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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
FIRES AND CASUALTIES.

FRANK MARTIN, of Clinton, H., was
killed by the cars Tuesday.
An unknown man committed suicide by
taking poison at Edinburg, Ind, Dec. 2.
JAMES FEENEY was killed in the new
lake tunnel at Park row Chicago Monday
morning.
BESSIE MAcKEy, aged six of Manistee.
Mich, was fatally burned Tuesday. She
set fire to her clothing while playing with
matches
w. b. WRIGHT, who was injured in
the recent railroad wreck at Jacksonville,
Ill.,, died Saturday night.
The schooner which drifted ashore at
Pomquet Forks during Thursday, was the
W. h. Lloyd, of Lockport, Nova Scotia.
All hands were drowned,
Friday night c. c. Jasper and Benjamin
Richardson, of jacksonville, H., while
under the influence of liquor, we're
thrown from buggy and killed. w. b..
Knight, who was injured in a railroad
wreck this week. died Saturday,
FoUR persons were severely hurt on
Wedne day at Lincoln, Neb., while gong
to the funeral of VIM. b. Andrews A
carriage containing seven persons was
overturned into a ditch by the team run
ming away. o. Gear and d. c. Robinson
We're badly injured, while f. J. Andrews,
of Jacksonville, and the driver, Bert
Williams, of Lincoln, sustained slight in
jurieS.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
GRIM Il.

FRED CumCH, of YpsilanJi, Mich,
committed suicide Tuesday night in the
presence Of his wife and family by taking
poison
AT Champaign, H., yesterday, James
Gregory committed suicide by taking rat
poison. He was respondent from i'll
health.
HENRY HENM.Es, who is on 5rial at
Green Bay, Wis, tor the murder of his
wife, conteSSes of having held his wife by
the neck until She dropped dead.
john AcuEsoN. of Odell's corners, was
called toine door early Thursday morning
and Shot by an unknown assassin. AeheSon
was an important witness in the Petit
case.
BEN MORLEY cut Lizzie Ford's throat
az Fort Worth. Texas, Friday night, and
then cut his own. Both will die.
WM, BUscH a shoemaker, of Shelby
vile, Ind, being out OF work and de-
spondent, hanged himself Friday night.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED
GENERAL NOTES.

ARIZONA has 701 miles of irrigating
canals that furnish water to 300, 900 acres.
KocH's consumtiye cure will be given a
thorough tests at Mount Sinai hospital,
New York
PUBLIC schools at Alton have been
closed on account Of diphtheria.
The failure of the president to allude to
the worlds fair in his message is explain
ed by the fact that he has had no Official
information con .erning it.
In Albany, Ga, policeman having
been refused free admission to a theatrical
performance, the chief of police summoned
his entire force and took them all into the
opera house, regardless of doorkeepers.
The Western Association roads have
agreed to advance grain rates 2 cents per
100 pounds the advance to take effect
January |.
CONTRACTING muscles, caused by rheu-
matisn, broke both legs of the wife OF
Judge J. H. Brent of Paris, KY. Her
life was despaired of.
The United States steamship Charles
ton reached San Francisco Thursday morn
ing with King Kalallua, of Hawaii, as a
passenger.
BROOKLYN is the first Iowa town to vote
against woman suffrage in the Methodist
church. The vote there was 81 for, to 43
against.
J. l.. SUTHERLAND, formerly an agent
of the Keystone Watch Club Company, is
suing that corporation and Constables
Meyers and John G.. Corey, in Judge Nc
Connel's court, Chicago, for $4,000 for
false arrest.
The semi-annuaI meeting of the board
of trustees of Racine college was held
Tuesday. The reports submitted showed
the institution to be in a fourishing con-
dition.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
IT HAS A HISTORY
Interesting Story ola Bell Taken From n
Submerged Ship.

