Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-10-21

city on suspicion of having stabbed
his wife to death.
DE-. Van Giesen the instructor In
Columbia college, was sued for d.
yorce. The couple separated the day
after their marriage.
Secretary Sherman has invited
Great Britain to take part in a seal
conference in which Russo n Japan
Will not be represented.
A deal by which the citizens union
ticket in New York county will appear
on the Henry George ticket has an
gered friends of the latter.
The registration Of voters so far in
New York is not encouraging the
friends of municipal reform, the fg-
ures being less than last year.
Emmett c. Gibson, a street railway
| promoter, was discharged from Gus
tody In New York on a charge OF at
tempting to pass a worthless check
Dispatches from Skaguay, Alaska,
state that a number of fatal and other
| accidents to gold hunters who were
crossing the passes have occurred.
A life-size statue of lCommodca5
Vanderbilt, which has beer given to
Vanderbilt university by residents or
| Nashville. was formally presented.
John C. Sheehan, the Tammany
leader, predicts that the municipal
ticket nominated by his organization
Will win by fifty thousand plurality.
Victor Hugo's Les Miserables has
been barred out Of the girls high
school OF Philadelphia as a book for
the pupils on the ground that it Is i'm
pure.
New York importers will petition
congress to modify the penalties in
the Dingley tariff bill for under
estimating the value of imported
goods.
In the United States supreme court
the attorney general of California
moved to advance the case Of w. II.
r Durrant, who is under sentence
Of death.
DR.. John GuIteras, the government
expert. has declared that four positive
cases OF yellow fever exist at Calves
ton. Tex, and an exodus from that
city has begun.
Arrangements have been completed
in New York for a large expedition TO
Bolivia, which will explore the coun-
try for the purpose Of opening ii 10
American settlers.
rhe New York park commissioners
have approved plans for a park at
Fordham, in which will be placed the
cottage in which Edgar Allan Poe
wrote The Raven.
DR.. Evans, the dentist Of royalty,
who made a fortune in Paris, will give
millions TO found educational and
charitable institutions in several
American cities.
Two men and a woman, arrested
for looting the home Of Francis II.
Scott in Orange, n, j., say they spent
a day In the house packing yaluablcs,
including Worth gowns.
The announcement is made in New
York that Dr. Thomas w. Evans, the
noted American dentist Of Paris, on
templates establishing a great dental
university in Philadelphia.
John r. Maloney, who has returned
from Dawson City, says that on Alex
auder McDonald's claim, near Daw-
son. one man shoyeled In S20. 600 of
gold in about twelve hours.
The United States would not sur
render Eyangclina Cisneros, who es-
capped from prison in Havana, or her
rescuers, if a demand should be made
10y the Spanish government.
Secretary Gage. Senator Mason,
Mayor Carter II. Harrison and others
made speeches at the celebration Of
Illinois and Chicago day at the Ten
nessee centennial exposition.
Justice Field is to retire from the
national supreme court bench in De
cember, TO be succeeded by Attorney
General Mckenna, which win occa-
sion several cabinet changes.
Baron Kauopsky. a young Brazilian
nchleman, attempted suicide in New
York 10y inhalinE gas, but was rescued
by Chas. Dana Gibson, the artist, to
whom he wrote q farewell letter,
Conferences held In Cincinnati be-
tween members of the societies Of
Sons OF the Revolution and Sons of
the American Revolution led 70 steps
which will probably result in union
of the two societies.
uueasiness is felt in European
financial circles regarding the out
OF the New York mayoralityl
election. and the resumption of gold
shipments to America has changed
the outlook of the money market.
The American flag was draped with
Grape and government by injunction
denounced by labor organizations f.,
Lynn. Mass. where a clergyman
preached @ funeral rmo for the
tveuty-tour mep shot M Iattimer. Pa.
Randolph GuggeOheimer. who was
horn In Lynchburg Va. and who
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