Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-09-02

A fire at Waukegan, destroyed the
the entire square bounded by Madison,
GeneSee. Clayton and State streets.
Loss. 10000: Insurance. about $4,000.
The receiver Of the Northern Pacific
company. ut St Paul. has been ordered
by the court 10 return to tie farmers
their wheat that r. stored III the elevu-
tor.
only two replies have been received
to the appeal Of the Kansas railroad
commissioners for donations Of seed
wheat for destitute farmers Of western
Kansas and both Of these decline TO
send the wheat
John A. Eaton, for many years a
leading democrat Of Kansas and re-
Gently defeated for the United States
district attorneyship, has declared his
intention 10 leave the democratic party
and go with the populists.
4 letter found in a bottle near Oise-
90. Mich. says that the writer murder
ed the Bordens at Fan River, Mass. It
Is signed Max O'Reilly and gives an
alleged description Of how the murder
was committed.
MinnesOta's treasury is empty and
the treasurer is unable to pay the salar-
les Of state officers. The state has
plenty OF funds, but they are tied up in
the eleven banks which have suspend
cd In ST. Paul and Minneapolis.
During a fight between non-union and
union men ut the Lockhart iron and
steel company's plant at CHARTERS, Pa,
to-day Charles Snyder a non-union
man, shot Joseph Brownhill. a striker,
in the shoulder. The wound Is serious.
Snyder is under arrest
Heirs Of Norman w. Kirtson, the st.
Paul millionaire charge James J. Hin
and the St Paul Trust company with
delaying settlement and attempting to
wreck the estate in order to reap large
profits in the way Of executors fees.
Twcnty-four hundred bottles of beer
that had been seized from a cellar in
the town Of Downs were cracked at
Osborne, I'm northwestern Kansas, in
the presence Of 100 people and the
contents poured into a rayinc.
Henry l.. Spring, who claims to be a
Chicago real estate man, has been try
Ing 10 touch George Gould for a loan
Of 800. lie was so persistent that the
New York police had to give him a
nights lodging at the Tombs.
St. Louis authorities propose TO me
morialize congress to prevent the build
Ing Of the drainage canal, by which, It
is claimed, the Mississippi, where St
Louis gets It's drinking water, will b.
come polluted with Chicago sewage.
Creditors OF the Hercules Iron Works
company have reorgauized the com
pany and viii remove the works from
Chicago TO Aurora The failure Of the
corporation was caused by the burning
worlds fair grounds.
John Gin Meyers, OF Oakland, H.,
the ravisher Of his stepdaughtcrs is
sdn at large although supposed to be
surrounded by a posse of farmers, on
the EmboTass river. His wife says
he has escaped and left the state,
/ Mayor Carter Harrison, Of Chicago,
( is 10 we'd Miss Annie Howard, Of New
orleans, next month. The bride elect
( Is % years Old and is rcputed to be
worth S&OOOOOO Her father, Char
/ ley" Howard, deceased, made $4,000
900 out Of the Louisiana lottery.
/ Fire at Waukcgan caused loss Of
! $4,000, on which there is an insurance
Iof $4,000 The losses are; l.. u. War
rcn,dowr mill; George Meakins, bill
Hard hail; Macarthur &AIcArthur, livery
stable; c. Linebach, hotel, and the
dwellings Of H. u. Warren, James
! Lcomau Lorenzo Hinkstou II. J. Sly
field, f.. Kendall, Miss Maloncy and l..
1 ID. Warren.
Obituary. At GaleShurg, H., Uncle
/ Ben" Churchill, aged one hundred ana
I two. At Sterling H., Mrs. Iahcz War
|ucr. aged niuey-uiue-At Alascoutah,
an, George g. EiSenmayer, aged
Soyentthrce
/ The weekly crop report issued at
! Washington. reports that the crops ia
/ the central states are in a favorable
condition The. drought IN the New
England and Middle Atlantic states
has been broken. Crops in the extreme
northwest were slightly damaged by
Crost> The grape crop damaged 10y
fro~ts The grape crop Of California
win be the largest thar has ever been
known