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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
WORST OF MAN.EArERs.
A Leopard who swallowed f54 Persons
Before He Was shot.

Before He Was shot.
The Calcutta Euglishman contains a
blood curling account of the doings of a
man.eating leopard lately shot in the Raj
shah district In Bengal, The monster had
destroyed l54 persons before he was
brought down. His appiti'e for flesh, his
teroclty, his cunning and his audacity were
unexampled In the leopard tribe, and they
would have done credit to a tiger,
He depopulated whole villages, for the
mere terror of his name sent the lnhabl-
tanfs tlging as soon as he lad seized soil
tary victim in their midst.
For miles around the people never ven
tured to leave their houses after uighttalI
until they heard that lac was dead, but this
was no great hindrauce to him. He would
seize them from the yeraudas when tuey
were smoking the evening pipe, ana some.
times he penetrated the very houses In the
dead of night and carried away children
often without giving The slightest alarm to
the other inmates.
As a rule, he killed only one person at a
time ;but he sometimes killed two, and on
one occasi ne killed three in ont day.
Children and old women ware his tavonte
food Among his victims there were but
SIX Nltur nv NES ltliftiitNt ~ a NAttt man
kerirg for human flesh, for he never
touched the ctuls
lie villagers began to think the scourge
was q demon iuc2rntte and it was i'm
possible to organize them for ia pursuit.
At length some twenty elephants were
brought together for an expedition, and a
hving column of British planters set forth
Ia quest Of the destroyer They serched
for some time in vain, auul an old man,
whose wife bad been eaten, came 10 report
that their quarry had taken refuge in a
tamarinda tree
Ii was as be had stated, only the man
eater mad by this time hidden himself in
the jungle At tbe foot Of the tree, and for
the moment couid not be found The
place was surrounded, and the elephants
advanced ia close order to trampla the flu
citiva out OF his hidinR-placs This man
euyer succeeded after frequent repetition;
the beast was driven ont of cover and az
once riddled with balls He will become
a legend in the district and prehaps q
diety,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

Cr.ek, Pa. Engineer Burkner, Fireman
Wei ID. and two passengers, whose names
are Unknown, were killed.
A CAVE IN occurred at a clay bank at
the Fish house on the Delaware shore near
Can den, N j., on Thursday Several
merl we're buried in the debris, and one of
them, John Ross, has been taken out
dei.d
EXPLOSION of carboy OF naphtha in
tn, Jayne chemical works at Frankfort,
near Philadelphia, seriously burned FIVE
prisons, Of whom w. G. Deaf and Thomas
lteacb, will probably die.
AT Danviile, H., George Bergman, ID
years old, was run over and killed by a
freight train. He was climbing up the
side of the car and fell under the wheels.
GREAT forest fires swept over the hills
north of the American river in California,
destroying timber and pastures. Several
thousand acres are burned
AN excursion train on the Brooklyn
Bath, and West end railway, was wrecked
at the West Brooklyn station, N. Y,
Sunday afternoon, the third accident of
the kind within a fortnight. Forty per
sons we're injured more or less seriously.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

| IL riot in Russia, growing out of the
cholera epidemic, sixty people we're killed
and hundreds wounded by troops.
A PETITION has been lodged against the
return Of Mr. Balfour to parliament on
various charges of illegal acts done to Sc
cure his election
AT Palos, Spain, Tuesday, there was a
brilliant celebration in memory of Column
bus, who set sail on his voyage of discov-
cry from that port Aug. 3, 1882.
A TERRIFIC sand storm struck near
Phoenix A. T., Friday evening, doing
great damage 10 fruit. I wo indians were
killed by lightning.
SUNDAY night at Ces, :: Abguzzi, dur
ing fete in honor of patron saint Of
that locality, while the fireworks were be-
ing set of, bomb burst killing six per
sons and severely injuring twenty.
PRINCE CLOVIS BoNAPARTE has won
bis suit for the annulment of his mar
riage to the woman known as Madame
Rosalie Bonaparte. Tins makes his mar
riage with his present wife, Laura Scott,
legal.
In his opposition to Archbishop Ireland,
Archbishop Corigan appears to have
treating the pontiff with disrespect,
ASTRONOMERS at Vienna discovered
what appears to be large snow field ex-
tending 30 degrees from he south pole of
Mars, and three dark groups taken to be
continents. The north pole and the
equator were completely obscured
EUGENE WOLF, the newspaper CORES
pendent in German east Africa, telegrsphs
to the Tageblatt that Dr.. Stuhlman, the
second in command of Emin Pasha's ex-
petition, is i'll at BaPamoyo and that he
Is lying at the point Of death.
A PARIS dispatch says the police have
discovered that the anarchists have issued
10000 placards calling for revenge on
judges aud jurors who have convicted
anarchists
EMPEROR WILLIAM bade farewell to
the queen Saturday and subsequently
banquetted the members of the royal
ousehold on board the kaiser Adler,
The royal yacht sailed on her return yoy'
age Sunday
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
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Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
CRIME

