Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-02-02
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

Nh. PoWDEHLEY physician says a5 -
entirely broken down by hard work.
The shortage of the Eorquay govern
ment in Manitoba is now alleged to be
100000.
JUDGE LkMARs full name is Lucius
Quiutus Cincinnatus Lamar, not Curtis as
is so frequectly written.
A QUESTION - now raised as TO the le-
gality Of the present Iowa legislature, the
ground OF il being that the last redistrict-
ing act is fatally informal.
FRANK SMITH, his wife, and two child
rem, persisted in the fire that, destroyed
their home at Harrod, Allen county, o.,
Wednesday night.
Ar Montreal, with the mercury 20 de
gfees bolos zero, conhagration consum-
I'D property in the business portion of
the city to the amount of 100000.
THE venerable mother Of the late Pres
ideut James a. Garfield, died at her home
at Mentor, Ohio, Sunday morning, aged
SO years.
A SIX FOOT vein of coal was struck AZ
Colfax, Mclean County, H., Friday
morning, at the depth OF 400 feet
The visible supply of wheat Saturday
Jan u, was 1851 ,250 bushels, a decrease
of S8G,S82 bushels, corn, 6 6770 34 bushels
a decrease Of G0,456 bushels.
SAM JosEs and Sam Small are drawing
bigger houses ip Kansas City than all
tho theaters in town put together.
GENERA Lew WALLACE has received
1890 IS royalties on "Ben Hur," the
sales OF which have reached nearly 200,
600 copies.
OwISG TO the depth of snow in the for
ests north of Eau Claire, Wis, deer are
dying of hunger, and are easily captured
Hunters are reported to be capturing
large numbers of foxes and wolves.
meeting of the Birmins ham (Ala.,
Chamber of Commerce Monday resolu
tions we're adopted calling on Congress tc
repeal the internal revenue system.
At a meeting of Methodist preachers
at Baltimore resolutions were adopted
censuring President Cleveland for send
ing copy of the United States Consti
tion to the Pope.
OK Monday the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company announced the sale OF individ
nal mileage tickets for ? 600 miles at
cents a mills, still continuing the sale OF
l,000-mile books at 2 cents.
REpoBrs of dullness in the bituminous
coal trade come from Pittsburs, and q
tendency to a reduction in prices in Chi
cago and other Western points is announ
ced.
THE business failures in the United
States and Canada for the week number
3l4, against 2S8 last week, ana 30l in the
corresponding period Of 1887
GOLD has been discovered, of high
grade and paying quantities, near Omaha
nuggets brought up from well in o
farm near the city standing the assay
test.
A wAR on dressed beef rates, between
Kansas City and the seaboard, ia said Il
have been inaugurated. 1t is reported
that the st. Paul road has cut rates
cents, and that the Rock Island and Bur
| liugton have met this cut.
! ONE hundred clerks, operators, traiT
and section men between ST. Louis anC
Toledo have been discharged, and tive
passenger trains dropped by the Toledo
! st. Louis and Kansas City Railroad Com
pany, to reduce the operating expenses.
FIru, Hope, and Charity are three OF
the prettiest little girls, in one family, il
Bay City, Mich. They are triplets ano
their age is IL years. They are the daugh
tiers of Mr.. and Mrs. Elias Baker, and ace
the picture of health. Their combined
weight is 100 pounds.