Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-11-08
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Into a freight ut Forster, Pa, and three
persons were killed.
For refusing 10 betray outlaw Bill
Goode Eddy Martin was hanged by n
mob In Crittenden county, Kentucky
1t is reported that English capitalists
are after the Chaplin mine al Iron
Mountain, Mich.
Work of surveying for a ship canal
to connect Lake Erie and the OHIO
river Is to be begun at once.
President Cleveland has issued
proclamation setting apart Nov. - us
day Of thanksgiving and prayer.
Mrs. Helen NJ Cougar was for the
seventeenth time elected president OF
the Indiana equal suffrage association.
Three masked men robbed train
at New Albany, Miss, but aside from
little jewelry they secured no booty
Mistaking Conrad Heineman, OF Sill
yer Cliff, Colo, for Il ghost, Charles
Davis shot him dead.
More cotton was brought into sight
during October than during any month
III ue mArket ulstofy.
Gilchrist Porter, ex-member OF con
gress, died at his home In Hannibal,
Mo-, Of heart disease, aged n years.
Rev. Samuel Rodgers, well-known
Methodist divine, died at his home in
Baltimore, Md.
Monthly treasury statement shows
an increase In the public debt for Dc
tober Of $l36S0,S 54.
Government officials have little hope
that Germany will lift its embargo on
American cattle and beef.
Illinois supreme court declared un.
constitutional the law exempting build
Ing and loan associations from taxa
ton.
millionaire Richard e. Sibley is one
of the hackers of the White Spirit
company, the new rival OF the whisky
trust
COMMANDMENTS Chief LAWYER, % The
G. A. H., has appointed committee
to investigate the charges against Phil
Kearney post of Richmond, Va.
Trouble has again broken out ut
New orleans between the white ana
negro screwmen, and further blood
shed is feared
An investigation has resulted III the
discovery of II shortage OF $1,000 in
the accounts OF Treasurer Barney, Of
Defiance, Ohio.
The Mark Hopkins estate, Of Cali
fornia, has purchased the Renfust
apartment.ho house, Chicago as an invest
ment, paying S323,ooo.
students OF Northwestern University
adopted resolutions denouncing crib
bling" requesting the faculty's Id in
Is eradication.
Richard O'Brien, vi Lewiston, Me-
and Mysterious Billy" Smith, OF
Hayerhill Mass, fought ten-round
draw al Buffalo.
Attorney General Omey holds thar
whisky in soyelr ment warehouses in
South Carolina cannot be contiscated
under state law
Supreme court OF the United States
decided the state courts had Jurisdic'
ton in the case OF Banker Emo, con
yicted Of forgery.
DIR. Eugene Crowell. the author Of
two works on spiritualism, OF which
he was strong advocate died Al New
York.
Illinois supreme court ordered thc
release vi Benjamin tiXlner because
he had been convicted as accessory to
crime instead OF as principal.
\ snow storm ragged throughout Mia
nesota and south Dakota and a cold
wave Is reported TO be following III lis
wake.
Mayor Hopkins secured the arrest OF
Chairman Tanner OF the Illinois re-
publican state central committee on a
charge OF malicious criminal libel
William Henry Clark, for many
years editor Of the Bankers Monthly,
died 1T his residence iii Chicago from
heart disease
Ionore Mereier eN premier of Que
&c, and for years leader Of the
sarench. Canadian, died at Montreal
ulAcI u lOL6 lAucSS.
II. &, Waite. secretary of state OF
California ana candidate for re-elec,
ton, Is dead He was made i'll by
worry over political matters.
rewards are offered by the poslinas-
ter general for the arrest aud eonyie-
ton Of highway mail robbers and post.
office burglars
James T. Willctt, lifelong resident
Of the district, has been appointed
postmaster OF Washington by the presi.
dent
In his annual report Commissioner
Harris points out the great educational
influence Of newspapers aud maga-
zines.
Gustav Il Berger. student IN
Chicago medical college, Is charged
with embezzling $1,000 while In tho
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