Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1897-07-22
NEWS OF TIE WORLD.
At HOME,

was destroyed Ny hic'
General Mark f. Wentworth, one OF
tbe most prominent men in Maine, dled
at Kittery, aged n years.
The visible supply of wheat is l6'oo9'-
OOO: corn, l5,425,00o; oats, o'9A9oP
rye. 2. 097 900; barley, SOlOOo.
Six hundred places in the INTERNAL
revenue department are to be taken
cut Of the classified service.
John Il. Davidson, third vice-presi-
dent of the Pennsylvania Railroad
company, died in Lincoln, Neb.
kid" Baldwin the once famous
cftcher of Cincinnati red Stockings, eK-
pired in an asylum near Cincinnati.
Major Y. G.. Pangborn, the veteran
newspaper editor of Jersey CITY, ~ D"
has refused to be minister to Bolivia
A college for Catholic women Is TO
be established in Washington under
the auspices of the Catholic university
President Mckinley and other high
officials attended the funeral OF lshaih
G. Harris of Tennessee in the senate
chamber.
VIM. Edwards photographer from
Petersburg. Va, mas disappeared ana IL
Is believed he was murdered or com
mitted suicide
The seventh international cohVeh-
ton of the Baptist Young Peoples Uh-
ion of America was held in Chatta-
uooga. Tenn, July Is TO IS.
The iron works cotton mills OF ran
River, Mass, four in number, employ
ING about 5000 hands, under a weekly
nay roll of $4,000, have shut down
Louis w. Hall, attorney for the
PENNSYLVANIA railroad and a member
of the board of visitors at West Point
died of heart disease at Harrisburg ia.
While returning from church, sam
and oscar Mehanes, farmers, OF AIDE
marie. Va, were killed by lightning.
They had sought refuge under a Tree
With no apparent reason, there was
rush to buy sugar, and the trust stock
went up many points by leaps and
bounds. Washington said the
knowing ones.
Forests and orchards of Delaware
county, New York, are being denuded
o. foliage with trighttul rapldity 10y
caterpilars, which closely resemble
gypsy moths.
Justice Chester declared the New
York antitrust laws unconstitutional
and vacated his order appointing a
referee to take testimony in the attor-
ney-general's suit against the coal
trust
Information received by Senior Calvo,
the minister Of Costa Rica at this cap
ital reports that everything is quiet
In his country ana also indicates the
probable early determination of the
boundary question between Costa RIGA
and Nicaragua.
Public announcement was made OF
the organization of a society In Brook
lyn to secure the enactment Of laws
prohibiting tho marriage OF diseased
or detormed persons and tho killing by
the state Of all Incurable lunatics,
idiots or doformed children
Mrs Elizabeth w. Westcott, widow
of James II. Westcott, and daughter
Of the late Judge w l.. f. Warren.
d ed suddenly at Saratoga. She was
sister of Mrs iohn 4. Bryan, ef New
York city, and was one of the wealth
lest women in Saratoga county,
Mrs. Ann Behan of Providence and
her daughter Annie were adjudged in
sane. Stree n recent visit to Europe,
in which they spent $4,000 trying TO
get into high life, the delusion has be
come fixed in their minds that they are
members Of the English nobility.
Miss D2llariia Grace Richardson,
heiress to 100000 from the estate
left 10y her father, Joseph Richardson,
who died in New York. was, according
20 Attorney a. Appel engaged in wash
ing the windows of her house when
Mr. Appel went to serve summons ON
her,
At Baltimore Elmer G. Davis sue
oecded in breaking the American
twenty-tour hour bicycle record which
was held by Henry Smith, Davis GOV
cred $40 miles in the twenty-four
htNlN, WultU Is Just TWO HNl'N luoit
than Smiths record-breaEug perform
arCe
The latest information from the sum
mcr home OF Colonel Charles f.
CT, cker. where the Southern Pacific
railway vice president lies Frustrated
from stroke ~ apcpeNy. Is to the
effect that Colonel Crockcr lis resting
quietly, with favorable indications Of
recovery.
The forty-ton ny wheel Of a pair OF
Coriss compound otgiues Of the TIA
coma railway went 20 pieces com
plotely wreckius the plant ana build
ing causing damage 90 the extent OF
100000 The wreck means Tie total
disconruuauce OF all Tacomas street
car traffic for several Gs.s
T. r Carter who pleaded guilty To
the charge Of emle4glement~of $40 600
OF the funds ar the National Bank of
Commerce. Of New York. in January.
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