Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-01-23
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

JoHN b. HARLOW has been appointed
Postmaster at st. Louis.
MANY Of the co0pers Of Minneapolis are
said to be destitute and starving
DURISG the year ending Nov 30, Michi-
gan produced 1854 $40 barrels Of salt.
THE death Of Walker Blaine from pneu-
monia occurred al Washington Thursday
morning
HlsTORIAy BANCROFT is remarkably
well this winter He ascribes his good
health 70 the warm weather.
TwESrY-oyE deceased persons have
been cremated at Rosedale near Los
Angeles, Cal The last one only few
days ago.
CALvTA S. BRIcE was elected to the
United States Senate by the Ohio Legisla-
ture on Tuesday The joint vote Of the
houses was as follows Brice, 7G; Foster,
G6i Halstead, Neal,
ARrEsGAN wells sunk In the Desert Of
Sahara reach water al a depth Of Z31 feet,
al which a steady poTer Of 5000 gallons
per minute has been obtained The water
is bracsish, but answers for irrigation pur-
poses
THE Massachusetts Supreme Court has
ruled that q man who is injured in rail-
road accident while riding on a pass can
not recover damages
PHILADELPHIA. -Jupt. Berdo, Of the
English steamship Falls, from Java
with sugar which arrived Saturday, reports
that be picked mp on the passage the dis
abIed steamship Siam. with large and
valuable cargo, and 400 passengers. and
lowed her safely into Alden, Arabia
TRENroS. N. J. A cablegram
was received announcing the accept
ance hy the English trust Of the terms Of
tered for the sale Of Eve Of the Trenton
potteries Eleven potteries at East Liver
POOL, Ohio, are also embraced in the
transaction
lewiston. Idaho Hon Judge Lee
Logan died on Wednesday IN March.
1888 be was appointed associate justice Of
the supreme court Of Idaho He married
Gertrude Tucker; daughter Of Hon Ram
dJ' Ih Tucker, of Virginia
FROM the year the patent office was
established up to the present time $500
patents have been granted to females The
first woman patentee was Mary KEGS who
invented a machine for weaving a mixture
of silk and thread
JERSEY City. AT mass meeting un-
der the aupslces of the African American
League Tuesday night. Thomas Fortune.
the founder If the league, made a c0nser-
yative address in which be urged ID race
TO get down 10 business. and stop wishing
for what they could never attain.
According 10 the best statistical author
lty, the consumption of sugar iu the world
ls 3,2u0oQJ ton, year Of which the
United States consumes 10000 tons and
Great Britain 100000 tons Tins /. a
Up Ht ity about equal 10 the beat sugar pro-
duetion Of Europe -thJt is. as much or
nearly as much beat uga as cane sugar Is
produced IN the world
ARTHUR MACK. ey-chief Of the Shang-
hal detective force assert. that while
China has q population of over $50. 900. 600.
yet the criminal element in proportion 20
numbers II less than 10 per cont of what
it is iu the Chiusee quarter OF Sam Francis
co. He accounts for this bv the greater
strinrancy Of the laws for the punishment
of crime In China and the greater certainty
ia their administration
JACKSON. Michigan. The Smith
Niddlug, Purifier company. recently re-
organized has been confronted By
claims from the Preston National Bank, Of
Detroit amounting % Sl50o0o These
were contracted by George 7 Smith in
July last The new company refused to
pay the claim. The company gives It's lia-
bilities az St~t.00O assets. $500 600 Mr.
George T Smith owes the company 500,
600. bat is unable TO pay.