Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-04-24
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

/ BOsTON. Scientists have discovered
why trees do not flourish near electric
lights They need the repose Of darkness.
The pope has now formally set his face
against cremation, and has forbidden
the priests to accord the rites Of christian
I burial 70 persons dlsposing Of their own or
anybody else s body IN this fashion.
MGNEEAPoLIs, Mimi The journal s
Chamberlain Is. d. special says 1t is
reported here that troops viii remove the
boomers from Sherman, new town on
the reservation opposite here The land
is claimed by the Indians
DENVER, Col has an incorporated stock
company Of women who have undertaken
the development OF a summer resort at
Dina Park, forty miles from that city. 1t
IS designed especially for the comfort Of
women, children, and families.
The traveller and ethn0logist, Tushkuroff
points out the fact that there are 400 900
beathens and $4,000 Mohammedans in the
Russian army, the latter forming rs per
cent. Of the Cossack regiments, and also
declares that Christianity is dying out in
Southern Russia
ANXIETY is felt regarding the fate Of the
National Line steamer Erin, which sailed
from New York December = has not since
been heard from. She carried q load of
700 cattle and had twenty cattlemeu on
board besides her crew Of sixty-hye sail
ors.
FLAMES in the factory Of the Grubb
Crockery Company at Nashville, Tenn,
caused a loss of 10000
A PIECE Of pink coral thirty feet long
and nine inches in diameter at one end.
with branches projecting about four feet
on all sides, was recently obtained on the
coast Of Japan It's value in prepared state
would be about $4,000.
BARABoo Wis Wyatt II. Graves, the
West Salem banker who obtained money
from the Boraboo Savings bank and "a bank
at Reedsburg was released from GUS
today, having made "a satisfactory ssttle-
ment.
TorEKA, Kansas Rev. B. T. Eos
ter, Of this city, who has been in Ala
bama the past two weeks, in the interest
Of the Oklahoma immigration Association,
writes that ten thousand colored people
will come from Alabama before July T. to
settle in Oklahoma A letter from Atlanta
states that fifteen hundred left that city ON
the 18th inst, for the new country
New York. 1t was; discovered Thursday
morning at Castle Garden, that Of ,403
French and Italian immigrants ON board
the steamship Cachemere. the majority
We're bound for Pittsburgh, under contracts
made in Italy The United States Com
tract Labor Inspectors have gone ont to
the steamer anchored off Liberty Island,
prepared to arrest all suspicious parties
The great majority Of the immigrants are
men.
PIERRE. S. d. Through the efforts Of
the Indian Rights society, another big
pow WOW has been called by the
nation to reconsider the action
provided by law, At the meeting called for
next sunday al point two or three miles
up Bad river John Grass, Sitting Bull
and other noted ehiets as well as other
bands Of hostlles, will attend
New York The Independent this
week gives return vote of one hum
dred and twehty-siX Presbyteries of the
Presbyterian church on Il revision of the
of faith These returns show that
cighty-two votes in favor of a revision, |
forty against, and four refused to vote
There are yet eighty-six Presbyteries to be |
heard from and the indications are, says
The Independent, that the vote in favor Of
a revision, viii be nearly, if not quite |
Of all the Presbyteres
PIERRE, S. ia runner from
Cheyenne, seventy miles west on the
reservation says band Of Indians are Civ !
ing the agent considerable difficulty
Chief Big Foot with about forty braves
refuses either to take up land |
or to yacate for settlers. and commenced |
to make trouble Two companies Of in |
fautry and three Of cavalry |
we're dispatched from Fort Meade |
.oruered the Indians and awaiting orders
as to their disposition. Big Foot refused /
.oeapitulate and serious trouble Is appre- |
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