Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-05-21

New York, for $4,000. This completes
the sale of the property.
John ". Bookwaiter, the democratic
candidate for governor OF Ohio in 1887,
predicts that Grover Cleveland will be
nominated for the fourth time at the
Chicago convention in July and make
the run on war platform.
AT South McAlister. |. T. Austin Pus-
ley. negro, received 100 lashes, and
John Prola, an inser-maFried white
citizen. 80 lashes on their backs. Pus-
ley was charged with larceny and
Prola with selling coal contrary to law.
Robert Foote. 70. Of New Haven. one
of the largest and most prominent
horse dealers in Connecticut. died at
the residence Of his sister in Water
bury. He built up large horse bust
ness in Connecticut, New York and the
West.
Ten days ago DR.. Coney. in a streer
encounter at Yankton, 5. d., with Com
modore Coulson. the best-known steam
boat-nlan on the upper Missouri river,
set in and Coulson is not expected to
live.
Representative Corless, OF Michigan.
introduced a resolution authorizing the
president to invite the leading CONNER
cial nations OF the world to an inter
national monetary conference to be
held in Washington during the present
year
President Ripley, of the Atchison
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad company
denies the republished report that the
Santa Fe contemplates building from
Silver City. N. NJ, to connection with
the Southern California at Barstow or
Victor.
The case OF f. S. Hitchcock. post
master OF Woodmont, Conn, came be-
fore the United States commissioner at
New Haven. Hitchcock was bound
over to the United States district court
in $500. He Is charged with embezzle-
ment.
Redden Fl. Williams, a white farmer,
residing near MAINTAIN, Green county,
Ala, was lynched by mob of forty
masked white men Williams was
charged with making a criminal as
sault upon his sixteen-year-old
daughter.
The dead body of DR.. James E. Wood
ward, who disappeared in Milwaukee
Wednesday. May 6, was found under
workman's bench in the factory of the
Morehouse Manufacturing company on
West Water street He had committed
suicide by shooting.
Col George w. Balm, of Lexington.
KY, the temperance lecturer. who was
suggested for the prohibition nomina-
tion for President by Miss France f.
Willard and others. says positively he
will not be candidate and would not
accept II nominated
On decoration day an immense con
course Of soldiers and their friends
will come from the north to visit
Chickamauga park, Lookout Mountain
and Missionary Ridge battlefields and
assist in decorating the graves in the
national cemetery.
United States Minister to Turkey
Terrell, who has been visiting his
family in Texas for several weeks, was
called post haste to Washington by q
telegram from President Cleveland
Mr., Terrell refuses to explain the
cause of his summons.
William Quinn, a Helena pioneer,
shot himself through the head with a.
Winchester, blowing out both eyes
Financial trouble drove him to the act.
The Castle road, with which he had
contract for furnishing ties, owed him
several thousand dollars
At Duluth the grand jury, after
wrestling for several days with the
case of +. A. Sratton, OF Tennessee,
recently arrested for the alleged
swindling Of the Merritts in a coal land
deal of several hundred thousand dol
lars brought in no indictment.
A cyclone passed five miles north of
Sterling, Kan, in the very center Of
Grow Creek, demolishing everything in
its path. The houses of Logan Zerbe.
Levi Wagner, Robert Deemez and
others were badly wrecked Three per
sons are reported slightly injured
At Grand Forks n D.. Silas Haight
was arrested for obstructing the street
by making a free silver speech and
drawing a crowd Geo Everhardt at
tempted to prevent an officer from
making the arrest and used violence.
and was fined s25, which he could not
pay
Obituary. At New York. H. G. Bun
ner, editor OF Puck. Al; Richard A.
Storrs, deputy comptroller-At Des
Moines, Iowa, Richard Rollins. 95.
At Little Prairie, Wis, Rev. George
Haycraft 79.--At Topeka, Kan. Darius
Tingham AT joliet. H., John Seheidt
Sr, 6S,
The professor of geology of Penn col
lege Iowa. and a number of his stu.
dents went into an Evans coal mine
and two students got los in the Ttne.
Search is being made but it Is feared
that they have wandered into come de-
serted room ana suffocatea from black
demp