Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-02-04

represented the savings OF forty years
from the proceeds OF fruit vending.
Col. John L. Lansing, a weil-knoNh
restaurant keeper, died at mis- home IN
Cape May, n. j. aged 60 years. tie
had been member Of the Cape May
city council for a number OF years
Friends and relatives Of DR.. Clarence
e. Edwards, formerly managing editor
of the Kansas City Journal, are much
worried because nothing has been
heard from or of him for two months.
Claims for damages aggregating $3.50,
600 have been filed in court against the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad com
pany as a result Of the Cababa river
bridge disaster, in which thirty-iiive
lives were lost
A carpenters union in New York has
been ordered to pay damages to for
mer member who was expelled with
out a trial 1t has been suggested TO
employ the covicts in New YORK State
prisons in making rugs.
James Howell former mayor of
Brooklyn. died at his home in Brook
lyn He leaves widow, son and two
daughters Mr.. Howell was born IN
England in 1929 and came to this coun-
try when six years old,
The Associated Ohio Dailies, com
posed of publishers, unanimously in
dorsed j. G. Gibbs publisher of the
Norwalk Reflector and treasurer or the
National Editorial Association, for pub
lie printer of the United States.
Gen. II. G. Thomas of Portland, Me,
died at Oklahoma City. He owned The
other large investments in the Terri
tory. He was a general in
the Union army during the civil war.
At Buffalo, ~ Y. Mayor Jewett has
received a telegram from Commander
Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army
Offering the use of the army barracks
and shelters In this city for homeless
men and women during the cold snap.
a reduction of wages of from ten
to twenty per cent went into effect in
several Of the CentervIlie Manufactur-
ing comTanys mills at Manville, r. |.
The company manufactures plush
goo DIS.
A school house built Of sod near
Perry, O. T.. collapsed and twenty-five
school children were entombed for
from injuries and Miss Jennie Jones,
the teacher, is in critical condition
The Venezuelan treaty will be signed
this week and sent to Caracas 1t is
believed that the Venezuelan congress
will insist upon amendments, and
that the settlement OF the contention
will be left for the next administration
II is money thrown away for our
business men seeking foreign markets
to load up the United States consuls
with pamphlets and circulars and price
lists, SO says United States Consul
BArtholow at Mayence. Germany, in a
report to the state department.
Excitement continues undated In
Chinatown in San Francisco over the
murder of Little Pete. the Chinese
gambler, shoe merchant and shoe han
uiacurer, by high binders. Little
Pete was worth probably $500 600 and
was a leader of the Sam Yup Tong.
President Cleveland received the
former Queen Liliuokalani at the white
house. Shortly after the entrance OF
the guest Mrs. Cleveland left the man
sion with every evidence of indigna-
ton She did not return until after
former Queen Liliuokalani had depart
ed.
Gen. John d, Stevenson died at his
home in St. Louns after an Illness of
several months. lie was born IN
stanton. Va. IN 1921 and served with
in the Mexican war and IN
the confederate army during the civil
war. A widow and Two sons survive
him
In an interview former Lieut.. Coy
Saxton said he had President-elect Me
kinleys promise in writing that he
should be collector of the port Of New
York. This promise Mr. Mckinley
made conditional upon Senator-elect
Platt's Endorsement, which Mr.. Saxton
obtained.
The thermometer in New York reg
stored close to the zero mark. and in
several points in New Jersey IL fell
below The cold snap was general
throughout the country. In Chicago
The sufferi' IS of the destitute were
greatly aggravated by the severity Of
the weather
At Toledo. Ohio the explosion OF a
gasoline stove in Joseph Pops livery
barns caused a hot fire, Twelve val
liable coach and blooded horses were
suffocated by the smoke, while twenty
others We're SO badly burned that the
majority of them viii have to be shot
Loss $50 900
The twenty-second national couyen-
tion of the Railway Mail Service Ben
eyoent Association will be held IN
san Francisco during the week Of
March Is. The delegates ana their
the Burlington route and VIII reach
san Francisco, Billings, Mont, Spokane
and Portland Stnpping ono Iay in fha