Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-05-14

struck George Bischoff, a tailor, such
blow with his fist in Buffalo as to
break lis neck. Westphal gave HIM
self up to the police.
At Houghton, Mich, the financial
difficulty OF the Kerbs-Jacobs Brown
Stone company has been adjusted and
the quarries at Jacobsville resumed
work with about 35 men.
II. II. Holmes, who was hanged In
Philadelphia Thursday, offered Mrs.
Pietzel widow of his victim, house
and lot in Chicago and $4,000 for her
aid in getting him reprieye.
An attempt to supersede the veneer
able DR.. Atkinson as secretary Of the
American Medical association and put
o younger man in his place came near
breaking up the meeting at Atlanta
The J. Nelson mill at Sank Rapids,
Mimi. has shut down Sixty men are
out. Cause, high water. the company
being unable to hold logs High water
is reported on all the upper streams
Thirty -one republican senators have
signed a petition to the finance commit
tee praying that ii any tariff bill is
considered at the present session the
committee will provide for a duty on
wool,
A member Of the foreign affairs com
mittee Of the house Is authority for the
statement that John Hays Hammond
will be pardonad by President Kruger
after serving short term of imprison-
ment.
Representative Wadman, OF Illinois,
has introduced a resolution providing
that the house of representatives d.
rectly request the president to issue q
proclamation recognizing state OF
war In Cuba.
A washout near Liberty, Neb.,
ditched Burlington branch freight
train. Engineer Brennan is missing
and il Is supposed that he was
drowned Conductor Wilcox was fat
ally injured.
In a canoe shaped boat, ten feet in
length, Prusslan sailed .4Om .he mill
ing district at Niagara through the
hydraulic canal out into the rapids and
over to within 300 feet Of Goat island,
then returned.
Claude Falls Wright and Miss Mary
G. H. Leonard were married at Thee
sophical headquarters, New York, a
mysterious mahatma presiding. The
couple claim to have been married
5000 years ago.
The case Of J. H. Wiborg and others,
convicted of participating in the liorsa
filibustering expedition, was set for
hearing in the United States supreme
court on the 18th inst
Three dams on Crooked creek, near
Grantsburg, Wis, have gone out by the
high rise of water. scattering millions
of feet OF logs through the woods. The
loss is heavy. The st, Croix river Is
the highest knowl in years.
There will be no investigation OF the
railroad rebates to the members OF the
alleged beef trust by the present fed
eral grand jury in Chicago. The gov
eminent officials decline to give any
reasons for postponement.
Commissioner LamoreauX will make
trip OF inspection of the land Offices
in Minnesota Montana, Idaho, Cali
fornia and Colorado next month in or
der TO secure a thorough revision of
methods throughout the service.
The Franklin sugar refinery at Phil
adelphia which has been idle for four
or five months has started again in
full operation. Over 600 hands are
employed az the refinery, and a major
ity of the old men returned to work.
Homer Judd, of tie Chicago and Fort
Worth Packing company, has been ar
rested at Fort Worth on the charge OF
violating the interstate commerce law
shipping goods without the full weight
on the billing and receiving rebates.
over $4,000 worth Of damage was
done to Ashland, Wis. streets by ter
rife rain storm Two residences were
struck by lightning and the oil tanks
OF the Ashland Lighting company We're
torn from their places by the rush OF
water
John W, Peterson and Charles Man
son, Duluth saloonkeepers, have been
held on q charge of drawing the con
tents of two kegs of distilled liquor
without destroying the stamps. The
otfense is felony, and heavily pun
ishable.
The northhound NJ, X. and T. flyer
was struck by Inc Texas and Pacific
switch engine al Fort Worth a
sleeper and chair ear were smashed.
j. c. Hamilton, of Ithaca, and G. II.
White, Of Cieburne were very seri-
ously injured
AT Eau Claire Manager Robert c.
Hudson. of the Frederick Warde com
pany, was severely caned BY A. Fore
man The manager abused the actor
and finally pulled his nose. Actor
Foreman then administered a sound
Secretary Morton's distribution OF
seeds to congressman. and through
them to their constituents. is proving a
hzzle Spring time Is we'll advanced,
but the seeds ar piled MP AT the sew
eral distributing centers. With little