Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-01-16
THE LATEST NEWS.
GENERAL NOTES.

| The Ontario legislature has been con-
voked for Feb. H.
| A RECIPROCITY treaty with Salvador is
promulgated by President Harrison.
MARITAL law is likely to be proclaimed
in Kansas on account of the county seat
war.
The trials of the Miantonomah's big
guns, fired with full powder charges, prov
cd satisfactory
PLANS for the main Carnegie Library
building at Pittsburg, Pa, were
adopted Friday The building is to cost
100000.
ADJUTANT GENERAL REBCE Wednes-
day commissioned Henry Barrett Cham
berlin irSt lieutenant of Company N, First
Infantry, N. G.
A BILL declaring the lottery business a
felony has been introduced in the Ken
lucky senate.
EVANGELIST EAKIEs, former green
back orator, has been declared insane at
Detroit
TWO hundred miners at Gable, Ill.,, have
struck for restoration of the former rate
of wages.
the value of grain exported from San
Francisco last year was S33, 205, O00against
S22, ll4,OOO the preceding year.
THE Rye Flour Millers' association, of
New York, has fixed the price of rye flour
at from s. % to 1886 per barrel.
A RAILROAD strike in Texas shows no
signs of cessation; it is feared that other
roads will soon be tied up.
AN electrical stop watch has been tested
in bicycle race, where it determined the
winner, although it was only one
hundredth of q second ahead.
AN Abingdon (Ill man recently had re-
moved from his arm more than hundred
shot which had been there FIVE years since
a time he was accidentally shot.
Gov. CAMPBEL1., of Ohio, is president
of e,Ohio Mining company, incorporated
in Duluth, Mimi, Monday with a capital
stock of $1,000 900.
In his annual message to the council,
Mayor Grant of New York strongly urges
the citizens to inaugurate movement for
representation at the worlds fair.
The president is preparing a proclama-
ton of retaliation against the countries
which have refused to enter INTO recipro-
cal trade relations with this country.
CAPT GABRIEIsoN, commanding the
revenue steamer GalIatine, made a report
to the treasury department, confirming the
press dispatches in regard TO the loss of
that steamer, and the death Of Jacobson,
the carpenter.
THERE is a story current in Bridgeport,
Conn, that to prevent the work of ghouls,
a dummy was substituted for the real body
at the funeral of p T. Barnum and that
the remains were hidden away until all
danger of grave-robbery was past,
CHARLES GARDNER, Yale professor Of
Latin, and j. Lawrence Laughlin, profess
sor of political economy in Cornell Uni
versity, have accepted offers of chairs in
Chicago university at 81, 900 each.
OBITUARY: At Cincinnati, Surgeon w
II. Long, United States army, aged forty
two.--At Monmouth, H. Cbauncey Hard
in, aged seventy.seven AT Boston,
Joseph w. Clark, aged eighty one. At
Grand Rapids, Mich, Jacob Barth, a-ed
fifty AT Palestine Texas, Carter Har-
rison, nephew Of the president
OBITUARY: At Gaena, III Frederick
Stahl aged eighty-three AT Harbor
Springs, Mich, Margaret Boyd queen of
the Ottawa Indians; Sophie Graverout.
aged one hundred and two At Moline,
H., S. w. Wheelock, aged seventy-fve
At Fort Wayne, Ind, DR. Howard McCul.
Tough. At Bloomington, Ill.,, Samuel Ian
der, aged ninety four AZ Washington,
Rear Admiral c, h. r. Rodgers