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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21
ELECTRIC SPARKS.
Fires And Casualties.

john GAIFFIrHs, hardware dealer at
GAINESVILLE, Wis, failed On Friday.
A PRAIRIE fire has done great damage to
settlers near Huron, d. Il.
FIRE destroyed the Jackson wagon
shops, situated inside the penitentiery
walls, at Jackson, Mich.
FIRE destroyed the Camden Point Fee
male Orphan Asylum at Platte C;ty, Mo
The inmates all escaped with out injury.
Tue grain elevator of Finch d Hay
wood, Of Davenport, Iowa, burned with
contents Loss $4,000, and insurance
$4,000.
An epidemic Of dyptaeria is reported
at G5litzin, Pa, over a hundred deaths
having occurred from the disesse in the
last four monthsin population of 1000.
A DRUeGIsT's mistake caused the death
of ID Shull, who lived pear E'roy, Iowa.
Shull took dose OF oarbOlic acid, which
had been put up as alcohol.
CLIFTON HAIL, winter resort at Lake
wood, n. j., was burned. DR.. Wallace, Of
Philadelphia, had one of his legs broken
in jun ping from window, but all Of the
other guests escaped without injury. Lose,
FoA sVbhs
NEARLY twenty dogs, showing symp-
toms OF hydrophObia, at Terre Haute,
Ind have been shot in the last few days.
The mayor has issued a proclamation to
the effect that all unmuzzled dogs must
be killed.
Mr. CARMEL, Pa.-Intense excitement
prevails at the Black Diamond coliery,
where by running of the pillars six
miners wers closed in. Workmen are
driving headings for the purpose Of
libsrating their imprisoned companions,
but several hours must elapse before it
can be ascertained whether they are alive.
By the explosion of an underground
trap at the Standard Oil Refinery at
Lima, Ohio, Wednesday, John Gushing a
laborer, was literally annihilatee. He
was standing on the trap at the time of
the explosion, and has not been seen
since.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21
News in ISrtet.

A VOTING MACHINE has been introduced
into Detroit which successfully registers
tine ayes aud nays aud counts them by
machinery.
WILLIAM BURGESS, a Gamer at Mimico,
Ontario, disappeared Monday, leaving
liabilities estimated at $4,000.
DUNNO the past six weeks six deaths
have occurred az Belvidere, ILL.,, from the
effects of liquor.
O,AsA.-Mayor Broatch has issued an
order for the strict enforcement of the
Sunday saloon closing law. The saloons
have always been kept open on Sunday
heretofore.
WI. JorCr was convicted Wednesday
in the District Court at Seneca, kano of
selling Jamaics ginger in violation OF the
prohibitory Law.
Iur contest between bomestsaders snd
script owners opened az Marquette, Nlohr
Monday, IL promises TO be the most olt.
ter hght ON record.
A BILL providing for the Australian
system of voting in the larger cities OF
the state has been passed b. the Neoras-
Ia house.
IHE passenger boom caused b the in
auEuration has, it is reported, brought II
$500 eco for the Pennsylvania railroad
company
Ma sud Mrs. Cleveland have taken up
tS,lr abode iu New York at the Victoria
Hotel, fashionable family hostelry on
Upper Broadway owned by Mrs. Paran
Stevens.
CrrAlN joins EalcssoN, the famous
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21

THE DECAY OF THE LIGHTNING ROD MAN,
A Chicago newspaper has discovered
that there are only four Lightning rod
factories in the United States, in place Of
nearly one hundred twenty years ago. It
Jumps to the rash conclusion that people
have come TO regard the lightning rod az
a humbug This conclusion is entirely
uuwarrauted. White il IL true that nearly
one hundred factories Of twenty years
ago have been consolidated into four the
four turn ont more rods than the one
hundred did. A Pttsburg factory sold
100000 feet of lightning rods last year,
and there are enough rods manufactured
each year to girdle the globe and leave a
surplus sufficient to make a submarine
cable across the Atlantic But while
Lightning rods have not gone ont OF
fashion the lightning rod agent has He
was once considered equally with the blue
bird and robin a harbiuger of spring. He
has been voted g humbug, his long wagon
has fallen into inuoCuous desuetude and
his lying tongue les engaged in some other
form 1t deception. Lightning rods are
kept in stock by the regular hardware
dealers, aud the farmer sho wants electric
conductors measures hls buildings and
orders the exact number of feet he wants
Ihs. yItN- t.pvr.} roaggf5 ,r.. Boo. ,s,r q
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21
The Way Itis'Going.

