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


in-Chief Walkers staff, announced
that Buffalo, Cleveland and Philadel-
phia are the three cities that want the
@. A. r. encampment If it Is taken
away from ST. Paul. \
AT Lafayette. Ind, David Johnston
aged 81, died from the effects Of NOR
phine taken with suicidal intent He
was bicycle dealer and killed himself
because Of financial embarrassment
At Moline, ILL.,, Rev. T. S. Young Of
the First Baptist church and the Rev.
r. =. Wilson of the First Congrega
tional church have each resigned. The
former goes to Albuquerque. N. NJ ard
the latter to Massachusetts,.
The National Bar Iron association
at Pittsburg elected officers as follows:
President, James G. Caldwell, Louis
vile, KY; vice president, Fl. T. Wal
lace, Wilmington, Del; treasurer,
George NJ Bard, Muncie, Ind; secre-
tary, J. S. Elverson, Catasauqua, Pa.
The house of John Wesley. three
miles west of Muskogee, l. T.. was
burned, and his daughter-in-iaw, Mrs.
Charles Wesley, was burned to death
1t is believed that the house was set
on fire by two drunken Creek Indians.
The case against Charles Fl. Greene,
ex-city treasurer of Eau Claire, by
courtesy or Judge Fish will not be
tried until March H. The judge had
held that the defense was not entitled
to a continuation.
The Deadwood IS. d. Terra mine
has resumed payment of monthly
dividends after lapse of 10 years A
body of silicious ore which had here
tofore been thrown aside as waste
rock, has been successful treated. 1t
goes from $40 to 500
The 13-year-old daughter of w. H.
Smith, prominent business man Of
Greenfield, Iowa, was abducted by her
fathers hired man, Dave Hardin.
Hardin stole a team of horses and
drove to school and got the girl and
eloped. They were captured at Lor-
inner.
In Waukeear, ILL.,, Daniel Core shot
and killed John Dillon in Justice
Shottwell's court, Gore had intended
to kin his enemy, Joseph Backer, but
as ne shot Dillon jumped between
them and received the fatal bullet
Core and Backer Lad long had trouble
about fences.
At Duluth, Mimi. Joseph Stenski
and young lady were to have been
married. The bridal party arrived at
the Polish church and were confronted
by an officer armed with a warrant
for Stenski's arrest on a charge o.
parentage, preferred by a woman Of
Sturgeon Lake, of which place Stenski
was formerly resident.
At Youngstown, o.. the hosting ma
ch!nery in the converting department
OF the Ohio Steel company went wrong
and two cages went up and down at
terrible rate. Charles Harmaski had
his skull Fractured and neck broken,
expiring instantly. Pat Nagle and
Andy PlasKo were hurt,
Children and grandchildren of
James Rogers, of Pomona, Cal, have
been amazed by the information that
he married ON Sunday last Miss Ida
Nelson at the home of the brides par
ents near Prescott, A. II. The COON
Ii seventy-seven years old and the
bride will be fifteen next May
Obituary: AT GAINESVILLE, Wis, DR..
Hugh Menzies, thirty -eight--At San
Francisco, Architect A. Page Brown.
At New York, Jacob Doelger. forty
nine Peoria, H., DR.. E. B. Call,
AT Pana, H.. Mrs. George
c. Large, fifty-seyen.-At Hastings,
Mimi, George A. Thorne, seventy.
Davis Sheets of Greensburg, Pa, his
two children and neighbor named
Baker, were returning home from
church in a sled While descending
hill. tree fell across them, killing
Sheets instantly and fatally injuring
Baker. Both children had their legs
and arms broken.
George w. Putnam, SO, died at his
home in East Saugus Monday. He
was prominent in the anti-slayery
and served as private Sec
rotary LOT CnalleS llChens WhSH tue
visited this country, The
dead man was the inventor of the can
vas chute fire escape in use on many
school buildings.
Miss Clara Barton and her statf
members Of the National Red Cross
society have sailed on the steamship
New York Those who accompanied
Miss Barton were DR.. j. B. Hubbell,
Aeld agent; Miss Lucy Greayes, stem
ographer and typewriter; Ernest
Mason, interpreter and lingIist;
George II, Pullman, secretary 10 Miss
Barton.
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