Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1896-03-19
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC NEWS.

William Belhl OF HuntlllsloHt lHup
tho was wounded by the accidental
.-ischarge OF a shotgun. is dead.
Merlin Nallean OF Pine Grove, Mich.
went insane through religious excite
ment while attending revival servicei
Canadian Pacific earnings Tor the
week ending March were $345,0OO, an
increase of $Sl 900 over the same per
iod last year.
Hprvey Farmer, who resides near
TIRE Haute, Ind, found a note from
his wife saying she had decided to
leave him.
The Paxton, ILL.,, city council has
under consideration a civil engineers
estimates on city sewerage System
to cost $4,000
VIII Bolin, while out hunting near
Arthur, H., accidentally snot his
brother Dave through the base OF the
brain with rife, He cannot live.
Despondent, his wife and boy being
in Norway visiting, Carl Bosted,
matchmaker at E.gin, H., committed
suicide with poison.
home at Quincy, H., for several days,
was found In the river. He had been
rowing and fell out of the skiff
Claude peck, a miner at the Superior
mine of the Seller Coal company, at
Brazil, ILL.,, was fatally injured. He
was caught under several tons Of slate
and horribly crushed.
At Elkhorn, Wis, the Mccormick
Implement warehouse and the Troy
steam laundry adjoining were de-
-royed by fire this morning. Loss,
5000. with an insurance Of $3.50.
The directors of the st. Paul railroad
nave declared the semi-annual divi-
dend Of 3 IL per cent. on the preferred
stock and dividend OF per cent. on
the common stock for the half year.
Elk Nicolson. a 14-year-old boy OF
Perry township, Ind, was terribly
injured by vicious horse. The ami
NAL attacked him and bit one side of
his face off, besides tearing one eye
from It's socket The boy will die.
A fire mt GAINESVILLE caused loss Of
ware store, j. NJ, Bostwick a. Sons
drygoods store, Samuel Henderson's
meat market and the Schottle Electric
company.
AS result Of his severe structures
upon the morality of the town, Colonel
Holt, temperance lecturer well
known throughout Iowa, South Dakota
and Nebraska. was egged at the close
of an address at Elk Point Iowa,
Judge Woods of the United States
circuit court at indianapolis has or
dered the Grand Rapids and indian
apolis railroad to he sold at public
auction at Grand Rapids Miehs at a
time "a be fixed hy the master in
chanecry John f Lawrence.
The Wisconsin state board Of fire
underwriters has resolved against
scetylene gas. and declare il dan
ous explosive Similar action was
en- against new hydro-incan-
.escent lamp, involving the use Of
gasoline
John p Whiting, aged % years, one
u the youngest mayors in the United
States, has left Scmerville Mich, 70
attend college He entered the Ann
Arbor law department. but viii return
once week TO try and perform his
duties as mayor
Five hundred land agents are said
. have gone from the various south
ern states 20 the northwest since the
first Of this year with the purpose az
presenting the advantages OF the see
tions they represent TO the northwest
ern farmers and inducing them to 10
cate in the south.
line deposit Of marble has been
discovered in the he'd of Treaty creek,
one mile from Wabash Ind Il Is, in
color both notified and blue and the
quality is pronounced tirst-class by
exports. Three heavy charges Of dy-
Mantle blew out large fragments
weighing a Ton or more, and this Will
hc worked up ia monuments
The portrait Of Gen Harrison. re-
Gently addad TO the white house collee-
tion N considered one of THE best
WI NJ wv hNltt - VIZ N'Ntl tll dA Nl9At
Eastman Johnson The gray cold
background is peculiar vet the effect
is strikingly successful so paid and
Nlorless III the face 1T the tX-presi.
mt
The grand jury returned true bill
against Elizabeth 4 short IT Verona.
Pa, charging her with being com
mon scolj The charge il strange
enc III the county courts. ana Il not
heard OF very often Many Years ago
persons onYirted ~ this crime were
punished with tile duekiug" stool e
]. Nathewson OF Verona brought suit.
AFTER thirN-eisht wears 81 married
life Floyd has begun 4 suit at Chicago
tor iSorce from Martha A. CLANCY.
who became his bride tn IS4q, ana LETT
him without warning in 1857 He says
he has waifod for her retuin these
nine wears past hut She Min uat. ana
he wants 20 be free once more He
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