When you visit the rooms of the Nat
ural history society on BoyIston street get
the custodian to point out to you a ship S
bell which rests upon one of the shelves,
says the Boston Saturday Evening Gazette.
This bell has history attached to it.
About the year 1856 or 1857 firm in this
city sent out an expedition under the charge
at Ma " 1,> tire T1JteJi suUff1df iTr
diver of the day, fully equipped with armor
and divers, to explore the banks of the
Gulf of Mexico for submerged articles of
value. The expedition returned in due
time from successful trip, the vessel
loaded with kentlenge chains and anchors.
Among the many crafts discovered and ex-
plored was a British frigate, From this
was taken the ships bell, stamped with the
broad arrow; also, from the hull, several
sheets of copper stamped with the initials
of the dockyard in which the frigate was
coppered, and also the year of its applica-
ton. A statement of these facts, with a
sheet of the copper, was sent to the late
George Summer, who was then in London.
He placed them before his friend the Earl
of Clarendon, who was then connected
with the British admiralty. On examin-
ing the records of the dockyards, it was
ascertained that two frigates were copper
ed the year of the stamp, and were sent on
their way to join the fleet about to attack
New Orleans at the time of its successful
defense by General Jackson They were
never heard of after leaving their moor
ings One of these was the frigate dis
covered by Mr. Whipple. In this acciden-
tai way was communicated to the govern
nent and friends of the officers and crow
intelligence of the fate of the ship. Per-
haps second Whipple may discover the
resting place of the United States soop of
war Albany, which disappeared in the
same waters, carrying to the bottom, among
other noble souls, Lieut.. John Quincy
ADAMS, grandson of the president of that
name, who, if ne had lived ten years
longer, would have added luster to his
patriotic name and family A more ac-
comnished and gallant officer than Lieut..
Adams never trod the quarter deck. The
bell is oyerhung with massive canopy of
coral, which is considered of great scienti-
fic value as showing the growth of coral
in definite number of years.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
FOREIGN.

A MINISTERIAL crisis exists in Brazil.
A MINISTERIAL crisis exists at Rio de
Janiero,
THE Anchor line steamer Ethiopia, due
at Glasgow from New York Nov. 25, has
not yet reached port and it is feared she
is lost.
MRs. NELLIE PEARCEY, who killed
Mrs. Hoog of London on Oct. "a, was
found guilty of murder and was sentenced
to be hanged.
BEvIs, Russell & Co., merchants of Lon
don and Bombay. have failed. Their liza
biities amount to G230 600.
COUNTESS THEREsE BADINI, convicted
of murder at Trieste, has been sentenced to
sixteen years Imprisonment
The Spanish government is accused of
harassing the protestant missionaries in
the Caroline Islands, with view of driv-
ing them from that region.
The report of the London board of trade
shows that during November imports in
creased S20,000,000 and exports decreased
Sc, 900, coo.
In the house of commons Dec, 4, the
Irish land purchase bill passed its second
reading by vote OF ZOO 10 lou. MT.
Parnell and his followers voted with the
government.
The French steamer Paris, Captain
Cheveller, at Havre from New Orleans,
before reported with her cargo on fire,
was locked Monday.
ONE hundred and eleven bodies of the
vrJttTIiiS or me TnETsh cruiser, Serpent,
disaster have been recovered. The search
is still going on.
The Italian government has resolved on
concihatory policy toward all except the
clerical element. All persons convicted of
offehses wholly political are to be releas-
ed.
THE body of young peasant girl, so
horribly mutlated as to suggest the hand
word of Jack the Ripper" has been
found in forest in the vicinity of Berne.
ANOTHER railway robbery is reported.
A French lady, the Marquise Gagel while
travelling in a railway carriage from
Monair to Toulon, was attacked by
thieves, who pinioned her arms and rob
bed her of $3.50 francs.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11

THE New York Times notes the fact that
Thomas A. Edison believes in the possibil-
ity of making machine by which nutri-
tious food may be produced from soil, water
and air. The machine is not only con
temptation, but in progress of development,
and has been brought to such condition
as to have name given toit viz, the
nutricator. However it may result, the
possibilities of the performance cmnot be
denied. No man can now safely say that
anything is impossible, and, considering
the unexpected results Of scientific and
mechanical discoveries and inventions,
there cannot be any surety tat in time
the farmers occupation may not eusurp-
cd 10y the chemist, and the laborious til
lage of the soil be discarded for the more
easy manipulations OF the laboratory
Rural New Yorker
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11

