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

plurality in Montana Is $3.50.
Des Moines: Forty gold standard
democrats met. They are unanimous
In the opinion that organization must
be kept up They will offer no COM
promiseto silver democrats but think
the Bryan party will not be able to
hold together it's various elements.
Kansas City-Recently heavy pur-
chases OF mules have been made in
this market by supposed Spanish
agents, who ordered the animals
shipped hurriedly to New Orleans, TO
be sent to Cuba and used in transport
ing supplies to the Spanish soldiers.
williamson, w. Va.-W s. Beyins
and J. H. Clark, the slayers OF the
Mounts, are at Pikeyille, guarded by
Deputy Sheriff Caseboltes and others.
The Mounts have abandoned their
chase, but stiiisthreatent the saayers If
brought back TO this side Of the river.
Chicago-The projected international
billiard tournament for purse OF 81
500 and $500 for expenses for two
leading French players to compete In
the contest, which was offered by the
Brunswick Collender company,
has fallen through, owing to the play
ers falling to enter.
Hamilton surgeons are treating a
man who had his spinal column broken
in runaway accident. They have
tied him to board and suspended him
10. "a NV OF l.
der both arms. He will hang in this
position two days. This method OF
treatment is done to keep the pressure
of the broken vertebrae from the spi-
nal cord.
Chicago: Contracts for over 3,000,-
600 worth of new vessels for the lakes
have been closed here since election
and employment given to $500 men.
A Cleveland man has ordered the larg-
est steel schooner ever built on tine
lakes. Dimensions: keel, 976 feet;
beam, 46 feet; depth 20 feet. With
the completion Of the twenty-foot chan
mel she will carry considerably in ex-
cess OF 5000 tons.
A Mexico, Mo-, man who already has
taken out 10 patents for different
things now has an X ray egg tester.
You can look through a dozen eggs
at once and tell If they are good or
bad. Il expect says the inventor,
ito have the machine so perfect that
can tell whether an egg will hatch
a hen or rooster, and what color the
chicken will be-"
WI Ting Fang, the new Chinese
minister to Washington, is i man of
about so. He spent considerable time
in England, where he studied law and
was admitted as barrister. He had
previously been educated at Hong
Kong, where he acted as police magis-
trate He is a government director of
the railroad building OF the Tien Tsin.
The new minister to England for some
time past has acted In the capacity Of
private secretary to Viceroy Ii Hung
Chang, and was with that dignitary on
his recent tour of America and Europe.
Chicago Street Foreman Antonio
Constantine, naturalized American,
called on United States Commissioner
F'oote to learn whether his passport
protected his wife and children in Italy
About three months ago Constantine
visited Italy, his native LAID, taking
with Kim his family. There he was
impressed into the army, the authori-
ties refusing to recognize his passport
or naturalization papers. He was grant
ed a furlough, and Immediately re-
turned to America. He will ask the
state department to look into the mat
ter.
Montpelier. Vt-The special commit
tee which was appointed some time
ago to investigate the management of
the institution for insane at Water
bury made its report to the legislature.
Ii severely scores the state supervis
ors of tha insane, Dir. w. II. Giddings.
the superintendent of the asylum and
others. The report finds that DR..
Giddings himself strapped and choked
patients 1t further finds that patients
were kept in nude condition in rooms
barren of furniture and having cement
floors. These patients were allowed
no rugs, and the rooms the report
charges, were unheated in cold weather
Obituary: AT Parma, Italy, Italo
Campanini, the famous tenor. 80 At
Brooklyn, II r., Martin Luther Ste
yens. 60 AT New York. William A.
Bigelow AT Cleveland, Ohio. Milo b
Stevens. 5S At Charleston, H.. Rev
j f. Mccain. S0.-At Reseburg. Ore
gon, eX-Congressman Lafayette Lane,
At Greensburg, Ind, Matthew Old
ham. 70, Elkhart, Ind. +. Michael
Snang,er, ST AT Brooklyn. n. Y, ex-
Judge Thomas J White, 80 AT Pitts
burg. George w. G.. Ferris, designer
and builder of the Ferris wheel, 40 --
At New York William A. Mestayer,
the comedian AT Washington, Col
onel Franklin Tenny at Jeffer-
son, Iowa, Isaac Tucker. 95.-At Ma
poleon, Ohio. DR.. Ha2zet b. Powell,
6o.-At Racine, Wis. Mrs Sarah Full
leg, IS.
ABROAD.