Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-02-24
NEWS OF THE WORLD.

at Racine, Wisconsin.
The consututionality Of the Illinois
anti scalping law has been reafiirmed,
r. G. Bacon & Co., hardware dealers
at Toledo. O.. have failed for SS,pOO.
Charges Of forgery and corruption
are made against Milwaukee alder
men.
Miss Frances f. Willard, president
OF the w. c. r. T., is dead in New
York
The Alaska steamer Clara Nevada
was burned, with the loss Of forty
lives.
Sadie Martinez, the actress, is dan
gerously i'll with pneumonia at New
York.
James Stevenson, a Boston real es-
tate dealer, died at Old Point Comfort
Virginia.
DR.. Daniel b Collins Of st. Peter
one OF the leading physicians Of Min
nesota, is dead
Grover Cleveland bought q Jersey
farm 10 save it's owner from being
dlspossessed.
A blizzard ragged in North and
South Dakota, Minnesota and north
ern Wisconsin.
DR.. ]. II. Raab, president of the First
National bank of Vincennes, Ind" is
dead at the age Of So.
The Illinois senate concurred in the
house joint resolution favoring the
annexation OF Hawaii.
Fire at Sterling, H. caused damage
to the rooms of the Y NJ. G. A. to the
extent of 1000.
Justice Buck Of the Minnesota state
supreme court announced that he Will
not be candidate for reelection.
II. II. Chandler, a mining man well
known throughout the northwest
dropped dead at Great Falls, Mont
The Rev. Dr. John Hall says the dis
sension In the Fifth Avenue Presby-
terIan church, New York. is healed
Right Rev. John Richardson Sci
wyn. master of Selwyn college, Cam
bridge, since 1898, died at Pau, France
Municipal elections were held
throughout Pennsylvania The re-
publcans were generally successful
The steamer Gaelic has arrived at
San Francisco with 1897 920 worth Of
opium, the duty on which Is s110. $50
Dependency over the loss of his
fortune caused Carl Bualtl a German
farmer near Sterling, H. to kin him
self
Twenty or thirty fishermen are
thought to have been drowned on Lake
Erie near Buffalo, or are adrift on the
ice
Charles Dean, half-breed Chinese
Mt San Francisco, murdered Pit Sing
a Chinese girl with highbIndor's
knife
The exports of domestic merchan-
disc IN January amounted 10 $i067 61 -
524. an increase OF Sl4.000,0 600 over
January 1897
Two officials of the bank OF Edge
mont. S. D., one Of the Cradle prop
critics, were arrested, larceny OF notes
being the charge
A blizzard RACED on Che Alaskan
coast and from Il TO 81 persons are
reported TO have lost their lives in it
fury
Joseph w, Babcock OF Wisconsin has
been reelected chairman OF the repub-
iican congressional campaign commit
tee.
More witnesses in the Martin trial
at Wilkesbarre, Pa. ostinod that dep
uties shot strikers who We're running
away no Lattimer.
Rev. C. O, Brown, the minister Of
confessions was dropped from the
membership Of the Chicago Congrc-
gatioual association,
Conrad Behrens, the well-known
basso, formerly with the Walter Dam
roseh Opera company died at New
York aged 63
Il is believed that Joseph Letter
has arranged to move his entire stock
Of wheat from Chicago TO the Allan
tie scaboard
An adverse eport was made on Sen
ator Aliens amendment to the dlp''-
matte appropriation bin recoguIlius
the belligereucy of Cuba
The regents of the University %
California have decided 10 establish
a college of commerce as one of the
departments al the university
The house committee reported adj
verse.v on the bin authorizing the
erection of buildings for religious
Worship uu military reservations
n "A KohIsaat. owner OF two Chica-
go newspapers and c. r. Yerkrs
owner OF ono are bitterly assailiue
each others character and urcJt
Delegates representing every textile
union In New ENGLAND met NO Boston
aud recommended a general strike .n
all cotton mills
Colonel W n Stevenson or Nrdee-
port Conn has Joined the Salvation
army and slEnaliEed the TACT by pre-
scrrIuG & with @ check for $4,000
A subcommittee has been appo.uta