Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-02-13
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

A Boston sign bears the artless inscrip-
ton, Cigars and cigarettes sold on the
Sabbath for medical purposes only.
WILLIAM Thomson, of Bluefeld. Tenn.
probably leads all centsnarians in this
country. He claims to be l27 years old,
and has records and documents to sub
stantiaie his claim.
A KANSAS Cry family consists Of six
brothers, whose names are as follow; Jack
Frost. Winter Frost, White Frost. Cold
Frost, Early Frost, and Snow Frost.
News from st. Louis is to the effect that
steps have been taken to form the National
Linseed Oil Trust into a corporation, with
capital Of 3l8,000,00
CHICAGO, III. ~ The will Of the late
ex-Lieutenant Governor Bross, has
been probated. The deceased left his
estate about s475 900, bequeathed chiefly
to his widow, daughter and grand children.
BUSINESS is going forward as usual at
the Sixth National and Equitable banks, Of
New York, and there is no outward evil
dence OF the trouble Of last week. The
Lenox Hill Bank has not yet resumed.
Az English paper says that a syndicate
is being formed in that country for the
purchase from this Government of the
forest lands Of Alaska.
SCRANTON, Pennsylvania ~ Powderly
instituted a Hit for criminal libel
against Edward Callaghan. The warrant
for Callaghan's arrest will be issued to-
morrow. The trouble grows out of mat
ter written by Callaghan during the recent
trouble with Powderly.
DURING a terrific storm recently the
light house keeper at Tillamook Rock, on
the Pacific coast, says the spray was thrown
clear over the lamp chimney, $50 feet
above sea level, while a piece Of basalt 81
pound weight was lodged on the roof of
his house, ITO feet from the sea.
IL the New York State Senate at Albany
Wednesday the Assembly World fair bill
was put upon its final passage, as amended,
and, failing to receive the seventeen votes
necessary TO its passage, was declared lost.
motion TO reconsider was tabled, which
knocks out the bill beyond hope Of resur-
rection
LUCIA ZARATE, the smallest human
being that ever lived, died on the snow
bound trains in the Sierra Neyadas. She
WdH hboht ~ JtfuA VI dRt' was ltIttttif
formed, had pretty little face and came
nearer 10 being a living doll than any Of
The midgets the world has known. She
was twenty-six inches in height. The
children of the United States, who were
fond of her, will be sorry to hear of her
death
MARGANNA, Ark. John Kelley, a
lumberman, on last Saturday heard that
his wife from whom he was separated fol
about a year, was too intimate with 10
year-old boy. He went to Mrs, Kelley s
house and shot the boy, killing him in
stantly Mrs Kelley fred twice at her
husband who then shot and killed her
Kelley wounds were only slight. He has
not yet been apprehended.
THE remains Of Mrs Alice Coppinger,
eldest daughter Of Secretary Blaine, were
inferred on Tuesday at Oak Hill Cemetery
Washington. Brief services We're held ut
the Blaine residence in Madison place,
after which the body was taken to St.
Matthew s Catholic Church, where Cardinal
Gibbons read the burial service in the
presence of the deceased 5 relatives and a
numerous concourse Of people, which IN
Guided President and Mrs. Harrison, mem
bers of the Cabinet and their wives, the
Diplomatic Corps and all the delegates to
the international American Conference