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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02
FOREIGN.

Du VERNERs has positively decided
to resign as German minister of war.
MAJOR Won NORMAN commandment Of
the cadet schoo. in Berlin. has killed
himself by taking poison.
IT is reported that the Emperor William
will visit the United States in 1893, IN
which event he will view the worlds fair.
Gov. SCuULTz's steam yacht keewatin
was lost on Lake Winnepeg. Three mount
ed police were lost.
In an interview with an English Catho-
lie nobeman, the pope said that he fer
vently hoped for a renewal of permanent
diplomatic relations with England.
THE Berlin Post announces that Gen.
Leszeynski has been appointed minister OF
war to succeed Nernois
IN a duel between Lieut.. Bete-
stacer and Lieut.. Garder, the former was
killed. The duel is the result of quar-
rel in a Berlin restaurant.
SLAvIN and McAuliffe were arraigned in
a London police court, and were each
bound over to keep the peace in FL 600,
each prisoner furnishing one surety.
IT is reported that civil war Is imminent
in Chill owing the contest between con-
gress and the preSi lent, who refuses to
choose new cabinet. The president is
backed by the troops, while congress has
the support of the people.
IT is reported that the Spanish govern
meat is placing a Gordon OF troops along
tine frontier of Portugal in consequence OF
the apprehenSions of a revolution IN that
country.
The Canadian government will shortl!
abolish the export duty on Canadian log
shipped to the United States. This vii
be carrying out the promise made at the
I last session Of parliament by Sir John Me
( Donald, wro said he would abolish TIT
duty it the American government reduce,
tn, import duty on Canadian lumber one
half
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02
latest NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

CHRISTOPHER CONRAD. living near Man
chester, Ia, celebrated his 10th birthday.
The Cincinnati board of education has
reinstated all the married teachers who
were recently dropped from the rolls.
THE slavery clauses will be left out of the
Kentucky constitution.
O.P. PILLsBURG, the wealthy Michigan
lumberman, who moved to Milwaukee,
from Muskegon few year. ago, Is dead
NELSON, the stallion owned by Nelson,
of Maine, trotted a mile over the kanka-
kee, ILL.,, track in 2:l2, equalling Axtell 5
time.
Rev. J. J. FAUDE, of Minneapolis, re
ceived an anonymous letter warning him
to discontinue his sermons attacking the
Roman church.
Col. 0. H. MOORE, of Coldwater, Mich,
the one man who refused to surrender at
Tibbs Bend, Ky. in 1863, and cut his way
through Mosby euerrillas shouting Yam
KEGS never surrender on the Fourth of
July, 4" has just been sent to an insane asy-
lum.
A MONUMENT given by the Good Temp
lars to the memory of the prohibition
orator, JOHN ID. luCll, was utuiOettcu
Wednesday afternoon at Rose Hill ceme-
terry, Chicago.
For the past year Mrs. VIM. Balleen,
q coiored washerwoman, of Hiawatha,
Kas., suffered from a well defined case of
leprosy Yesterday she died. having COM
pletely routed away.
Tue South park commissioners have
formally passed an ordinance granting
Washington park, Chicago, for the use
of the worlds fair. This was formally
accepted, in turn, by the local board of
directors and at once sent to the national
commission.
THE annual salary of President and Gen
eral Manager A A. Mcleod of the
Reading railroad has been increasd to
$4,000. This amount is said TO be the
largest paid to a railway official in the
United States with the exception of Chau-
ncy NJ. Dopew of the New York Central,
who, it is said, gets $50, 600.
SAMUEL SPooNER, a Boston policeman
received notice from cousin In Wales,
that he as a direct descendant of the Swim
ton Spooner family, has fallen heir to a
street in London named Swinton street the
property being valued at S25, 900, 900.
The champion butter-producing COW OF
the world is namc3 Euratlsamas, owned in
Massachusetts and her record is 945
pounds md zine ounces of butter in one
year.
CHAIRMAN PALMER, of the World S
Fair national commission, has named the
hoard of seven lady managers of the ex-
/ position. Three are members of the Queer
/ Isabella Association, and four belong tC
the Woman's Auxiliary. The chairwomar
/ is Mrs. Potter Palmer
Mrs. JESSIE BENTON Fremont, Fri
day. wrote to the Los Angeles (Cal.
Times expressing gratitude for the aid
recently rendered herself and daughter
and saying that as the bill granting her /
pension had passed congress, she desired
no further assistance.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FIRE at Palmer, Mass, destroyed
property valued at $4,000
VICTOR, the ll-year-od son DR.. Fran
els Grandy, of Adrain, Michigan, was
found strangled in the ropes of small
trape2e Tuesday.
H. &. SIMoSs hardware store, stables,
store-house and tin shop at keil, Wis,
have been burned. The loss is about
So, 900, with an assurance of $1,000.
THOMAS LEWIS. lineman in the employ
of an electric light company at Omaha,
was almost instantly killed by an electric
current while cutting a live wire Wednes-
day evening.
The bank of Madison, at jackson,
Tenn, has suspended payment. The
liabilities are estimated at 5000 900; assets,
1925, 900.
NEAR Shawano, Wis, Saturday, Mr..
Perry, an old soldier. was taken for bear
while in the branches Of fallen tree and
fred upon One ball and nine buckshot
lodged in his body, and he will probably
not survive.
A PASSENGER who arrived at Pendleton
Saturday morning, brings the news of a
serious wreck that occurred Friday al
Waucan sea, Waucanza. near ShoshoDe,
Idaho, on the Oregon short me.
The west bound fast mail ran into the east
bound fast mail on the side track. The
informant says when he left twenty dead
bodies had been taken out and many IN
jured. The railway officials at Portland
are retlcent
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02
TIE FRANCE OF AMERICA

