Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-01-30


university. It will be presented to
the Bibliothique Rationale in Paris.
At Brazil. Ind, james Combs, a BUSH
ness man Of Carbon. received gunshot
wound while hunting which caused his
death
The Missouri barber law prohibiting
work on Sunday has been DECLARED UNI
constitutional by Judge Burgess az JEFF
ferson city.
The wife of George N. Curzon, who
was formerly Miss Mary Letter, OF
Washington, was delivered OF a
daughter Monday
The convention Of structural iron
workers and bridge builders which
was to have been held in Pittsburg to
form national association, has been
postponed.
Gossip has II that Tim Byrnes' cleo
ton as sergeant-at-arms OF the repubil-
can convention means Mckinley Ill
son alliance. Byrnes denies II.
After lighting for fourteen months,
the Chicago Woman's club has elected
Mrs. Fannie Barrier Williams, the
well-known colored woman 20 full
membership
The houses OF Maurice S. Wormser,
banker, and julius S. Sands, dry goods
dealer were entered by New York
thieves and robbed OF large quantities
of silyerware.
During an experiment with acety-
lene, The new iIluminant, in Phleghar's
machine shop at New Haven the re-
tort exploded, killing three men, injur-
ing four others and causing destru"-
tive fire.
John and Thomas Mossengale,
wanted for murder and horse stealing,
were shot and killed by posse in the
Racoon mountains, Tenn, while re-
sisting arrest.
The National Divorce Reform league,
at it's sixteenth annual meeting at
Boston, reelected Rt. Rev. William
Lawrence president and Rev. S. w.
Dixie, III. D., recording secretary.
w. G. Baker supposed to have
jumped from the suspension bridge at
Cincinnati, and to have been drowned,
has been heard from in Kentucky,
where he went to escape his creditors.
William A. Posto, at one time deputy
attorney general of New York, died at
the Presbyterian hospital in New York
city after an operation for appen-
dicitis.
The Des Moines, Iowa, grand jury
has continued the Krekel murder in
vestigation and will ask The governor
to offer a reward for evidence.
Friends of j. b. Lambert and Miss
Pearl prouty, of Beloit, Wis, have
been greatly surprised to learn that
they were married In October.
r. o. Bailey, former member of the
Montana Legislature and western pio-
neer. died at Deadwood s. D., as a
result Of falling from hotel window.
AT Lancaster, Pa, Ezra r. Bowmen
wholesale ieweer and watchmakers
supplies, made an assignment His
liabilities are $4,000 It is believed his
assets will aggregate that amount
The athletic team of the University
of California has received a challenge
from the Yale team to engage In q
number of contests next May when the
coast athletes expect to go east. The
will probably be accepted.
City Treasurer George Johnson Robb
Of Moncton, Neb., is said to be de-
fauIter to the extent Of $4,000, said to
be due to speculations in the New
York stock market He Is i'll and
probably will die,
Sunday baseball Is an issue in the
Ia. local election Hun
dreds of Endeayorers have asked the
for mayor what they are
going to do about ii.
Professor T. Robarts of Perry
county. Ind, claims 20 have discovered
the long sought rule of trisecting any
rectilineal angle by elementary geome-
try that is. BY means Of straight
line and circle,
stephen Andrews OF Providence, r.
T.. is dead He was so years old and
575 pounds His chest meas
urement was 6 feet inches. his bieeps
Fl inches around, and the calf of his
leg 80 inches and his waist SIS inches.
Representative Gamble and DR.
Eastman had an interview with the
secretary of the interior TO plead for
the privilege of leasing surplus land
Of the Flandreau Indians.
The Duluth retrenchments COM
which is devisng a means OF
reducing municipal expenditures, viii
make a report recommending redue-
tons tAat will save the city $22S,000
The farmers of Dodge Center, Mimi,
are discussing the adyisabflity of
farmers elevator Commit
tees were appointed TO canvass the
matter and report at an adjourned
meeting two weeks from today
Both the Swift and Armour COM
panies have nov settled the Superior