Robert Sige, son of General Fam
Sigel Pension Agent a. New York, was
arrested yesterday on ohGzge Of forgery
and violating the pension laws. He has
been employed by hrs father as private
secretary and confidential ele-k, and has
been in the habit of exac.ing fees from
pensioners. The amounts he secured
ranged from 81 to $500. He confesses
having violated the laws over hundred
and fifty times. One charge against him
is the forging of the Endorsement of Sid
ney knight, blind veteran, by which
knight lost $500. His excuse for the
forgery was that he had procured the
pension for Knight, and that the latter
was satisfied with the amount which he
received. In default of $4,000 bail, Sige
was sent to Jail TO wait examination next
Tues day
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21

TINS is a great nation The next cen
sus will tell a story of Development that
will sound like a tale of fairyland. Con-
gressman Cox, who took the last census,
and has Just succeeded in engineering
the bill through for the census of 1890
thinks it will show ;he population Of the
G4,00G000. Few people realize what an
enormous task the taking OF national
census is. No less than $4,000 enumera-
tors will be employed, besides a hundred
state aud district supe yisor5, thousands
of special agents, experts, chiefs of
division and clerks, all working under the
supervision of the Census Commissioners.
On the Grst Monday IN June of next
year about $4,000 men will start out in
quest otinformatioD. They will knock
at the door Of every habitation in The
United States during the month, the en-
umetators in cites being required to
complete their labors IN half that time
Mr.. Cox estimates that when all these
reports on population come in they will
exceed in bulk 800 merchants ledgers,
and that the reports on other subjects
such "a taxation, schools, etc, would
make stack, If piled one above the
other, twice as high as Washington 5
monument The cost wall be about So
100000, OF little less than ten cents for
zach inhabitant, big and litts, of the
country. The greatest gains will be in
the West, but the South will show to
better advantage in point Of per cont OF
increase in both wealth and populatioE
than the East.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21
Some Mexican Superstirions

1t is believed that the murderer who
has slam his victim with sword or dagger
will escape if the body falls upon III side
or back; but if the body tails face down
ward, then the murderer surely soon Will
be captured and put to death. This be-
lief is said TO be so firmly rooted among
the people of northeastern Mexico, thai
when murdered man falls on his fset
mis- slayer makes no effort TO escape, and
even sometimes voluntarily surrendef:
himself to justice.
Il bride, while dressing for we'd
ding, is pricked with a pin so that blood
flows, great misfortune impends.
II two people think of the same thing
at the same time, soul is ioosed from
Purgatory.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21
4 RICH FIND.
A Marvellous Discovery of Gold Reported From
Lower California.


Lower California,
SAN Francisco, Ca!.-The go,1 e1-
element in Lower California near
Ensenada ia increasing and many people
are hocking from San Diego to the gold
fields. Work on the Cayagama & San
Diego Eastern railroad is stopped, the
workneR leaving in body for the
mines. Steamers between San Diego
and Eusenada have doubled their rates
but the rush continues and stages
are now running overland, carrying many
passengers direct for the mines, which
are situated about sixty miles southwest
of Ensensda. The San Diego papers de-
clare that the development covers lou
miles square ard that placer miners are
making a great deal of money, $4,000 IN
geld dust having been broUghs into
Ensenada and San Diego yesterday.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21
MINERAL POINT TRIBUNE
MINERAL POINT WISCONSIN

LORD RANDOLPH CHuRomLL follows up
his speech in the British House OF Com
mons against the naval proposals of the
government, by writing letter to the
Loudon Times breathing threatenings
and slaughter, aud talking sbout long
AID weary fght' at every stage # the bill.
In private Lord Churchill deDounces Bal
fourism, and those who remember his
speeches IN various parts of the kingdom
since his retirement as leade ia the
House of Commons, proelsiming the
doct inc OF the new tories, will readily IN
derstand that he has not entered upon his
present course without considering the
possibility Of Salisbury downfall. That
Churchill believes in some measure OF
local government for Ireland is beyond
dispute, and his advanced view az TO do
nestle legislation generally in bat re.
move from the regular liberal platform
The appearance % Lord Randolph
Churchill in the House Of Commons at
the present time is quite ss significant
~ his recent soiourn in Italy and France
10 may be Nkened to a heaAily armed
cruiser coasting about with sealed orders
The collapse of the London Times case
haze Violently brought him back to London,
and his frat step Is an attack upon the
governments navy estimates. The polit'
ioal situation 10 London is that OF an
armed truce. The Parnell comm ission
has adjourned until Tuesday at the re
quest of the Times, and the Gladstonians
seem disposed to delay their attack up
on the government until the final verdict
Of the commission is handed down, un-
less the navy estimates precipitate party
struggle. The fight over home ra.e 10
now virtually transferred TO the l)obles
OF the House Of Commons.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-21