The assertion of Consul Rathbone that
California is he france of America, has a
crest deal of truth in it, California is the
Francs of the United States, only a little
more so. The soil is richer; her pre- ,acts
more varied; she has within herself the
capacity to support denser population
What he says about the habits of the PEG.
pile corresponding with those of France is
also in a measure true. In old days a
great many French men and women direct
from France, and great many more from
NewOrleans, made their homes in Cali
iornia. In that mlnglmg f different
races there was a disposition to accept all
that was good, and sometimes all that was
had. in the various races. As men grew
they tururd mora and more to rare French
wines, The climate permitted and made
pleasant, indeed the practice Of going out
Of the houses and sitting in the shade Of the
trees. Then, as all the cooks nearly
were Chinese, except in the
French restaurants. It got to be a habit
20 board at the restaurants, and 10
learn to appreciate French cooking. And
50 1t was natural for the men from New
England and the northern states to accept
the new conditions. And. hence. Cali
fornia never will be like any other state
In the union in the habits Of its people.
and in its ways of doing things The
state as liable to take on more and more
French characteristics when the great
landed estates shall be partitioNed, and
each man has his little farm of ten or
twenty acres and on that much land sup
ports a family and grows rich. A hun
bred years hence the great valleys of Cali
fornia will be about the most productive
regions of the same extent in all this
rwold There will not be many people
there who viii drink strong liquor; there
will be very few who will not drink wines.
They nearly all will be musicians They
will nearl, all be healthy and full of ami
aal spirits They will be a good,natured
aeople, but quick to quarrel, and the state
ri. continue to be the Franc of America.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02
CRIME

Doc HAGGERTy. the gambler who
was shot by James ConuOrton in street
fight Saturday night in Chicago, died
PRESIDENT WoopRuFF Of the Mormon
Church, denies tho report tina, Mormon
plural marriages continues.
A boy was found dead in the woods
near Amery Wednesday, with a bullet hole
through his head His age was apparently
fifteen years. The affair is very mysterious.
FoUR masked robbers entered the house
of John krimm, an aged farmer. living
near GlbSonvllle, Ind, struck him and his
aged wife with blunt instrument, robbed
the house and escaped, The old man died
from injuries. There Is no clue to the rob.
berS.
FRANK MLLER.a widower and father of
FIVE children, of Buffalo, attempted the
life of Mrs. Marie Kurt, his houSekeeper.
and mother of two children, by putting
four bullets into her body and cutting her
with knife. aLd then fired bullet into
his own brain.
TIE New York Police Gazette has
received special cable from London
saying the arrangements for the inter
national fight between Joe McAuliffe and
Frank 7. Slavin for 1000. the Police
Gazette championship belt and the
championship of the world have been
made and that the contest will take place
within two weeks.
MARK GREENE, one of the intelligent
young Indians of this vicinity, came in
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02
WASHINGTON.

