Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-02-17

brought on by the excitement.
Colonel A. c. Babcock, an old resi-
dent OF Chicago and Illinois, and act
lively identified in business and poiit-
ical way with the history Of the
state, is dangerously i'll.
Archibald McLaren of Cleveland, o.,
is under arr est on the charge of APP
propriaing to his own use $4,000 be-
longing TO the Order of Scottish clans
of which he was treasurer.
Attorney General Mccormick of
/ PENNSYLVANIA has a bill in equity in
! the Dauphin county court to restrain
the capitol commission from awarding
| the contracts for the new statehous..
President Mckinley and probably
several Of the members of his cabinet
will attend the Memorial day services
at Gettysburg May 30 if public business
does not intervene to prevent them.
| Governor Hastings of Pennsylvania
has granted a pardon to ex-City Attor-
ney William G. Moreland of Plttsburg,
who is serving three years for embez-
zling city funds.
| st. Louis burglars robbed Mr.. and
| Mrs. West, of New York, OF $1,000
worth OF diamonds, including a col
lection OF Egyptian jewelry second
only TO Sarah Bernie dts.
| Chris Won der Abe, the st. Louis
baseball magnate, was kidnapped and
taken to Pittsburg by detectives so
mi
| have to satisfy a judgment against
the former president Of the Browns.
| George Lord, the Oldest Mason in
! the United States and probably in the
world, and also the Oldest Odd Fellow
in this country, is dead at San Bernar-
dino. Cal He was born in New York
City, June 81, 1900.
An order has been issued for the
/ court-martial of Luther G. Billings,
| inspector general of the pay depart
ment of the navy. He is charged with
making misstatements and being in
terested in compressed food sold to
| the government.
Judge Hazen, in the state district
court at Topeka, Kan, in a decision
holds that bicycle is a tool and es-
sential to mans profession or
occupation, and that as such is exempt
from execution.
In a letter to Postmaster Gordon of
Chicago, First Assistant Postmaster
General Perry S. Heath says the de
partment prefers to make no general
rule in regard to the participation OF
postoffice employees in politics.
The mutilated body Of an unknown
man. who seemed to have been muir
dered. was found IN the East river
New York The police say the crime
is like that Of which VIM. Gudunsuppe
was The victim
1t Is reported that negotiations are
pending between the Mexican govern
ment and J. and w. Seligman & Co
of New York looking to the funding
of Mexico's national gold debt OF
500 900 600.
Elizabeth Flanders and Fanny
Eaglehorn, the Indiann girls who tried
to burn the girls building at the In
dian school at Carlisle, Pa, pleaded
guilty and were sentenced to one year
and six months.
The Pennsylvania railroad company
has been awarded the contract for
Transporting the herd of reindeer to
be used in Alaska across the CONT
nent. Notwithstanding the bid of the
Canadian Pacific was 81 400 lower
An army of unemployed men camped
around the state house at Boston,
4 Mass. in order to be in line to register
for civil service examinations in the
mechanical department in the morn
ing. but 1000 were turned away after
the lists were full.
Henry A. BLY,, the alleged Sheffield.
Iowa. burglar who operated extensively
/ in the vicinity Of that city while pos
/ Ing as a church man, has entered a
! plea of not guilty, although the evil
deuco against him is overwhelming.
! Leroy Sloane, the tramp who brutal
/ ly assaulted the 10 year-old daughter
of John Hare near Wabash. Ind, and
narrowly escaped a lynching at the
hands Of excited farmers, has been
safely lodged in the Wabash jail.
The National w c, T. L appeals
/ 20 all temperance and religious soci-
cites throughout the country TO unite
( in celebrating the birthday Of General
Neal Dow, the father of prohibition,
on March 20.
At Mount Carmel Pa. the Mount
Carmel house vas destroyed by fire
and the seventy inmates escaped clad
only in their night apparel The
4 loss on the building and furniture will
amount to $4,000
I Senator Chandler urges congress to
/ recognize in a substantial way the
/ services of Admiral Worden, now de-
ceased, who commanded the Monitor
in the fight with the Merrimac. His
family is said to be in poor financial
circumstances
Thomas McNulty, who has been on