When q frost is threatened in the col
fee districts of Guatemala the farmers
build IN furnaces provided for the par
pose, fires Of tar, pitch or other smoklhk
substances, which keep the frost away
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-26
A STRONG CLAIM.
A Good Point In Favor OF NEoman's Rep
resentation.

A Good Point In Favor of Voman's Rep
resentation.
In the reply of many distinguished
English women to the ladies' protest
against woman suffrage in the Nine
teenth Century, they make the follow
ing good point:
The ladies' protest gives prominence
to the fact that women's work for the
State Is different from that OF men, and
that many minor differences follow as
natural consequence from the funda-
mental difference OF sex. This differ
encc is one OF the strongest claims
which women have to representation.
II men and women were exactly alike,
and thought and felt alike on all sub
jects, II their work in the world wero
exactly the same, women would not
suffer. and the State would not suffer.
from the misrepresentation OF one part
OF the homogeneous mass. But. being
different, that wherein they differ re-
mains unrepresentei 1t is loss to
the State that women's knowledge of
home and domestic life, their experi-
ence on such subjects as the care OF
children and the service Of the poor.
should not have its weight in influence
ing the representation OF the country
and the course of legislation. 1t Is not
urged that these things, OF which wom-
en- have a special knowledge. should
have preponderating influence; but if
Parliament is to be the mirror OF the
nation, they should have their place in
the representative system. More
than one instance could be adduced in
which blunders have been made in
Parliament, because, while the naval,
military. banking, agricultural, and
other interests were fully and zealously
represented, the interests of the home
and domestic life were too much for
gotten.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-26
INGENIOUS INVENTION.
An Apparatus Which Winds All Sorts o
Clocks Automatically.

An Apparatus Which Winds All Sorts oi
Clocks Automatically.
Otto Urban, in Gross-Kikinda, is
we'll known as a first-class watch and
clock-maker. He invented an auto
matte apparatus for winding pendulum
clocks, which was much admired for
it's simple and practical mechanism.
1t is attached to the clock on one
side and to the door OF the room
on the other. A fine wire or a
catgut serves as transmission agent
By opening and closing the door the
mechanism is made TO work and the
clock is wound. TO keep the clock
running for twenty-four hours it will
be sufficient to open the door two or
three times.
When the clock is fully wound the
apparatus is stopped till the descend
ing weight is allowed to recommence
its work. Such automatic winding in
struments do not cost much, and its
construction can easily be made solid
and faultless.
In Austria Hungary the inventor has
applied for patent, but it seems his
invention only comprises clocks rum
ming by weights and doors. There is
an unlimited field for some young
genius to combine French mantel
clocks with the parlor sofa when the
gas is turned down; kitchen clocks
with the range door, the coal bin or
the washboard; bedroom clocks with
the front door latch and alarm clocks
with the cats on the root. Jewellers
Weekly.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-26
Facts Concernin e Railroads.

It is claimed that the fastest time on
record was made over the Philadelphia
q Reading railroad. The time was
ninety-two miles in ninety-three min
utes. one mile being made in forty-six
seconds.
The chances for loss OF life in rail-
road accidents in this country are one
person killed for every 10000, 900 car
ried. Statisticians claim that more
people are killed every year by falling
out of windows than there are in rail-
road accidents.
The Canadian Pacific railway ex-
tends further east and west than any
other road in the country. 1t runs
from Quebec to the Pacific Ocean.
The cantilever span in the Pough-
keepsie bridge is the longest railway
bridge span in the United States. Its
length is 54S feet
The Kinzua viaduct, on the Erie
railroad, is the highest railroad bridge
in the United States. 1t is sos feet
high.
The longest railway tunnel in Amer
lea is the Hoosac tunnel, on the Fitch
burg railroad. 1t is four and three
tourths miles long.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
system operates more mileage than
any other single corporation In the
United States. 1t covers about 5000
miles. American Commercial Travel-
leE
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-26
SCHOOL. AND CHURCH.

