Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-03-05

nearly fifty years In the Baptist min
istry.
]. w. Hildrcth, Herbert Plato, Theo-
dore Hubbard and Fred Bristol the
Rome, N. Y, boy train wreckers, have
been indicted for murder in the first
degree.
]. A. Brown, ex-city clerk Of Muncie,
Ind, committed suicide by shooting
himself. He was $4,000 behind with
insurance companies for whom he was
agent.
Alanzan Weed, well connected and
once wealthy, died suddenly in an
Italian clearinghouse In Brooklyn, N.
Y. He was a nephew OF Thurlow
Weed.
Virgil Eberly made mock hold-up
OF Orlando Deweese az Marion, O.
Deweese thought he was robber and
shot him through the Lungs. Eberly
will die.
Samuel Edison, father of the inyen-
tor. died in Norwalk, 0. He was 81
years old, born in Nova Scotia. He was
about to visit his son in his Florida
winter home
The board Of education at East
Liverpool, o. has been petitioned TO
restore the bible reading In the schools,
and two teachers have declared they
will read il anyhow
Mrs. Florence Haun was sentenced
IN fFs,T ri unp mi nj
at Auburn for the murder of Charles
Landry. Her conviction was OF muir
der in the second degree.
James ~ Clutter, proprietor OF a
cooper shop in Terre Haute, Ind, was
arrested on the charge OF sending sour
rilous postal cards through the mail to
Frank Barr of Indianapolis.
President Cleveland has nominated
the following western postmasters:
Charles Laurence. at Owosso, Mich;
Edmund G. Burke, at Virginia, Mimi:
Sloan f. While, at Hopkins, Mo
The free silver democratic state cen
trail committee met in Omaha to fix
the date for selecting delegates TO the
Chicago convention April % was the
time named and Lincoln the place.
The faculty of the University of
Missouri has given 400 students the
alternative OF signing pledge to re-
frain from creating disturbances in
the future or of being expelled.
The business men of Mitchell, S. D.,
burned the plant Of the Mail news
In, No 81
assailed prominent people and the
management of public institutions.
Funeral services for Mrs Ida
Fisher Stevens, secretary of the Eth
ical Culture Ladies' Aid society, We're
held at her home in Chicago. She was
the wife of Lester w Stevens.
Judge Badger in the common pleas
court at Columbus, O.. decided that
receiving money in Ohio to be sent TO
a poolroom in Kentucky to pay racing
bets was in violation of the laws OF
Ohio,
Rev. William II Luckenback, presi-
dent of the New York and New Jersey
Lutheran synod, and ex-president of
llartwick seminary, died at Hudson. m
", in his 6Sth year from paralytic
stroke
The Badger Transportation company
was organized al La Crosse, Wis, with
capital OF 100000 for the purpose of
carrying on a towing business, The
company has purchased the Lizzie
Gardner
~ ~ Is
arrived at New York on the steamer
Curacao, The Davis was wrecked in
mid-oeeau by storm She was bound
from Maurilla TO Philadelphia with a
cargo Of sugar.
The Detroit white lead works we're
partially destroyed by fire. causing
loss of between $4,000 and $4,000; in
sured for $4,000 The fire was caused
by the bursting Of pipe, the oil from
which was ignited by gas Jet
At Superior, Wis. Deputy Sheriff
Rice returned from trip through Hi
nois and Wisconsin, where he has been
searching for G. b. Randall the alb
sconding treasurer OF Superior lodge,
l. O O. +. He came without his man.
~ W Harris, an undertaken az Sioux
City Iowa, is in danger Of losing his
right arm as a result of scratch on
his middle finger received while en-
balming the body Of a woman A
serious case Of blood poisoning ensued
Arthur Gilman. a well-known Cam
bridge, Mass, teacher, who las been
Connected with the Radcliffe college
since its organization as the Harvard
annex, has resign a the position of
regent Of that institution because of the
pressure OF work
The house elections committee has
held South Carolina registration laws
unconstitutional, and reported in favor
OF the sitting members in the cases of
Williams VS., MeLaurin, from the sixth
district and Norman VS.. latimer,
from the third district
At Eau Claire. Wis. the 12-year-old