Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1891-09-26
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

covered at Newton, Conn
TACOMA, Wash, and Columbia, s. c..
we're shaken by earthquakes MonCay.
MELBOURNE rain producing expert.
ments In Wyoming are declared a success.
LIEUT. KENNY is Of the opinion that a
reseuing party will have to start in search
OF Lieut.. Peary
The National world fair commission
adjourned Tuesday 7 hey will not meet
again until April neyt
A NEW YoRK sheriff has seized a tomb
stoue IN Greenwood cemetery to satisfy
lien.
AN invention to stop runaway horses by
electricity has been successfully tried in
Chicago.
The seventy-second conciaye Of the Odd
Fellows Of America began in St. Louis,
Monday.
THE irrigation congress COZ vened 10
Salt Lake City Tuesday, $50 delegates be
ing present.
TnE steamer ST. Aspath, from Iloile
with cargo Of sugar, is ashore near Var
ennes, Que
TuE United States and Greet Britain
have diplomatic controversy over the
Chinese exclusion law.
CowBoys are determined that negroes
shall not settle on the lands recently open
I'd by the government and a ruoe war may
result.
the British and German ENJOYS TO the
world fair arrived in Chicago on Friday
and are inspecting the Jackson Park
site
GERMAN merchants in the City Of Mexl-i
co are strongly opposed to reciprocity be-
tween Mexico and the United States.
JUSTICE Lyon Saturday morning fined
seven physicians for negIecCng to report
contagious diseases to the city board Of
health Of Chicago.
MRs JEFF DAVIS has sued he Betord
publishing company tor royalty on the
Memoirs Of Jefferson Davis.
Hon Gro b. LoBINa, ex-miaister to
Portugal and commissioner of dgrlcul
ture, died in Salem, Mass,
UfvH Service commissioner Lyman is
to resign, Il is said, to be succeeded by ex-
Congressman MeComas Of Maryland.
ExCoNGREssMAN MoRRow, Of Cali
fornla, has been appointed United Sta es
district Judge TO succeed Judge Hoffman
who recently died.
SENATOR DIXON. Of Rhode Island, will
occupy Senator Edmunds' old seat III the
senate, having made the first application
for it,
TuE site of the old first regiment
armory, in Chicago has been leased for
ninety-nine years The purchasers will
erect a theatre to cost $780, 1000.
PRESIDENT HARRIsoN has appointed
Senator Francis Heudrlck Collector Of the
port Of New York to succeed j. Sloat
Fasset, resigned
ATTORNEY GENERAL JONES, Of Wash
ingion. has rendered an opinion that the
state constitution torbids the reading of
the Bible in the public schools.
TuE Commercial National Bank Of
Sioux City, Iowa, has been authorised BY
the controller of the currency to begin
business with "a capital OF 8l50,000
An the Farmers Alliance headquarters
at Washington it is claimed that litty-Hye
members on the lower house If the next
congress will vote for all the measures of
the Alliance, and at least four in the
senate.
1HE navy department has made a very
satisfactory trial of smokeless powder for
small arms OF American manufacture, The
triad showed a speed Of $, 1870 feet per sec.
ond with pressure of lis tons IN the
chamber.
Ar Salem Ore Wednesday night, IN
earthquake shock was distinctly felt.
Brick buildings were shaken, but no dam
age was done,
GAIA, the Mexican renegade, with Acc
men, has crossed the Rio Grande from
Texas, With the Wowcd purpose OF start .
ing revolution in Mexico r-s
AsYSpIcArE has been formed in Ham
burg, Germany, to construct abattolrs IN
Chicago, in order hat Germans may con .
troll TIE imports OF American pork into
Germany
OBtruABY: At Dallas, Texas, T, }. /
Freeman dean of the law faculty of the .
university OF Tenue ee, aged siNty-three .
AT Kingston, Ont, Rev Canon White. .
AT Dixon, ill.,, James n Holly, aged .
eighty-hye
WILLIAM WErzEL was arrested .
Wednesday ut ST. Louis, and held for ex /
animation rs To his mental condition. He
IL d hopeless lmheelle from excessive
cigarette smoking HIS trouble began with
paralysis OF the salivarv glands, winch eX-
tended 20 the tongue and vocal cords.
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