Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-02-28
nooiemen asking about the prospects of
making living in the United States.

noblemen asking about the prospects of
making living in the United States.
MISS NELLIE O'DoNsEL, who has been
elected superintendent of public schools
In Shelby county, Tennessee, ia only 22
years of age.
| lHE people of Lincoln, Neb., pretty
generally turn out to church of sunday
unless the weather Is bad or some minis.
Ter mas announced that be is going 20
/ preach on Robert Elsmere."
IT has been discovered IA alleged that
barbed wire was patented in France.
/ April 10 1865, winch under ruling of
the U. s. Supreme court will iuvalidats
the Ghdden aud other patents.
| doTTHoLD MERKERT, of Mount Healthy,
ONO, sutoided Sunday by jumping into
well and freezing to death. The vel! was
40 narrow and the water 80 shallow that
IT was impossible for him TO drown, so he
remained and froze 10 death.
The supreme court of Michigan has
decided that the so called social clubs of
the state, where liquor is dispensed to
the members, must take out licenses Is
retail liquor dealers or disband.
I 5. n. MIDDLEBRooK, of East Bridge.
port, Conn, has been informed by a
fortune teller as 10 the whereabouts Of
Capt, hidd's buried treasure, and has OBJ
fained assistance in search of IL. Mr.
Middlebrook is confident of success.
TAX payers of Rhode Island have pre-.
sented petition to the Legislature stat
ing that they feel that the proposed pro.
hibitiou amendment will be injurious to
nnHIHeHz ali ipfr hot 10 L.
killed,
The half-breed Indians, of Dakota, still
resist paying taxes. The sheriff took
several of their horses, but mounted
band regained possession of them. The
national guards have been called out
JOHN JAooB Aston is called the richest
man in New York TO day, his fortune,
which is mainly in real estate, being esti-
mated az $lO0,000,000. He is about sew
enty years of age and a widower.
Mrs. CORNELIUS VAsDERBILT when she
gives dinner parties, uses a solid gold
dinner service SGT with uncut gems and
with some courses Dresden and Sevres
plates worth more than one hundred dol
ars apiece.
JOHN q. BORDEN, of New York who
spends his winters In Florida, has offered
premium of 900 to- the Florida city
which shall present the most oleaDly sp
pearance on July l. The state board of
health are to act as judges.
Mrs. HABg,soS, wife of the president
elect, is very fond of good literature. SIC
is a leading member of the Katherine
Merrill literary club, of indianapolis.
L he popularity of this organization is
10 ms 10
gossip remarkable as that assertion may
be.
sidney BARTLETT, prominent and
still active member of the Boston bar, OBJ
served his ninetiesh birthday recently.
Although ten years the senior of Glad
stone, he is daily arguing complicated
cases with the same luoidity as in former
years. 1t is said that he has yearly
practice of 100000.
DANvILLE, nl.-Mrs. Fannie McMann,
baptized recently with several others
after the ice had been cut from the river
for that purpose, caught a very severe
cold and she Is now lying at deaths door.
The case has created much gossip and
interest, as she walked from the place of
immersion through the snow in her STOCK
ing feet, carrying 6 week-old baby in
her arms.
A TRAIN of eighty-ive wagons left Hun
newell, Kan, Wednesday morning, for
Oklahoma, and all along the line there is |
movements OF the boomers toward the |
promised land. They claim that this is |
not invasion, but they are merely anxious
to be on the Oklahoma line when the
country is declared open by congress,
which will, in their belief, be done in II
few days. They are we'll supplied with
farming implements to commence spring
work