A MINNEAPOLIS man was waylaid the
other night by a highwayman with a
wooden leg and was relieved of his watch.
ENGLISH capitalists have bought 5000
900 acres of land in the Sequatchee Valley,
Tenn, for s., 000, 900.
The great cotton dealing firm of Y. a
A. Meyer of New Orleans failed for 81
100000.
THE Boston homeopathic Medical Soc
iety has adopted resolution advocating
the use of chloroform in the execution Of
condemned criminals.
FOURTEEN states have the Australian
ballot The remaining thirty should join
the procession before '92.
Four men, two on a side, met on the
highway near Maldron, Ark, Monday and
fought with knives. One of the men,
named Gilum, was cut seriously across
the neck and will die. Two others, Tom
Hammond and his son, are badly cut.
NATHAN CROCKETT, a negro, was killed
in the camps of the Georgia, Carolina &
Northern railroad, in Athens, Ca, by an
oyerseer named Glass. Impotence on the
negroes part was the cause. Glass es-
capped.
WHILE drinking beer with Mrs. Rose
Martell Monday night at her residence,
lll2 Stone avenue, Pat Bremen, young
butcher at Armour's packing house was
shot and killed.
In broad daylight Tuesday afternoon,
Joseph T. Asher cashier of the Allerton
packing company's establishment was held
up in his office by two men of granger
like appearance, and relieved of So, 200 in
cash. 1t had been brought in from the
bank few minutes before to pay off the
men.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
QUEER DINNERS
A Few Experiences Related at tn.
Diners-Out

AnCAs-OuI.
The funniest bachelor dinner Iero
took of, y said well.known clnh ro 'el par
other evening to Washington Stu 'ha|
Il ate last week with married fr;aa Aaa
mlne In the suburbs whose wife Was au. y
My host. knowing that | was stp":%
OF gourmand, spread himself for tba my
casion, as could plainly see. The 80 y
furnished was evident ly of unusual o IIeRas'|
ateness, and it went ii.lry well ,,,t t;1o :,
saiad came on, | could not eat anv Y;
that after the trst mouthful, which m.O
aged with difficulty to swallow. 0b .aaa'
ing that | refrained from the dish NV az
tertainer said: NY en-
rate. 'iiS nfst-
1t has peculiar flavor, admitted
reluctantly '''''eu,
,Ah, replied my friend, wbo boa
finished with apparent gusto his own 10y 10y
or the salad, i was afraid that Il MY
not prove satisfactory. You see 1beu'
was no olive oil in the house. and bav;ne
nothing better on hand for the purnose Il
used castor oil for the dressing.
He did not appear at all embarrassed q,
making this statement, but what hrol ~
him up entirely for the moment was tba
appearance at dessert of hunk of ordn
AIRY grocer's cheese
Why! he exclaimed, addrcgs;no tbo
servant, where is the Roquefort that or'
dered sent home to day?'
" Begorra, sir, responded the hand.
maid, If you name that chase thai emo
this afternoon from the store it was thai
moldy it had to be thrown away. and !
sent back to the grocer for this, that's MIA
and fresh. " NV
Speaking of dining out reminds ma
of repast that | enjoyed very much the
other day In d small but verv excellent
restaurant here in town. What struck ma
particularly ON the occasion | speak Of
was the exceptional quality of the lobster
salad. There was evidently garlic in il
but that estimable vegetable vas so arts.
tically infused that instead of comnunieat.
ing an actual taste of garlic its imply con.
tributed an indescribable and underlined
accentuation on the flavor of the dish. I
asked that the chief be summoned. and
demanded of him how he was able to use
garlic with such marvellous deicacy and
effectiveness. He replied:
1.-The way do it is to chew up a small
bulb of garlic and when the dish is being
stirred battle it very gently upon the mix
ture. That gives the suggestion of flavor
which you speak of, sir.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
WEIGHTS PER HORSE POWER.

