Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-08-30
lg a bride and committed to

receiving uElDc anu touulitteu ~
! Jail.
In the annual address to the Ameri.
can Bar association Judge Cooley up
held the presidents course during the
strike and scored Governor Altgeld.
The convention of Illinois miners at
Springfield voted to accept the Co
lumbus scale, which is about 10 per
cent below that adopted last June.
Inyigorated by his rest in the Hamp-
shire hills, Franklin MacVeagh has
returned prepared to begin his cam
paign for the Illinois senatorship.
X. o. Crump, of West Bay City,
Mich. was nominated for congress by
the republican convention at East
Tarras
Tobacco men are worried about the
Interpretation to be put on the new
tariff law as regards withdrawal Of
goods from bond.
Hubart and Hoyey defeated the
Neel brothers In the tennis match at
Newport for the national champion
ship In doubles.
Stanton Abbott, the light weight
champion OF England, was knocked
out by Jack Everhard in twenty-five
rounds at New Orleans.
A threshing engine blew up on a
farm near Byron, Ill. killing two men
and seriously injuring half dozen
boys.
Harry Mccoy and Josephine Calwell
fell from a rowboat and were drowned
at Peoria, ILL., 1t Is believed Mccoy
attempted to assault the girl.
Work has been begun on the Black
wells island bridge, which is to fur
nish the Long Island road an entrance
to New York.
Because Of charges made by political
opponents in the council Mayor Blu,
OF Cleveland, has demanded an inves-
tigation.
Tax assessments levied in Illinois
counties aggregate $737,75S,616, u de-
crease OF $23,079,23s from last years
total.
Stockholders OF the Chaplin Mining
company will meet in Milwaukee Sept.
3 to consider the foreclosure proceed
ings begun by the bondholders.
A statement setting forth the deslr-
ability of the proposed ship canal be-
tween the Ohio river and the lakes will
be issued by the provisional committee.
Through criminal negligence of Of
ficials at Memphis, Tenn, the county
and state are defrauded out of $1,000
600 in taxes and licenses.
Rains during the week have i'm
proved late corn and vegetables gen
orally throughout the country though
in certain sections drought is still COM
planned Of.
Nearly eleven thousand mill opera
tiyes In New Bedford, Mass, joined
in strike against a reduction OF
wages OF spinners and weavers and
many mills were forced to shut down
A uablegram from Carlsbad an
noanced the death of Frederick Hilton,
the youngest son OF ex-Judge Hilton
and q partner in the firm OF Hilton.
Hughes Il Co.
The status of the textile workers
strike is unchanged; no mills are run
ming in New Bedford, aud manufact-
urers in Fail River are seriously
crippled.
The New York constitutional conven-
ton rejected the provision Of the pro-
posed judiciary article increasing the
number OF judges OF the court OF APP
peals.
Lizzie Patterson, II years old, who
was convicted in New York OF passing
forged checks on several jewelers., was
sentenced to three years and six
months in Auburn prison.
Three thieves were discovered at
work in sleeping car attached TO 8
Monon train Two were captured after
an exciting chase, the other jumped
and escaped,
Moline and Rock Island militlamen
who appeared in a military spectacle
struck for their pay and held posses
sion of the grounds until they Sc
cured it,
Sanger was beaten in the mile open
and the two-mile handicap at Kansas
City, The former race was won hy o..
NJ, Murphy, the latter by j. W. Col.
burn.
Lieutenant Governor Majors was
nominated for governor by the No
braska republican convention. Editor
Rosewater resigned his committee
ship and will fight the ticket.
William Brinkmeyer returned 70
Milwaukee after three weeks absence
and claims to have been lured from
home BY a stranger and drugged and
robbed
John w. Colburn, of New York, was
elected grand master OF the general
grand chapter of Royal Arch Masons
at the triennial conyocation in Topeka.
Kan
The negro democne tic league has re-
queSted the abolition OF the Afro
American huraau Of organi1a tiun OF