Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-08-05

Mexico that bankers IN Europe ai'
forcing down the prices OF silver ~
crder TO show the United states VI
atouic commissioners that EUROPE
,ne''r answer to the Dingley bill.
Al a small hotel in Westches'e'
village, on the north western pouhuaiS
- Nawark. ~ j., Patrick sullivan
oe yoars old and his pretty first cousin
annie sullivan, were found dead hey
Ia heen asphyxated by illumlnat-
ing gas, - o,,,or
Tba market price of bar silver
reached low water mark. Govern.
ment assay bars were quoted al %
cents which made the silver ID
standard silver collar worth 900
cents an ounce and later declined "
IS rs cents. 90
German American proprletofs OF
oublic boll rooms and picnic parks III
l,re,ter New York have started boom
sor tho nomination of Registrar Will
lam Sohmer as an anti-reform eandl-
date for the mayorality. lie is
Tammany man.
Enoch Jngersoll, who is said to be
e., sacona cousin of Robert G.. lnger-
soil, attempted to commit suicide ID
drug store at Bath Beach, Brooklyn
nv takirg an ounce of leudalum. lie
was in a respondent mood on account
of sc me trouble.
tramp named Peter Bons has been
almost nositiyelv identified as the man
vho brutally assaulted and then muir
dered pretty Pearl Morrison near
CRYSTAL Falls, Mich. Citizens are
greatly enraged and there Is consider
able talk Of lynching.
Judge John w. Barr at Louisville
refused the injunction petitloned by
Deputy United States Marshal Lee
Dudley to prevent DR.. A. d. James, the
new United States marshal, from dis
charging him Dudley claimed he was
protected by civil service.
Ralph Langston, colored, son OF
Professor j. NJ Langston, formerly
United States minister to Liberia, who
was arrested on complaint OF Mrs,
Mary Pierson, maid at the Garden
theater, N Y, for an alleged attempt
to rob her. was discharged
Hernessy & Cox, of St Paul, have
been awarded the contract for putting
the interior finish on the Milwaukee
postofflce building (S26, ,91D despite
the strong influence brought to bear on
the supervising architect to have the
work done by cream city firm.
The Baldwin Locomotive works
booked an order for twenty locomo-
tives for Japan. This. with orders al
ready received, makes a total of fifty
for that oriental empire. Thirty have
just been shipped. Officials of the
wroks say there is practically no
serious European competition in this
trade
The force of car builders Of all
grades ef labor at the Wisconsin Cen
ual car shops in Stevens Point will
be increased by the addition of 100
men. The receivers of the road have
ordered $50 ore cars to be rebuilt and
twenty-five stock ears to be trans
formed from ordinary to double-deck
cars at once.
The armor producing companies
having declined to furnish the navy
department the aTmor needed for the
three battleships now building at the
price of 5000 per ton fixed by congress,
Secretary Long has taken the second
step In tho line marked out by con
gress and has called upon the ship
building companies themselves to sub
NIT proposals.
The first copies of the tariff act in
law form for circulation have been
received at the document rooms of the
senate and house The law makes
pamphlet Of seventy pages. The mem
bers of the house win have 25 600, the
senators 10000 and the senate com
mitteo on finance $4,000
The handsome Carrara marble
bust of President Mckinley that is to
be placed in the state capitol at Col
Ohio. has arrived from Maple
japanese officials IN Washington de
clare that all talk of the possibility Of
Japan assuming a -.g"'tEc sFt.tlde to-
wards the United States is absurd.
Recent advices from Peru state that
the wonderful strikes reported from
the Klondyke region have been totally
eclipsed by fabulous discoveries of
gold in the South American republic.
In an Interview NJ. de Morarda saws
that there is no longer any doubt that
Z he famous Inca cold Hal1y ,,rby.b l,,..,