If a propeller. with engine and boiler to
operate it and apparatus to connect them,
can be built the whole weighing less than
thirty three pounds per horse power, it
should be able to ascend in the air like Dr.
Freninges' propeller wheel.
Motive power machinery is seldom
made so light, not because that is diff
cult matter, but because it would be too
costly in the cases where it might be EN-
ployed The hghtest machinery in pro-
portion to its power of which there are ex-
amples in operation is in torpedo boats,
and their boilers, engines, pumps, con-
deasers and blowers all told weigh only
sixty-six pounds per horse power. The rel
ative weight is much less than this in
some of them. But for special purposes
weight per horse power has been greatly
reduced. The torpedo boats machinery
might be very much lighter if water tube
boilers were substituted for those of the
locomotive type generally employed. This
has been done in the Cushing with the
best results.
Mr. Stringfellow, member of the Lon
don Aeronautical society, constructed a
boiler and engine, weighing together only
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
IOWA'S VOTE.
Figures Found Out by the Ofncisl
Canvass

Dies MONIES, Dec. 6.-The official eau
vass of the vote of the state, completed to-
day, show that Mcfarland (rep. for seere-
tary of state received 191 706 Chamber
lain (dem J 1S8, $40, Brown union labor
1913, Mcfarland (pro.) 1,646; republican
plurality, 1916. The entire state ticket is
elected, Luke's plurality for railaoad COM
missioner being 80. The question of a
constitution convention received n ,S07
votes in favor, and l49, 394 against On
congress the pluralities are:
First district Seerley (dem) 1,071.
second Hayes (dem) 900.
Third-Henderson (rep) 1913.
Fourth-Butler dem l,9i5.
rehabilitation (dem.) 293.
SiXth-White (dem.) 522
Seyenth-Iays (repl for short term, 1850, Hull
for full term, 2,5l5.
Eighth (rep) il6.
Ninth-Bowman (dem ,2S3.
Tenth-Dolliver (rep) ,3l1.
Elayenl Pa.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
Wants To Buy Bonds.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6.-The secretary
of the treasury has issued a circular in
viting proposals for the sale to the govern
ment of S5,000,0O Of per cent. bonds.
The fcnd deposited by the navy depart
ment to the credit OF the discussing 9TH
GERS for quarterly payments, and during
the week ending December IL, 81 0010 UO
will be paid out on account Of pensions.
This, together with 100000 70 be paid
for bonds under the above call, will make
SZ6,0O0,0O0 to be put into circulation
within the next week or ten days.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11

DR.. A. M. PHEIrs, professor Of surgery
in the university of New York, performed
q remarkable experiment at the charity
hospital on Blackwell's island Sunday
afternoon. The bone was lacking in the
leg of boy just above the ankel due to
congenital malformahon. He took a
spanial dog, etherized rs was the boy,
and grated portion of the animals fore
leg into the crippled limb. The bone was
not wholly separated from the dogs body,
but was so prepared that it continued to
derive nourisLment from the brute through
the veins and nerves. The boy and the
cog Just now are growing to-
gether and if their respective bones make
a good connection, the dog will be cut
loose. The spaniel is held fast in plaster
of Paris, and is kept under the influence
of morphane to a certain extent The is
she of the experiment will be known in a
few days.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
REV YARD rem EW ED.
Mrs Smell Offers $4,000 for Ta.cott'.
Arrest.

CHICAGO, Dec. o.-Mrs. Smell, widow
of the murdered millionaire, Amos J. Smell,
has renewed her offer to pay $4,000 for
the arrest of Tascott and his detention
until idaptiGal
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
Chambers Legislature Goes Home.

CONCORD, N. H., Dec. 5.-The special
session of the Legislature was adjourned
by Governor Goodell today. The regular
session begins the last "Wednesday of this
month
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
PRISON FOR a GIRL.
Mamie Starr is Found Guilty of Wholesale
Poisoning.

Poisoning.
CHICAGO, Dec 1.-The jury in the case
of Mamie Starr, the poisoner OF the New
land family, tonight rendered verdict of
guilty with penalty of Imprisonment for
life. On hearing the announcement the
young woman screamed and tainted away
in court, remaining unconscious for some
time.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11

The Express companies which refuse to
carry Lottery for the Louisiana letters are to
be commended for thus aiding in the over
throw of pernicious institution.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
Three Men Drowned.

