Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-12-05
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

glish author, is dead.
THE insurance on property destroyed by
the great fire at Lynn, Mass, amounts to
&. IA, $50.
THERE is a young giantess six feet eight
inches high, said absolutely to be only -
years old, on exhibition in London. She is
Don Cossack.
The Santa Cruz Athletic Club has tele-
graphed John /. Sullivan that it will
give $50 600 for finish fight between
him and Peter Jackson, the fight to take
place on the beach near Santa Cruz.
SHEBoYGAN, Wis.--The Rev. John
Jacob Hoffman, the Lutheran minister Of
lawsuit fame, has secured judgment for
$3.50 against twelve Of his former congre-
cation who evicted him The case was
tried at West Bend, and nine Of the de-
PENDANTS were found guilty.
LYNN Mass. The board of assessors
made an official statement Of the valuation
placed upon the burned property this year
placing the figures at 81 900, 500 and the
number Of buildings burned at $50
MONROE Wis. At the county farm is
a man with his neck broken. He is con
scious but cannot move muscle Of his
body VIII power is completely cut off
from the forces which it naturally would
govern and control There Is no hope Of
his recovery, yet he cannot die; he has lain
in tins condition over two months.
ir curious fact that the late Colonel
Goodloe, Of Kentucky, had presentiment
Of approaching death When he was
offered the Russian mission he found that
be could not afford to accept the place
He said ut the time 10 an intimate
friend II wish ] could go. have feel
ing that if stay in Kentucky ! won't live
a year
DENVER. The entire herd Of cat
tie Of nearly fifteen thousand head be-
longing 10 Ex-senator Dorsey in northern
New Mexico. are advertised to be sold
under a mortgage and sale at Clayton,
New Mexico, December % TO satisfy a
pomissory note given to George Il. Swat
low for "a 0s0 together with interest
amounting to $40 800 and costs and ex
penses Of sale.
F1NpLAY, O.-Notice has been served by
all railway lines entering the city that
hereafter all oil for shipment must be de-
llyered at freight houses I'm barrels. This
Is construed as blow at independent re-
liners and in the interest of the Standard
Oil Company, which transports nearly all
Its oil by pipe line. with which it is claim
ed independent refiners can not compete
except by the use ottank-cars
CHICAGO. H. w. Bidgood, cashier oil
the n c. Fredericton Land company, has
been arrested on charge of conspiracy with
his employers in defraudlng eX-G0g. John
4 oil .F
eriksen would have been arrested had he
not ned. He is supposed to be en- route
for Europe with his family, and the police
have been warned to look out for him. The
charge involves $1,000 600. Ex-GOv !
of the Merchants Exchange bank, Mil
waukee. $40 coo.
While in Milwaukee. eX-Gov. Rice wits
offered 10 per cent. yearly ON all money
loaned by an agent of the Fredericton com
pany who mentioned Rudolph Nunne-
macher as a reference of the firms stand
ing Nh Nunnemacher assured Mr. Rice
that the firm was thoroughly reliable, and
the ex-governor advanced money. receiv-
ing first mortgages on farm lands of un-
questioned title, the mortgages ut first be-
ing accompanied by full abstract of
lltit. Altsi llust uioHtiN lilt mortgages
began to be sent in advance to the abb
strdcts and finally no abstracts were sent
whatever The loans became larger, but
no suspicion of crookedness was aroused
until two months ago, when +. c. Cowie,
Mr. Riee's son-m-law, MS the western agent
of the firm, purchased Santa Fe railroad
tract of land for $4,000. belonging TO the
Maxwell Land campany The firm sold the
land for 81 an acre, retaining all over
8I25.
August Olson, Of perley, Wis, is in the
hole to the extent of 1896 This was in
payment for a part of the 10000 acre tract
Frederikseu operated in Polk county, Wis
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