JAMES n. Huston, treasurer of the
United States, will resign his Office within
three weeks and elurn to Indiana.
Ex-osTPMAsTERG GENERAL FRANK HAT
TON has had relapse at Washington, and
his recovery is doubtful.
The bill which the house has finally
passed after conference with the senate
for the relief of settlers on Northern Pa
cifc indemnity lands applies TO about 400
settlers who entered upon land, in north
ern Minnesota. 1t allows those who made
settlement rpon the lands in good filth
and were qualified so to do to make set
Element on their lands within year and
to be allowed upon those other lands the
benefit of the length of time that they re-
sided as settlers upon the lands upon
which it has been decided that they had no
right to make entry.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

that the previous question be ordered At
that hour. To this Mr. Mcmillan objected,
whereupon Mr.. Mckinley gave notice he
would demand the previous question at 5 80
o'clock. The time having arrived the
previous question was ordered-yeas, ISL;
nays, 49, The conference report was
agreed to-yeas, l52 1.-THE speaker voting
in the affirnative); nays, 81. The only
who voted with the democrats in the
negative. Mr.. Mckinley then reported
from the committee on ways and means a
resolution providing for final adjournment
Tuesday next; IL was adopted without
division and the house adjourned.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02
Extra Liability to Malariai Infretios

Persons whose blood is thin, digestion v,7i
sud liver sluggish, are extra-iiable 10 the attack
# nlalarial disease. The most trihiHg exposure
NAV, under such conditions, infect a system
which, If healthy, would resist the miaslaa'i,
faint The only way 10 secure immunity from
malaria in localities where IL is prevalent, = O.
tone and regulate the system by improving vesk
ened digestion, snriChlug the blood. and giving :
wholesome impetus 10 hillary secretion. These
results are accomplished by nothing 20 effectively
a. uOstetter's stomach BitterS. which long sNler
cnca has proved 10 be the most reliable safeguard
as-in,t fever and agge and kindred disorders, -
well a. the best remedy for them. The Bitter
are moreover, an excellent inVlCorant OF the OF
cans Of urinaiiou, and active G5 ureut, clint
ustns from the blood those acid impurities which
originate rheumatic ailments.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

THE Conemaugh food is recalled to mind
by the death of Chalmers l.. Dick, the
iron-nerved sheriff of Cambria county,
who on the day after the terrible devasta-
ton assumed the guardianship of afflicted
Johnstown, and mounted on his great bay
horse, with rifle slung over his shoulder
and pistols in his belt, kept off the rob
bers and sight.seers from the valley. 1t
vas said that he shot fellow cutting of
a dead woman's finger to get the ring up
on tiff he did, il was justifiable act
for the mere rumor of the deed turned back
many a thief who was capable of such out
rages. There is no doubt that he tran
scended the law in that emergency, but he
was the right man in the right place, and
he was recognized Mr.. Dick was only
81 years old at his death, and yet he was
a leading lawyer, counsel at Johnstown
for the Pennsylvania railroad, ana had
been mayor of Johnstown.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

So MUCH mortgaged land in western
Kansas has come into the hanos oi the
loan companies, through foreclosures and
the exodus of farmsrs, that a syndicate of
the mortgages has been formed, known
as the Syndicate Land Company, ' to dis
pose of or cultivate the surrendered acres
for the benefit of the combined owners,
Their holdings are said to be very large.
Probably no other case of landlordism
quite SC big has grown out of the western
mortgage business.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

The U.ah commission report disproves
the claims of the Mormons or their apollo
gists that the practice and defense OF poly
gamy are decreasing among them. The
church of Latter Day Saints refuses in any
way t) frown upon it, the number OF con
rictions for plural marriages or unlawful
cohabitations among the Mormous is in
ereasing, and it is noticeable that those
tried or convicted for this otfense refuse to
pledge themselves to refrain from repe-
tltion or continuance of it, The church
Is on the side of the offender always, and
denounces as persecution the efforts OF the
officials to stamp out the crime. Within
short time newspaper intended for the
children and youth of Utah, and said to
be edited by George ., Cannon, containc d
All article headed by the Editor, in
which the teaching of the church was de
Tended, and the Mormons who had been
convicted and imprisoned for polygamy
we're held up to honor as martyrs to their
religion. The commission ask for more
power and more stringent legislation to
enable them to force this abomination at
least out Of sight This power should be
given them. and President Woodruff and
his fellow opposite" should be given to
understand that polygamy will be EXTERN
mated, and if by clinging to it the
church of the Latter Day Saints is EXTERN
mated also, nobody is to blame but them
sslyes
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

