Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-05-27

AIRS ferdinand Uaresch OF st. LOUIS
received . telegram stating that her
oreat niece Ass Maueilne lie Clefq,
Is years old was among nose burned
~ daath in the Chalipy i,aztar noio-
caust g p@..a,
Charles Morse, postmaster at War
wick Mass, has committed SUICIDE.
business troubles and the circulation
of a petition for the appointment oil
new postmaster are supposed to nave
been the cause.
The Texas house, after very bltter
dght lasting ii week, passed the sen
ate textbook bill, which requires
uniformity of textbooks for all the
free schools OF Texas. The law goes
into effect in 1898.
At a recent meeting Of the Meth
odfst Board of Freedmen's Aid Society,"
Rev. Or G. M Melden OF BrocEtoh
Mass, was elected president OF ClarH
University OF Atlanta. Dr. Melden
mas not yet accepted.
Adyices from Agnes Il. Slack, sec
rotary OF the World Womans Chris
tan Temperance union, state That III
England the railway companies are
promoting temperance organizations
among their workmen.
David Uyermeyer, the silver chaH-
plon of Kansas, will doubtless loom up
as a candidate for president or wee
president OF the silyerites If the silver
wing OF the democracy remains III the
saddle during the next campaign.
Henry Breese banker Of halama-
700 Mich, died April 80, leaving vital
u. Bangs and Romolo f. Bangs, two
farmers, near Modesto, Cal, each
NTH interest in fortune amounting
to between $1,000, 600 and SlO,OO0OOO
The Holland submarine torpedo
boat was launched at Elizabeth, y. j.
The International Brotherhood OF
Railway Trainmen began convention
at Toronto, ont, and the Order OF Rail
way Photographers convened at Peoria,
Ill,
The receivers of the Charter Oak
Insurance company of Hartford, Conn,
have declared final dividend OF Ia
per cent, in addition TO dividends Of
10 per cent. declared before This
company has been in liquidation fifteen
years.
Macedonia E'ransto, the l1-year-old
10y who murdered four persons at
M0ncloya, Mexico, and then eloped
with the daughter of a ranchmah,
has been captured in the mountains
near Villatdama State of Tamaulipas.
The girl was with him.
Mark W. Townsend, who was ar
rested in Adams county, Washington,
and brought to Lancaster, Wis, for
trial Oh a charge OF numbering his
wife eight years ago, was found guilty
of manslaughter in the fourth degree
aud sentenced to the peuitentiary Tor
three years.
Obituary: At Asheyille, n c., Jul
Illus Lewis Watson Of Houston, Texas,
AT Muncie. md. Lloyd WilcoX,--At
Sheboygan Falls, Wis, John Mitchell,
79-At Westminster, Pa, J. Williams
Thorne, Sl-At Nandaia, H. Judge
Jacob Fouke AT London. Lord Henry
Edward Somerset, "A.
The announcement has been made in
New York that labor union of that
city. in order to impress upon Tam
many the importance of recognizing
the Chicago platform in the municipal
election this fall, has invited William
j. Bryan to speak in Union Square on
labor day, September 6, and that he
has accepted.
The Illinois Battlefield Monument
commission has decided to erect nine
monuments each ut Lookout Mountain
and az the north end of Mission Ridge
to the Illinois regiments which par
ticipated in those battles, and gran
tie monument one hundred feet on
the top of Mission Ridge ON The spot
where the confederate General Bragg
had his headquarter
Edwin StOddard an inmate of the
Trenton. ~ j., penitentiary claims to
have positive knowledge of the eN-
istence of a will made by the late
A. ]. Davis. by which the American
Tract society. American Bible society
ana American Board of Foreign Mis-
Suns were each beQueathed $4,000
and by which $4,000. 600 was set aside
for a university in Butte
President Mckinley sent 10 the SEN
ate q message recommending an appro-
pration for the relief OF the starving
Americans in Cuba Several members
of the cabinet are said TO be opposed
to the message. In q letter read at
q n,ass-meetng OF Cuban sympathizers
in Washington Senator Chandler de-
clored that the United States should
send ships and troops TO Cuba TO end
me war
AFFAIRS FOREIGN.