Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-07-09

of the wage question
The Wadsworth company, publishers
81 the LAport, Ind, Argus, have an
nounced that the firm will commence
,be publication of daily paper Inc
erst issue Will appear July II.
Serious trouble is feared at Bnchah-
an Mich. where the st. Joseph Vaiiey
Railroad company is trying to lay d
track on land owned by men VINO Oh.
loot IN the road obtaining a right OF
way. mn
Edward p. Jackson of Greenyille,
m a travelling man, who was placed
in iail in Mexico, Mo, for the abduc-
ton of Ada Wallace, aged IT, escapeu
further trouble by making the giri MS
wife.
The new wage scale OF the Amalga-
mated Iron and Steel Workers asso-
citation has gone into effect and a mum
her of mills in the Pittsburg district
which refused TO accept II have smut
down.
william Turner and r. w. Dunlop
Who confessed to having robbed their
employer. /. Townsend Burden OF New
York. Of $4,000 worth OF jeWelry, nave
heen sentenced to nine years each III
prison.
bloomington, Ill, reports curious
lIcycle accident A lad OF IA hau the
great toe of his left foot cut OH by
the sprocket chain OF a wheel as cream
and smooth as If nipped on by pas
OF shears.
Thomas +. Bayard was presented
with an address by the Gainsborough
municipal council. Mr. Bayards WISH
was upon the occasion of the laying OF
the memorial stone Of the John Robin
son church.
The union green glass bottle factories
in the Pittsburg district and some de-
nartments of the union flint glass rae
tories have closed for the annual TWO
months' vacation. This affects about
10000 employees.
Mrs. William Mckinley has been
sent by General Joseph Terrence the
beautiful gold badge studded with
diamonds which he has worn for Two
years as symbol of his fealty TO the
cause of her husband.
Senior Meron, the new Argentine
minister, and Toru Hoshi, the japanese
minister, were presented to President
Cleveland. Both ministers made ad-
dresses and the president replied IN
suitable terms.
According to Supreme President
Echols, of the A. 2. A., that organiza-
ton will have no candidate for presi-
dent and will eonfine its energies to
the election of congressman and mem
bers OF state legislatures.
a west bound mail and express train
on the Grand Trunk railway was
ditched near Cornwall NEAR Mohtreall
by broken rail The entire tram
went down an embankment and many
passengers were badly hurt.
Farmers living near Buchanan,
Mich, complain Of grasshoppers which
they claim have almost totally de-
stroyed their crops Too much rain is
supposed to have been the cause of
the large number Of these pests.
]. C. Williams, ex-president of the
defunct bank of Blue Springs Neb,
has been sentenced 10 the penitentiary
for three years He was convicted or
accepting deposits after his institu-
ton had become insolvent.
The failure is announced of the
newspaper syndicate which contem-
plated string of papers extending
across the continent. and which had
secured control of the Kansas City
World, with several other journals.
The gathering Of Christian Endeayor
societies at Washington this week will
eclipse All other conventions. Seating
capacity will be provided for 10000
Endeayorers and preparations are be-
ing made for the entertainment Of 1907,
Geo strangers
Tho explosion Of boiler III the OH
ees Of the Evening Age. al Houston,
killed three persons and severely
wounded another. The dead are;
Henry Lyons. engineer: Edwin r..
Emery, telegraph operator; Miss Matte
Loeb. stenographer.
Pending a settlement on the wages
scale every mill in the Mahoning val
ley. including those at Youngstown,
Warren Niles, Girard and Struthers,
Ohio, has closed throwing $500 men
temporarily out of work The men
demand $3.50 per ton. while the man
ufacturers offer only S.
The two Chinese graduates Of Ann
Arbor viii do another year Of college
work. probably 1T the university Of
Chicago In China they will be made
part Of the staff OF one Of the hospitals
managed by the missionaries of the
Methodist Episcopal church
A compromise has been effected be-
tween the operators Of the Crescent
Nail mill at Belleyille Ind. and the
locked-out employees whereby the mill
will return to work at the former wage
scale. hut the company does not recog-
ni1e the Amalgamated association
general order has been issued by