There are now three female dentists in
New York, all Of whom are Thoroughly
qualified to practice the profession. Only
one Of them is a specialist. She is clever
and handsome young Jewess, and she has
studied the work OF filling teeth with a
great deal of care for several years. She
is amply equipped with diplomas, is bust
nesslike and industrious, and it Is said
that her trade is almost exclusively among
men. Formerly she was employed as a
typewriter in an Office down town. Her
hours were from 8 to and her employ.
ment uncertain. 1t is said that she clears
$4,000 a year now, has three months vaca-
ton and is seldom at her chair more than
FIVE hours dav. The number of women
physicians in New York is of course very
much greater than the number of female
dentists. None of them thus far has at
tracted particular attention as specialist
though the names of at leGL' half dozen
of them are known as being genera
practitioners of ability.-New York Sun
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

THE man who gets = chance to explode
bombs or fire pistol shots st the Car In
these days will have to be an exceptionally
clever person. The monarch is now on
his way to Rovno to the manpuvres, and
20 the roads are lined with troops, every
traveller is rigidly scrutinized and the in
habitants of Rovno itself are forbidden to
leave their houses When the Russian
psasants call the Gar the Little Father it
must sound like sarcasm.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

to Black River Pals from the
cranberry regions, near Scranton on the
Green Bay railroad, Saturday morning,
asking for a warrant for the arrest of a
drunken man, who shot and dangerously
wounded with double barreled shot gun
Frank Mike and White Thunder, two
Winnebagoes who live at the Indian mis-
sion not far from this city The shooting
he says was unprovoked. One Of the In
dians will not recover
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02
A Fine Tree.

The grandest sycamore tree IN New
England, perhaps, is at Newton IN Con'
nectieut. It eighty-fve feet high; twenty
one feet in circumference, and the crown s,,S
casts shade 100 feet in diameter. Inc
fo1liage is so dense it Is impossible 70
discern a ray of light falling throug II,
and twilight reigns all the summer beneau
it. The leaves are five inches long, about
four inches wide, and are of beautiiu
hue. When the wind rustles the leaves
the sound they make is like that OF talI n,
rain. The blossoms are large and nae
silk floss, and, falling. cover the grounu
inches deep with an elastic robe that Is
like a wonderful snow-white silken caTpeI1
The giant tree is a landsmsIk IN al t On
region, and visible to person ON the hlll-
tops miles away, vast dark pillar over
topping all other trees.-New York Gun
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

The Paris Figaro continues to puolisa
Boulanger revelations. The latest ar =
the effect that Boulanger was bound -
honor to overthrow the republic but tnAl
the parties disagreed as to who should oe
placed In power.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

AT an indignation meeting in Detroit y
protest against the arrest of the IRISH ieaaii
ers. s.. 900 was raised for the Natlonai
Land league.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

Personal: Mrs. Judge Embro who has
been absent at Tucson for the past two
weeks, returned last night, and, as usual
found the Judge so drunk that he couldn t
tell her from Digger lnCian. She didn' t
go away for her general health, but to get
over black eye inflicted by the Judge in
one of his sober moments.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02

Calls for sympathy: Major Mcknight,
our popular and efficient City Clerk, met
with sad accident last Sunday. While
trying to enjoy drunk, hammock, a
smoke and a snooze at the same time, he
set himself on fire and was so badly burned
that he will not be out of his bed for two
weeks The Major has many friends who
will sympathize with him in his misfcr-
tune.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-10-02
SATURDAY. Sept. 81.

