Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-07-19
KILOGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.
,ey lectured in Duluth !.

The cash UdldHte anu 500 '~t-
of the United States treasury increase
Forest fires are raging in the yicini-
ty OF West Superior.
A policeman at Hastings, MINI, was
fatally shot by burglar.
Theodore Bruener was nominated
register of the land office at ST. Cloud.
Norfolk, Neb., will secure a $4,000
public building.
Heat has done great damage 10 Ia
kota crops.
The Loyal Temperance Legion met
IN Racine with 15e delegates.
Grain growers Of Minnesota met at
Minneapolis to organize TO further
their interests.
Justice Bailey refused writ or
error in the Prendergast case and the
assassin was hanged Friday.
Western lines have issued lnstruc-
tons to agents and connections to
again receive all classes Of freight.
Oue man was killed and two others
fatally injured by the collapse OF an
overloaded wharf In Boston
W.. r. Leonard New Yorker, has
invented a bullet.proof coat, which he
claims Is superior to Herr Doves.
The conferees on the tariff bill
worked six hours and do not agree
upon a single item.
The attempt to get all the trades
unions of Chicago out on strike
tailed.
Congressman Loren Fletcher was re-
nominated by the republicans Of the
Minneapolis district.
The entire business portion of st.
Cairsville, O.. was burned; loss $500
600.
Bartholomew Shea. Robert Ross
SLAYER In the Troy election riots. IS
sentenced to die.
The department of agriculture re-
ports an improvement in the condition
OF winter wheat
Electric car men Of Indianapolis are
rejoicing In an advance of l cent an
hour, justified by bigger receipts.
strikers are rapidly resuming work
in all parts OF the country, and the
train service on nearly all the roads
Is nearly normal.
The steam shovel engineers and
helpers al Virginia, Mimi, and at
Mounteiu Iron have struck for In
creased wages; mines closed.
Gen. Dan Macauley, of Indian
apolis, Is dead He was three times
mayor. and colonel of the eleventh
Indiana, organized by Lew Wallace.
John Drake, of Anderson. Ind. shot
and killed his wife, from whom he
had separated; then suicided Jealousy
was the cause.
The Minnesota republican state con
yention met AT st. Paul Gov. Mel
son was renom.nated without opposi.
ton
Many severe shocks of earthquake
were felt in Constanunople and ada
cent territory. Many lives We're lost
aud enormous damage done property,
The Yale athletes who went abroad
have been arrested for setting off fire
works in oxford on July 4th They
were released on payment of costs.
The pottery workers strike in New
Jersey is over. This means work for
1000 men Ohio's 5000 men may also
resume work.
The supreme court Of New York has
granted certificate OF reasonable
doubt in the case Of Erastus Wman,
which acts as Il stay on the sentence.
Minnesota populists placed fun
owen for governor. Dehs' arrest was
characterized as unjust and unwise,
The rational convention Of retail
clerks met at st. Paul, MIMI, with
a light attendance, many delegates
having been delayed.
only one bid for the entire $1,000
600 per cent Chicago drainage bonds
was received and they will be read
vertised
T. G. Hanford. vice president OF the
National Linseed OH company. shot
himself in a Chicago hotel because OF
financial troubles.
Judge 1'uley will issue a decree en-.
Joining Cook county from proceeding
with it's suit in ejectment against the
city
Publishers Of the Chicago city direct
DRY for 1891, which Il being distrib-
uted. estimate Chieagos population at
i,635o00 persons,
Memorials asking for the impeach-
ment Of Attorney General Olney and
President Cleveland will be circulated
for signatures and sent 10 congress.
Firemen on the nine divisions of
the Big Four have been ordered out
because the company refused to IL.
store ne 1898 wage scale.
strikers ave gained ground at To
ledo Organizer Spence in an address
TO loco workmen said civil war was
Threatened.
ihe river aud harbor bill was re-
ported 10 The senate. Il shows an III
crease " S3as7, i9a over the amount
opp opriated by the house.
Democratic members Of The tariif