Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-04-02

more than $50 pounds.
Hereafter all pensioners drawing
money from the Boston pension Office
I viii receive their allowance by check
through the malls This is in acord-
aree with the new law passed by con-
gress The new law entails the pay
ment OF notary public charges every.
quarter by the pensioners.
4 Fatima, OF Chicago Midway Plaisance
couchee-couchee fame, is to appear in
the Marguerite ballet at the Olympia
f in New York soon. Mr. Hammerstein
says that she viii present a very novel
terpsichorean paradox, an fdealized
danse du yentre, win the objection
able features cut out.
] The time-honored custom OF holding
I a shirt-tail parade on ST. Patrick >
night was observed by Williams coll
i lege students The freshmen, clad in
night robes, marched through the quiet
streets Of Williamstown and then
around huge bonfire INDUCED in such
antics as only college men enjoy
/ The bill introduced in the Ohio
+ legislature by Senator Garfield to pre-
yenl Tie corrupt use Of money in cleo
items, primary as we'll as regular Is
now law Candidates are limited 10
an expenditure. for personal expenses
only. o. not more than 5000 and OF
800 If but 5000 votes are concerned.
4 woman who is an enthusiastic nat
lralist suggests that the diminution
in the number Of song birds Of New
England IS due no, to the hostility Of
the English sparrow, or the small boy
or the fashion Of wearing dead birds in
bonnets, but to the general use by far
mers Of Paris green and other poisons
as insect exterminators
Forest fires burned over a large ter
ritory to the east OF Black River Falls,
Wis. doing damage to the amount Of
many thousand dollars by destroying
the prospects Of the BURBERRY crop in
that particular territory, which has in
the past furnished employment to hun
dreds of berry pickers during the pick
ing season.
providing for the substitution Of the
electric chair for hanging in Ohio. The
assembly has passed a bin forbidding
the wearing OF high hats in theatres
and fining the manager Of an opera
house or theatre $40 for permitting a
person TO wear an obstruction in the
shape of a hat or headgear
Charles Welland OF New York City,
has brought from T.. de Cernea the pac-
ing geldng Blue Sign, 2;0SA by En-
sign The fast PAGER will be used as
road horse for two or three months,
after which Elmer Stevens will shape
him up for the fall harness meeting.
Blue Sign has the fastest record of any
regularly used roadster in New York,
Hiram II Morrison, of Boston, who
was arrested after his wife had been
touad dead in their home, with finger
marks upon her throat and other
bruises about her face and head, has
confessed that he ehoked the woman
to death while in fit Of Jealousy and
rage At her action in having crowd OF
neighbors In the house drinking lie
was also very drunk at the time
The gun carriage that survives the
! tests given it before it's acceptance by
the ordnance inspectors OF the German
army need not fear the emergencies of
an actual campaign Near the arsenal
at Mnndai 4 track has been built. GOV
cred with all sorts of obstacles. Ii is
in imitation OF bad roads at one part
III crossed by a ditch AT another and
there are realistic limitations Of noun
tain passes and ravines.
Orange growing Is being abandoned
on the peninsula OF Lower California,
ANA the orchardsts are cutting down
their trees and planting the land with
coffee, cotton and sugar cane The
low prices obtained lately for oranges
grown Oh the peninsula have discour-
AGED the growers. and they believe
more profit viii be derived from the
other crops especially from cotton,
which grows Well
4 remarkable succession OF mis-
fortunes occurred recently In the lry-
ms family Of oldtown, Me. Not lone
ago the ola homestead burned down,
leaving the family with but a shed for
shelter Two Of the sisters moved into
a store and started a millinery busi-
ness. The store VAS burned down and
they lost all they had soon after that
three women members Of the family
were thrown from a boat in Pnshaw
stream directly opposite their home,
ana drowned 4 week or 50 since two
other sisters belonging to the family
we're murdered In 0ldtowu
leading American ornitholoeist
stys that some OF orr mcst desirable
birlis afo threatened With eNtermina-
ton The eommou quail and ruffed
etouse are be aning very scarce.
Nrens and hluebirls ne driven from
tHeir ola haunts ny sparrows. Terms
at sldAehterod by thousands for the
#yffIt.trt5t fltt-ftssa AMI Tstp,sf1a Il Sim d.