Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-28

President Mckinley will deliver an
addrees at a banquet in Cincinnati
| October 80, and will then go to Canton
to cast his vote.
For the first time in many years
the money to handle the wheat crop
has been furnished by Minnesota and
rakota bankers.
Joseph overly, wanted on a charge
Of having forged pension papers, was
arrested at Washington, IND, aiter
three years chase.
John Carroll, a Connecticut man,
nicked IN bis arm, cut off by a am
carried it to the station n calullI
| asked -or a drink.
Reports Of persecution OF mission
aries In Turkey were made to the
church of Disciples missionary con
vention at Indianapolis,
business men in Cuba are said to be
secretly moving to petition the govern
ment at Washington to annex the
island TO the United States.
The fftieth birthday OF Rev. sam
Jones was observed at his home, Car
t%eryille, Ga, with d dinner party, at
which there were fifty guests.
The validity of the removals OF
deputy collectors of internal reyenue
has been referred to Attorney General
MeKenna for a final decision.
William Ficklin, a contractor, who
saws his home is in Virginia, is under
arrest in New York on a charge OF
atducting a siXteen-year-old girl.
A committee of the Lutheran gen.
eral council, in session at Erie, Pa,
made a report urging that further
steps toward Lutheran unity be taken
Henry George declared that as mayor
he would no more consent to the Civ
ing Il public franchises to private cit
Izeus ;HJn to giving away the city lla!l.
Grace Clarke, a New Brunwick
school girl, will receive nearly 81, 800
COO, the fortune obtained from gold
mines in three countries by her grand
uncle.
Detective William Moore Of the New
York police force, who was arrested
on suspicion of having caused his
wife's death, was discharged from
custody.
Surgeon General Newton L. Bates,
of the navy, the presidents private
physician, is dead. About two weeks
ego he took the oath of Office as sur
geon general.
Admiral John l.. Worden, retired,
died in Washington, He commanded
the Monitor In the famous fight with
the confederate ram Merrimac in
Hampon Roads.
The state department refused the re-
guest Of the Mexican government for
the surrender of Guerra, who took
part in the celebrated CANA raid into
Mexico in 1892.
At a meeting of the cabinet it was
decided that each department should
| adopt regulations to carry out the
civil service order recently promul-
gated by the president,
Edward Jacques, who escaped from
a New York prison and who was sub
sequently arrested in Baltimore vas
placed or trial at White Plains, n. Y,
to answer a charge of murder.
Owing to the large class which grad
uated from West Point Military Acad-
cmy last June, no appointments OF
e0llsted men to commissioned rank
will be made for at least a year,
Arrests of persons who took part in
the recent lynching Of five men at
Versailles, Ind, are expected TO be
made as the result OF an investigation
by the attorney general of the state.
The Terre Haute Gnd) Electric
Street Railway company went into the
hands of a receiver as the result OF a
levy made by the city treasurer for
delinquent taxes amounting to $4,000.
The Union Pacific railroad will be
sold an November 1 unless the gov
eminent Is informed that another bid
is assured from responsible parties, in
which event a p|ostponement would be
asked.
The coal miners strike In the Pome,
roy Heud in Ohio has been settled at
S2I2 per 100 bushels, which is highly
1 satisfactory to miners. All the mines