-Pundita Ramabai has named her
home for high-caste Hindu widows
"Sharada Sadan," or 1.-The Home Of
Learning"
1t is proposed to establish the
"Lucy Webb Hayes Seminary" at
Fremont, O., in memory OF that
noble lady.
An English clergyman is reported
to have remarked to daughter Of
Bishop Huntington: "Has your father
many Mormons in his dioceseP Utah,
l think, is in New York"
That old motto of Wesley's is
not out of date yet Suppose the
members OF all our churches, in city
and in country, should adopt it, what
grand things might be achieved before
our second centennial: "At it, all at it,
always at it.
"A clergyman in the London SUBJ
urbs has resolved to give garden
party on Sabbath afternoons. The
people do not come to his church in
such numbers as he could wish. and
he is going to see whether tea, fruit
and lemonade will draw them in the
afternoon.
Under the ancient order of the
Congregational churches man was
constituted pastor only by installa.
tion. But the churches to large ex-
tent are served by stated supplies or
'ncting pastorS." The last National
Council decided that those who do the
work should bear. the title of pastors.
The Turkish Government recently
sent out an important order to the
Governor-General of the different
provinces declaring that established
American schools shall not be closed
for the lack of official permits, and
that complaints against schools must
be sent to the capital and not be dealt
with by the local officials
According to the Presby yterian
there is a sharp difference of view in
the Lutheran church of this country
over rule forbidding the opening OF
Lutheran pulpits to ministers of any
other denomination, even to any share
in services Certain clergymen have
transgressed the rule occasionally.
and this has led to sharp discussion
and the widening of a breach which
looks sometimes as though it might
grow into disruption.
Prof. Edward P. Crowell, of Am.
herst College, dean of the faculty and
professor of Latin language and liter.
ature, is stone blind. When he lost
his eyesight, some five years ago, he
rendered his resignation to the trus'
tees. but they refused to accept it.
Prof. Crowel!'s knowledge of the text
books was such that he is able to hear
his classes as usual, and to conduct
recitations as though he had the oper
book before him. He breaches and
performs his duties as dean of the col.
lege the same as ever.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-26
SUFFRAGE SELECTIONS.


AN Equal Rights association was re-
Gently organized by Miss Laura Clay at
London, Ky, with Mr.. w. R. Ramsey
as president.
Miss BoYNToN, on class day at Cor
nell, claimed that mot the better half,
but the larger half of the population
should have voice in the govern
ment"
The Dorothy is proposed new club
in New York where women can get
luncheon or all their meals. If necessa-
ry, meet one another and have access
to publications that women are inter-
ested in.
AS PROOF that il accorded the ballot
women would not peglect their homo
responsibilities, there was the fact that
the first ballot cast in Wyoming Terri
tory by a woman was dropped into the
box as she was on her way, pitcher in
hand. to purchase yeast
ALL honor to the man who strikes
for Justice, and wishes to elevate his
mother and wife to platform of per-
feet equality with himself! Sex domi-
nation is destined, in the near future,
to be as much out of date as knee
breeches and ruffled shirts. Southern
Journal.
THE Boston Herald is opposing wom-
an suffrage. but after comparing the
list of English women who demonstrate
against woman suffrage with those who
petition for it, the Herald says: TAX.
ing rank for rank and woman for
woman, the suffragists have the lead
among people who do not give their
assent to cause Il Ut is doomed to fail.
ure."
In addition to the two women's suf-
frage associations already existing in
England, new "Women's Franchise
League" has just been formed. Mrs.
Alice Scatcherd has been active in or
ganizing it. Its especial object will be
the abolition OF all the legal disabilities
of married women in relation to prop
erty, etc, and their admission to the
franchise on the same terms as single
women.
The parade that was made with the
names of eminent English women who
did not favor woman suffrage is quite
outdone by the publication in the
Fortnightly Review of 400 names OF
women Of high social and literary dis.
tinction who do favor the enfranchise-
meut Of their sex. these selected from
1900 names sent in TO signify their ap-
proval OF female suffrage. The cause
has made great progress in the country
where the grandest of statesmen we
mean Gladstone, Of course-gives it
his unqualified and powerful support
Women will vote in Parliamentary
elections, We predict. before even Mas
sachusetts corrects herself - Greenfield
Gazette and Courier.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-26
Woman's Help.

