Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-11-10

and 32,146,3S5 bushels in 1896.
II. ckwood-Hewitt, widely known
in theatrical circles all over the coun-
try as H. lockwood, Charles Froh-
mans general business manager, died
from appendicitis at New York.
More than 100000 bushels of wheat
and corn cleared the custom house in
| Philadelphia Saturday on steamers
bound to European ports. The ship
ments consisted principally of corn
Murderer Adolph Luetgerts resi-
! dence in Chicago was sold under de-
cree of foreclosure on the Real Els
tate Board to Fritz Won Frantzius for
81 900, the amount of the mortgage.
/ A telegram has been received from
| the agent of w. OBJ. Marlborough,
owner of Ormonde, stating that the
duke of Westminster offer OF $4,000
4 for that famous racehorse had been
/ declined.
The past season has been very
severe on the Gloucester, Mass, fish
/ ing fleet. Fourteen vessels are a to-
tai loss and 50 fishermen have been
drowned The losses will approximate
/ $4,000.
Rev Mr.. Haase of Wheeling, W. Va,
aided the Chicago detectives in es-
tabishing a belief that a prisoner now
held there on charges of polygamy
murdered a Wheeling woman three
years ago,
General Wood found that trans
| port about to leave Santiago with
! sick soldiers lacked proper delicaces
and medical supplies. Hereafter he
will personally inspect every transport
before 1t sails.
Thomas |. Kidd, George Zentner and
Michael TToiber accused OF conspiracy
to injure the business of the Paine
Lumber Company during the recent
woodworkers strike at Oshkosh, has
been acquitted.
A S1,150,000 mortgage on the Co
lumbus Memorial building at Chicago
was filed for record. 1t bears on its
face $574.50 in United States internal
revenue stamps required under the
present war tax.
Captain Fenwick Y. Hedley of Bun
ker Hill, H., was married at ST. Louis
to Ella Brown for the love OF whom
Captain Hedley killed Mayor John Il.
Richards, also of Bunker Hill, in
June, 1897.
Green Lake county will vote on the
county seat question Berlin wants
to get the courthouse away from Dart
ford The latter place has had the
county seat for 40 years and is cen
trally located.
The Marquise de Merinvile Cor
merly Miss Mary Gwendoine Cald-
welD presented $4,000 to the Catholic
University at Washington to estab-
lish a scholarship in the Caldwell
Hall of Divinity.
Rev. Mr. Mach and f. b. Bemis,
Of Plttsville are lost in the woods near
that city. They were out hunting
deer and were separated from their
relatives and friends. A party is out
searching for them.
A Chicago woman says she believes
her husband was murdered in the
Yukon territory, because she has re-
ceiyed conflicting stories regarding
him in anonymous communications
mailed in the gold fields.
A contest is in progress in New
York over the will of Mrs Anne Maria
Winters, aged "A years, who be-
queathed between one and two mil
lion dollars to her third husband,
who Is thirty-hye years old.
The United States supreme court
has announced It's decision sustaining
the constitutionality Of the New
York law taxing foreign corporations
doing business in the state, accord
ing TO the capital employed.
The lockout of 600 employees of the
Denver breweries ended, the diff
fcrences between the brewers as
ISOLATION and the brewery workmen's
union having been adjusted. Concas-
sious We're made by both sides.
Evidence that the trust among the
manufacturers of envelopes has be-
come q fact has reached the sta
tionery trade in the form of circulars
quoting an advance averaging %
per cent in all grades of envelopes.
John r. Philips, treasurer of the
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific rail-
road is dead of paralysis. lie was
born in Bratueb1ro. VI, July "A, 1887, .
and had been connected with the
Rock Island road for thirty year
The hbwes. gold rush Is taking
place in the state Of Washington on
the Colyille reservation. A pay streak
over "a feet thick has been struck and
the ore is running $500 per ten enc
firm is taking out $4,000 per day.
James Mullen of Geneva, N. y, was
killed and James Ryan Of New YorE
was badly wounded In a saloon row
among horse Jockeys. The shooting
was done by Charles Moon at Newark.
o. who became implicated in the
quarrel
Marshal OConnor's request that
Indian Commissioner Jones charge
against him In connection with the
recent Indian war 5e Investigated was
granted hy the attorney general F..