Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1893-04-08

1 to be appointed King Of Dahomey, in
l order to ciyilize darkest Africa. He was
taken to a lunaic asylum.
! A lire at Llano, Tex, on the 2Sth
/ destroyed property to the value of 500
4 900. with $4,000 insurance The losers
are: W. A. H. Miller building, SD, JO;
b. Yates. drug store, $1,000; ". H.
4 McGhee, bar $500; Or. G. + Darnal5
office and household $1,000; g. r. Port
. er. household. 5000 The fire was IL
I cendiary.
+ A London newspaper relates that a
few days ago Queen Victoria was
greatly charmed with a piece Of music
performed by the band playing in
public at Osborn and sent one Of her
attendants TO learn the name Of the
piece The attendant came back and
reported with some embarrassment
that it was entitled, Come Where
the Booze is Cheaper"
John + Majors Of Nebraska, re-
{ presenting the General Land Office,
has arrived from Roswell y. NJ. ,,
where he has been engaged for ten
days past investigating the accounts
Of the missing receiver. Frank Lenet.
He employed an expert to open the
safe and found that the shortage was
between $4,000 and $1,000.
+ Norris Neal, formerly Of Denison,
Tex, where he left a wife and child,
Davis, of Paris, No, at Hannibal, Of
whom he wis enamored, received
/ curt refusal to his advances. He drew
I revolver, fired twice at the woman,
ana then fatally shot himself The
woman was not hurt
Mrs. Mary Polnitz, the mother of
DR. POlinitz, sentenced TO be hanged
on May 3, has appealed to the Governor
Of Georgia for the pardon OF her son
+ She is more than 50 years old and
made a piteous appeal for clemency
asking the Governor to let her 90 down
to the grave without experiencing
the disgrace Of the execution. She
4 lives in Marengo county, AIN The
family is one of noble birth. The faith
erof DR.. Poliutz was forced to fly from
( Germany in the revolution Of 1913.
AT Philadelphia, Pa, the Supreme
/ Court has refused to grant a special
alIocatm in the cases of the anarchists,
Henry Bauer and Carl Knold, of Pit
tsburg ON one Joint and two separate
petitions filed last Wednesday, the
defendants, who were sentenced in the
/ Allegheny County court Of quarter
sessions t. four years Imprisonment
each IN western penitenitiary,
asked for admission to bail pending
their appeal
AT Scranton Pa, the Elm Park
Methodist Episcopal Church, partially
destroyed by lire December 3. last at
a loss Of 100000, and which had
been almost reconstructed, again burn
ed on the 2Tth. The structure is now
a complete ruin, nothing standing
of the walls but the tower. The es-
timatnd loss viii reach fully S125.00o
on which there Is $4,000 insurance.
1t is believed 20 be the work uf an
inceudary.
The most costly and luxurious train
OF cars that has ever crossed this CON
Gnent left New York ut 10 O'Clock on
the morning Of the 10Th. 1t is com
pGScd of six elegant Wagner coaches
and it viii carry Or, W. Sewar dWebb,
his family. ana a few invited guests
to the Pacific coast and back. This
train constitutes "a perfectly equipped
hotel on wheels, with m uncommon
supply Of the comforts Of home,
Edward Sterrct, an Auburn, Neb.,
physician on the Doth, shot his wife
and killed himself Mrs. SteTet left
her husband without assigning any real
on He met her on the street, and
without saying a word drew a revolver
and grasping his wife 10y the throat
forced the weapon into her mouth and
fired. He then turned the revolver
upon himself The woman is fatally
wounded There is no explanation
known.
i Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
. Maxwell on the 10Th, appointed one
hundred fourth class postmasters, and
of this number sixty were TO
7 fill vacancies caused by the removal Of
the incumbents