Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-05-06

/ are advocating what they call
associate memberships for men who
did not enlist but were loyal during
the war. Says one of them: "Eigi
bility to membership should be
restricted to those who, while living
at the time of the civil war, were
unable, for good and sufficient
reasons, to volunteer in the Union
army, but who were in full sympathy
with the Union cause. 1t should
also be extended to the lineal de-
scendants of those above named /"
This suggestion does not find favor
on all sides.
A TRIBUNE representative very
much enjoyed meeting with Mr.. NJ.
j. Hishen, of Chicago, the first Of
the week. He and his bride were
here on a tour, so to speak, and for
visit with Mr.. Hishen's parents.
The nuptial knot was tied at Holy
Cross church, Chicago, by Rev. d.
d. Hishen, assisted by Fathers Ryan,
Walsh, Kearn and Hogan. The
brides maiden name was Miss Name
Tracy, of the Worlds Fair city,
where Mr.. II. is in the feed business
in partnership with Michael O'Hare
recently of this place, and is also
serving as inspector of new i'm
provements in the south 30th dist.
THE Review Of Reviews for May,
without pretending for a moment to
invade the special domain of the
elegantly illustrated monthly maga-
zines, may perhaps claim to surpaSs
any of them in a certain quality of
original and timely interest in its
pictures. 1t contains, all told, about
one hundred illustrations. They
pertain to the Worlds Far, to the
naval review, to the flag-raising on
the Navesink Highlands, of April
25, and the casting of the Liberty
Bell on May at Troy, to the re-
ception in New York of the Duke
of Neragua, the lineal descendant
of Christopher Columbus; to Mr..
Cleveland's various important ap-
pointees, including perhaps a dozen
Of the most important new foreign
ministers and the principal com
mlssioners and chiefs Of bureaus.
CROP news at home and abroad is
Of the most unfavorable character,
end general and serious shortage
in the wheat yield of 1898 seems
inevitable. The winter wheat crop
of 1898 in this country promises to
be 50,00C,OOO to 60,Oo0,OO0 bushels
less than that of 1892, while not
one-fourth of the spring wheat
acreage has been seeded, though
this week we enter upon May, when
generally the greater portion Of the
work has been done, even in the ex-
treme Northwest. As a result il is
not improbable that in North Oak
ota and Northern Minnesota the
acreage will be reduced 20@25 per
cent, and in South Dakota and
Southern Minnesota lOQI5 per
cent, indicating a shortage of per-
haps 25,00O,000 bushels, even though
the remainder Of the season should
prove as favorable as that of 1892.
There has been no field work of
moment done in the north half
of the spring wheat belt, and under
the most favorable circumstances
from this time on, seeding cannot
be completed before June And
while the American wheat fields,
Kansas excepted, are being deIuged
with water, and the Northwest is
too cold and wet for seeding, Eu-
rope is being scorched by excessive
drought. In London and Paris no
rain has fallen in two months, with
the exception Of one afternoon in
the former city, when a quarter Of
an inch Of water came-not enough
to settle the dust. During the en-.
tire century there has been no
PARALLEL of this unusual state Of
things. Germany and Italy share
in the excessive dryness, and in
some localities there has been no
rain in three months. Prayers for