Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-06-04

AT Atchison, Kan, Ed. bicklederei
lost control OF his wheel and Yenl
through plate glass window at ~
miles an hour. He is likely TO dle,
II Il thought Cleveland will veto TINS
river and harbor bill as being extreme
I in committing the government TO large
expenditures through the contract sys
TEN.
In The Armes divorce suit at WASH
ington MAJOR ArmeH has been ordered
by the court to pay bis Wife $loo
month during the suit, and also SLOT
for counsel fees
st Iouis German singers refuse te
20 TO the Pittsburg saengerfest because
s14.75 Is the best rate the RAILROADS
will make. They went TO CieVeiaho
and return for 50
DR.. Terrill, who Is attending Col
John Mosby. says that his patient i
not diving. although Col. Mosby was al
one time very dangerously i'll, He i
T now conyalescent.
House committee on elections No
has decided the Aldrich-underwooe
contest, from the ninth Alabama as
trict. il favor Of the contestant, who Is
a populist republican.
AT Butte, Mont, by a premature eX
pIoslon Of blast in the J. |. G. mine
John Nolan and Peter Connolly were
instantly killed. Nolan was married
and Connolly was single.
! In the supreme court an opinion was
rendered by Justice Brown to the effect
\ that requests made to the United
States In New York are taxable under
( the state laws Of that state.
1 Col. II. c. Wood. Of the adjutant gen
erals department, has been placed or
7 the retired list on account OF age. HIS
retirement promotes Lieut.. Col. r. G
/ Corbin, stationed at New York.
The contract for the erection Of the
new buildings at the University OF Wiz
ginia has been awarded to Charles II,
Langley & Co., of Richmond, Their
bid Is said to be less than 100000.
In Kalamazoo, Mich. Mrs. ]. G Gro
/ gin was bitten by tarantula which
came out OF bunch of bananas and
she became a raving maniac, but hopes
/ OF her recovery are entertained.
M Gump was arrested at Omaha
4 charged with accepting brides as q
/ juror to acquit Henry Bolln, Omaha
( ex-clty treasurer. who was convicted Of
stealing $4,000 from the city.
One hundred bushels Of potatoes tol
a book OF poems-this is what Clifford
\ Abbott, a rural poet Of Rockford re
/ eeived for a copy of his first work. Al
their usual price this would be $25.
At Pittsburg, Kan. Rev Kennedy
/ Martin, pastor Of The African Baptist
church, shot and killed Deacon
Wright a pillar of his church. for II
legged intimacy with Martins VINE.
Nearly all the funds available fol
work In the nayy-yards has been ex
pended, and the employees will be lait
of on June / for q month, when tbs
new appropriations viii be available.
Business men OF Baltimore sub
4 scribed Sl3S, 900 TO aid In freeing Johns
\ Hopkins University from the burden
which the failure o. the Baltimore
/ Ohio railroad to pay dividends imposed
\ The new steel bridge spanning tbs
kaskaskia river at Old Covington
/ near Nashville, ILL.,. was dedicated with
imposing ceremonies, a bottle OF cream
soda being used in lieu Of champagne
\ by The explosion OF gasoline stove
on Townsend streeT Chicago, family
of six persons was almost eNtermin
ated Four are dead and iifln is s.
badly burned that death is almost Ger.
tain.
Members of the Indiana republican
4 state central committee who are op
posed to Chairman Gowdy. have issued
u call for committee meeting when
an attempt will be made to depose the
chairman
At WashEurn, Wis, notice of appeal
TO the supreme court was filed in the
case OF Nichols FLYNN, sentenced ia
fourteen years IN the penitentiary 70!
the murder Of William Sullivan al
Iron River.
Lieutenant Luther b. Baker, who al
an officer in the government detective
service had charge Of the party which
captured J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin
Of Presiden, Lincoln, died In Michigan
aged &C years
A Swiss professor has invented a
bicycle on which the rider must sit up-
right. The pedals are on the forward
wheel The force is trebed. The rider
sits back comfortably like a man in a
reclining chair
In the United States court judgments
were fled against the Northern Pacific
Railway company and In favor 81 the
Farmers Loan and Trust company
one for sl.3S376o20 and the other fol
. $2.133 50l3S.
The Guarantee Loan and Trust com.
pany Of seattle, made an assignmen,
Yesterday having made lnjuaicious
loans On Washington property The
bank was organized in 1857 with a
capital az 100000
Joshua Legertag OF Baltimore, WAS
nomihated for the presidency IN I'M