Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-07-19

iess men of Davenport.
John Drake, of Anderson, Ind, end
ed an unhappy married life by fatally
shooting his wife and blowing out his
own brains.
New York's rapid transit commission
adopted plans for an underground
road in order to get the matter before
the voters next fall,
The viii of Napoleon" Ives was
lied for probate at New York. II di-
yides $4,000 between the widow AMI
a sister
Three hundred and fifty regulars,
with Calling guns. left San Francisco
for Sacramento by boat, and raised
the blockade on the Southern Pacific.
Emissaries of the American Railway
union are at work In Indiana endeay-
oring to bring about a general strike
Of trades unionists.
President Debs, Vice President How
ard and Secretary Kellher, Of the A.
X. g., have been arrested on the
charge OF conspiracy in connection
with the Pullman boycott,
A great grandson Of the brother OF
Gen. Washington is dead In Washing
ton. He was a graduate Of West
Point, was in the confederate army,
and Of late in the land office.
A line from Salt Lake to the coast,
which will furnish an outlet for sew
eral western roads. viii be built by
the Mormons on admission Of Utah
as state.
Special Judge Rupe decided Indian
apols had no valid claim against
the Commercial club for the unex-
pended balance from the Grand Army
encampment.
Government attorneys are said to be
preparing to prosecute Debs on the
charge Of treason. His private papers.
which had been seized, We're ordered
returned by Judg Grosscup.
Deputy United States marshals, aid
ed by regular troous, captured four
teen men, charged with the destruction
Of property in the Chicago stockyards
district.
Mayor Pingree, of Detroit, failed in
his attempt to induce the Pullman
company TO arbitrate. He was accom-
panied on his mission by Mayor Hop
kins and Erskine NJ. Phelps.
The blockade ut the Chicago stock
yards has been raised. 175 cars of
stock being brought in and 100 cars
shipped. Packers expect to at once
resume operations in full.
A Southern Pacific train was wreck
ed on a trestle near Sacramento by
strikers or their sympathizers. Three
regular soldiers and the engineer We're
killed.
Deputy marshals and regular sol
diers are said to have plundered
freight cars in the Rock Island yards,
and a number of the former have been
put under arrest.
In an official statement the General
Managers association says the rail
ways are handling the usual number
Of trains and that the strike is prac-
tically ended.
Many cities including Chicago. are
Interested In the outcome Of suit for
heterogeneous of patents brought by
General Ayerill against the Barber
Asphalt company
Professor Atilla, manager of Romu-
lus. who has been challenged by San
dow was arrested by the United
States authorities in New York on the
charge Of sending scurrilous letter
to Sandow.
Goddess OF Liberty Brown is going
on the road with lecture, and later
viii asSail Wall street. AS to labor
day Sept u Brown says: Il will lead
my men on the capitol steps. The
tine will then be ripe to do or 70 die
The general merchandise store 1f
the Whitebreast fuel company at Ladd,
Ill., was looted 10y mob Of 1000 non
English-speaking miners and was to-
tally wrecked. The stock was valued
at $50 600
Alton Mizener of CoIdwater, Mich
living three miles out. killed James
Robinson, aged 10 and buried his
body three feet deep in The barn
yard. In the skull were no less than
nine blows.
The cruiser Minneapolis sailed from
Cramps shipyard in Philadelphia for
her government trial trip off the Mas
sachusetts coast. While the actual
speed trial of the cruiser will last but
four hours, the trip will consume seven
days.
Clinton, H., parties have bought
50,0o0.000 feet of pine and the land
eighteen miles from Chippewa Falls.
1t was owned by the State Lumber
company, OF Milwaukee, in which Ben
Sweet is a stakeholder The consid-
Grafton Is $4,000 cash. The land has
an area of $500 acres.
At democratic congressional conven
tions in Chicago McGann and Goldzier
were renominatcd and 4. II. Ryan
aud ex-senator f. +. Noonan named
by reclamation. Noonan's selection