Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1890-06-19
LATEST NEWS CONDENSED.
GENERAL NOTES.

OF age. ne paul tow Bulhcdr loi Hls
feet footed horse.
THERE are about q thousand elk killed
in Oregon and Washington every year,
the antlers from most of which are sent to
England for ornaments.
CrYcIvsArrf, o. Harry White,
q telegraph operator. was bitten in
/ April by a dog, and began to read
books on hydrophobia. Early Friday morn
/ ing he told the family they Tad better
strap him in bed Half an hour later be
went into commissions and died The
( doctors say death was caused by mania on
I the subject, as there We're no indications
Of rabies.
SONORA. Mexico.-The proposed tax
/ Of $40 per head on Mexican eat
/ tie. is leading TO serious complications
4 The Mexican authorities refuse to allow
| American stOckmen to return cattle which
stray into Mexico. and have ordered all
/ American cattle hereafter found across
I the line 10 be taken u9 and sold The
. American cattemen are much alarmed.
Tucson A. T.-Advices 10 the Star
/ from Mexico. six American pros
/ pcctors ran into "a band Of eighteen
/ Apaches in the western slope Of the Sierra
[ Madres and had a running fight for fifteen
miles They escaped only ON account of
/ the Acetnoss of their horses.
BALTIMORE, Md 49, The Baltimore
81 Ohio railroad company has sent TO
each employe a circular note stating that
/ the company will not under any eircum-
stances, employ men who are in the habit
! of being intoxicated. All employees known
TO frequent drinking places are warned to
. discontinue drinking OF quit the company s
/ service.
Council BLUFFS. la.-Advices from
points covering the territory flooded
/ 10y the tremendous rains of last
/ week indicate the damage TO growing
crops greatly oyerestimated lnnumer-
able insects were destroyed, and it is fair
/ TO presume that the beneficial effects of the
rain will offset the damage done.
/ SAN FRANCISCO, Cal-The Chronicles
/ special from Enseneoa, Lower Cali
I f0rnia, gives an interview with NJ
\ Torres, governor Of the peninsula He
says that the Mexican government has de
cided to demand that the United States
| punish those concerned in the conspiracy
to capture Lower California NJ. Torres
will soon end his government proofs that
| the English corporation are undoubtedly
guiltyof completely.
The latest reports from Montana re-
| garding the threatened Indian outbreak
are to the effect that the Northern Chey-
ennes are gathering at many points and
are making small raids. Governor Ioole
I has issued 900 rifles and 10000 rounds
of ammunition to settlers, and United
States troops have been ordered to the
scene of difficulty
New YoRK,--At noon Saturday
about 5000 cutters, cloak and suit
makers were locked out by the
! different cloak and suit firms through
out the city. The trouble arose over
the refusal of the union cutters TO
turn their work over to non-uniop men.
The employers, to avoid greater trouble,
decided TO lock out every man until the
matter is settled.
DENVER - Twelve hundred carpen-
tiers haves quit work. and all bmld-
/ ing operations for time will be
/ parayzed Four weeks ago coo machine
wood worker, and bench mill men de-
manded nine hours with ten hours pay
I Arbitration being refused 10y the mill own
ers the matter was taken up today by the
carpenters union with the above result.
The probabilities are that the nod car
riers and timers will join the strikers un-
less the trouble is speedily settled
LONDON The accident TO the City
of Rome, although attended 10y no
/ injury or loss of life to passengers or crew,
ELECTS general condemnation of the prac-
/ teo OF racing which has become the rule
rather than the exception with trans
Atlantic vessels. 1t is true that the pas
seugers themselves united I'm praise of
tine captain and his officers, but that is
am act SO universally INDUCED in by the
patrons of ocean-lners that it has long
uye become insignificant and in most
ease, perfunctory Despite the COM
pGmrutary resolutions it is beyond ques
tjon that the vessel had an extremely mar
row escape from going to the bottom, and
10 j. Also plain that the passengers We're
thoroughly frightened and adequately es-
timttal their danger The extent Of the
dunn ge to the ship is believed To be
greater than was admitcdat Queenstown.
1 1t is stated this morning that the board of
trade will take immediate and effective
action to reprass ocean-mcing by the Inn
position Of such penalty for future ntrar-
tiun of their prohbltive measures as will
| deter any steam-Mp-owner or officer from
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