Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-01

speeches at Mason City, ParkersDurS
and other points.
Colonel Garrick Mallery, q. s. A.. re-
tired, died in Washington. He was in
charge OF the signal service bureau
from 1870 to 1876.
At least FIVE lives have been lost in
the prairie fires In Nebraska. while
great damage has been done to prop
erty.
A daughter Of Squire Hause, of JEFF
fersonyille, Ind, who has married 1000
clipping couples, eloped with Roy How
ard.
Health Commissioner Kempster, of
Milwaukee. has filed denial to the
charges brought against him in c0nnec-
ton with the management Of the
smallpox epidemic.
Isaac y. Phillips. Of Bloomington,
H., has been appointed reporter Of the
Illinois supreme court, to fill The va
cancy caused by n. L. Freeman's
death.
A deer was chased into Ashland,
Wis, by a hound, finally taking ref
uge In il house, from second-story
window of which it jumped and was
killed.
TO rut an end to lawIessness in In
dian Territory Secretary Smith will
recommend abrogation OF the treaties
ana establishment of d territorial gov
erament
Postmaster General Bissell has is
sued a circular letter calling attention
to the sections Of the civil service law
relating to forced campaign contribu'
tons.
In his report ON the Pittsburg In
vestlgation Civil Service Commissioner
Roosevelt recommends that internal
revenue officers be put In the elassi-
fed service.
A second huge meeting of the Sal
walton army to welcome General Booth
was held in Music Hall, New York.
Chauncey NJ. Depew made an adj
dress.
Fire in the Copley swamps near
Akron, Ohio, is still raging, and the
city Is made almost uninhabitable by
the dense clouds of suffocating smoke
which float over 1t.
Nathan Strauss, who at one time
signallzed willingness TO be Tam
many's candidate for mayor of New
York city, has given up the contest
and sailed for Bremen, Germany.
Charles Carpmael As director Of the
meteorological service of Canada and
director OF the magnetic observatory at
Toronto, has just died in the south of
France.
Fire at Detroit, Mich, Sunday de
stroyed the American paper company's
warehouse on Larned street and four
small buildings adjoining. The total
loss is $4,000.
The supreme court of the United
States in session At Washington, u. G.,
yesterday rendered no decisions of
great importance. A re-hearing was
denied in the Indiana tax law cases.
George Sclater Booth, the first Baron
Basing, is dead, aged 6S. He was ele-
waited to the peerage in 1887. From
1874 to 1850 he was president of the
London local government board.
Two unknown Austrians We're crush
ed TO death, being mutilated beyond
recognition. aud another was fatally
injured, in freight wreck on the Hi
nois Central railroad ut Putnam, ILL.,,
Saturday night.
Lending football games resulted;
Chicago Athletics. SO; University OF
Chicago, O; Yale. %; Boston Athletics,
o, Princeton. 30; I.ehigh, o; Massachu-
sets Techs" s; Boston, 4; Lafayette,
&c; Swathmore, o.
1t II said that "Dcafy" Letson, in
jail at ST. Cloud, Mimi, on charge
OF swindling passengers on the Great
Northern trains is step-son of Nil
lionaire Baldwin, the san Francisco
Street-ear magnate.
Lebanon, Ind. is at the mercy Of an
organized gang of robbers The post
Office was robbed Of $1,000 in cash and
STAMPS Monday night, and the resi-
deaee Of nearly every prominent man
in the vicinity has been raided.
Ex-police Sergeant George G. Liebers
Of New York, who is under indictment
for bribery. and for whom bench
warrant has been issued. surrendered
himself at police headquarters at 1880
O'Clock yesterday morning. He was
released on bail.
Fitzroy y. Moncrief, for eighteen
Years private in company II, nine
teenth Infantry, stationed at Detroit
received notice from relatives In Sect
land the other that 100000 had been
left to him. The next day he was
found dead in his boarding house.
John Il, Marsh, the mayor OF Kins-
ley. Kas,. and an influential politician
in his state, was killed NY two Okla.
homa outlaws, who made good their
escape to the territory. A reward of
$1,200 is offered for them and all
Kinsley Is after them.