Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1888-06-14
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS.
GENERAL NOTES.

SEVENTEEN YEAR loeusts appeared in
swarms Monday, at Clinton, Iowa.
GENERAL SHERrDAN's salary will now be
$13 900, instead of $1,000 as heretofore
john G. WHITTIER sent a dispatch of
conglatulation to EN- peror Dom Pedro on
the abolition of slavery in Brazil
Or the 100000 required to build the
Grant Monument but $4,000 have been
received.
The internal revenue collections in the
Peoria (Gll.) district for May we're 81 ,295,-
21434.
JAMES B HAYES Chief Justice OF the
| Supreme Court of Idaho Territory,
died at his home in Boise City, aged As
years.
THE business failures for the week in
the United States and Canada number
2o5, against 225 last week.
The condition of the Rev. James Free
man Clarke remains unchanged. His re-
covery is despaired of.
THE State election in Oregon resulted
in a com plete Republican victory. "The
| first gun of the campaign"
AMONG the passengers who sailed from
/ New York for Europe on Saturday, were
| Robert L. Lincoln, of Chicago, and Sack
! vllle West, the British Minister at Wash
ington.
COLONEL R. & INaERsoLL, in the Juue
/ North American Review, undertakes to re-
! ply to Mr.. Gladstone's recent review of
his atheistic and infdel notions.
CLINTON B FISK of New Jersey is the
| prohibition candidate for president, and
John A. Brooks of Missouri for vice presi
dent
Tx SEN. TABOR of Colorado, was using
as a paper weight the other day in his
private Office bar of gold that was val
ued at $12 600. 1t bad come from his
Vuture niue, in New Mexico.
REV j. MCCLELLAN FIsKE, of Proyi
dence. X. l., has been elected Bishop of
the Episcopal diocese of Fond du Lac
Ms, 30 fill the vacancy caused by the re-
cent death of Bishop Brown.
GENERAL CLINTON B. FIsKE, the prohi-
bition leader, IL very popular among the
Methodists of New Jersey. His good
wife is also particularly cons Picuous in
the affairs of that church.
The Legislative investigation of charges
against the Iowa university came to
sudden stop, when the committee learned
that proper provision for their expenses
had not been made and that they could
not draw on the state treasury. They had
| already incurred bills amounting TO
| $1,000.
! GovEBNoR pGLL of New York has sign
cd the bill passed by the late Legislature
abolishing hanging and substituting
therefor death by electricity for all muir
ders committed after January, 1889, for
which sentence of death shall be decreed.
In lake called Kawakita Gaia, Japan,
a new island which is about $50 feet long
and 1902 feet wide is said to have sprung
up during the night of April % 1t is
also said that a sandy hill, about $50 feet
distant from the lake, was followed out
during the same night.
The question of uniting with the
! United Presbyterian Church was almost
imam mously opposed IN the General Sy'
nod of the Reformed Presbyterian
! Churcn. The Constitution of the United
States was denounced as being a virtual
| agreement 10 administer the government
without reference to Christ or the Christ
| ian religion
TuE health of New YORK compares very
unfavorably with that of london. The
annual mortality in the British metvopo-
| lis is about 20 N 1000 while in New York
it is 26 in 1000. The population of New
YORK is also more crowded, there being
an average of rs persons 70 dwelling,
while IN London the average is only z,
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