A WIDESPREAD conspiracy 10 defraud
banks has been discovered il Chicago
In Pennsylvania an escaped murderer
shots two officers and killed himself
NEAR Scranton, Pa, Arthur Lang was
stabbed 10 death by Anthony Kelly and
Thomas WEIGH.
A MAN who had murdered seven people
was killed in Missouri while resisting
arrest
DANIEL FRANCE, an incorigible eight.
year.old boy, broke Jail at Burlington, n.
j., Tuesday, for the second time.
Ex-PRIvAE lams perfers charges OF as.
sault against three of the military officers
at Homestead,
WooD was eectrocuted at Dennimors
N. Y, tuesday. Death was re ported TO
b5 painless and instantaneous.
john FosDICK, aged D years, Of Sagi-
nav, Mich, murdered his wife, Cora, aged
Is years, Tuesday, and then took his own
life
HEINRCH BAUER, one Of the anarchists
charged with being an accessory to the
shooting Of Mr.. Frick was released on
S., 900 bail Wednesday.
MARSHAL Sneehan of st Paul, makes
another attempt TO evict the family of A.
d T Austin near Albert Lea, but finds
the house bsrracaded by armed men and
postponed operations
G. HANNIGAN was bound over to the
grand jury IN $500 for stealing two
packages Of silk from Luke & Morton S
store in Merdeeu, S. D.
OFFICER Thomas Fitzgerald, of the
New Orleans police force was killed in
attempting to arrest one of gang of
toughs who infested st. MBrys market
At Columbus, Ohio, because Mary
Smith, widow, refused to marry James
Cameron, the latter shot her through the
head, killing her instantly.
SEVERAL pool rooms in New York,
were swind ID by wire trappers, The
sharpers worked the rooms in very skill
iul manner and are said to have secured
in the neighborhood of 5000.
A MASKED highwayman attempted to
hold up a cable train in Kansas City. Pc
lice Sergeant Parker one Of the passen
gers, opened FIRE on the bandit. The lat.
ter returned the fire, wounding the officer
seriously, and then escaped.
PATRICK DowD or Dunklrk, N. I g,
shot George Hass through the heart in a
drunken row at Fuvanna, Sunday, and
then, realizing the gravity of his crime,
fred four bullets into his own BODY, dying
soon afterwards.
In Montgomery county, Ga, while
Daisy Johnston was seated on the ground
at a picnic Winnie Davis walked up to her
and threw the contents of bottle Of yitTol
in her face. jealousy over the attentions
Of Young man led to the act. Miss
Johnson is dlsfgured for life.
CuRrs EVANS and John and Charles
Sontag. OF VlsRlia, Cal. are under arrest
charged with the commission OF the
Southern Pacific railway robbery Of
August 4. John Sontag and Evans Were
caught after long chase and wbeu
n, putty Sheriff Witty had been snot In
neck.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
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Nevertheless JOhn.tone Bennett Like.