SANTA BARBARA, Cal, Dec. 5.-1he
schooner Undne was wrecked in the chan
mel last night. Her crew of three men
were drowned.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
WHAT MAY BE DONE

WHAT MAY BE DONE.
Full details of the design and methods
of operation cannot be given until patents
are secured. The whole machine might
be made very much lighter, as no ingenu-
ity has be,n exercised in saving weight,
but it would be more costly. We have
seen that the power and weight of both
motors and propellers have been ascertain
ed by competent persons, and the eXpendl-
lures of a small sum of money to test the
truth of their assertions would put doubts
forever out of the question. A boiler and
engine need not be built for this purpose,
as their weight and power can be deter
mined from drawings with sufficient ac-
curacy. The important matter on which
all the rest depend is the thrust of the pro-
pellers per horse power This should be
found for three or four different diameters.
with changes of speed, pitch and surface,
in order to determine ratios of increase,
but chiefly to help the sceptical with relia-
BILE knowledge.
Very evidently it is quite time that men
of brains and enterprise, casting prejudice
aside, take this matter in hand and prove
its practicability or the reverse Its sue
cess would create most powerful instru-
ment for the diffusion of civilization and
the suppression Of Sayagery. Only one
case. quite to the point, need be instanced.
The machine described, to be operated by
two men. could reach any of the great
lakes Of Africa from point on the coast
or some navigable river in seven or eight
hours, taking 5000 pounds weight Of
cargo on the inward trip, and return
again in the same length ct time, carry
ing 5000 pounds weights, every allowance
being made for adverse winds Clearly
here is a strong hard cash indueement for
those whose motives are either mixed or
mercanary. john 7. HOLLAND.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11
MINIMUM.

S44 hours X60 miles per h'r= 506 miles
8.44 hoursX78 miles per hr= 65S miles
PROBABLE RANGE
1916 hours X60 miles per h'r=1 ,4l6 miles
1916 hours ks miles per h'r=l $40 miles
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-12-11

THERE are at present but three beet sugar
houses in America two in California and
one in Nebraska at Grand Island The
latter is equipped with all Facilities for
prosecution of beet sugar manufacture as
developed in the best sugar countries of
Europp
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-09-04
Harvesting of wheat is going

= Harvesting of wheat is going on
every month of the year, in one part or
other of the world. In the South Tenn
perate Zone, the harvesting takes place
in November, Decem Der, January, Feb
ruary and March. and in the North Tenn.
perrate Zone this work is done in the
9th er months of the year.
One of the bene6cent results of tue
various experiments which have been
made during the last two years, with q
view to determine the value of electrici-
ty for killing purposes, is the establish
ment OF the fact that not only can cattle
be dispatched by the electric current
without the least pain, but that the meat
of the animal is actually improved by
the passage of the current, and will keep
longer than by any other method. The
successful operation Of an electric slaugh.
tering apparatus is reported from Color
ado. The apparatus consists of a per
provided with metallic floor divided
into two sections, to secure good cleo
trical contact, with which the hoofs o.
the animal are made wet The killing
is effected either by applying the current
direct to the metallic floor, or making {
direct application OF the clectrode to tht
! head of the animal.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-09-04

= WORTH KNow1NG.-Hughes' Ton
ic, the old time, reliable remedy for fever
and augue. Reputation earned by 80
years success. You can depend upon it.
Try it. Druggists have it.
= DR.. Louis Duncan has recently
pointed out that though the generally
accepted views about an electric current
have profoundly changed in the last few
years, the ideas have not spread very
widely even yet. The old idea was that
electricity flowed through wire very
much as water flows through a pipe, but
the new idea is that the energy does not
flow through the wire at all. The energy
is actually transmitted by the ether out
side the wire. In running motor the
energy used in running it does not pass
through The wire at all, but passes from
the dynamo at the electric lighting station
to the motor through the ether. The
wire acts as the core of a disturbance il
the ether, making the transfer of energy
possible, but not itsolf transferring it.
The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-09-04
Her Prayers Useless.

An Augusta family was about to move
down the river into what was reputed to
be q malarial country. In the family
was little girl. She, like the mother,
did not care particularly about making
the trip. She was saying her evening
prayers at her mothers knee the night
before their departure. After finishing
those she had been taught, she surprised
her mother by adding, with peculiar
emphasis, "Now, doodbye bod; to-mor-
row we are doing to Sleepy Hollow"
The pathos of this leave taking would
have lost its import if that family had
brought with them supply of DR.. West
moreland's Calisaya Tonic. AS an
anti.periodic and stimulant, and as an
eradicator of malarial poison and safe.
guards against its inroads, it is the medi.
cine Of the age. No family in malarial
districts can afford to be without it. For
sale by all druggists.