Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-09-13
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
THE LOCAL FIELD

dead.
Sixteen families were made homeless
by a fire in Jersey City.
A national irrigation congress was
held in Denver.
IncendiarIes operate at Washburn,
Wis. and five Of them are arrested.
Gov. Waite is renominatcd by the
Colorado populsts.
Indians in the Canadian norls'yest
threaten an uprising.
The trial of Debs and other A. X. u
officers Is on in Chicago.
Populists OF Iowa met and nom
mated a full state ticket. Seven hun
bred delegates We're present.
John Manning, 80, a bookkeeper for
the silver plate company In Naubac,
Conn, was killed by an electric ear.
Fire destroyed all but two stores
and fifty dwellings In Dows CITY,
Iowa. town Of 1000 inhabitants.
S. B. Elkins is not dangerously i'll,
but Is convalescent and VIII be about
In a few days, his physician says.
Seven prisoners escaped from the
county Jail at IIillsdale, Mich, by
cutting through twenty.inch wall
Fred Hawkins won the senior sin
giles and the Bohemlans the senior
lights in the regatta of the New Eng
land Amateur association.
Roswell Bills, prominent III political
and business circles Of Peoria, where
he had resided since lS49, Is dead.
After services in North Side Turner
hall the rema AS Of Fire Marshal +.
L. Refs were taken to Graceland
Burglars entered the Wabash ticket
office at Springfield, H., at the noon
hour and robbed the safe of $1,000.
Mrs. j. McPete. her two children
and a nephew were caught in water
spout near Perry, q ), and drowned.
Purses aggregatins $4,000 will be
hung up for the harness races at
Terre Haute, Ind.
L..ht persons were injured in an ac.
cident on the Chicago Great Western
road In Iowa.
A Ian was arrested at Burrak,
Iowa, charged with the murder OF his
wife and man.
The American bark Lottie Moore has
arrived, after being at sea for seventy
eight days, with d disabled rudder.
Brooklyn Is tortured by plague OF
heas and the constant ringing Of the
city hall fire bell
Or. +. A. Cooks arctic expedition,
from New York, was obliged TO re
turn, its ship sinking.
A division for the testing oil road
building materials may be established
In the Interior department.
The prospeetors near saltwater think
hey have struck Il Sc.n rich ia gold,
silver and copper.
Tbs nayy department has been no.
tilted by Lieutenant Usher that the
Ericsson win not DC ready for trial
for ten days,
ateteoroiogists are studying the pc.
cullAr maze now hanging over the
country, which is attributed to the for
esd hires III the west.
10 lure her husband with reach OF
contempt papers friends of Mrs. L'zzie
T. Harrell. of Brooklyn, gave out the
report Of her death.
George w. Fithian, democrat can.
dldate for congress III the nineteenth
district, has challenged hls republican,
opponent to joint debate
Urban A. Woodbury., the republican
candidate, was elected governor Of
Vermont Returns show republican
gains OF 5000
Chairman Maxwell and Secretary OF
State llinrichsen have arranged test
case to secure judicial construction OF
the Illinois ballot law.
Sellkn, the extreme outsider, beat
Oakwood and Lehman in the handi-
cap sor three-year-olds 1T Latonia,
causing much unfayorable comment.
"plttsburg lhll' is said 10 have won
j small leliune Oy the victory OF Can
delabsa IL the second race NJ Sleeps
head Bay.
All but two Of the nineteen business
house in Shipman, ILL.,, We're destroyed,
as We're number of residences. The
loss is $4,000,
AT Union City, Ind, Houk Brothers
butter tub factory and several stores
and residences We're burned. Loss is
100000.
D. w. Galdwell's appointment as
general manager Of the Lake Shore
Is believed to foreshadow his election
Is president.
Stockholders ON The Western Ala
bama consolidated the offices Of presi-
dent and general manager and elected
q. q. Smith 10 the place
A Wisconsin farmer prevented a
disastrous train wreck near stevens
Point ~ taking of his shirt and set
ting Il atre.
Henry Irving, the English actor,
cabled $500 u the mayor u New York
10 be used for relief Of forest fire sui.
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