Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-03-12
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

Ex-PREsIDENT Moan PORTER, OF Yale,
died Friday morning, aged 81
On Monday night, the Mardi Gras fes
tivities began at New Orleans.
II w. MITCHELL, travelling man, died
Of blood poisoning at Bloomington, H.,
Tuesday morning.
ELY & Bios, of New York, dry goods,
assigned Thursday with preferences of
$4,000.
THE death from leprosy of Charles f
BlackmieT, occurred in San Francisco on
Monday.
The Irrgest silver mine at Butte, Mont,
is closed by an attachment coupled with
the low price ut silver.
WHITNEY JONES, who helped organize
the republican party, has died at Lansing,
Mich, aged eighty yeara
BERRY, the English hanRman, has re-
signed and threatens to make lecture
tour through America.
Hon. Samuel 4. Shelton, one of the
pioneers of Warren county, died at Cam
meron, ILL.,, Sunday.
Col. John 7. Chidester, the original
overland mail carrier, died at Camden,
Ark, Sunday OF a complication Of diseases
abetted by cd age.
2 lT is estimated that a larger acreage has
been sown to wheat in California than
ever before, and tie present outlook Is for
the largest crop in The history Of the state.
A RICH strike of gold has been made in
the Hamburg district of Arizona, and
miners are focking there by hundreds.
EX-SENATOR JoHN &. NEwMYER, of
Pennsylvania, suddenly became insane
Friday, while on a railway train.
The price of salt has fallen about 40 per
cent. as result of the collapse of the
Western New York salt combine.
The Canadian government is building
three revenue cutters on the great lakes of
such a nature that they can easily he
turned into war vessels
CORNELIUS VANDERBILT Is to build a
new mansion. II Is TO cost, together with
the improvements and grounds, at least
$1,000, 000 and will be the finest private
esldence 10 New York.
S. NJ. BrLLINGsBY, a sleeping-car por-
ter, of ST. Paul, has fallen heir to $1,000
by the death of an uncle in New Mexico.
The once prominent Judge Thomas
Nixon Van Dyke in east Tennessee polit-
ical circles, is dead.
A GENERAL reduction of 10 per cent. in
the wages of furnace employees Is being put
into effect al Birmingham, Ala.
A STATUE of Maisoneuve, the founder
Montreal is in preparation for exhibition
on the opening day of the worlds fair.
q. A. BOYLE left Albuquerque, N. NJ,
Wednesday for Pittsburg, Pa. He will
ride the entire distance on i bicycle. BY
the route TO be taken he will cover 5000
miles.
THE United States supreme court de,
cides that Schwab and Fielding, the
Chicago anarchists, must remain in prison.
The Federal supreme court has decided
that clergymen are not laboring VI hin
he meaning of the Allen contract. ..oor
law
THE United States supreme court de
cares the Mckinly law as constitutional,
and decides the Sayward case, involving
our rights in Berlng sea, against the
British government,
Thomas STEELE who was appointed re-
ceiyer OF the Citizens Street Railway Co.
at indianapolis could not redeem his prom
ise to run cars Tuesday, because the com
pany had locked him cut of its barns.
THE late Mrs. William P. Wilstach, of
Philadelphia, bedueathed from 81 900 to
$40, 900 TO every known charitable institu-
tlon in that city; hsr art collection, worth
81 900 600, goes TO the city Of Phdadel.
phia. Her whole estate was worth s. 0OO,-
600.