Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-05-28


Duncan MacKellar, a contractor OIL
Benton Harbor, Mich, fell twenty-five
feet from scaffolu to a concrete pave
ment, receiving fatal injuries.
The Milwaukee, Racine and kenosna
Street Railway company has accepted
the franchise and right OF way offered
by the council OF Kenosha.
J. n. Odds, dealer In hardware and
farming implements, at Canton, Ill.
has made an assignment, with hablli-
ties OF $1,000; assets, $4,000.
United States troops have been sent
from Fort Custer to Tongue River
reservation, Montana, to stop the Kill
ing OF cattle by Indians.
The American Protective association
removed the boycott from Mckinley,
and announced that he had approved
the principles Of their order
Max Voigt Is dead at Elwood, Ind,
where he was taken after receiving in
turies in a railway accident. Death
followed the amputation u leg.
Harley Suitor and Amanda Glover,
Frankfort, Ind, have been convicted
Of robbing Ben Davenport, laborer,
ceived a sentence Of three years.
A private letter received at Laporte,
Ind, from Washington says that Sen
ator Voorhees, will retire from public
life at the end Of his present term.
In indianapolis kissing as practiced
by women school teachers among their
pupils is interdicted, because disease
Is thereby apt to be communicated.
Four Christian bicyclists of St Louis
will do missionary work through 1lll-
nois and Missouri. They make up a
quartette and will speak every night.
George w Holt, wealthy Brooklyn
fire adjuster, and Harry n. Vaughn, OF
New York city, were arrested charged
with collecting false insurance claim.
Mrs JEFF Davis and daughter will re-
ceiye in the old white house Of the con-
federacy on June 80. 1t is the day Of
| the big reunion of confederate soldiers.
Obituary: At Burlington, Iowa, Jonn
Patterson, 75.-At Wabash Ind, John
Oswald, 76--At Kokomo, Ind, Charles
Il. McKinsey.--At Ell Paso, H., George
! Thorpe.
i James Dazzele. colored, was taken
from the Jail in st. Bernard parish,
/ Louisiana. and lynched. He was ar
rested for attempting to assault white
/ woman.
An injunction has been issued re-
\ straining the yicksburg, Mich, village
council from issuing $4,000 electric
1 light and waterwerks bonds recently
i voted.
4 The sinking OF a second artesian we'll
! has been authorized by the Galesburg.
| H., city council in consequence Of the
gradual failure Of the city drive well
4 system.
Warner Miller said T. G. Platts ar
tack on Major Mckinley were false in
famous and outrageous, and that Plat
cannot control tho state delegation To
ST. Louis
Dresser & Goodridge, commission
merchants of New York, have attached
the Goodridge Rubber company of New
port, r. l., for sl6S, 600 to recover cash
/ advance.
The Elgin. Joliet and Eastern Rail-
road company is laying several niles
OF side track at Joliet, Ill, and build.
i ing a $4,000 addition to the car re-
pair shops.
4 Prof Leopold Junas Boeck, nj one
time private secretary to Gen LOUIS
Kossuth. and known as the father II
the Poles in America" is dead in Phil
adelphia
Consul-General Lee held eonsnlta-
ton with the president which lasted for
over an hour vt which he received his
final instructions IL regard to his mis-
sion to Cuba.
At Ottawa, Ill.,. the Chappeile glass
factory closed down. throwing 500 men
ont Of employment The owners say
the silver agitation forced them to stop
their factory.
A woman 80 years old ut Cincinnati
has passed the examination for n first
mates license, She has been with hes
husband on the Ohio and It's tributaries
twenty-one years.
w ~ Gordon, mate or the schooner
Emma Hutchinson, was drowned in
Lake Erie, thirty miles southeast OF the
Dummy lie was so years old, and mis-
home was In Toledo.
: Attachments haze been served OF
the stock of f. H. Wilson & Co. prod
uce commission merchants Of Kansas
City Mo, for unpaid local accounts
amounting to $40 900
4 jury In the Livingston county. H.
circuit court has awarded John Clau.
sen of Dwight, $4,000 damages against
the Chicago 4 Alton railroad for in.
iuries received
Harry Howarth, the 26-year-old son
Of one Of the most prominent and we'll
to-do farmers OF Glenwood. Iowa shot
himself because his parents objected
TO his sweetheart.
Matt Quay has concluded that tn,
nomination Of Mckinley cannot be pre-
vented Tie has advised Tom Plat L
cease his attacks ana will soon call o.
Mckinley II Canton
Army worms are in Christian co.