Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-04-30
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES

n DlsCoF Ekf VI EOlu II reported from
| Buekner, Ark.
Col GEORGE GRAY, the New York law
yer, Is dead Of paresis
JOHANN MOsT has resumed his anarch-
istic harangues in New York.
| VICTORIA woodruff has announced
! herself as a candidate for president Of the
I United States.
FARM property along the Little Blue
/ river, n Indiana, has suffered severely
! from the recent foods.
ESGLIsH capitalists buy the Spratt
/ Bros. sapphire lands in Montana for
g 900 600
me great bridge over the Mississippi
river at Memphis is practically com
/ pleted
A quantity Of high explosives, bombs,
swords and revolvers we're seized Satur-
day ia the mousse Of Stanley, the anarch-
/ list, in Hoboken.
THE Georgia supreme court has affirmed
! the consiitdtiOnaity of the law making
railroads amenable 70 county taxation.
On Wednesday night General A G.
/ Edwards, for many years United States
sub-ireasursr at St. Louis, died, aged So
THE clearing- Saturday in Chicago were
| Sl3 7s0, 625j for the week, $50 $40 625, as
/ against asa 96l $50 for the cores pondlng
week of 1891
CHEF ENGTNEER n. B. CLARK, Of
\ Washington, inventor Of the defective
/ armor now used on the warships of all
nations, died Monday morning.
Ar New York, Miss Georgine Wolters
] hoe hoo - q. yr,rl,l Q4ln n0p -. 4
promise suit against Schulz, the wealthy
inventor
FIVE hundred and forty chinamen-the
largest invoice ever received from the
! Flowery kiDgdom-haye reached British
Columbia, and will try to get into the
United States.
TRUMAN A. MERRIAM, who was a
member of the forty eighth congress. and
/ for many years a reporter on the staff of
| the New York Sun, died Saturday
Ing president has nominated John K.
/ Tanner, of Illinois, to be assistant treas
urer Of Chicago.
JONAH Mosr, the New York anarchist,
was released from prison Tuesday, having
served ten months for an address melting
a not in November, 1887
M, j. TIERNEY, a Louisville freight
| conductor, who was injured by the explo-
sion of a barrel Of naphtha, has secured
a verdict of $4,000 against the Standard
Oh company.
/ ANTI-LIcENsE carried at Iroquois, his,
! bya majority of one; part of the license
ticket was elected, however.
RosW ell SMITH, president of The
| Century Magazine company, died Tues
day morning OF Bright's disease. He has
been unconscious a month.
AN embarrassing discovery is made in
North Dakota. 1t Is that the legislature
male no provision for the election of
presidential electors, and the defect can
not be remedied in time unless a special
session of the Legislature is held.
AT the big oIist meeting at Brighton
! Tuesday, Fowler, an English rider, in a
halt-miie scratch race beat Arthur A. Tim.
norman Of the New York Athletic club,
nine yards.
The steamship Conemaugh with the
| 28OOC pounds Of -four for the famine
stricken people of Russia, sailed from
/ New York Monday for Philadelphia to
complete her cargo and will then sail for
Riga.
! Tue people Of six counties in Texas are
starving because of three years Of poor
crops. An appeal has been published ask.
ing for contributions of corn and other
supplies to be addressed TO the central
committee care b. r. Monroe, San An.
tonic, county Judge.
TT is reported that Col Frank Wheaton
of the Second United States infantry,
stationed nj Omaha will be appointed tc
the vacant briCadier generalship, and thai
when confirmed he will be assigned tC
/ Vancouver barracks, the headquarters Of
the Columbia.