Nevertheless JOhustone Bennett TfDas
Mems Collars, Ties and Vests
Il never could get a woman's fummerv
of ribbons and laees to look we'll abo,;
my neck and shoulders, so | sought raliaf
in a mans high collar and four. in.ban5
scarf, said Mis- tombstone Bennett M
the Jane company, on her arrival at Chi
cago recently.
There was to me, she continued "a
dressiness In masculine neckwear that
feminine bow knots and what-nots could
not approach am credited with BEING
the first of my sex to start the fad. bDf
was not concious how far | had gone
until next adopted the vest and coat
combination of the leige lords-shere
paused and have sirc rested in my So
called dress revolution. But Tor the
extreme comfort and artistic effect that
realized in my vests and cutaways.
would have discarded then and returned
to the conventional straight-jacket STYLES
with which | was afflicted before. me
storm that fashions votariAs raised abopt
my ears, after my debut ia vest array
took every form of misconstruction. but I
trusted to time to set me Alright. | knew
that woman as rule were like sheen.
ready to follow every drift of fashions
tide without thought of the consequences
to themselves. knew again that there
were women who would, Ia the mad race
of some new style, struggle and scramble
and snatch to get to the fore and lead
the pellmell IN a new chase after another
craze in another direction. And my con-
victions have been repeatedly upheld in
the interval. Why look at the latest that
my sex are guilty of mean the appro-
pratiatiOn OF poor mans suspenders-to
me the ugliest idea possible, totally at
variance with the graceful curves and
folds of the natty vest and coat. The on
alarm that this absurd suspender move
ment occasions me is that the men may
take to wearing their supportables ex-
posed in the same way. Bat | feel that
the length of the average mans coat tails
will be a preventive against the introduce
tion to the pubic eye Of his properly con.
cealed braces.
Nothing was further from my mind
than tine sensation which my departure In
costume created. | had consulted my own
tastes in the matter, and being well con.
tented with the freedom of movement that
the new attire vouchsafed me, braved
the talk and quite survived. Perhaps
had / been in private life, instead of an
actress, my fad might have passed away,
into obliyian, unwept, unsung. Il was
unfortunate for fashions guiding spirit
that it remained for a meek young actress,
then getting a salary of but $40 per week,
to unwithnqly steal march on it
While the whole business has amused me
all along, have not been proud of the
distinction, especially when the evolution
has dragged forth the unpieturesque
suspender from its well-chosen obscure
ty.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
FOREIGN

Ir reported that a syndicate has been
formed in Paris TO push the Panama canal
to completion.
Two CASES of dynamite were stoled
Monday white in transit from Museilles
to st. Eueuue.
DEAru is announced of Adireu pe
CoureeIe, the French dramatic author n
his eIghty-sixth year.
Oh sunday, a six story block or
Mitchell street, Glasgow. was burned, and
several surrounding llcks were badly
damaged Loss, $3.50 700
CnoI ERA Of 4 mild form is spreading IN
Ibrz, Persia, the clalarc9unts report
ing twenty deaths daily. Toe Americans
and Europeans have aed tie town
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

Gut the neck and breast of spring lam0
in small pieces; place them in stew pan
and ada water enough to cover STR
slowly, removing the scum as it rises
When nearly done, add a quart Of sne!led
green peas, with more water if necessary.
When the peas are done, season to taste
with pepper and salt and little -four and
butter together. Let the gravey boil up
and it is ready to serve.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

made dutiable as confectionery. but il h..
not been acted on. Various other rs
ollls were considered by the house commit
zee ON ways and means, aud there was mncb
time given to the ACCESSIBILITY of reportine,
bills placing refined sugar, salt. lumbas5
and IRON ores on the free list and redpcina
the duty on barley, but the commits
failed to embark on the advocacy az tbs.e
MEASURES, there being differences -
opinion as to its wisdom at this time "
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
Baked Potatoes with PumpIlugs.

Pare and wash the potatoes; make some
good paste into balls about the same size
as the potatoes, and place them alternate
ly with the potatoes IN a pie dish, prey
i5usly blt,eIed; add q little onion, finely
chopped. and sufficient water TO about hat
fll the dish; season with pepper and salt
which should be mixed with the water;
cover with fat dish and bake them
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
CaulIaower salad.

