Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-09-06

Governor Waite, Of Colorado, and
three Denver police officials have been
arrested, charged with opening let
ter addressed to an ex-police matron.
Recent rains have so benefited corn
that it Is now believed It will be an
average crop. Vegetation generally
has been greatly improved.
Elmer Gilmore, teacher In the pub
lie school at Eckerty. Ind, has fallen
heir to an estate in Ireland worth
81, 100000.
An electric car, the brakes Of which
efused to work, was crushed by a
Northern Pacific train In Chicago.
Three persons We're injured.
General Kitchener says ex-President
Harrison does not desire renomina-
ton in 1896 and wound not accept it
unless it were practically unanimous.
ID. +. Thompson was nominated for
congress by the democrats of the ninth
| Illinois district, and w. A. Smith by
the republicans of the fifth Michigan.
| The trotting stallion Pamlico, consid-
cred the best free-for-all performer of
the year, barring Alix, died at Hart
ford Conn, from lung fever.
Frank Barry was shot and probably
MORALLY wounded by John Parker as
the result of row over card game
In Chicago.
| In the ladies' regatta on Fox Lake
the Hornet finished first, but the Joker,
sailed by Misses Cregier and Tooker,
won ON time allowance.
John G. Gault, the veteran railroad
man, who brought the st. Paul line
into Chicago, died from paralysis,
which followed stroke Of apoplexy.
Railroad men from all parts of the
country attended the services over the
remains of John Newell, president of
the Lake Shore.
| President Choate made a speech in
| the New York constitutional conyen-
ton urging the separation of municipal
and national and state elections.
An Italian stabbed a fellow work
man near Port jefferson, J.. l., and
was almost lynched by his compan-
| iors.
| Forest fires continue to rage in north
ern Wisconsin and Michigan and in
the former state several towns are en-
! dangered.
Murderer French at Ashland, Wis,
broke loose In court, assaulted an at
torney and attempted to attack the
| judge.
Secretary Carlisle decides that goods
in bond under the Mckinley law need
not be reimported to come in free of
duty under the new law.
Favored individuals connected with
the whisky trust mace million in
specializing, or the eve Of the new
rates
Joe Harris, recently released from
the saltwater penten,iary for u Min
neapolis bank robbery, was arrested In
Chicago.
In accepting denomination from the
democrats of the second West Nir-
gina district Congressman Wilson de-
noruced the senators who had blocked
the path of tariff reform.
The steamer Northwest ran on Bar
Point, Lake Erie, while going at full
speed and panic was created among
her 150 passengers. She is in no dan
ger
The Chicago and Evansville express
ON the Eastern Illinois road colllded
with q freight train near Hilsdale.
The passengers were shaken up, but
none was injured
Mississippi state officials and several
bank note companies will be prose
cuted by the government for issuing
special warrants resembling United
States notes.
President Cleveland, in Il letter TO
Congressman Catchings of Mississippi,
criticised the tariff bill which he al
lowed to become a law without his sig
nature.
Rabbi I,owenheim and wife We're
elected superintendent and matron, re-
spectively, of the Home for Jewish
Orphans, which is shortly to be opened
in Chicago,
President Cleveland reviewed the
parade OF Knights % Pythias, $4,000
OF whom We're in line. In his biennial
report Supreme Chancellor Blackwell
scored the rebellious German lodges.
In the democratic primaries in South
! las ei,e>.TH as omted States sen. 81
or hc
rhe high tariff placed or precious
)nes has induced one Of the largest 81
itch and Belgian firms TO remove It's sti
ting and polishing factory TO Brook.
a., NJ:
chicago merchants report great inn III,
ovement in business now that the
i'll question has been settled. Sales wa
lw an increase of 50 per ccat, over Yo
lSe for the same period III 1Ssc,
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