Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1895-12-19

Railroad men assert ghost haunts
the station house at Franklin juno
ton, near Columbia, Mo-, II taking the
form Of young girl who utters low
agonizing means upon her appearance.
The fee of 20 cents for each export
certificate of domestic merchandise
charged by collectors Of customs, ag-
gregating thousands of dollars, has
been declared illegal by the board of
general appraisers at Washington.
BY the explosion of boiler in the
sawmiIl OF Ezra Post, about ten miles
from Greenville, Pa, Engineer Frank
Perkins and Solomon Hastings were
instantly killed and Stephen White
and Curtis Johnson fatally hurt.
Colonel Thomas g. Lawler, formerly
commander-in- chief OF the Grand
Army OF the Republic. will be given a
banquet at Louisville, KY Dec. 49,.
Several Rockford friends will accom-
pany him.
Mrs. John &. Harris, wife of the
publisher of the Western Wigwam.
who was supposed TO have been MUIR
dered by tramps at Emporia, Kan,
has returned to Topeka, after falling
to identify the body.
Charles Tombiad, a murderous her
nit living near Menominee, Mich,
whose capture has been repeatedly
sought, was,Ainally overpowered Sun
day night and placed in the county
jail He is thought to be insane.
At Muncie Ind. the residence OF
William d. Turner was badly dam
aged by a natural gas explosion. and
its elderly owner was fatally injured.
He was repairing regulator just out
side the house when the gas ignited.
Supervisors of Pike county, Illinois.
have chosen Turner Foreman keeper
of the almhouse. He is the first re-
publican to hold the position in the
county's history, and was elected by a
combination with the populjsts.
Receiver Hubbard, of the defunct
Sioux City stove works, is about to file
report showing that all preferred
CLAIM against the concern will be
paid in full and a dividend of to 7
per cent. paid on general claims.
lighter, the Success, loaded with
cottonseed OIL sprung leak as she
lay at her dock at the foot of William
street, Atlantic basin, Brooklyn, and
sank. The captain, A. Johnson, was
asleep aboard and persisted.
Peorias presbytery referred the pc
tition of Rev William Mckay, of
Oneida, who asked that his pastoral
relations be dissolved On account of
the failure Of the congregation to pay
his salary.
William Augustus Camp. well
known in banking circles in New York
city by reason of his long connection
with the New York clearing house,
from the management of which he re-
tired IN 1892, died
Murderer Lewis Martin Miller, who
has been imprisoned in Fremont since
the recent riot in Tiffll, Ohio, has been
taken to the latter city to await his
trial Dec 16. No further rioting is
apprehended.
James b. Boyd informed r. w. Gill
bert, division superintendent Of the
Northern Pacific at Spokane, Wash.
that he knows whore w. B. Witherov
buried $4,000 stolen from the road
about six weeks ago.
The steamer Amrum, bound from
Progreso to New York, ran into a
school of whales and killed one. The
sailors thought they had run aground
but were treasured when the vessel
proceeded, while the big whales fed
to leeward
Jerome S. Wolcott, commission
merchant of Coldwater, Mich, died of
brain trouble after brief illness
John X Drummer, member of the
Philadelphia city troop during the
Black Hawk war, is dead at Vandalia,
H., aged 81.
Caroline Gerardy, VINO escaped froia
an Indiana insane asylum and was
killed by train at Logansport, was
convicted two years ago in Starke
county of numbering her husband and
became insane in the courtroom when
the jury reported its verdict.
Acting on kilograms received from
the Chicago police. the Brooklyn AM
thorities have placed under arrest as
a suspicious person John T. McGreal.
and il the news from the west is verb
fed, the mystery surrounding the kill
ing OF Alfred Olson in Brooklyn five
years ago may be cleared away.