Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-11-08
Personal Points.

Personal Points.
Ex.Asscmblyman, Geo. G. Cox,
recently had the misfortune to cut
one of his feet, By cutting large
holes in his boot he is able to get
around aud join us in hurrabing
oycr-the result Of the election.
will Wallis, after casting his
ballot Tuesday, left for Deer Lodge,
Montana. We wish him prosperity.
-Bonj. Treloar and family aud
Mrs. John Kiuo, all of Linden,
Sundayed with friends in this city.
MIR Anthony Huxtable, who
left Mineral Point a few years ago
for Dakots, has been visiting in our
midst the past week. We are pleased
to see him looking so well.
Mr. Stephen Reed, who has
been absent in England for some
weeks, looking after personal inter
ests, returned home Saturday even.
ing, which was in time 10 vote for
Harrison, and which ought to be
good indicator to true Americans as
To how they should vote. Ii is graf
flying to see "Steye" looking so well
and jolly.
Stephen Allen, son of oxaldor
man Allen, has been dangerously i'll
the past week. His sickness is blood
poison, caused by being injured with
barb wire. He is nov steadily i'm
proving.
i, Brewer, Jr,, is in Chicago
looking after the interests of the
Cash Grocery House.
Mrs. Hannah Wilkinson, who
has been visiting her old English
home for some months, returned
this Thursday evening.
THE news of the death Of Mr.. j.
B. James, at DesMoines, Iowa, last
week, saddened many in Mineral
Point, where he once lived and
where are at present some relatives.
From DesMoines paper we CLEAN
the following:
"The litte grocery store on the
corner of Twelfth street and West
Grand avenue is closed to-day and
its proprietor, Mr.. John b. James,
lies cold and still at his residence,
No. 1910 High street, having
breathed his last at II O'Clock this
morning. Mr. James had never
fully recovered from the effect Of
the terrible attack made upon him
during the Reign Of Terror in this
city in 1889. In the afternoon Of
Saturday following fair week of
that year, Mr.. James was brutally
assaulted while standing behind the
counter in his store on Twelfth and
Grand avenue by the notorious
George Harris. Mr.. James nephew,
Robert Baird, now of Villisca, was
out with the delivery wagon at the.
time, but returned to see Mr.. James
PROSTATE on the floor and the would
be assassin fleeing out Of the rear
door. He followed until with the
aid of others, he captured Harris,
WHO was afterwards convicted and
sentenced for twenty years, half for
this murderous crime and half for a
like brutal assault upon Mr. Kast.
berg, an East Side saloon-keeper.
The immediate cause Of Mr..
James, death was a surgical opera
tion for rupture the operation being
undertaken last night as the only
hope Of saving his life, ahich was
endangered by a rupture. He real.
ized that he could not live, aud last
night bade goodbye to a sweet little
girl who lives next door and who
was a favorite with him, and took
an afTectiouate leave Of bis other
friends. He never rallied from the
shock Of the operation, but gradu-
ally sank into unconsciOusness which
ended in Ills death
Mr.. james vas born in 1880 at
Illogar, Cornwall. England, being
one Of four sons and one daughter
Of James James lie came to
America when be was five years Old,
lived for a time at Mineral Point,
Wis, and also ten years in California.
lie came TO Des Moine- about
eighteen years ago. November 8,
1876, he was married 70 Miss
Hannah =. Brookings, Of this city,
who survives him They have no
children.
Mr.. James was an excellent man