Take a medium sized head Of cauli-
flower, pare off the root and detaeh it into
equal sizad aowerets; place these in
salad bowl seasoning with pinch Of salt
and half a pinch Of pepper; sprinkle over
a pinch of chopped parsley, add three
tab.espoonfuls Of vinegar, two Of good OIL
and mix all we'll together.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
THE KIRCHEN.
Lemon syrup "a summer Drink

Boil for half an hour Cwo pounds Of
white sugar in a quart of water Remove
from the Gre and stir we'll into one ounce
of citric acid in powder and teaspoonfu
essence of lemon. When coil stir well
again and bottle, it will keep well and
makes pleasant drink.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
Trims Them out

Appleton think the Spanish bull
fights much preferable to our prize fights.
piumptoB Goodness WY
Appleton Sometime tGe bail 6Lhtars
get killed N Y Weekly.
The estimates for the ensuing fiscal
year Of the New York city government,
aggregate 49,, 625 sos
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
sallad Dressing which WIN Keep.

Yolk of four eggs, four teaspoonfuls Of
salt, four mustard-spoonfuls of yellow
mustard a small cup each of milk and
vinegar, pinch of Cayenne pepper, lit
tie sugar, one tablespoonful Of butter mix
ed with a teas poonfu Of -four, mix all to-
gether and stir over the fire until it bois.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
New market Pudding

One pint grated bread, one quar-. milk,
one cup sugar, one tablespoonful butter
four eggs (yelks). Soak the bread one
hour When baked add a layer Of jelly
over the top, then cover with a
meringue made of the whites OF the eggs
and half a cup of sugar. Brown slight
ly,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

Daniel O'Connell, son of the great lib
orator, fears that "Mr. Gadstone's home
rule scheme would be most dangerous to
Ireland" There may possibly be some
slight connection between Mr.. O'Connell's
conservatism and the salary of $1,000 a
year he draws under the crown as a special
income tax commissioner.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

FIFTY thousand rare rose plants are nov
growing in the worlds fair grounds, not
ordinary, everyday roses, but each one of
some choice variety. Think of the rich
ness of such treat as that for all flower
lnYers.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

f. A. CLAIMING, an American by
birth and a nephew of a famous Unitarian
preacher, William Ellery Charming, has
been elected a member of the English par
lament.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

Seven o. tie fifteen revolutionary wild
ows in the United States live in one Ten
nessee pension district, and four Of them
bear the good old name of Nancy.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

IT has been recetly shown II at a single
silk worm can produce cid of l 900
yards of thread
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

are the ravages In physical stamina caused o
diseases Of the kidneys and bladder. ottenunes'
moreover, they are swiftly progressive to faist
termination. Beginning with simple lnseuv'N
of The organs, renal disease, II unchecked by in-
term daje death or relief, winds up in destruction
q che Kidneys. This Is terrible to contemplate
dreadful to undergo Anticipate the danger y
arousing and regulating the kidneys, when N
act.Tet with Hostetter's stomach Bltters, mos
efficient digretic az well Rs q general alter ll1e
and tonic % uuexampied excel eace. u performs
fErtEay good office for the system IN ptomottls
activity Cd The Kidneys in thar % more eHeet1s'.I
eEpel- through there chAnntiu Impurities pAi-u
uraaucs rheGvg6sisr1 ar dr. ,psg HalRria, con
i4atIou blii5usnesa, liver trouble, nerNol3
atss dyspepsia, al succumb % its beneh9eA'
action.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
CONGRESS.
TUESDAY, Aug. 2

TUESDAY, mug. 2.
SENATE. The senate adopted. without
division, the resolution which provides for
an investigation of the facts in connection
with the employment of the Pinkerton
forces at the recent trouble between
workmen and employers at Homestead
WEDNESDAY, Aug. 3.
SENATE. I'm the senate the vice presi-
dent appointed a select committee on the
Pinkerton detective force. A committee
was also appointed on the reception to the
Grand Army of the Republic.
House, The attention of the house was
almost wholly taken up with the worlds
fair bill, which caused a hea ed contro-
versy, but the measure still remains unde-
Cided.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

a chemist advises tLat canned fruIt 9e
opened an hour or two before it IS useo
I'll becomes far richer after the oxygen p
the air mas Teen restored to it.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

Towns in the mining regions of the
west, hike those in the oil and gas
gions of the east, decline as rapidly as
ay rise. Their prosperity is based on
ne thing, and when that is gone the
towns go too. Thirteen years ago Bodie,
Cal, was a most Dourishing place, and to
possess a corner lot there was to be avery
rich man. From two mine. about S22,
0O0.O0O Of precious metal was obtained IN
few years, The town had 5000 in.
babitants and gave promise Of becoming a
great city But today it has but 800 in
habitauts, and fire recently consumed
many of it's buildings, 1t is thought that
the place will soon become deserted
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