Senate. The house joint resolution
authorizing the secretary of the navy to
purchase nickel or matte was taken up
and Mr.. Cameron S amendment disagreed
to- The senate resumed consideration of
the house bill to amend the act TO pohlb-
il the importation and immigration of for
eigners aud aliens under contract of agree
mert to preform labor-the pending queS-
ton being Plumb'S amendment providing
that the act snail not apply to any organ
ization of musicians or orchestras WIS
agreed to. Mr.. Hoar moved that the
amendment shall not apply to teachers.
The amendment was agreed to and the
bill went over without action. The SEN
ate bill to establish a United Estates land
court was recommitted 10 the committee
on private land claims. The house bill
for the adjustment fsaceounts of laborers,
workmen and mechanics under the eight
hour law, went over without action and
the senate adjourned.
Hduse. After the journal was approx
ed in the house today, Mr.. Mckinley said
ii was understood that the republican
members desired no more than one hour
for debate on the tariff bill. He asked,
therefore. that the debate should continue
for five hours. two hours to be given to the
friends and the three to opponents of the
report of the tariff eonferees. Mr.. Nc
MILAN protested against limitation be-
ing put upon the discussion. but suggested
that If such limitation were made the
hour should be fixed at six O'Clock. Mr..
Mckinley aequiesced, and asked for consent
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-06

Blre 6FA>s md bourbon In London-
Newspaper readers who take an inter.
est in the chivalrous will recall how
their hosoms swellei with national
pride when they read, the other day, OF
the handsome behavio. OF Col. Pepper,
OF Kentucky, in the London Hotel Ne
t,opole.
!. was the fnt We had heard OF COL
Pepper, bu. We heard OF him as a Ken.
lucky knight without fear and without
reproach. Briefly the story was that the
night clerk il the Metropoie had kept
Col. Pepper waiting while he attended
10 the wants OF some B~ritishen, 20 one
OF whom he conited that he had put
this afro1t on the American because be
was an American.
This was enough for Col. Pepper,
who made for the clerk, pulled a muir.
de,ous looking pistol on him, and order.
ed him to get down on his knees and
apologize to all the Americans he had
insulted and exncted from him the
promise tbs. be would in iu.rre be 8
modelo Of depor:ment;u his relations with
Americans. Thehaughty subiectot Her
Majesty repeated after the gallAn. colo
mel the apology and the promise The
story came over by cable.
The louisville Csurikr Journal made
it the subject OF q column OIL editorial
comment, in which the gallan: Ken.
tucxian's noble bearing was attributed
to blue grass and Bourbon. Then a re.
yised version from the colonel's OWL
The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1890-10-06
u. Of Mbe.Nnr.

The official return from Washington
gives Wheeling population Of &5,0j2
an increage OF 1875. The work OF :he
enuuera;ors footed up 1856. How The
Census Ofice ia5 arrived 1: its coaclz'
sion ne DO 70: know. Since nobody at
headquarters ia iateEested in robbiDs
Wheeling 0; s1y Of It's population. it's
TAI. to suppose la: g mistake has oc'
Cured somewhere
It shor!d be remembered TIA. lifeline
between city aad county remains 10 be
dred so as 10 maxi definitely where the
one begins and the other ends. The
amended charter OF 1879 extended tie
city 20 the eastward, bat no act OF toe
Council or OF lie County Commission
ers under that amended cha-:e. has
soush.:o make the change 2s a matter OF
fact.
BIZ reason Of the enlarged boundary
some confusion occurred in the census
enumeration OF 1850. The matte. ahould
have been Strengthened 60. before the
ceazus Of 1880. This is presently 70 be
doIe By tie County Commissioners,
who rue the line between city and
county farther east By a distance vary.
ing from one hundred feet TO one hun
dret rods, taking from the districts OF
Richlaad, Triade!phia and Richie ard
adding 20 the city.
This enlargement not having as Sc:
been accomplished, the population Of
the territory to be ADDED haa probably
been counted as outside OF the city. Thi.
ia not offered IS a conclusive eIplana-
nation Of this discrepancy, which is
worth looking into.
So much tina! is Wheeling lies beyond
the corporate limits that 40 enumeration,
however honest and thorough, Gu con-
vey an adequate idea OF the population
which by right belongs to Wheeling.
This is unfortunate, but the census
sakets are not responsible for it. Wheel
ing has gone beyond her limits, bt! the
limits include al! THE population Wheel.
ing can claim.