Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1889-03-28
THE LATEST KILOGRAMS
GENERAL NOTES.

! DIVIDEND OF per cent. mas Dsen de-
clared by the directors OF the Chicago,
Milwaukee and st. Paul Railroad, pay
able April 26.
THK ssloops of Omaha we're sll closed
last Sunday, and the result was that only
three arrests we're made for drunkenness,
against a former average Of thirty.
THE excitement in Lower California
over the recent discovery Of gold Is in
crossing and hundreds of men are leav-
ing for the mines.
The medical bill to bar out all but the
so-called regular profession from prac-
tioe in the State of Rhode Island vas
killed in the House.
A BILL was passed by the Michigan
bouse Tuesday prohibiting the sale of
liquor in any place of amusement or any
adjacent room by vote OF 81 70 10.
THE ice on the $500" river ia fast dis
| appearing, and vessel men believe the
800" canal will be open for navigation
about April To-
Or tbs men who were in Congress wheu
Hannibal Hamliu entered il, only three
besides himself are now aliye-Bradbary
of Maine, Fitch, of Michigan, and Jeffer
son Davis.
S. +. Gross, the gentleman seleoted by
tina Laborities as their candidate for
Mayor Of Chicago, has made a formal
declinatiOn of the nomination.
The oil market at Pittsburg Pa, was
/ in ferry Wednesday, and the excite
ment YVES such es had not been seen OF
the exchange for months, the fuotu-
ations during the day being so rapid that
IL was i'm possible to follow then.
A CAEApGAN paper wants to know why
! 8 100000 Canadians should pay more to
| be governed than 100000 Americans
! pay. The thirteen cabinet officers at o.
tawa receive 100000 a year while the
eight Cabinet officers of the United
States receive $4,000
The annual report of the Chicago, Bur
!inRton aud Qaincy Road shows deficit
Of 81, 33l ,425 IN the finances of the com
pany. The directors charge it mainly to
the late strike.
! JACKSON, Mieh.-Austin Blair, Miohi-
gan's famous war governor, has been i'll
since his return from the inaugural cere-
monies at Washington. His illness has
now taken Il more serious turn, and his
condition is critical
! AusrHALtAS school teachers have been
| exhotted to suppress peculiar nasal
| twaug in the voice that is developing IN
the rising generation, and which is be-
| coming as distinctive as the Yankee
twaug.
Az the sale at Chickering Hall, New
York, of the Erwin Davis collection of
! paintings, Bastiah Lepage's Joan of
| Arc" brought $23 400 and Troyon's pas
turage in Normandy brought $4,000.
In ALL 143 paintings which we're sold,
brought SPAS $50.
The elopement and marriage " Miss
Pauline Fuller, daughter of the chief
! Justice OF the United States, is announced
from Milwaukee, where the Young lady
was welded to James M. Aubrey, Jr., of
| Chicago, Tuesday night.
VIM, S. JACKSON, the husband of the late
| Helen Hunt Jackson, better known in the
/ literary world as al. H., was married 70
| his third wife in Colorado Springs a few
days ago He is prosperous banker in
| that city, and Is well known as a shrewd
railroad manager.
| TuEBE is much bitterness felt by the
| negroes in SUrth Carolina over the pass
| age of bill in the Legislature providing
| for an election law, which provides that
all boxes shall be labelled aud that voters
/ shalt approach the poll one NJ a time and
! place their several ballots in the proper
boxes The bill will seriously affect the
| illiterate negro element in the S ate
MNNEAroLts.-JChn Abrahamson, a
lumbermSn, with years earnings in his
pocket, played the Coal Oh Johnny act
ON Heunepin avenue lie was found by
an officer with hi hands full of gold COINS,
which he was scattering among crowd
OF gamins. He had upward OF $500 on
his person when arrested.
PURCELL, l. T.--Oklahoma Hill and
party have sent telegraphio message
to President Harrison to the effect that
the situation IN Oklahoma il critical and
that it rs a national necessity TO have
action taken at once, The telegram con
oludes: III the thousands of actual,
honest settlers olamoring for admittance
are com PEELED to depend upon the right
% settlement until too late to make
crop actual starvation will follow"
A CORPORATION has been organized for
the purpose of making moLey out OF the
location Of the capital of South Dakota.
The G pital stock lie 81 o00,0 600, which is
divided into shares of $40 each. These
shares are TO be sold to the voters, and
the money vii! be used in buying land at
a place which viii be most suitable, and
the voters, who, of course, will be stock
holders in the corporation, will vote for
the capital TO BE located there, thus
causing boom in their own property.
GANG of train robbers boarded q
train on the Pittsburg a1d Lake Erie
road, near Shannopen, Pa, Tuesday, and
beat a brakeman named Clearly to insen
sibility. They were driven off by the 9th
ar train hands without securing any
booty. A posse OF citizens started in
pursuit and captured nine of the gang.
FOREIGN.