fifteen years. The pro-
hibition paper published the appli-
cation and the names of the,signers
and when the members of the Wo-
mans Christian Temperance Union
saw Leonsrd's name a letter from
their secretary was received, in which
it was stated that as long as Frank
J. Leonard had signed a liquor APP
plication they would be obliged to
discontinue taking ice from him.
Mr.. Leonard has now replied to the
letter, in which he says that he has
given more to the Woman's Chris
tian Temperance Union than all
profits on ice they have taken from
him, and he adds:
81 thank the Lord that | am not
dependent on any institutiyn that
makes %boycotting its basis of opera
tions. The time may come when
you viii wish 70 get ice from Us.
but if this is your plan of work L
would sooner throw it into the river
than sell ii to you"
The temperance women are great
ly agitated over his reply and, it is
said. all have determined to enforce
the boycott vigorously.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09

THE Democrats of Green County
held their primaries last week, and
the Wawesburg Independent, a home
Journal, testifes as follows to the all
pervading corruption that was prev
alent
We would be %recreant to our duty
as journalists if we failed to lift our
voice in condemnation of the whole
sale briberies and the ~disgraceful
features that entered into the prima-
~ election that closed Saturday in
this county. Money and liquor were
layishly used in the interest of the
leading candidates for Congress.
The election virtually resolved itself
into an auction in many places in
the county, the highest bidder taking
the votes. Hundreds Of votes were
purchased anywhere from a gulp Of
whisky up to $50 and $40. Hun
dreds of gallons Of whisky were
taken in various parts of the county
by the political henchmen and dis
tributed to such voters as were vii
ling to barter their manhood and
their right Of the ballet for it, or a
few paltry dollars. Thousands Of
dollars were used in the purchase of
votes, and barrels Of whisky SIS well.
We are told of some men who drank
liquor to such an extent that physi-
clans had to be called and artificial
means resorted to TO restore life, the
men being so near dead with the
poison. This took placer our town
on the 22d ult., and also Saturday
last, and at other places, too. In
other cases the stomach pump was
brought into use by the physician
to relieve the patient of his over
gorge Of liquor to save life. We are
told by reliable parties who were
eye-witnesses, that men were filed
with rum and then led to the polls
by two or three persons, and the
hand that held the ballot was guild
ed TO the box by those assisting the
voter. Space would fail US te re-
late all the disgraceful and disrepu-
table thiugc that have come reliably
to our ears.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09

The Democratic House on Thurs
day last defeated with loud Demo
cratic cheers the Senate proposition
to appropriate $4,000 per mum
for five years to American vessels
carrying foreign mails. The party
in power struck in this way another
blow at American shipping, and
permitted England TO retain all the
advantage which she acquires from
the subsidy system. DULY one Re-
publican from Pennsylvania voted
against his party, and that was
Bayne Of Allegheny, who would vote
on the opposite side to that taken
by Senator Cameron "if the heavens
were TO fall The bill is favored by
all strong Protectionists and by all
commercial centres.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09

CHICAGO. June 4.-There was a
report this morning at Cummings
that the Rock Island Road would
move four cars loaded with the
nails made by the new men at the
Cummings nail works, Several OF
the strikers had been enjoined from
interfering in any with the working
of the mills. 10 A. NJ, was the hour
when the engines were expected
from South Chicago, and before that
hour women and children to the
number of 200, the wives and fam
lilies OF former employees, assembled
with sticks 10 their hands around
the terminus of the railroad tracks
and opposite the entrance of the
nail works. Women were sent
down the track towards South Chi
cago to apprise the party of the en-
gine's approach. While these were
keeping guard a contingent was dis
patched to the house ofTom Bethel.
a non-union man. Mrs. Bethel
was alone. Several windows were
smashed by boulders and she was
berated roundly by the women and
children until the police dispersed
the party. They returned to the
depot and at the same time one of
the pieke,s came running breathless-
ly along the track, waving her shawl
and shouting, ITO the cars This
was the signal of the approach of
the engine. Then there was a rush
to the loaded cars. Mothers with
infants in arms hurried along. All
ages were represented. The mothers
grouped their little ones along the
track some distance ahead of the
first freight Car and packed them
according to age on the rails, the
younges, toward the approaching
engine. the mothers and grown-up
daughters taking position in the
ear. The engine steamed up slow
ly but seeing the living obstacle on
the track reversed and returned to
South Chicago. Then the women
dispersed and on their return jeered
and abused the representatives of
the company at the gate, calling
them the most opprobrious names.
At 2 P. NJ, when the engines APP
peared again, fully 1000 women and
children thronged the tracks, appa-
rently as determined as before to
hold them. Captain Hunt with
sixty policemen from Hyde Park
attempted to clear the tracks, but
could do it only with great difficult
ty. The women, feeling sure they
would not be dubbed, refused to
move, or moved slowly when told to
do so, and closed up again on the
track unless absolutely held back
by the officers. The engines were un
able TO get by them without killing
them. The greatest excitement pre-
edvail and all attempts to move the
cars proved futile.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09
Sentence of Most and Associates.

New York, June 2.--Herr Nest.
the Anarchist, was to-day sentenced
to the penitentiary for one wear ana
fined $500. His associate. Braun
schwe;g. got nine months in the
penitentiary and was fined $3.50.
Schenck IA sent to the penitentiary
for nine months. but was not fined.
After being sentenced, Nest Braun
schweig and Schenck were transfer
red to the penitentiary Oh Black
wells Island. Most was put to
work in the blacksmith shop, Braun
schweig in the en%gine-house and
Schenck in the shoe shop. The
three prisoners broke down COM
pletely on being dressed in prison
garb.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09

BALTIMoRE,Jun 6.-Jacob Rosen-
thai attempted to murder Louis
Goldstein this morning by pouring
vitriol in his ear. The two men, who
have been enemies for some time,
had a fight recently,in which Rosen-
thai was worsted. He declared that
he would have bis revenge. Both
men. who are Poles. boarded in the
same house. their rooms being on
the same floor. About 2 o'clock
the inmates of the house were alarm
ed by Goldstein's shrieks. They
found him rushing up and down the
floor with the side of his face badly
burned. While he was asleep ne
said, Rosenthal crept into his room
and poured the vitrol into his ear.
Rosenthal denied the accusation but
as his fingers are burned at the ends
there is thought TO be little doubt
that he had been handling the dead
ly stuff. His victim is lying in a
critical condition, suffering the most
excruciating pain. Rosenthal has
been arrested.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1886-06-09

,o,e. aus. on Stewart they
their vo aeT,. the election of Patti
were sece1 according to the above
son. 81 of the Times, Wolfe and
sugsnperance part are to be used
lfwas Stewart and the Independ-
ents-for the purpose of again de-
feating General Beaver and electing
another Democratic Governor. Let
Republicans reflect over this. No
honest man will assert that there Is
any hope of electing Prohibition
for Governor this fall, and
there is no intelligent man that does
not know hat every Republican
vote cast for a third party candidate,
is simply a vote cast like the votes
cast for Stewart in the interest of
the Democratic candidate for Gov