Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-08-29
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.


ST PAUL bankers say they cannot fer
nish enough money for all the wheat.
/. lT is said that Jay Gould Is seriously ia
and has gone to Soda Springs, Idaho, for
treatment.
EXPERTS and scientists come to the con-
clusion that the holy coat was made in TIE
time of Christ
on Friday, Interstate Commerce Com
missioner Walter l.. Bragg, Of Alabama,
died at Spring Lake, N. J.
JOHNSTON, TALLMAs & Co., Of New
York, importers Of fireworks and toys,
have assigned. Their liabilities are 800,
000
CALIFORNIA papers demand the appoint
ment Of Californian at the head
the bureau Of horticulture Of the worlds
fair.
A HAusToRM which swept over d wide
strip OF country south of Sandb1ry, n.
d., Wednesday, laid waste 1000 acres Of
gram.
DYRENFURTHs rain-mal,ing expert
ments in Texas have apparently met
with some success. Every time explosions
have been made rain has followed
MINERS Of the Argus coal company at
Fort Dodge, Iowa, are on a strike for an
eight-hour day.
CoTToN worms are destroying crops
around Breham, Tex, which is one Of the
most productive sections in Texas. Sever
al other places report the pest.
CHiEAi notified 30 cease the persecu-
tons Of foreigners or suffer the conse-
quences on demonstration of several
powers, including America.
lowAs weekly crop bulletin says all the
conditions during the past week have been
favorable to the corn crop.
WILLIAM A. BRICKILL. Of New York,
has sued the city OF Baltimore for $780,
900 damages for alleged infringement OF a
latent for a feed water-heaters for steam
Ire engines invented by him
Tue body found in St. Paul Friday,
proves to De that Of George j, Osborn, the
Minneapolis elevator agent who disap-
peared week ago.
FRANCIS M. CHURCHMAN, of the bank.
ing firm of Fletcher & Churchman, Of In
dianapols, and one Of the wealthiest men
IN Indiana, Is dead, aged fity-nine years.
DtREcToRs of the Hebrew benevolent
society and the Hebrew hospital and asy-
mm association, at Baltimore, have raised
$4,000 for tho protection OF Jewish refu
gees from Russia.
THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY -four pack
ers and uallers at Minneap polls, Mimi,
struck Tuesday morning for an advance OF
% cents a day. This being .he busy season
the millers had 70 submit ana a.. men
gained their point.
JAMES RUSSELL LowEGL will ID all his
manuscripts TO Charles Elliot Non ton, who
is made the poets literary executor Har-
ward college gets such of his books as it
wants, and the rest of the estate, which is
small goes 10 Mr.. Lowel's daughter.
TnE Illinois trust and savings bank, Of
Chicago, has begun suit to foreclose a
second mortgage on the plant Of the
Pacific street railway at Los Angeles The
amount involved is 81, 664, 900, with in
terest
THE United States commissioners to
Behrlug sei have returned 10 Nanaimo on
the steamer Albatross, having concluded
their lahors The British commissioners
are also returning, and will reach Victoria
IN few DAYS,
cAIBERr SALISBURY, a milk dealer Of
Jackson, Mich, left his home Tuesday
morning and has not been seen since. He
is tfty-tour years of age and has been in
business in jackson sixteen years He
was we'll provided with money when he
disappeared.
OBITUARY. At Lincoln, Neb., ex Chief
Justice Oliver =. Mason, aged sivty-two,
At Weeks burg, Miss, ex-Mayor b. f..
Beck aged forty-eight At Columbus,
Ono, DR. Benjamin W. Freeman, aged
sixtyfour. Az Bloomington, H., Gilbert
Green, aged seventy eight.