Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-07-12


time.
The new torpedcboat Ericsson, which
left Dubuque several days ago. reached
st. Louis Sunday. 1t will remain at
anchor there about two weeks or until
completed.
Unusually warm weather has caused
rapid advancement in all crops in the
GENITAL and northwestern states, ac-
cording to the department Of agri-
culture bulletin
The republican conferrees Of the eth
Pennsylvania congressional district
Yesterday renomnated Congressman
Irving r. Wagner of Montgomery
county.
Michael Stein, James Stone and Mar.
ion Terrain, young men, while bathing
were drowned In Lake Calumet at
Ire foot Of Kensington avenue, Chi
cago.
The jurors in the trial Of Streeter, Of
the Guaranty Loan company In Min
neapolis, are discharged. having stood
eight for acquittal and four for con
yiction.
LAwlessness reigns supreme among
the railroad strikers in Chicago They
defy both federal and state author
tiles. United States troops are ordered
out, and bloodshed is expected.
The Hotel Recherche at 1T to 123
West Thirty-second street, New York
city famous because Of its former his
tory as the ''house of all nations"
kept by Nine Charles. was damaged
by fire to the extent of $4,000.
The jury returned a verdict of not
guilty In the trial of Michael Don
nelly, who was accused OF shooting
at Patrick J, McArdle in New York.
Ex.Assemblyman Myer ]. Stein, a wit
mes, was arrested for alleged perjury,
Indictments were returned by the
Washington grand jury against Ed
wards and Schriver. the newspaper
correspondents who refused to answer
questions in the sugar trust investi-
CATION.
The town of Mogollon, in the Mogol-
Ion mining camp, 80 miles northwest
OF Silver City, Col, was almost de-
stroyed by fire. Only two business
houses are left, and the loss is est.
mated at $4,000.
Henry Vogler shot and killed Will
lam Stutz ut Syracuse, ~ y. Vogler
then fired bullet into his own brain
and died two hours later. 1t Is be-
lleved that Vogler thought that Stutz
was intimate with his wife.
Rev. Joseph Il. Carpenter, of Man
chester college, oxford, England, a
prominent Unitarian divine, has been
appointed university preacher at
Harvard college for the term of one
year, beginning September T.
1t is expected that Debs and all the
other officers of the A. r. u. will be
indicted in Chicago Tuesday for
criminal conspiracy. A special grand
jury of the United States court will
consider the case that day.
X. B. 0vaum. a Norwegian farmer,
of Butler, s. D., became so worried
over crop prospects that he cut the
threats Of his two children, threw
them in well, cut his own throat,
and jumped In after Their.
Frank S. Allen has brought suit at
Joliet against Mayor Stassen for dam
ages 10 amount of $1,000. The case
is the result of Mayor Stassen's having
Allen removed by force from Alder
man Patterson's seat in the council.
The Camp Release monument, near
Montevideo, Mimi, was dedicated in
of one OF the closing
scenes of the Indian war of 1867, Elk
Governors Ramsey and Austin, Gen.
G. G. Andrews and Attorney General
Childs made the principal speeches.
James IL. Mills. OF North Manchester,
Ind, formerly employed in the Amer
lean Trust and Saving hank OF Chi
cage, has been adjudged of unsound
mind and ordered confined in an asy.
lum. His dementia was raused by the
excessive use Of cigarettes.
George McGee, Louisville convict,
stabbed and Instantly killed Charley
Thomas. another convict, at the pen
itentiary III Frankfort, Ky. The men
had quarreled, and while Thomas was
eating breakfast McGee walked up be-
hind him aud plunged long knife
into his heart, Both were negroes.
Judges Woods and Grosscup issued
a sweeping injunction ordering all per
sons not TO interfere in any way with
trains on railroads subject to the In
terstate commerce law. The admins.
tration decided 10 use federal troops
whenever necessary to enforce the or
ders of the courts,
Assistant District Attorney Wcllman
was selected by Corpora ton Counsel
Clark as counsel for the New York
city police commissioners to aid Super
intendent Byrnes In formulating
charges against policemen who were
accused Of wrong doing before the
LeNow committee.
The scientific expedition headed by
MeSSrs. Taber and Lloyd and other
Americans left st. John. N. r.. by