A HUNDRED and fifty persons buried be-
meath an avalanche in Switzerland, hun
dreds of lives lost in the eruption Of
Mount Etns, cholera rayaging an increas-
ing area in Russia and ten thousand
human beings destroyed by the volcanic
outbreak IN the Malay Archipelago make
July calamity record which puts our
mercury in the shade
A dispatch from Singapore says that
the sultan of Johore, ono Of the most pros
porous states in the east, situated In the
western part af the Malay pedinsnla, is
causing TO be prepared for the worlds
Columbian ezporition model Malay
village, In which the trades and industries
peculiar to the Malays will be carried on by
natives. 1t is highly probable, the dis
patch adds, that the. Sultan himself will
visit Chicago during the exposition.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

FOLLOWING the recent discussion IN
English journals of the relative merits Of
English and American locomotives, it Is
suggested that during the worlds fair a
contest be had to settle the question. 1t
is proposed that two or more crack Eng
fish locomotives, with English crews,
make the rnn from New York to Chicago
over one of the main railroad lines, and
that the same number of best locomotives
of American manufacture do the same, and
that the result be compared
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13

SENATE.-The sundry civil appropria-
tion bill extending appropriations until
the 10th Of August, was agreed to- Mr..
Pettigrew offered a resolution authorizing
a subcommittee to 20 to Chicago and in.
vestigate the worlds fair matters. This
brought forth an emphatic protest from
Mr. Cockrell, which caused its defeat.
HOUSE,. The committee on the worlds
fair bill have agreed on a compromise,
and will recommend to the house an
appropriation Of - 100000, and it is
hoped toe whole matter will be disposed
Of during this session of congress. The
house agreed to the resolution to extend
appropriations made by the sundry civil
bIll to Aug. 10.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-08-13
FRIDAY, Aug. 3.

SENATE house bill to provide for
the lowering Of high bridge across the
Ohio river, between Cincinnati and Gov
lngton was passed. A resolution to author
ize the committee or sub -committe to visit
Chicago during the recess and inquire as
to the expenditure of the money appropri.
ated by congress as to the general man
agem5nt, was adopted. The conference
report on the snndry civil bill was agreed
to. At $3.50 the worlds fair bill, as
amended by the house, was passed by the
senate. The hour of II p. m. having ar
rived Vice President Morton made his
farewell speech, after which he declared
the senate adjourned without date.
HoUsE.-The worlds fair appropriation
bill, as amended passed the house today,
by vote of l3l yeas toss nays The bill,
as passed, makes direct gift to the
Columbian exposition, Of 81. 500, 900 1t
also carries with it the Sunday closing
clause. Thus ends the long contest over
this bill An adverse report was made by
the committee of ways and means, to the
sub-treasury bills. The senate joint reso-
luton permitting foreign exhibitors at
the world fair to bring into this country
foreign laborers to assist IN preparing
exhibits was passed. A resolution was
also passed inviting the king and queen
of Spain and the descendants of Col1mbus
to be present 1T the opening of the world 5
fair. At ii O'Clock p m. the house was
declared adjourned sine die. Thus ends
the first session of the fifty first con,
Dress
The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1892-03-21
Election Proclamation.

By virtue of the authority vested in
me by law, ! hereby order an election
to be held in the city of Waco on the
first Tuesday in April, the 9Th day
thereof 1892 for the election of a
mayor and also one alderman to repre-
sent each ward in the city of Waco.
Election to be held at the following
places:
First ward at the city hall, presiding
officer, H Torbett.
Second ward at West End Fire sta
ton, presiding officer, Jas. N. Harris.
Third ward at Store Eagan block on
Eighth street between Mary and
franklin streets, presiding officer,
Charles Motz.
Fourth ward, at Central Fire station,
presiding officer, M. M Boggess.
Fifth ward at East Waco Fire sta.
ton, presiding officer, w. D. Wallace,
(Attested) c. @. MoCULIoCH,
JoNEY JONES Mayor.
City Secretary.