Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1892-10-15

! lnclatla, IA, on the premises or COun-
ty Commissioner Rankin. Harry Mycr
/ aged Il, was blown to pieces, and
! Aaron, John and Frank Gromley were
/ injured.
1t is reported that the state of Louis
/ lana lost hundreds Of thousands Of dol
/ lars during the reconstruction period
| through fraud in the matter of the di-
rect tax refunded by the federal gov
{ eminent.
In an election to ill a vacancy for
South Bedfordshire in the British Par
( lament, the liberal candidate was elect
! ed, but by a largely reduced majority
on account of the temperance question
and pledges Of the liberal
A natural gas explosion in the
/ Church rf Christ at Tiffin, Ohio, Fri
/ day evening, blew out one gable and
/ one side of the edihce. ]. P.Childs,
who had entered the church to light
it for prayer-mecting, was injured so
1 badly that he may not recover.
BY the explosion Of the boiler Of
( locomotive on the Buffalo, Rochester
and Pittsburgh railroad, pear Grove
/ Summit, Pa, the engineer, Levi Wise.
and the fireman, Charles Flynn, were
killed, their bodies being blow to
pieces.
Mrs James Pike, who lives across
the river from Galllpols Ohio, be
came incensed at a remark made by
her neighbor, Charles Bippers and tax
ing a shot gun, went TO his house and
killed his two children who were play
ing in the trent yard. She has been
arrested,
The strike of telegraph operators on
the Cedar Rapids x Northern was de
clared off Saturday The company
agreed to recognize the Order Of Rail
way photographers, and the men viii
return to work, Wages win be con
sidercd later.
Lord ROseberry has announced to
the East Africa company that the
British government consents TO the
evacuation of Uganda, but that the
withdrawal must not take place for
three months, in consideration of which
the government win give the company
financial assistance.
At meeting Of the British cabinet
Friday the Irish eviction question was
considered and the ministers are in
cined TO adopt the recommendation of
Secretary Morley that a money grant
be made for the relief of eyicted ten
ants pending the report Of the Royal
Commission Of Inquiry
The department of state is informed
by the Chinese minister that there is
nothing IN the certificates found upon
! the Chiuaman recently arrested in De
troit for being unlawfully in the United
States, to show that the society issu-
Ing them had such an object in view
as the murder Of the emperor of China.
The Adelphia theatcr, of Baltimore,
! sometimes known rs the Mud theater,
/ is to be Iazed to make way for mod
/ cTn building. 1t was the first theatpr
in the United States illuminated with
gas, and was opened December 9, 1S22
| In it the elder Booth Macready, Ed
/ muud Nean, Hackctt ana Nine. Celeste
/ appeared,
/ The American Fire Insurance Lloyds
/ has just been organized by BeeCher,
/ Scheuck 4 Co of New York, Que
7 hundred business men of the United
/ States have made individual deposits
( Of $1,000, creating an initial fund Of
! 100000, which has been deposited in
| trust companies and banks for the pro
lection Of policy-holders
Hector Jonathan Cremleux, the not.
cd French dramatic author, committed
/ suicide Friday 10y shooting himself in
/ the head with u revolver CremeN
I was born in Paris November 10, 1S2S
/ Among his noted productions have been
/ "Orphee aux Eufers,' with music by
/ Oncnbach, which was produced in
! 1886: "Noie Sacree," 1883; Font des
Soupurs, in 1862, and la Belle pou-
! Ie."
Announcement is made of the death
! Of Sebastian Charles Girard, the French
| painter, in his 74th year. Girard was
/ born in Paris in 1919, He entered the
/ school of Arts in 1888. He visited
I this country in connection with the eN-
I petition to the Marquis islands IN
I 1S43-47 and was one of the art com
mission led 10y Prince Napoleon. lie
/ was decorated with the legion of honor
/ in lS4T
-Four powder mills at SChaghticOkc,
/ \. y, blew up Friday evening The
/ brst explosion was caused by powder
I clogging up in the wheel mill. A huge
( timber was carried 25O feet and struck
/ the press mill. causing the second eN-
I ploSiou, which set off the powder in
/ the corning mill and the supply mill,
I fifty feet distant Not n vestage OF
/ the mill remains. As the explosion oc-
Cured after working hours nobody
was injured. The loss viii be over
/ $4,000
\ suit by the state Of Illinois against
4 Henry Hilton, representing the old
( house OF A. Il. Stewart X Co. Of New
I York, to recover Si1,91l % taxes on
personal property, with interest from
1881, has bean pending FOR about eight
years. It was Sidt-rackel In 1885. but
WIS restored TO the supreme court