As a matter of fact, no contested cleo.
tion now passes without each party
availing itself of the help OF women. 1t
is not intended here to argue whether
this is desirable or undesirable in itself;
but it must be obvious that it is state
of things which puts the quiet, retiring
woman, to whom the publicity and
rowdyism OF elections are distasteful at
a disadvantage. 1t would be easy for
such woman to walk to the polling
booth and give vote; but SO long as
women may make speeches and canvass
electors, but not vote, the quiet, typic-
ally domestic woman is precluded from
the only expression of her political
views which would not be repugnant or
impossible to her. -Fortnightly
view
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-26
MARRY A MANI

Don't marry man TO reform himi
To God and your own self be true.
Don't link to his vices your virtue;
You'll rue it, dear girl, II you do.
No matter how fervent his pleadings,
Be not by his promises lead;
II he can't be a man while a-wco ing,
He'll never be one when he's wed.
Don't marry man to reform him
TO repent II, alas, when too late;
The mission of wives least successful
Is the making OF crooked lint straight.
There's many maiden has tried 1t,
And proved it failure at last;
Better tread your lfe's pathway alone, dear
Than wed with lover that's fast"
Mankind's much the same the world over;
The exceptions you'll find are but few;
When the rule is defeat and disaster,
The chances are great against you.
Don't trust your bright hopes for the future
The beautiful crown OF your youth,
no the keeping of him who holds lightly
His fair name OF honor and truth.
To ''horor and love- you must promise;
Don't pledge what you can not fulfil.
II he'll have no respect for himself, dear,
Most sure y you, then, never will.
'Tls told OF us the frown Of a woman
Is strong rs the blow OF man.
And the world will be better when women
Frown on rror as hard us they can.
Make virtue the price OF your favor;
Place wrong-doing under ban;
And let him who will win and wed you
Prove himself in full measure man!
--Woman's Journal.
Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1889-09-26
HUMOROUS.

Will you marry me, BridgetP" a
widower of year asked his cook
"How many afternoons a week out
kin | have, sorrp" she asked in reply.
-Harper's Bazaar.
1t was only the other day that
man who swore that he ouldn't cut
his hair until Henry Clay was elected
President thought of q way out of it.
He let his wife cut it.-Texas Siftings.
We want it to be distinctly under
stood that we are not one of those real
mean old things that believe that
woman is at the bottom Of every
earthly trouble, but we must admit
that the demand for sealskin sacques
has had more or less to do with the dis
turbances about Behring sea. Wash
ington Post.
--Maude-''Algernon, you know a
year ago l told you | would not marry
you until you had saved $4,000" AL
gernon-''Yes, but" Maude-"A
six months ago | told you | thought
we could get along on $1,000" AL
gernon-''B still" Maude-"Well.
how much have you by this timer"
Algernon-"Exactly 1885, g." Maude
Don't you think that-that-that is
near enoughP"-Time.
He wasn't bunco man. ibid
you see any bunoo men while you
were in New York, Uncle Abner?"
mo, sir, not one.n "a understand that
you met slick stranger who beat you
out of $3.50" "Um-ah-well-yes,
got playing cards one night and luck
was against me to about that amount,
but that fellow want a bunco man.
If he was he'd have said SO. Your
Uncle Abner knows enough to steer
clear of those bunco fellows. Epoch.
Small boy-"Pa, what is the diff
ference between pessimist and an
optimist?" Pa-.'Well, let rue see il
can illustrate. You know I'm often
discouraged. and things don't look to
me as If they'd ever go right Well, at
such times | can be said to be pessi.
mist. But years ago when l was a
young man every thing looked bright
and rosy, and / was always hopeful
Then / was an optimist. Now, my son,
can you understand the difference be-
tween a pessimist and an optimistP
Small boy-"Oh, yes; one is married
and the other isn't. IN. Y. Weekly.
Inventor "Eurekal Eure-"
Kansas Rustler - "What air you
Eurekerin' about7n Inventor = 81
have just completed my duplex indi-
Gator, little instrument that will in
form its possessor Of the approach oi
a cvclone before" Rustler -"Wal,
you've wasted your time. Nobody'll
buy. What we want yere is an indi.
Gator that'll inform its possessor ol
the approach of Eastern capitalist
soon's he gifts across the county line
and give the feller with the indicator
time TO grab up his corner lot deed:
and git to the capitalist fore anybody
else knows hess comm. Tuck.