Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-08-19

seems that the payroll is $4,000
month.
John H. Meister, a Bavarian who ar
rived in this country from Germany
tW enty-five years ago, killed his wife
and himself at their home in Brooklyn.
Meister was a baker and had made
a fortune Of 100000
William Stewart struck Charles
Crockett with a brick at Lima, O.,
killing him Crockett had refused to
lend Stewart some money. This caused
the assault. Stewart was arrested.
Witnesses at Providence, r. l., in the
Mrs. Barneby murder case, have agreed
70 attend the second trial of DR..
Graves, to be held at Denver in DC
tober
A masked man boarded motor train
at Omaha and covered the motorman,
conductor and two passengers with
big revolver. He secured several
quarts of nickels from the conductor
and escaped.
/ Fred A. Hoffman killed himself at
Pittsburg, Pa, by jumping from the
roof Of a house. He was victim of
religious melancholia and had been out
Of an insane asylum but tNcney-fOur
hours.
Tom Johnson, a negro, arrested at
I Leavenworth, Kas August /, on a
charge Of yagrancy, has been identified
as the man who robbed the Adams
4 Express company's safe at Nebraska
. CITY Of $500.
Gov. Altgeld, of illinois, has com
muted to ten years the sentence of
I John Robinson, who was convicted in
Henderson county in 1887 Of murder
and sentenced to the pententiary for
fourteen years.
Prof Vanderbe9g was arrested at
+ Leavenworth, Kas., for using the mails
for fraudulent purposes. He was bound
/ over in $500 to await the action of
the grand jury. He advertised q cure
all' and had many victims.
Near Hildreth H., during a rain
storm a stroke Of lightning struck
threshng machine killing one man,
farmer named Benson, and two horses.
The threshing machine caught fire
from the lightning and was destroyed
/ The First National bank Of Nashville,
Tenn, has closed its doors. Its indi-
yidual deposits amount to S1,0O5, 5O7.
The City Savings bank, of the same
city, has decided to suspend payment
for sixty days The assets are Sf51,-
400 and deposits S4O7O7.
1 Charges against Archbishop Katzer.
of Milwaukee, have been made to Mgr.
Satolli by the English priests Of the
Green Bay diocese. They claim that
the archbishop, while bishop Of Green
Bay, favored German priests at the
( expense of the English clergy.
Jim Williams and Modem Jackson,
negroes working in the hanger camp at
Romeo, ILL.,, quaTeled over game of
craps. Jackson lies in his bunk with
two bullets in his right breast and
I Williams is in the Joliet jail with
hole through both legs
+ The congregation of the Zion church,
near Five Points, H., has been bother
ed with honey bees. Farmers assem-
bled at the church and tore off the
siding on one side. They discovered
an immense deposit Of honey enough
to fiji over seven tubs.
Fire started by Il cigarette at Sidell,
Ill~ destroyed the greater part of the
business portion of the town, involving
a loss Of 100000; insurance, S25,OOO
Among the buildings burned were the
Siden Opera-House, Lyons, Alexander
x Co.'S bank, the Chicago and Eastern
Illinois depot and a number Of bust
ness houses.
4 monster golden eagle attempted to
carry off Joseph Maynes near Toledo
yesterday The bird had lifted
Maynes, who weighs 151 pounds from
his feet three times, when a companion
came to his assistance and the eagle
was captured.
The British government is said to be
alarmed at the prospect of the repeal
of the sherman law by the American
congress and to be discussing the adj
visibility Of proposing that if the
United States will continue purchasing
silver free coinage will be resumed in
India at the ratio of "a to /.
The assets and liabilities of the Lud-
low hoe company, which assigned at
Elgin three weeks ago, are given as
$4,000 and $4,000 respectively. A
proposition to the creditors is made or
the basis Of 10 per cent cash, 10 per
cent i'm six months and 10 per cent in
one year.
Obituary: At Bunker Hill, H., Rev.
L. NJ. McKeever-At Milwaukee, Wis,
Alfred White, aged siXty-seven.-At
WesJboro, Mass, General George b.
Bingham, aged seventy-two-At Lin
coin Neb., Bennett Goldsmith member
of the state legislaure-At Highwood,
Mont, Colonel NJ j, Leaning, aged
sixty seven who was private secre-
tary ID President Johnson and mem
Der OF a Chicago regiment during the
war-At Washington, Rear Admiral
Thornton A. Jenkins, aged eighty-one.