Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-11-11


Miss. The quarrel was over bale Of
cotton
\ At Richmond, Ind, the 2-year-old
child Of James Aliddagh was burned to
death, its clothes taking fire from an
open stove.
At Buck Greek, Ind, Edward Cool
ended "A carousIl by shooting Luke
Lowe and Obediah Halter and cutting
his own throat
The Chicago & Southeastern railroad
has been tied up for three weeks by
back-pay strike. No trains whatever
have been run
TWO saloons were raided mt 915 in
the evening by ST. Paul thieves In
one the proprietor, Joseph Herda, was
shot and fatally wounded
/ J. X. Payne who had informed on
a number Of Illicit dlstillers in Winston
county, Ala, was riddled with bullets
by unknown men
Frederick 7. Young, formerly Of
Springfield Mo confessed at Denver.
Col, that le had been a thief for TWEEN
/ ty years.
Burglars near Weeping Waters, Neb..
shot and killed Matthew Akerson and
wife ana wounded the son and hired
man, robbing the house and escaping
Eva Collins, - years old, was run
over by an electric car at Grand Rap
ids, Mich, and died soon after. She
attempted TO cross the track IN advance
of the car.
George w Powell, whom the new
mayor Of indianapolis appointed chief
Of police, has had no police experience
ana hesitated a good while before ac-
cepting lest it might ruin his social
standing
Supt Hughes, Of the Hygeia Mineral
Water company said: THE com
pany's plant cost S1,OOOOOO, and during
the exposition it sold no less than %
100000 glasses Of water The enter
prise has been highly profitable"
Mrs. John Kerns, of Niles. O., has
sued the New York, Pennsylvania &
Ohio and the Cleveland q Mahonng
Valley railroads for $4,000 for injuries
received in falling from the station
platform.
The hardware store Of \. =. Boswell
" Go. at CoGeyyille, Kas,, was entered
by thieves and SlG3 in cash, negotiable
personal notes to the value Of 5000
ana certificates Of deposit amounting to
over $4,000 were secured. Several re-
yolyers ana razors were added to the
booty
DR. Elliott Cents the eminent sci
enlist of the Smithsonian institution, IS
in Tacoma, verifying the report made
Of the northwest by the Lewis ana
Clark expedition in 1904 and 1906, and
IS locating the exact route followed by
them
OF the four men who pleaded guilty
at Danyille H., TO the murder OF
Henry Helmick the night of July %
last, Pate and Starr were sentenced to
be hanged December ana Smoot and
McJunkins to the penitentiary for lifes
MeSSrS. Bull owners Of the water
works nj Quincy, H., claim a balance
due them from the city, and the water
supply Mt the city hall, fire engine
houses and public schools was shut off
pending q settlement.
There is trouble between RI. Anton
palitschek Won Palmforst and a number
i Of the exhibitors in the Austrian sec
ton of the manufactures building.
They want to remove their goods with
out any delay, and secured an injunc-
ton restraining Or PalmforSt from in
tcrfering with them.
The diamondiferous meteorite which
was given for Il hand piece to be used
in the ringing Of the new liberty bell
ut The fair, has received a polishing.
/ lt is 50 hard that ordinary steel work
+ Ing machinery would not make an
impression on it and the work was
+ done in a similar manner to that en-
ploycd in polishing a diamond. The
piece of ore was polished by rubbing
I the powdered pieces together.
+ SanocIa, one Of the little brown
skinned men who has played for months
upon the tinkling instruments in the
Jayanese theater at the fair is dead
He was talking to his comrades and
laughing 40 the thought that in a few
days he would start on the homeward
journey, when he fell on his face with
-roau and died almost instantly.
Heart disease was the cause of Sano-
cra's DEATH The doctor said.
The Columbian chair company at the
fair has closed up its affairs Eight
hundred and fifty men We're paid of
and dismissed, and the company found
it still had 1850 chairs, the number
it started out with The young men
who pushed the chairs may enter into
business on their own account by hir-
ing the chair for a day from the COM
pauy at a reduced rate and trust 10
luck for enough business TO recoup
themselves.