Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-12-09

ing firm, saying he could not interfere
with "peaceable distribution of boy
cotting circulars or other legitimate
J means employed by the unions to ac-
complish their purpose.
Patrick Hartford. one Of the police
men wounded in the Haymarket riot
and pensioner of the police depart
ment in Chicago, died. Hartford was
shot in the right leg, the left thigh,
and had three toes OF the left foot
blown off by the explosion Of bomb.
In Kansas City Marion Curtis applied
for divorce from Nj. G.. Curtis, for
merly assistant cashier Of the Ameri-
can bank, who skipped his bond in
1892 while awaiting trial for en-
bezzlement of $4,000. He Is paymas-
ter OF a railroad in Buenos Ayres.
If it is true, as reported, that Capt
Gen Blanco has appointed to lucrative
offices under the new government the
Cueryo brothers, the insurgents gen
erals who recently surrendered and
asked amnesty, it will have a powerful
influence upon other leaders still In
the field, for it is the offices that the
most Of them are fighting for, 50 Cor
respondent Curtis thinks.
Governor Pingree's object in getting
possession OF a Venezuelan asphalt
| lake is now asserted to be for the
purpose of breaking the asphalt
combine SO that municipal ownership
of asphalt paving plants may be as
sured and TO permit laying of asphalt
pavements by local contractors in
stead of allowing the combine TO
monopolize that business.
At Warsaw, Ind. five robbers en-
tered the Miles and Higbee bank;
caught the night watch and DR.. Black
who was passing in the street at the
time; bound both and placed them in
the bank. They wrecked the outer
shell OF the vault, but were unable TO
secure money. Out of revenge they
burned thousands OF dollars worth of
valuable securities. No arrests.
In his message Gov. O'Ferral, of Vir-
gnia, discusses the lynching question
and urged that heavy pecuaiary pen
atty be imposed on each county and
city in which lynching occurs; that
wherever the military may be called
out to protect n prisoner, such county
or city be charged with the expenses
thereof Also that there be only one
penalty for criminal assault, and that
death.
The cabinet considered tho subject
of sending relief to the people in the
/ Klondike. President Mckinley received
telegram from the Portland (Ore)
chamber of commerce, stating that
there was danger of restitution and
suffering on the Klondike, and offer
ing to supply the necessary food If the
government would undertake it's trans
portation. 1t was decided that moth
ing could be done until congress met
The Detroit chamber of commerce was
sold under the hammer in default of
payment of interest on a first mort
gage on It's building held by the New
York Life Insurance company. The
purchasers were Leopold S. Fleischei-
mer, Cincinnati, and William II and
Francis Winslow, Chicago, second
mortgage holders. The price paid is
S422, $50 The structure is lS stories
high, well rented and valued at $500,
GOO
General Vincent Marmaduke Of
Sweet Springs. Mo, who was recently
appointed by the ex-Confederate vet
Grams of Missouri as chairman of a
committee to write an authentic his
tory of the part Missouri and Missouri
ans took in the civil war issued a
remarkable address to the eX-confed-
crates OF Missouri in which he said
that il took the north four years tc
crush the south and then it did it by
a grinding process and without having
gained single decisive victory.
The assistant attorney general OF
the postottice department has issued al
order which may interest many people
who are in the habit OF trying to nj
cut missing letter" lists in advertise
u.ents OF second and third elias!
newspapers. The advertisements gen
orally contain lists of words will
letters omitted, the filing of blanks be
ing the puzzle; in most cases there
were two substitutions. The prize was
usually some article of jewelry
secured by sending the list with tn
lall-important subscription enclosed
The order forbids the use of the mails
to those papers running such ads,
Captain Leonard 4. Lowering, o
the fourth infantry, L S. A, who hat
Private Hammond dragged by thu
heels from the guardhouse in For
sheridan to the office of the ad
juaut of the post, who prodded th'
PROSTATE prisoner With his sword an'
/ Kicked him with his boot, will escape
with a reprimand. 1t appears from
statement made by the secretary o
tRh