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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
FOREIGN.

GREAT destitution and suffering is
reported among the poor of the city of
Glasgow. Scotladd.
TEE French government has sent
troops to Riom, to quell riot by six
hundred convicts in the prison at thai
place.
A CYCLONE passed over the middle
counties of England, Wednesday, doing
considerable damage to roofs ans
trees, and killing two persons at We'd
nesbury.
COUNT RAsCoN has been appointed
Spanish ambassador to London, in the
place of the Marquis de Casa Laiglesis,
who has teen transferred to Washing
ton.
THE Canadian Pacific railway de.
manas 100000 for transport service in
connection with the Riel revolt. The
Dominion government has ordered an
investigation into the reports of distress
among the half-breeds in the northwest,
and the giving of clothing and food to
the destitute.
LORD SALISBURY proposes a novel
method of settling the home-rule ques-
ton. He would have the government
buy out all the landlords in Ireland and
then reduce rents oHe-half. 1t would
involve an outlay of more than $780,
900, 600.
IT is stated on good authority that
Mr.. Gladstone and his colleagues have
become reconciled; that Earls Granville
and Spencer, the earl of Derby, and the
marquis of Harrington have given their
consent to a course of tactics 8ugg ested
by Gladstone, and that he will take the
first chance to overflow the conserva.
tive government.
NEARLY 30 600 Canadian Indians are
reported to be preparing for revolt
against the presence of militia and
mounted police. Ranchmen have ask
ed the Dominican government to send
regiment Immediately to TIE neigh
borhood OF Calgary. A telegram from
Ottawa states tnat the Indians now in
the Manitoba penitentiary for com
plicency with Rel will be released in the
spring,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
LATEST KILOGRAMS.
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FIREat Newark, Ohio, late Saturd ay
night destroyed property valued ct
$4,000.
a CONFEDERATION in the business
center of the city of Mobile, Saturday
evening destroyed several stores and
warehouses; loes 100000.
A PASSENGER train and snow sweep.
ing engine came IN terrific collision near
Wilmington, Del. in binding SLOW
storm Sunday morning Four men were
killed.
A LARGE granite front storehouse in
Clinton street, Boston, was destroyed by
fire Tuesday forenoon, the total loss be-
ing in excess of $300,060, with insur-
auce of over 5000, 900.
SEvEY 81 Co.'S stamped tin and iron
ware mandatory at Cambridgeport,
Mass, was burned Tuesday night, caus.
ing loss Of $4,000, with insurance of
500, 600.
A FIkR at Montreal early Wednesday
morning, caused a loss of $500, 600
$500 600 Of which falls upon the Hotel
Dieu duns, who owned the building de-
stroyed. The insurance is placed at
$145,000.
Two barges were burned to the
water edge at Sorel, Quebec, Monday
night, and Eli Gill, a nephew of Judge
Gill, of the Supreme Court, who had
charge of them, was burned to death.
A FIRE at 4 Great Jones street, N Y,
Thursday morning, in building eccu-
pied ny several small manufacturing
firms, involved net loss of about $780,,
coo.
AT Louisville, KY, Saturday evening,
the walls of an overloaded business
block gave way, wrecking the building,
and the wreck caught fire and burned,
including three stores and several Off
ces. Tive lives were lost. Property loss
$4,000
In rear-end collision of accomno-
dation trains rear Pittsburg, Pa, Mon
day morning, number of persons were
in jured, and school children who occu-
pied the collided train became panic
stricken, but serious results were avert
ed by the occupants of the teles COPIED
smoking car receiving timely warning,
and jumping for their lives.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
WA SHINGTON.

