Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-03-12
DOMESTIC.

President Cleveland Is TO have a
duck preserve of his own.
The Seventh district immigration
convention Is hummer
The old receivers of the Northern
Pacific filed their last report
Prohibition Is killed for five years,
at least, by the Iowa house.
At Sleepy Eye, MINI ]. N Mont
gcmery, aged II, is dead.
Republican National Committeeman
Campbell. OF Illinois, is dead
Horseless mail wagons will shortly
be used In all the large cities.
Considerable snow comes down 10
Montana and the Dakotas.
Much damage has been inflicted
along the Hudson by an ice gorge.
Arthur Cough has been appointed
postmaster at Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Judge Ewing, OF Chicago, rules that
city can fix fares on street railroads.
Richard Little, who was injured In
the mines at Houghton, Mich, has
died
A fire at Stockton, H., destroyed
many business houses and residences;
loss 100000.
Frank Bates, of Stanford Station,
Conn, shot and killed himself in
Bridgeport
The official dock trial of the torpedo
boat Ericsson was begun at New
London, Conn.
The postoffice at Footville, Wis,
was broken open by unknown thieves,
who secured $275 in stamps,
The house committee on agriculture
has begun hearings in opposition to
the anti-option bill.
A ike is threatened on the street
car lines Of all the great eastern cities,
Chicago and Milwaukee.
There are only 200 cats at the New
York show. Trick cats are feature.
The prizes amount TO $1,000,
AT Cloquet, Mimi, Benz. Dietz, man
ager of the slate quarry, was fatally
injured by dynamite explosion,
Geese and ducks in large swarms
have been seen flying north in the last
few days all over the northwest.
Aristide Griffel OF La Crosse, Wis,
pleaded guilty 10 incendiarism and
was given sentence of six years
President N, c. Hill, OF Jewell Luz
theran college, Iowa. is dead. He was
active in educational work for years,
At Olivia, MINI. Strong a. Miller's
elevator and fiat house were consumed
by fire and 5000 bushels Of grain was
lost
Mr. Hubachek Is removed as receiver
of the irishAmerican bank. Mime
apolis, and Judge Maheny succeeds
him.
Theodore Harper, aged fourteen. of
Astoria, n, T.. accidentally discharged
rifle and killed his younger brother
Fletcher
4 mass meeting Of labor people and
others in New York protest against
the proposed appropriation for coast
defenses.
At Joliet. H. a jury has been Sc
cured in the Preston-Curtin murder
trial and witnesses are being OK
amined
mass meeting in New York in the in
terest of the Presbyterian home mis-
sions
Resolutions recognizing the Cnbans
as belligerents are reported in the
house and received with much en-
thusiasm
Rev J. H. Lippard OF Rockford, has
accepted a cali to the passionate of the
First Congregational church at
Shopiere, Wis.
Captain } + Braden, founder of the
Northern Indiana regulators, has
called the survivors 70 meet in Lyon
Ter April H.
Andrew Wharton murdered his wife
Louisa. in St Louis, cutting her throat
while she was asleep. Jealousy was
the cause
Clara Barton writes that she is given
a cordial welcome and that much Is be-
ing done BY officials to help mr. mis-
sion
Congressman Tawney fails in an at
tempt TO have 500 month the
year through appropriated for mem-
bers clerks
a loit resolution authorizing the
erection oil a statue of Francis n.
Spinner III the treasury department
has passed the house
Ellis Jacobs, aged eleven, fearing n
promised whipping, ran away from his
home in Harlem nine DAYS ago and