Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-12-20
ordlng to an agricultural department

cordIng to an agricultural department
report.
From returns TO the agricultural de-
partment the condition of winter
wheat Dec. / is placed at 50, against
S15 last year.
! A proclamation declaring forfeited
lands granted the st. Paul In the
Sioux reservation has been issued by
the president
The Edison Illuminating company
OF Boston, will vote December rs
upon proposition to increase its
capital to S3,425,0o0.
DIR. Pickin and son, charged with
assaulting Miss Briggs, were arraigl-
ed at Eau Claire and pleaded not
guilty.
/ Gen. Harrison says that under no
circumstances will he be a candidate
for president again.
An insane man in Missouri murder
ed his wife and two children, MORALLY
wounded his two step-children ana
then suicided.
Plans FOR the immediate reorganiza-
tion Of the Chicago police department
on civil service basis We're submit
ted to Mayor Hopkins.
University of Chicago football eleven
accepted the offer Of the Leland stan
ford, Jr., University for Christmas
game and will leave for the coast in
n special car.
Robert Webster, an aged farmer liy
ing near South Haven, Mich, set fire
to his barn and shot out the eyes of q
neighbor, who liberated the animals
In It,
:. S. Harvey, accused OF swindling
score or more of Chicago wholesale
business houses by buying goods on
credit and disposing of them under
cover. has been captured,
Governor Waite and Rev. Myron W.
Reed addressed the federation of Ia
Dor convention at Denver. A hot dis
cussion Was INDUCED in over the po-
litical program.
Rev. DR.. w. w. Boyd is reported to
have said at a Baptist ministers
meeting in st Louis that the Uni
versity of Chicago was founded in
blood and must fall.
Carl Browne, of commonweal fame.
proposes to demonstrate the absurdity
Of gold basis by having workingmen
demand payment Of wages in that
coin.
The National Civil Service Reform
league met in annual convention In
his annual address President Schurz
commended the administration for
having advanced the cause.
4 package containing $1,500 Is re-
ported to have been lost in the New
York postoflice. 1t is said that II has
been traced TO either the registry or
postal money order departments.
The Shenango glass works at New
castle, Pa, owned by Knos x Foltz,
were burned. rhe loss Is 100000 ana
insurance $4,000 Three hundred
men are thrown out of employment
The annual report of Col. Ainsworth.
chief Of the record and pension office,
shows that the pension cases received
and disposed of in the past fiscal year
were 2l9,941, or $4,000 i'll excess Of
the cases received in the previous year.
John Burrows and Miss Ina Camp
bell We're fatally injured at Bing
hamton, y. Y, their carriage being
struck by passenger train on the
New York, Lake Erie and Western
railway The horse was killed.
Charles Willoughby, ~, resident of
West Haven, Conn, dropped dead at
his home in that place. lie was con
nected with the Boston rubber com
pany for many years, and was well
known throughout New England.
General Manager FELTON, of the Penn
sylyania steel works Of Harrisburg,
Ia, says the prospects for work are
decidedly better now than they We're
At this time year ago. lie says
there Is always lack of orders about
the first Of the year, but denies re-
pore Of an indefinite suspension.
Ihe passenger anu freight depoI ~
the Chicago, Iowa and Dakota rail
way, AT Hughes, Iowa, was set on lire
by masked men, and entirely con
sumed. II is reported 10 have been
done by citizens Of Hughes WAC de-
sired that a new station ne erected,
\ mass meeting OF citizens was held
in Chicago under the auspices of the
local Armenian society, TO protest
against the recent Armenian out
RACES. II. y. Higgenbotham, presi-
dent OF the worlds fair presided, and
4 aumber of addresses Were made.
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