A CHECK for $4,000 will be paid
by the treasury department. to Stephen
Merritt. the New York undertaken who
had charge of Gen. Grants funeral.
About 50, 1850 will be covered by a special
appropriation,
SEC RETARY LAMAR, in the matter of
the Bell telephone patent, asks the at
torney general to proceed with thor
ough investigation, in the name and at
the expense of government, in order TO
ascertain if the patent has been obtained
by fraud or issued for an invention not
patentable.
THE commissioner of the general land
office has completed his report upon
the adjustment of the land grant of the
Kansas Pacific branch of the Union Pa
cific railway. and while 1t is withheld
from the public, yet sufficient is known
to warrant the statement that General
Sparks maintains that the road in ques-
tioS has received many thousand acres
of pubic lands in excess of what 1t Is
entitled to.
THE aggregate congressional service
by members OF the present senate is CAB
ycavs, or an average of nearly nine years
apiece. The aggregate service of mem
bers of the new house is 920 years, an
average OF little less than three years
apiece. The average congressional ex-
perience of the house and senate is about
four years each. Their total terms of
service foot up ,535 years
A BILL has been introduced into the
house by Congressman Willis, of X en-
lucky, providing for a national univer-
| sity for the blind, 20 be supported by
| the governments u9 be Incorporated by
and be under the care of the superin-
/ tendent of the various institutions for
/ the care Of the blind. Students after
having completed their elementary
studies at the state institutions can
enter the proposed university anc re-
ceive a liberal education In the sClenc es
and professions.
. G. w, PAISLEY, General Land lnspec-
tor for the District Of Wisconsin, Mimi
esota. Dakota, and Montana, has made
report on the condition of land ia
terests in the Duluth land district
which is Of Importance. Commissioner
Sparks in his annual reportTecommend-
ca that the limb of Northern Mime
sofa be held in a reservation for It's eli
matte efficacy. Mr.. Paisley urges ihat
il be sold at public sales, and that the
homestead and pr0-emptlon laws be re-
pealed in that district, Major Strait
mas indoraed on Mr.. Paisley's report his
cordial approval of this recommends
ten. and report and Inducements have
been priced on le.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21

The method pursued in removing
distractions from the pneumatic
tubes in Paris is that of simply firing
a pistol in the tube. The resulting
wave of compressed air, traversing
the tube at the rate Of l 900 feet sec
ond, strikes the impeachment, and is
then DETECTED back TO its origin, where
it strikes against delicate diaphragm
its arrival being recorded electrically
upon very sensitive chronograph,
on which, also, the instant of firing
the pistol has been recorded previous
ly. The wave OF sound ON reaching
the diaphragm is recorded, and thence
reflected back, a second time striking
the obstacle and returning to the dia-
phragm. This operation being sever
al times repeated, several successive
measurements are thus made OF the
line required by the sound wave to
traverse to and fro within the pneu-
matte tube. Other means have been
resorted to for the accomplishment of
the purpose in question, but none has
proved equal to this.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
Funny Compositions.
Boston Record.

A Maiden school mistress thinks
that some of her pupils compositions
are funnier than anything of Mark
Twain's. From an essay on "Fash-
ion" written by boy of twelve, she
cites the following: Sensible people
wear sensible fashions, and ipsensiblc
people wear nsensible fashions. "
Anolh her hopeful of hers, writing on
the subject "a Rainy Afternoon"
evolved from an inner consciousness
deeper than that OF Josh Billings, the
following sentence: ut rained hard,
and l could not go owdoors. And so
| went out in the shed ond sod some
wood La little straw frame on her
mantel is a sentence from the pen of
her youngest and brightest, given in
answer to the request: Write in
twenty words definition of Man.
1t reads thus: Man is an animal that
stands up; he is not very big, and he
has to work for living"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
A Mormon Outrage.
The POlygamists near Pima are
said to be Working with the
Apaches.
A Company Forming to Bore for
PETROLEUM in Grant
County.
The indians and the Mormons.

The indians ana the MOrmonS
1T is SAID THAT THEY ARE WORKING
TOGETHER.
CHICAGO, H., Jan. 10 -Concernlpo
the petition of the Mormon colony AT
Pima, ARR to the territorial govern
ment for arms and ammunition to de-
fend themselves against the Apaches
dispatch from Tucson, Ariz., saws
ut is not known what action Gov
Zulick will take in the matter, but
many suspicious circumstances are re
Gently coming to light which indicate
that this Mormon colony has all along
been secretly encouraging the murder
Gus Apaches by supplying them with
powder and trading them guns In ex-
change for stolen horses, which the
Morraons sell in Mexico. some of
the Indian scouts recently employed
by Crook while here, told certaia
friendly Indians who live in this
vicinity that the Mormons of Pima
were in league with Geronimo's band.
and that the hostiles were on the
most friendly terms with the Nor
mons. These Indian scouts, some of
whom have since proven that they
themselves were in league with Ger
onimo's band, also privately told that
the Mormens were getting ready to
abandon their Pima colony and move
over into Sonora; that in view
of this they were buying all
the stolen horses and cat
tie that were brought there either by
renegade Indians or thieving white
men. 1t has been anticipated for sew
eral weeks that the Apaches were
running short OF ammunition, and it
is almost certain that they are seeking
to obtain fresh supply through their
Mormon allies. This Pima colony
numbers some 5000 Mormons, most
of whom are polygamlsts. The Ed
munds law has not yet been enforced
upon them and they live IN great
dread of its execution"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
Petroleum in Wisconsin.
A COMPANY FORMING TO TEST 1T.

