Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-07-29

grand Jury returned sixteen indictments
against parties alleged to have been
connected with the smuggling Of opium
and Chinese.
Charles Johnson, alias Larson, was
arrested at St Paul, MINI, on a charge
Of forgery. lie is thought to have
passed many spurious checks for years
past aggregating thousands Of dollars.
Ellery Fenner, %, while bathing
with a companion In pond at Quid-
neck, r. J., was drowned. The body
was recovered. His home is in Ster-
ling, Conn.
DR.. Henry G. W. Meyer, the alleged
wholesale poisoner for insurance mon
ey, has arrived at New York from De
troit in charge Of two officers, and was
locked up.
The international Cold Wave com
pany, with a capital stock Of S6,000,OO0,
has been organized at Aberdeen, S. D.
The projectors claim to have discovered
a secret by which they can bring cold
winds from the arctic to counteract the
hot waves from Kansas.
The Royal Bohemian Opera com
pany has been engaged for a twenty
weeks tour Of America. The season
will open in New York in October.
THE company viii produce but one
opera, Prodana Nevresta CThe Sold
Bride, by Emetana, a Bohemian COM
poser.
The total number Of pensioners
dropped from the rolls since March f.
1893, was 245, and the total number Of
pensioners suspended since March 4,
pending a further investigation Of their
cases, was 5000.
Gen, Marina Ezcobedo, the greatest
living general Of Mexico, is seriously
I'm with pleursy Physicians attend
ing him entertain very little hope Of
his recovery. Gen EzconbedO was the
conqueror of Macmillan
w. Queer of Surgis Mich, took his
three little girls on a railroad yelocipede
two miles east of town after berries,
and was run into by freight train,
killing one of the children.
The treasury department has just
bought $1,000 ounces Of silver as fol
lows: 10000 at $O734; 10000 at So
734J. The offers were 73S,OOO ounces.
The total amount Of silver bought up
to date for July is 94S,OOO ounces.
The following Judges Of awards in
the fisheries department Of the worlds
fair, appointed by the committee on
awards, was approved by the national
commissions y. O. Cram, Portland,
Me; -. W. Hall, Slowhegan, Me.
Obituary: At Green Bay, Wis, Rear
Admiral Melancthon Smith, o. S. n,
aged eighty -three.-At ST. Paul, Rev.
Allison At New York, George tTeder-
ick Parsons, editorial writer on the
Tribune, aged fifty thn,e.-At Lock-
port, \, Y, Mrs Naomi Sutherland
Bailey, one of the seven long-haired
sisters.
Steamer arrivals: At New York: Am
sterdam from Rotterdam, State of Ne
braska from Glasgow; Off Ilinsale,
/ Norseman from Boston; at SouthamP-
ton, Elbe from New York at Hun, Buff
falO from New York; at Glasgow Nor
Wcgian from New York.
Austin Davis, stockman doing bust
ness on the Kansas city ana Chicago
yards, was granted a divorce from his
wife, who has made her home in Bos-
ton for years Judge Moore, ut Kansas
CITY, said that as Mrs. Davis preferred
to live away from her husband in idle
ness, she had deserted him.
Four young women summer visitors
lat Nantucket. showed the grit of Amer
lean girls yesterday. They were rowing
across the harbor in tho face Of a
bowling storm when they came across
la boat which had been upset in a
sQuall Despite the wild sea they
went to The assistance of the four boys
on board and rescued one of them
as he was sinking for the last time.
THE others we're taken off 10y n yacht
Henry +, Spaulding, 70, senior mem
Der Of the dry goods firm of Spaulding,
Hunt & Co, died at New York from
an affection of the heart, He was for
many years president Of the Central
trust company and senior director Of
the Mechanics national bank, ana was
connected with various other insttu-
tionS.