Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-12-02

ming company, owned by Langdon & ,
Co, of Boston, was destroyed by fire.
The loss is s150,000 The fire Isl said
to have been OF incendiary origin.
Mrs. Margaret Keegan Of Chicago
had a belief that banks were Instituted
for swindling people. So she placed
all her funds in barrel in closet.
Thieves entered the house Saturday
ana stole all the money.
julius A. Skilton is dead at his
home in Brooklyn, aged ga years. He
performed distinguished service as i
surgeon curing the war, later as a
war correspondent and as counsel gen.
eral in Mexico.
Fritz Meyer, alias Constantine Stei-
ger, who was convicted of the murder
of Policeman Frederick, was sentenced
10 New York to be electrocuted during
the week beginning Jan. 10. Meyer
confessed.
w. &. Woodward, also known as
Big Hawley," was found guilty in
Now York of attempting to extort
blackmail from Samuel w. Bridgeham.
Woodward has an international repu-
tation as a swindler and boosted on
the witness stand that he HAD obtained
$1,000, 600 from wealthy Englishmen.
In the United States district court at
Topeka yesterday, Judge Foster re-
fused TO grant the injunction asked
for by the Travellers Insurance com
pany to restrain Insurance Commits
sicner McNall from examining the
companys books
Mr.. and Mrs. John Borseman and a
young child. who resided at Burkett
Ind, were driving across the Nickel
Plate railway near Claypool when they
we're run down by a train. Mrs.
Borseman and the child were instantly
killed and Borseman was fatally in
juTed
Under the decision of Judge Siebeck-
err in the injunction suit of the
Travellers Insurance Company. of
Hartford, against Insurance Commits
sioner F'ricke, that corporation will
have to pay the state 1874, 10159 to con-
tinue its accident business in WILSON,
sin.
The grand jury convened in special
session at Taunton, Mass, found in
dictments against w Shay and Frank
Ford members of the common coun-
Gil OF Fall River, for soliciting brides
in connection with the awarding of
contracts for furnishing a school
John II. Laskey. ex-lieutenant ON
the Boston police force, has been
sentenced to three years IN the house
OF correction for forging signatures on
his bond, given to the city of Cam
bridge in 1894, in connection with the
building Of an engine house In that
city.
Aged Ellen Peck, whom the police
regard as one of the cleverest conf
dence operators among women in the
country and who is now under a five
years sentence because of a transac-
ton by which she obtained $500 worth
New York, was granted a certificate
of reasonable doubt in the supreme
court in Brooklyn.
Fire destroyed the barn and con
tents belonging TO Richard A. Nc
Curdy, president of the Mutual life in
surance company of New York, and !
situated at Morris Plains. Two or
three handsome carriages and a num-
Der of implements were also consumed. |
Loss Sl750O, covered by insurance.
Mrs, Florentine Moser, fortune
teller, committed suicide at her home I
ia New York because of grief over the
aeath Of her little daughter. The child /
was poisoned from chewing the end of
Mrs. Moser went into the
room in which her daughter was laid
out for burial, and, producing re- +
yoiver, shot herself twice.
In recent report to the state de-
partment concerning the use of BIZ
cycles at Gibraltar, Consul Sprague
incidentally refers to work in progress
At that place that is not generally
known He says 5000 workmen daily
erter the fortress and labor on the
extensive improvements now going on
In the building of docks and other
government works.