LANCASTER, Wis, Jan. 19.-For
many years petroleum has been
known to exist near Animation, little
village in the township of Clifton, 10
eastern Grant county. The surface
of the stream in that locality having
indicated the presence of the lila
mnating fluid, companies have from
time to time been formed for the pur-
pose of prospecting for oil, but no
work in that direction has ever been
accomplished beyond the organiza-
ton of the interested parties. A
project is now on foot among
the business men of the village
of Fenpimore, 10 form a stock
company for the purpose of learning
what there is in the rumor of extern
sive oil deposits in the place named.
Shares OF stock at $25 each hare been
taken to the number of 100 aud with
the 81, 500 thus obtained, wells will be
sunk where the petroleum is supposed
TO exist. Negotiations are pending
with the owners for leasing several
hundred acres of land, and the ground
will be thoroughly prospected. Ii the
expectations of the Spectators are re-
allied, the company will increase its
capital stock, and operations will be
commenced on a larger scale.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
CRIME.

d. F. WADswoRTH, formerly bank
err Of Ishpe ming, Mich, has been con-
victed of emsezzling 100000.
In Washington Louis Summerfieid
was sentenced to be hanged in June for
the murder of his wife about Christmas.
Two other wife murderers are await
ing sentence, having been convicted last
week,
IT was discovered Tuesday that F. E.
Stevens, cashier of the First National
Bank of Paw Paw, Mich, was a default
er for about $1,000 He made partial
restitution and was dismissed.
Two Indians from Wyoming one of
whom il an Arapahoe chief, were re-
ceived at the Joliet penitentiary Tues
day to serve terms for killing cattle not
belonging TO them,
The death sentence has Deen passed
upOn William Baldwin for killing his
sister at Atchison, Kansas. In the
court room he remarke that the real
murderer would some day be discover
ed, and he thanked God there was a
supreme court to grant him new trial
FRIDAY night, at Spring Place, Ga,
John Conner was called to his door and
shot dead by Adam McNabb his rival
for the hand of Miss Jennie McNahb,
whom Conner married Christmas night
GEORGE MCCABE, who, it is alleged,
poisoned two wives and another woman
In Canada, fell victim to his fifth wife
in Dakots, whittier he had moved. The
woman detected McCab9 in putting
some substance in her teacup, but slyly
exchanged cups with her spouse, who
drank the contents and died in great
agony, after confessing his various
poisonous schemeJ.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
He Was Only a Clerk.

He was really a clerk in grocery
store, but on Sunday afternoon mount
ed ON high horse, he looked as If he
might be a member of Congress. He
was putting on more than usual dig
nifty and grace, for there were several
ladies on the sidewalk admiring him.
He was satisfied in his mind that he
was creating a great impression when
small hey on the sidewalk called
out. Hey" He looked around. So
did the ladiesi II say, Mister, con
tinued the boy, last night you only
gave nae five candles for quarter
oughter got six"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21

AFTER mature reflection the faculty
of Harvard college have withdrawn
their Introduction of foot ball, and the
game will be resumed the coming sea
son. The objections TO it a year ago
were that it was brutal, demoralizing
to players and spectators, and exceed
idgly dangerous, bat it is aow held
that the sport has been reformed, and
that, whether it educates the heads or
not, il does not necessarily develop
the feet abnormally.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21

