Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-05-17

. owen Olls OF f1d5I Washing ION
avenue. More cases are feared.
The power-house Of the electric con-
pany al Nauaimo r. g, McKenzie's
4 furniture factory, Hirst Bros store
and two dwellings were burned. Loss
I $4,000; insurance not known.
A man named Nordor MoiekO was
stabbed and killed in the yard Of lGj
I Hester street, New York. by Angelo
! TreanO. who was arrested. The muir
derer and witnesses were locked mp
Richard H. Mcdonald Of san Fran.
cisco. yice-president Of the Peoples
home savings bank now in the hands
Of "a receiver, was indicted by the
grand jury for felony and embezzle-
meut Bail was fixed at $1,000
Tie striking coopers at the Cobb
lime company works at ROckland, Ne,
have accepted a cutd0wn Of one cent
a cask ana will 20 to work ut five
cents. The other coopers will prob
ably follow their example
General" Coxey and his lieutenants,
Browne and Jones were convicted of
violating the law In carrying banners
and walking on the grass in the capt.
tol grounds
The department commander Of the
Wisconsin g. A.. r. charges that
funds whirh have been annually sent
to be u,,ed IN decorating the graves
Of Union soldiers in Virginia have
been Incorporated
Mrs. Emma l.. Hart. a wealthy New
York widow. was robbed Of $500
worth Of diamonds, and the police are
looking for her butler, who disap-
peared at the same time.
Charles Graham Terry, Of New
York who is not yet Of age declared
that two years ago Grace r. Negus,
then scarcely fifteen coerced him into
marriage by threatening him with a
revolver. There is q suit to have the
marriage annulled.
The British bark Senegal, bound
from San Diego for Tacoma, is long
overdue. and grave fears are enter
tanned for her safety. She left San
Diego on March II and has not been
heard Of since.
Near Sherwood, Iron county, Texas,
Charles Beauchamp, prominent sheep
man, during a quarrel over some prop
erty, was shot and instantly killed by
f. o. and JEFF Woodward, father and
son.
Ernest Shira and Eugene Reed,
wealthy citizens, wanted in Alderman,
Choctaw county Miss, for the killing
OF a negro farmland on April Is, were
arrested at Fort Worth, Texas, while
In the act Of boarding a train.
The torpedo boat Ericsson was
launched at Dubuque Ia. Saturday.
The cigar-shaped vessel will be de
liyered at Pensacola harbor where she
viii make her trial trip. The speed
requirement is - knots an hour which
/ is exceeded by no torpedo boat ahoat.
At the annual meeting Of the Madi-
son square q. - Garden stockholders
/ 1t was shown that the company has
lost $4,000 in the last year and that
I the federal authorities are anxious TO
secure the garden for a post office.
Astronomer r. II. Ling, Of Chicago,
announces the discovery of a new
comet about half a degree below Zeba
Hydra. The latter Is described by the
astronomer as q bright star south of
the quadrlateral figure marking the
scrpents head
Justice O'Brien has granted leave to
the attorney general of New York
state to bring suit for the dissolution
Of the Central stamping company on
the ground that it is an Illegal trust
or monopoly The proposed suit is
the outgrowth Of internal dissensions
The ordnance department Of the
army is now conducting at the Sandy
Hook proving grounds a competitive
trial of six-pound machine guns to as
certain which is best suited for army
uses. The guns submitted in c0mpe-
ttion are the Hotchkiss, briggs
Schroeder, Observation-Disclosures Sea
bury and Sponsel guns
A fire at Old Mystic, Conn, de-
sroyed the village store, with two
tenement houses and barn Loss
estimated at over $4,000. An engine
was sent from Mystic, but arrived too
late to be Of much service. The store
belonged to John Taylor, who saved
part of his goods, rs did Rawitzer
Bros, owners of the tenement houses
The Brooklyn police took possession
of Coney Island Sunday, closed all
dives and dancing halls, and com
PEELED keepers OF drinking resorts to
close their fGont doors. Beer and
whiskey could be got on the quiet bur
all licenses expired at midnight Thirty
thousand persons visited the island,
and there were no arrests.
The case against the $. c. Akely
Lumber company, pending in Itasca
county. Mimi, and the two cases
AGAINST the ltasca Lumber company,
pending in Ramsey county, were set