Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-06-11
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

HE state hepuOilCan convention Will
meet in st. Paul July %
DR.. II. t. HELmBoLD has for the 9Th
time been adjudged insane.
! SIR FRAECIs BURDErT, a cousin of
Baroness Burdett- Coutts, died Tuesday.
The system Of licensing gambling
houses has gone into effect in Omaha.
Hon. T. JEFFERSON COOLIDGE, minis
ter to France, has sailed from New York.
The American sugar trust attempts to
bear" the market In Germany by refus
ing to buy German sugar at present.
The National MIllers association open
ed its annual meeting in Chicago
FIFTY thousand acres of land in Monroe
county, ILL.,, is oyerfowe1
EXCITED Pierre, s. D., people seen
forty. foot serpent or FISH in the Missouri
river at that place.
S. M. Wusog, the most distinguished
member of the legal profession in San
Francisco, died on Saturday.
AN Indian from the White Earth reser-
walton is admitted to the bar of the United
States court of appeals in st. Paul.
Col w B. REMEY, judge advocate
general of the navy, was placed on the re-
tired list Saturday, with the rank Of col
onel IN the marine corps.
II. PARSONS, of Duluth, is nominated
for congress by the Peoples party of the
Sixth district.
SAMUEL NJ. WILSON, The most distin-
guisbed member of the legal profession in
San Francisco, died Saturday.
Mr.. WHARTON, assistant secretary Of
state, will by request of President Harri-
son, act as secretary, pending the appoint
ment OF Mr.. Blaine successor.
CoLoRED citizens of Alton, ILL.,, decorat-
ed the grave Of + JAN Lovejoy, the first
victim in Illinois of the anti.slayery cause,
ON Sunday.
A HUNDRED stone cutters employed on
the new rock at Duluth struck for four
dollars a day and nine hours work. The
! demand was refused.
The grain sent from Iowa for the re-
lief Of the famine sufferers Of Russia has
been unloaded and dispatched to the dis
tressed provinces. 1t filed 30 cars.
Ex-PREsIDENT Cleveland and his fam
| lily have taken up their residence for the
summer at Buzzard's Bay, Mass.
SIR ALEXANDER CAMPBELL, lieutenant
governor OF Ontario, died in Toronto,
Tuesday, aged 10 years
IT is proposed to put Johnson county,
Wyo, the scene of the recent conflict be-
tween settlers, rustlers and great cattle
growers under mm.ir! .aw
SEVERAL WITNESSES testified Saturday
that they had paid J.. Genmiler certain
sums monthly for appointments in the
bureau.
SECRETARY BLAINE met the Canadian
commissioners at tue state de, artment on
Saturday and talked over the trade relations
betweeR the United States and Canada.
Rev Father Quigley a Catholic priest
of Toledo, Ohio, has been indicted for re-
fusing to give the names of the pupils at a
parochial school under his charge to the
Board of Education as required b. law.
JoHN JACOB AsroR has donated s., 900
to the New York Grant monument fund
and $1,000 10 the general fund of the New
York Press club.
The city council of Cleveland has won a
victory over the gas companies OF that city
forcing them to reduce prices from 81 to
so cents a thousand.
The fine arts department of the worlds
fair has received official notification that
Secretary Tracy of the navy department,
had consented to detail the United States
frigate Constellation to the service of the
fair.
CosTER & MARTIN, Chicago brokers,
fail in an attempt to corner the corn mar
ket, though they succeed in driving corn
up from As cents to 81, Prices afterwards
fell to SIS cents and tue brokers assign.