WHILE associated darying has its
advantage, says T. w. Crrtis ia The
Rural New Yorker, among which the
educational are not the least--it also
has its disadvantages. 1t is difficult
10 make patrons conform to the nee
essary rules and regulations to secure
uniformity OF product of the highest
quality. Diaries, farms, feed, care
and the quality of milk differ so much
that it is next to an impossibility, to
say the least, to secure justice among
the patrons. The poor milk counts
for Just as much, pound for pound, in
making dividends as the good milk.
Then, owing to the impossibility of
controlling all the conditions in pro-
ducing and handling the milk deliv-
cred at the factory, neither butter nor
cheese of as good quality can be made
there as can be turned out by the
private dairyman who understands
his business and has everything under
his immediate supervision.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21

THE Novoe Nremya gives the fol
lowing summary OF the territorial
losses of Turkey during the last two
centuries; Since the capture of Con
stanhnople IN 1853 they had gradually
seized the whole of the Balkan PENN
sula excepting Montenegro, the Pele-
ponnesus, the northern shore of the
Black Sea, and the Sea of Azov. In
I'LL the Ottoman Empire possessed
more territory in Europe than any
other power except Russia, her pos
sessions extending westward TO the
Adriatic and the Danube, and east
ward TO the Dniester, the Dnieper, the
Don, and the Kuban. Thus Bessa-
rabia, the Crimea, and other Mongol.
ian regions were under the dominien
Of the Turks, whose possessions on
the Continent of Europe covered
an area OF Is. 454 square miles. But
from this period the decadence of Tur-
key commenced, and, with the excep.
ton of her temporary success against
Austria in 1899, she went on losing
territory to such an extent that upon
the eve Of the war with Russia she
had only 9,456 square miles Of terri
tory, of which 2,94s miles were gov
erned by princes, who merely owed
uzerainty The Berlin treaty depriv-
ed her of 4 SIS miles, so that from
100 to 1878 the Ottoman Empire lost
in Europe l0, 666 square miles, out OF
which $500 were conquered by the
Russians, who has annexed 4,S16
square miles. After the war OF
1S77-7S Russia annexed 46S square
miles in Asia Mirror and 167 in Europe
while Austria annexed / ,073 Bosnia
and the Horzegoviua), and England
Ia (Cyyrusl.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21

DURING the past five years South
Carolina has increased the annual
value of its manufactured products
$21, 500, 600, Of its agricultural pro
ducts So 100000, Of its live stock 80
600, 900, of its agricultural implements
81, 500, 600, and has spent 81, 800, 600 in
building railways. During the same
five years the aggregate of the state
and county debts has been diminish
ed about $500, 600.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
an Active Medicine.
New York Tribune

Young Physician Ito PATIENT Did
you follow my directions in taking
the little pills--one every three
hoursY" Patient-"Well--- er--you
see, Doc" Young Physician
Great heavensl You,didn't take them
oftener than that2" Patient" |
didn't take any. My little boy got
hold of the bottle in the night and ate
them all up" Young Physician
(hastily)-"Where is the boy r. Pa
tient-"The last / heard of him he
was out in the back yard stoning
cats"
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
GENERAL NOTES.

THE Iowa general assembly convened
Monday, Mr.. Mitchell, of Jefferson, be-
ing elected temporary speaker, and MIR.
Whaley temporary president of the
senate. An animated canvass of the
house offices is in progress
HENRY WATERMAN, of Milton, Wis,
has been awarded judgment for $22, 600
against the Alton road for injuries re-
ceived near the Archer avenue cross
ing in Chicago. He attributed the coll
lision to the negligence Of fireman
and swttchman.
AN infant who first saw the light in a
snow-etalled train in the Van Horne
Qowa) district Monday, was christened
blizzard" by his fellow travellers. He
weighed eight pounds,
THE four children from Newark, New
Jersey, who were sent to Paris for
treatment by M. Pasteur for hydropho-
bia have reached home in safety and
good health,
THE coolest weather known for years
is reported at Galveston, Texas, where
ice formed from three to five inches
in thickness Sunday night. Ia the
South Atlantic region, as far south az
Tampa Bay, Fla, freezing weather was
also reported
GEO, l.. VERMILLIoN, a young farmer
living in the Dscature, Ill, district, be-
came violently insane Wednesday
owing to his failure to secure new
lease of his 160-acre farm.
THE Northern Illinois Merino Sheep
breeders Association, at it's meeting
Wednesday asked that no further
charges or reductions be made in the
wool tariff, and resolved that silver
coinage was a necessity, and that its
suspension would be subversive of the
peoples interests.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
A GentIe NtimuIna

