Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-10-04


is to be so extended that 1t will be
supreme in the United States, subject
to no appeal to Rome.
Upwards Of hundred people were
killed and great many others In
jured In the southern Minnesota and
northern Iowa cyclone.
In an address before the state board
of equalization Governor Altgeld said
the Pullman company escaped taxation
on property worth upward Of $40,-
100000.
Democratic congressional conventions
made the following nominations: Sec
ond district, John J. Hannahan; first
Max Dembufsky; seventh, Louis
LANCE.
Annie Davenport and George Van
Houton were arrested in Hillsdale, n .
j., ON the charge of robbing Simon
Mead, a farmer, who had taken the
young woman into his home.
Michael Walsh, editor of Catholic
paper, denies that he has furnished
material to Mgr. Satoll upon which
to base charges against Archbishop
Corrigan.
Neil Hepburn, ex-postmaSter of City
Island, y. Y, was arrested yesterday
on the charge Of misappropriating
$4,7J0 collected during his incumbency,
hut not accounted for.
The Connecticut democratic state
conyen ton nominated Ernest Cady for
governor, his principal rival, Morris
b. Beardsley being given the second
place on the ticket.
Nathan Straus is strongly urged by
Tammany leaders for their mayoralty
candidate in New York. Thomas G.
Plat is endeayoring to have the re-
publcans nominate Lemuel f. Quigg.
One OF three stowaways who arrived
in Baltimore on the British ship Ross
more, September %, was Frank G
Myers, deserter from the United
States ship Chicago.
John Moore, a United States navy
pensloner, who was a passenger on
board the Teuton:c, which arrived in
Queenstown died on the voyage and
was buried at sea.
Thomas Flunohel, a Bohemian, his
wife and 12-year-old son, were fatally
poisoned by eating supposed mush-
rooms which they found in the woods
near Chicago.
The Unitarian conference at Sara
toga adopted resolutions in memory
OF George William Curtis. Senator
Hoar, the president, delivered the bien.
NAL address
A man claiming to be God, Jr., and
who said he had commission from
on high to kill President Cleveland
and the pope, was arrested at Alex
andria, Ind
Annual report of the Illinois Central
shows an increase Of 100000 IN traffic
receipts, due principally to worlds
fair business.
Claus Runge, Theodore Beckstrom
and Edward Voorwynkel, aged re-
speetively 16. II and 10 We're held at
Moline, H., for highway robbery, hay-
ing robbed Christ Merci.
Charles f.. Wilson was sentenced
at Syracuse, n. Y, to be electrocuted
at Auburn state prison during the
week beginning NOV. for the murder
of Detective James Harvey.
George Clifford, United States con
sui at Basic, Switzerland, says that
the prospects of the Swiss watch in
dustry are unusually discouraging,
the export to the United States being
very light.
While Conrad Bitter, farmer living
north of Crown Point, Ind, was le-
pairing the roof Oh a large barn he
fell about fifty feet and was instantly
killed.
Soreve Winter, son of Judge j. 5.
Winter, of Lewiston, H., died from
secondary hemorrhage, the result of
gunshot wound accidentally received
a few days ago while out hunting.
t-olice OF Columbus, Ohio, arrested
Frank Wiegand and Edith Ray on sus
picion of completely in the murder OF
Police Sergeant \. H. Sheehan in
Cleveland on the night OF Sept. s.
Attorney Darrow argued for the de-
PENDANTS in the Debs contempt case.
He claimed the court had no jurisdic-
ton and that the charges made ha |
not been proved.
Schooner William Home sprang Il
sleak in the gale on Lake Michigan and
her crew took to the yawl, which was
capsized and all but one Of the six
drowned.
Natural Gas was struck on the farm
of Andrew Myers, three miles east of
Princeton, III. 1t has high pres
sure and the field is considered valu-
able.
Fred Lamont, welI-known circus
clown, travelling with Robinson's show,
is lying at the point of death at Ter
race Park, Ohio, from injuries re-