Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-05-02
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

WILLIE f. WEloA, I2-y csr.oId boy at
Rockland, Me-, died Tuesday from inn
moderate cigarette smoking.
TIE idea that fish food was brain food
mad run Of ten years before anyone ask
ed why Esquimaux, who eat the most fish,
had no mental smartness.
GOLD has been found on the farm of
John Carroll at Tilden, station twelve
miles from Red Lake Falls, MINI, and
the people in that vicinity are making a
rush for wealth.
BILL NYE has Cancelled all his engage
meuts and has returned with his wife 20
New YORK, where their children are sick
with BY phoid fever. James Whitcomb
Riley will return 70 indianapolis.
THE body OF Paul Lemoyne lumber
man Of Chippewa Falls, Wis, who disap-
peared two weeks ago, was found in the
river Tuesday. One hundred dollars were
found in his pockets.
The question of constitutional amend
menr was voted on in Massachusetts
Monday. The amendment was defeated
by majority of from 5000 to 10000.
FgARs are entertained that the United
States war-ship MonOngshela, which
-ailed for Samoa over sixty days ago, has
been lost, as no reports have been re-
ceiycd OF her arrival.
THE Michigan legislature has passed
the bill providing for the inspection on
boot of all the beef consumed in the
state.
SHISGE KUs1DA, q young Japanese w0m-
an who has been doing good work among
her people as a temperance lecturer, is TO
be ssnt TO the United States TO study the
methods mere.
PoeroE.-- Returns are Low being re-
oe we'd from the cities aud towns of the
vote for and against the prohibition
amendment. The total vote for the
amendment ia $500; against, l35,l95;
showing a majority against the amend
ment Of A 499.
JuDaE WurrE of Pittsburgh, Pa, has
issued only 254 wholesale and retail liquor
licenses in the county this year, and a
this is only about one fourth of the mum
Der issued two years ago, the liquor ele-
ments of Pittsburgh and Allegheny are
much excited over the matter.
NEw BEDFORD, M6ss.-Mrs. Frances
FO,som Cleveland, wife of Ex-President
Cleveland, who was in Ne ron two yeras
ago, when she adjourned there for the
summer, is again TO take up her residence
there, having leased the cottage of the
Rev. Percy Browne.
The organization of the International
congress of women TO be held in Europe
this year is the main topic of CONVERSE
ton among women's societies every where
IL
lag upon IL as a means OF widening the
field of feminine energies. At the con
gress many great qnestlonsswill be dis
cussed. One of them Is The Influence
OF Woman on Human Society"
KANSAS CIrY.-A Times Purcell special
says; Thousands of disappointed home.
stead seekers returning from Oklahoma,
are obtaining lots from the Indiana in
the Chicasaw, Choctaw and Greek nations.
| Many of the Indians welcome the
I white settlers and some are said to favor
the allotment in severelty of their reser-
walton.
PHILLIPS BHooKs is catching it for hav.
! ing come out against prohibition. Rev.
j Howard Smith, in the Amendment, tells
him that he is in the company of pub
licaus and sinners, and that his uttetaEces
are appauded in the ante chambers of
nell. II ia remarkable, says an exchange,
! by the way, how much some rabid euthu
siasts seem TO know about the state of
| public opinion in the lower regions.
A SpRrNaEIf1D dispatch states that sew
erol hundred people at Oak Ridge Park
on sunday went to see Mrs. King, a
negress, turn water INTO wine by prayer.
! The Effort failed, OF course, aud now M 's,
| King 10 without honor as worker of
miracles. The woman attracted consid
cradle attention at Spring field last winter
| by fasting forty days and nights. AZ her
meeting 70 day she declared that she had
nbstautd from food since April 4.