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


they won from her husband at poker.
Police at Kansas City. Mo-. spent a
day in closing up poolrooms. "dyna-
mite bucket shops and other gamb-
ling games. Mayor Jones says he will
drive every gambler out Of business.
Ex-senator Temple Houston, one OF
the first presidentS OF the Texas re
public, has been acquitted OF the muir
der OF John Jennings in duel in sd
loon at Woodward, Oklahoma. last fall.
Rev Hui Kin, of New York city, is on
his way home from China, bringing
twenty boys, who are sent here by the
Chinese government to receive thor
ough mechanical and scientific educa-
ton.
The Chicago Thecsophists refuse to
accept Mrs. Kate Tingley as the sue
cessor of the late William Q. Judge.
President Hargrove says there are only
eighteen Theosophists in Chicago any
way.
County commissioners of Brazil, Ind,
have refused to call special election.
to vote on a $4,000 subsidy Cor the
Terre Haute & Brazil Electric line, ami
the officers have appealed to the
courts.
AS E. Glavin, postmaster at Harbert,
Mich, was hanging a mail sack on a
crane for a fast mail train he was as
saulted by an unknown man, who
whipped him into insensibility and es.
capped.
The Manhattan distillery at Peoria,
H., closed down for the summer. Elk.
tensiye repairs will be made. 1t is the
first distillery to close, and it is ex-
pected others at Peoria will follow
soon
Twenty-Five tramps held carnival
with kegs Of beer outside Decatur, Ind.
The sheriff with fifty assistants en-
gagged them; 100 shots were fired and
one deputy shot Ten tramps were ar
rested.
The Rocky Mountain News, of Den
yer, suggests Senator Teller, of Colo
RADIO, as a free-silver candidate for
president upon whom southern demo
Gratis and western republicans could
unite
il human skull with red ineandescent
light bulbs in the eye sockets is the de
vice with which Police Lieutenant
Rank, in Chicago, scares culprits into
making confessions. He darkens the
room.
Policeman James Nunley, OF Vim
cennes Ind. who murderously as
saulted and robbed George Schaller, an
aged man, last November, has 3eeu
sentenced to seven years in the peni.
tertiary.
Because of his lawyers illness the
trial OF James b. Gentry, the actor, for
the murder of Margaret W. Drysdala
better known as Madge Yorke, the act
ress, was postponed at Philadelphia
until June.
Ogden Goelet, of New York, has re-
chartered Mrs. Langtry's yacht, White
Ladye, for five months He starts for
Norway Immediately. His new yacht
is to be finished in December and will
made a sensation.
AT the drawing room" given ny the
Princess of Wales Monday among
Americans presented We're the duchess
of Marlborough, formerly Miss Con-
suelo Vanderbilt, Mrs Calvin Brice and
her two daughters
The British steamship Horsa, the
vessel which has become notorious as
an alleged Cuban fillibuster, has been
on fire and Is not much more than a
she'll. Spanish gold is suspected as
the cause.
The preliminary hearing of the state
vs.. A, c. Putnam, president OF Chadron,
Neb.. bank, with receiving deposits
after the bank was known to be in
solvent, has been continued by consent
to the 10th Of June.
Captain George f. Lemon, the mil
lionaire pension agent, patent attorney
and proprietor of the National Tribune
is at the point OF death. He started
his paper as a free monthly to help his
pension business.
Notwithstanding reports from Cara
i cas- 10 the contrary, the GblenIdteI
uruan incident has not yet been closed
and no indemnity has yet been paid By
Venezuela to Great Britain. Negotia-
tions are still proceeding.
The Pennsylvania Steel company
closed a contract with the Niagara
Falls Suspension and Niagara Falls
international Bridge companies for the
erection OF steel arched bridge &C
supplant the present structure.
Tics piled on the track of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee 4 st. Paul railw AZ
near Milwaukee, wrecked freight
train killing Engineer John OConnor
Brakeman Emil Cssrair and Johr
j Miller. Two others were injured.
Richard Sand rs. wanted by govern
ment officials for an alleged money or.
der fraud at Vandalia, III, three weeks
ago, was captured at Pana, H., after
swimming river and being chase
twenty miles through the timber,
DIR. Nicholas Sem. of Chicago, tool
the parboiled hand Of a man, devoid o
skin on its back and inserted it in I
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