Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-09-19
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

The bank clearings Of Chicago for the
past week we're as. 95S, III
Con. I. B. HUNT. q. s. A.. retired died
at Fozt Monroe, Va, suddenly, Monday
morning
LIEUT. KENNY is Of the opinion that a
resculng party will have to start in search
Of Lieut.. Peary
The National worlds fair commission
adjourned Tuesday. They will not meet
again until April next
THE bronze equestrian statue Of General
Grant, on the lake front IN Lincoln park,
will be unveiled on October z.
MR Thomas, the United States minis
ter to Sweden, has written a book treating
on that country and Norway.
JUSTICE LYON Saturday morning fined
seven physicians for neglecCing to report
contagious diseases TO the city board Of
health Of Chicago
GRINDBERG q NORRIS, OF Roanoke Va,
prOprletors Of the New York wholesale
clothing and notion house and Boston boot
and shoe house, have assigned Liabiit.
les, $40, 900; assets not known.
PROFESSOR CHARLES DEGAHMo, Of
Champaign, Ill., has accepted the pres.
dency Of Swathmore pa college.
a STOCK company is to be organized at
Galesburg H. with capital of $500. 900
10 manufacture beet sugar
DoHALD MURRAY Mummy, six.year-
Old New Brunswick inventor, has Just Sc
cured patent on a new toy.
MAJ j NJ BUNDY, the New York
editor who was stricken with apOplexy at
Paris, died Tuesday night.
The Itata to be returned to the Chilli
ans upon TIE payment of the expenses of
this government in her pursuit and Dap,
ture
A TEST Of the new high explosive called
terrorte was made at Fort Hamilton, New
York harbOr, Tuesday. II was found 10
have tour times the force Of dynamite, and
is smokeless
WILLIAM F. POWELL, of Camden, n.
j., has been offered the San Domingo con-
sulship made vacant by the appointment.
OF John 5. Durham TO the HaytIun post
PBoF. MNDELEFF, Of San Francisco,
has, It is claimed, discovered a new explO-
sive that is more powerful than dynamite
and safer than gunpowdar to handle He
calls it terrorite
MISS VERA Ava, an English woman
doing missionary work among tee poor
people of Chicago. has mysteri0usly disap-
peared aid her friends are greatly
alarmed,
ITALY refuses TO take part, officially, in
the world fair. This, It is explained, is
in accordance with rule adopted long
ago.
JACKSON COUNTY, Mich, has a plague
in the shape of green worm about two
inches long, which is stripping the trees of
their leaves
Hon. GEORGE B LORrNG, ex,Minister
TO Portugal and distinguished citizen of
Massachusetts, died at Salem Mass Mon
day morning lie was "A years old
4 TuE pilot boat Washington, the last OF
the pilot feet that it was feared was lost
In the recent cyclone, arrived mt New York
Monday in tow, after terrible experielce
during the storm
THE navy department ha7 made a very
satisfactory trial of smckeless powder for
small arms Of American manufacture. The
trml showed speed of $3.50 feet per sec,
ond with pressure Of lis tons in the
chamber.
OBITUARY: At Jerseyville, H., d. p.
Pritchett AT Decatur, H., Reuben A.
Grucndike, aged seventy -hree. At Crow
louisville Ind. Isaac Allen, aged fifty
two; Meredith Rountree, aged seventy
seven,
JupaE COOLEY chairman of the Inter
State Commerce commission, has rendered
his resignation Judge Cooley was the
first man appointed ON this commission,
and has been chairman of the board ever
since It's organization Nearly one year
ago il was announced that he had made up
his mind tO resign