Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-06-13

100000, has just accepted an election
20 the Office oil Sheriff Of Kent county II
that State, an office worth $500 or $500 a
year.
The competition of distinguished
marksmen ia the army will take place
this year at the Bellevue Range, near
Omaha, Neb., commencing on Aug. q,
aud will BE- conducted by Major Guy v.
Henry, of the Ninth Cavalry. The com
banding officers of the different depart
menis have been ordered 70 select the
participants, numbering twenty in al.
UNITED STATES CONSUL MASON. of Mar
settles, writes to the State Department
that the effects of the general and unre-
strained absiuthe drinking IN France are
now recognized ss forming basis of one
of the grevest dangers which threaten the
physical and moral Welfare of the French
people.
DETROIT, Mich.-The heavy fall OF snow
for this season of the year IS reported
from several parts of the state. At
Sohooicraft the snow IL four inches deep,
while at Portland and Flint the average
depth il two inches, but owing to the
heavy wind it has drifted to much great
er depth. Damage 70 crops IS very great.
BABABoo, Wis.-The hardest frost of
the prevailing cold spell fell here We'd
uesday night, and reports from different
sections show that the corn aud grain
crop is entirely ruined. The tender vege-
tation was all cut town, and in some local
tiles ice formed one eighth of an inch
thick.
TIE council between representatives. Of
the Sioux Indians and the Government
Commissioner, relative 20 the proposed
sale Of a certain portion OF the Sioux res
ervatiol for settlement was opened et
Rosebud Agency South Dakota on Tues
day afternoon.
FIVE thousand men are nov euga9ed in
the work OF cleaning away the debris and
searching for bodies at Johustown. The
Indications are that the estimate OF y 900
TO 5000 will not exceed the actual nun
Der of lives lest when al is known The
militia is in possession OF all the town
aud its approaches, and sight seers and
curiosity seekers axe debarred from enter
ing. Good order prevails sni the home
less and destitute are being cared for as
amply n possible.
BosToN man invited some twenty
friends to dinner the other day, aud ex-
bibited a cooking apparatus on which "a
dinner of several COURSES had been pre-
pared by himself IN short time, AID at
cost OF only 1 cent for fuel. The process
of cooking was free from fumes, and
these present we're delighted with the
machine. 1t will doubtless be called the
patient cook, and will be welcomed in
al "a IF o. al nj
sion spoilers who infest the average
household.
ASHLAND, Wis.-The Ashland Press,
which has been run as a weekly news
paper by ex Lieut.. Governor Fifield, for
seventeen years, has been sold 20 j. IA.
Chapple, who will assume charge tO-mor
row. Chapple is said TO be financially
backed by a syndicate of local repubii-
cans. TIL, Press has also been published
as an afternoon daily for fifteen months.
Fltield viii retire from active newspaper
work.
SPEAKING Of the Prince OF Wales an
American newspaper man now in London
says: "Personally there is not better
fellow walking. on Broadway. He is gu
ll.round man, and his accurate knowl
edge on all sorts OF subjects is simply
phenomenal. Talk with him on yachting
hunting, sport of any kind, the theater,
current literature OF art, aud he Is thor
oughly posted. Home and foreign poll
tics he has at his 6ngers' ends, and he
knows what il going on all over the
world. He would make an ideal editor.
He Is an iudefatigasle worker and he'd
be a whole staff ia himself"