Is impaired to the kidneys and bladder by hos-
letters Stomach Bitters, which is most usetul ~
overcoming torpidity of these organs Besides
lnfusing more activity into them, this excellent
tonic endows them with additional vigor, and en-,
tear OF the discharging function imposed upon
them by nature. Moreover, as they are the chah-
mel for the escape OF certain impurities from the
lag and healthfully stimulating them. In certain
morbid conditions of these important organs
they fall into sluggish state, which Is the usual
precursor OF disease What then can be or greater
servifs than a medicine which impels them 20
gteFtsr activity when slothfui No maladies are
NOR perilous than those which affect the kio,
aeTs and medicine which ayerts the peru
should be highly esteemed.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
All She Knew About 1t.
Chicago News.

There, if you haven't brought
home another dog"
Certainly, my dear. Don't you
like dOgs3"
Like them9 John Henry, yoa
know / hate dogs, If had my way,
I'd have every one of en- killed.
"Well, if you did I'd like to know
where they'd get virus to cure hydro
phobia with. That's all a woman
knows about science
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21

The characteristic trait of mantels
this year, whatever their shape or
style, is their lining. 1t is ROW consld-
cred of great importance. 1t IS not
only made of plain silk of a color
wildly contrasting with that of the
outside, but more frequently still,
either Of striped satin or brocaded
silk quite different from the material
of the mantle. Old silk dresses can
very well be employed for this pur-
TlnSp
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
The Effects Of Tight LacIng.

When l see a woman who looks as
if she had been melted and poured into
her dresses know something Is
wrong with her, She usually has
rheumatism and a bad complexion.
No woman whose laceS can have a
good complexion. No woman should
try TO make her waist unRaturally
small if she would keep well and
strong. Another bad thing is tie cor
set. A woman must breathe as we'll
as man, and when she binds her
bust with corset she can not use
more than the upper part OF her lungs,
and suffers in consequence. keaIly
woman should not wear corsets at all.
Lille Deyereux Blake.
Clogged wicks can be cleaned by
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21
DOMESTIC HINTS

Lard should 60 into tin.
Unsuned rooms cause unsoano
health.
Hang up the brooms; they will last
longer.
Keep the hedsteads away FROM the
windows.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21

NEWS cones from various ports on
the Atlantic coast Of marine disasters
which included the loss of lives as
we'll as property. The sufferings of
nearly all the shipwrecked sailors
were such as TO tax human endurance
To its utmost,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21

May hospitals and curative instilu-
tons u5s only Red Star Cough Cure, for
threat and lung Troubles. Is cures.
Price twenty-five cents. St. Jacobs OIL
cures rheumatism.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1886-01-21

Clogged wicks can be cleaned by
boiling them in soap suds.
The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1886-02-27
AERIAL NAVIGATION.
A Chicago Doctor Who Will Build
a New Style Of Air-Ship.
Incorporation of a Company to Test Do
Baussett's Vacuum Scheme.

CHICAGO, Feb. 19-Articles of incorpora-
tion were issued at Springfield yesterday
for the Transcontinental Aerial Naviga-
tion Company of Chicago, to establish
aerial transportation lines, the capital
stock being $50, 900, and the nc"rporators
DR.. Arthur De Baussett, Eugene Marguerat
and Jules Lang. Mr. De Baussett is a
French physician who has resided in Chi
cago for several years past, and has made
study of aerial navigation for over
twenty-five years. DR.. De Bausett's OBJ
ject is to build an air ship, the length Of
which will be ia feet; its width is to be "a
feet and its height % feet The main cyl
inder will be 64 feet in length and IA feet
in diameter. 1t is expected to prove by the
vacuum theory that 1t is possible to navi-
gate the air by the laws of gravitation
by overcoming the pressure of the
atmosphere without filling it with
hydrogen or other gas. 1t is in
tended to begin the work Of building the
ship in about two weeks, and it will be
completed in about two months. DR.. De
Baussett is confident that the search for
the North Pole can be successfully accom-
plished by means of his air ship, which
will be so arranged that it can be propelled
over ice as well as through the air. He is
in receipt of flattering letter from the
Smithsonian Institute concerning his in
vention, and is in communication with
James Gordon Bennett, of New York, in
relation to making an exploration for the
North Pole when the ship is completed.