Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-06-06
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

Norm DAKOTA wheat is suffering for
want Of rain.
PENNSYLVANIA will appropriate 1900
600 for the world fair.
THE United States cruiser Charlie ston
reached CalIao Wednesday without having
sighted the ltata.
A FRENCH warship has refused to allow
american fishermen 10 take bait on the
French shore of Newfoundland.
VEsEzuELA is the latest country to ac
cept the invitation to participate in the
Columbian exposition.
REV. Henry j. VAN DYKE, professor in
the Presbyterian Union Theological semn-
airy, Of Chicago, died Tuesday morning.
IT ia stated that ex-c0ngressman Payson
Of Illinois will be appointed chief justice
Of the new land court.
THE American Export and Trading
company Of New York assigned Friday
with heavy liabilities AMI few assets.
THE quarantine Of Canada lambs at
Buffalo and points west Of There has near
ly ruined the lamb trade in the dominion.
AN Ansonia Conn minister has naug-
urated the custom Of having female ushers,
which has the effect of bringing out a
large attendance Ct young men.
A MONUMENT, erected by the state Of
Ohio to the memory OF those who lost their
lives in the Andrews raid during the re-
beilion, was unveiled Saturday at Chatta-
nooga Tenn.
SEVERAL mountain peaks in Idaho
have settled from sixteen to twenty-three
feet within a few years.
TnE Rev. Or Henry j. Van Dyde the
celebrated Presbyterian preacher of Brook
lyn died Tuesday.
TUE trial of the New Hayen Railroad
directors for the fatal tunnel disaster is set
down for June y.
Ar the city election in Harvard, H.. N.
| b. Helm, the no-license candidate for
mayor, was chosen.
joins RYAN's SoNs, dry goods dealers
anta. Ga. have failed, with tiabil-
tiles Of 81 900, 900
ruG family cf +. T Barnum has de-
cided 10 bave the old Snowman body ex-
hnmed and cremated, 0 prevent a repali-
ton Of the attempt to teal his body.
SIR JAMES MACDONALD is still alive,
int no hopes Of his recovery are entertain
ed by bis physicians
TuE Russian immigration society has
purchased 80 900 acres of land in Caldwell
county, North Carolina, on which it is
proposed to colonize 900 families OF jew
ish refugees
TnRrY rouR Of the ffty-seyen flint
glass factories comprising the Western
( Association Monday closed down for three
months, throwing several thousand men
out of work
Etau1 judgment notes, aggregating in
amount $50 430 have been entered
against the American Machine company Of
/ Philadelphia Its liabilities are believed
/ to be about 5000 eco
TwENrY-rwo Episcopal diooeses have
passed ON the fitness OF Rev Phillips
! Brooks for the Bishopric of Massachusetts,,
sixteen giving their consent and six re-
/ fusiug 1t.
New YoRKERs propose 10 solve the rap.
! id transit problem by building combined
elevated and underground four-track road
on the west side 90 that city. Bergman 5
4 electric locomotive is to be used and a
speed of forty miles an hour is 10 be OBJ
I tanned
\ MILLIONS of cut worms are doing much
damage to corn and potatoes near Water
/ loo, Iowa. On sod the worms are
more troublesome than on old land. Many
! fields IN al parts of the county have 10 be
replanted, the worms taking all the sprout
ed stalks