Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-01-12
THE LATEST TELEGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

THE January interest on government
bonds amounts to S3,414.000.
Mr.. PowDERLKY's physician says hs is
entirely broken down by hard work.
THE liquor license of Atlanta, Ga, has
been fixed at $1,000 by the new City
Council.
FoR eleven months ended Nov. 30 last,
the net earnings of the Union Pacific
Road shoH an increase OF 81, 22S 1892.
SENATOR PALMER, OF Michigan, has
given $4,000 for the erection of build
ing at Detroit, to be used by the &. A. r..
of the State.
The visible supply of wheat Saturday,
Dec. 81, was 44,42l.130 bushels; an in
crease of la, 400 bushels. The corn sup
ply was 5,025, 258 bushels; an increase OF
2G5, 851 bushels.
THE pig-iron market in the South is
reported booming. The furnaces are
running to their fullest extent, and all
products is speedily disposed Of.
TuE home of workingwomen' children
known as the Lathrop Memorial, erecte,
at Albany, N. Y, by the wife Of Senate
Stanford, of California, has been dediea
ted.
THE total amount OF money paid for
cattle received at the Union Stock Yards
at Chicago during the year 1887 was about
100000, 900. This fof cattle alone, say
ing nothing OF sheep, hogs and horses.
THE flour production at Minneapolis
last week reached 100000 million barrels,
against 10000 barrels the previous week.
The market is quiet, but change of prices
is noted.
The captain and frst mate of the Brit
ish bark Embleton are charged with such
cruelty on the voyage from San Francis
co TO Sunderland that three of the crew,
to escape it, jumped overheard.
SOME clever rascal has issued and sold
thirty thousand forged tickets of admis
sion to the jubilee mass in Rome, and a
new set of tickets will have to be printed
by the Vatican authorities.
THE great objective thirtysix inch
lens has been successfully mounted in
the Lick telescope at Los Angeles, but
the sky has not yet been clear enough for
observation.
STORAGE warehouse property along the
Brooklyn water front amounting in value
20 $4,000 900 is about TO be put into the
control of colossal trust. Fully one
half the foreign commerce of the port OF
New York will be involved.
SOMETHING very like tidal wave OF
monstrous proportion swept upon the
headlands outside Of Portland harbOr
Thursday night. The great mass rose
sixty feet above high-wat6r mark, carry
ing everything before il.
PATRICK O'BRlEs, an Iowa contractor
was found freezing in doorway at Gin
oinnati, Wednesday night He had been
drinking, and on his person was found
$4,000 il money and $4,000 in checks.
The Standard Oil Company, is prepar-
ing to construct an immense pipe line to
Chicago for the transportation of oil for
fuel, and will build a thousand tanks al
Lima, Ohio, for the storage of tho product
OF the Northwestern Ohis field.
A STATEMENT of the comparative growth
of INDUSTRY and business in the south FOL
the past two years shows remarkable
progress Daring 1887 the total amount
of new capital employed, including the
capital stock of incorporated com pauies
was $256, 29S, 600, against Sl29,226,0OC
for 1856.
The Sixty-eighth General Assembly
of Ohio organized at Columbus Monday
the Hon. 4. Il. Davis of Washington
County, being elected President pro ten
of the Senate, and the Hon. e. L. Lamp
son, of Ashtabula County, Speaker OF
the House, a Republican and Democratic
combination defeating the majority OF
the Republican caucus nominees in the
Senate.