Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-02-04
NEWS OF TIE WORLD.
AT HOME

President Cleveland for governor OF
hat state.
The Detroit city council stands by
Pingree and he remains both governor
and mayor
Samuel +. Rankin, a prominent law
yer. committed suicide at Milan, Tenn,
by shooting.
A theatrical circuit is formed for six
southern Minnesota and northern
Iowa cities.
Resolutions were introduced In the
Illinois legislature against the Olney
arbitration treaty
Building Inspector Gilman and Ala
Drew of Minneapolis were arrested on
charge of bribery.
Three men were killed in wreck On
the Pittsburg and Western railroad,
near Shippenville, Pa.
Rev George Koenig, pastor OF Irini-
ty German Lutheran church, Washing
ton. ID. C. died in Brooklyn.
A pro-arbitraton mass meeting In
Washington, attended by prominent
men, says GIVE the senate time"
At Linton, Ind, fire destroyed one OF
the Island Coal company's houses.
Two children were burned to death.
State Comptroller Roberts, in re-
rort to the New York legislature,
recommends a larger inheritance tax.
Rev. DR.. G. f. Pentecost, pastor OF
the Murylebone Presby terian Chursh.
London, has accepted a call to Yonkers,
N Y.
Spanlards in Cuba were killed by
drinking water from wells that some OF
their own number had poisoned for the
benefit of the Cubans.
Suits for foreclosure Of government
mortgages on parts OF the Union
Pacific railroad have begun at st. LOUIS
and Omaha.
Thomas G. Dugan, aged 40 years,
wealthy planter of New Orleans, died
OF PARALYSIS at Glen Springs sanitarium,
Watkins, n Y.
Seven flremen and two spectators
were badly hurt at fire which de-
stroyed the Williams block at 196-202
Monroe street, Chicago.
DR.. Richard j. Hall, one of the fore
most surgeons OF the Pacific coast Is
dead. He was the son of Rev. Dir.
John He'll of New York.
The Delaware presidential electors
7sk congress to re-estabIish republ-
can forms OF government in that state
and recount the vote,
President Cleveland has summary
removed from Office Collector Bowling
OF Cincinnati Mr.. Bowling refuses
20 surrender the Office
President-elect Mckinley was visited
by Mississippi colorcd men who asked
him to recognize that race in making
appointments TO Office.
Masked men entered the Jail at Tai
lahassee Florida's capital, and lynched
a negro who has attacked the daughter
of a prominent politician.
1t Is estimated that the mask ball
Mrs Bradley-Martin will give in New
York next month will cost her and
those who attend $4,000, 600,
In Indianapolis the Protestant min
listers held a special meeting to form
ulate a systematic fight against the
kill permitting Sunday baseball
Or Richard ]. Hall one of the fore
most surgeons of the coast, died at
Santa Barbara, Cal lie was son OF
Rev. DR. John Hall. OF New York,
John c. Reid. who for the past
four or five years has been in charge
of the republican State headquarters in
Fifth Avenue hotel, n Y, Is dead.
Ex-Governor Altgeld of Illinois in a
speech at Chicago charged that whole
sale fraud was committed at the recent
election In order to defeat Bryan
Receiver Cowen of the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad company announces that
100000 interest due February | on the
bonds of the company will be paid,
The Welcome Ramsdel building at
West Brattleboro. VT, was burned,
Leroy Amidon, student at Brattle-
boro academy, was burned to death.
The report Of the New York S,ate
bureau of statistics OF labor shows a
decrease in the average wages paid in
the various industries of the state
A delegation from Brooklyn called
on MIR, Mckinley to urge the appoint
nent Of Representative Francis H.
Wilson of New York as secretary of
the navy
Miss Sophronisba p. Breekiurdge,
daughter Of Col w c. 2. Breckinridge. /
is the first woman TO be admitted 70
practice before the Court Of Appeals
in Kentucky
The house OF Il. A. Vandawater,
three miles from Belleyiue Mich. /
caught fire from a defective chimney at
3 a. m. and Mrs Vandawa,cr and two
children persisted
w j. Bryau's book. The First Battle, F..
is finished and will soon be published
II reviews the campaign and condemns
the appointment OF corporation lawyers
to public office
At Columbia $. c. the separate
+, houses OF the legislature voted for
8 United States senator Joseph n Earle
. rre nominee Df tho democratic urinary