Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-10-13

| a bower on South mountain, near
| Chambersburg, Pa.
| Henry f. McDermott. assistant pro-
fessor of chemistry at Columbia Uni
versity, New York, committed suicide
| because of i'll health.
Jesse James, son of the noted out
law, is said to be involved in train
robbery in Kansas He keeps cigar
| stand in Kansas City.
| Every vacancy in the medical de-
! partment OF the navy has been filled
| and there were hundreds OF appli
cants for the positions.
| The New York Independents declare
| they will nominate Colonel Roose-
welt for governor in spite Of his letter
| declining their nomination.
! Striking miners from Pana, H., at
/ tackled the barracks OF negro miners
at Washington, Ind, and by threats
! compelled them TO leave town.
Ex-Mayor Robert X. Gibbons, one
of the pioneers of Bureau county and
for many years prominent in politi-
cal circles, died at Princeton, III.
Elbridge T. Gerry and Robert Goe-
let have become citizens OF Rhode
Island, 1t is stated because they fear
populistic legislation in New York.
A dispatch from Chattanooga says
that the southern iron furnaces are
working at full blast and that bust
ness conditions otherwise seem good.
An urgent demand will be made up
on the Turkish government for the
payment OF indemnity for the destruc-
ton OF American missionary property.
John Bull, an old resident of Prairie
du CHEN, committed suicide by shoot
ing himself in the head with a re-
volver. He was a veteran Of the civil
war.
It is believed that the president will
recommend a form of government for
the Hawaiian islands similar to that
in operation in the District Of Col
umbia.
An Intellectual ballot for United
States senator was taken by the
oregon legislature, H. w. Corbett
leading, but not having votes enough
to elect.
Brunswick, Ga, has been inundated
by tidal wave. A thousand houses
and stores are flooded and eonserva-
tive estimates place the property loss
at 100000.
Henry George declined the New
York silver democratic nomination
for governor. In his place Henry
Mcdonald. former Pierre Is. d.
banker, was nominated.
Ezra A. futile of Brooklyn was
placed on the New York state demo-
cratic silver ticket as a candidate for
encouragement in place of Ole f,
Snyder. who refused 10 run.
Chaplain Mcintyre testified in his
defense at his court-martial at Den
yer, and pleaded that he had been Ill
from nervous strain when he deliver
ed his much discussed lecture.
American engineers Will go to
China to begin constructing for an
American syndicate railroad from
Hankow through the valley of the
Yang Use Kiang to Canton.
Eli Shaw was put on trial in Cam
den, n j., for the murder of his
mother. He has already been tried
twice for the murder of his grand
mother, and on the second trial ac-
quilted.
Governor Budd of California has
decided to issue extradition papers In
the case of Mrs. Cordelia BotSin, ac-
cused of the poisoning of Mrs. John
p. Dunning and her sister, Mrs
Joshua p. Deane.
Contracts for building the four
coast defense monitors will be
awarded to the Newport News com
pany, the Union Iron Works of San
Francisco, the Bath company and
Lewis, Nixon & Co.
The troops and Indians at Bear
island had a fight whose result is I'M
known, though rumor has 1t that
several soldiers were killed. Rein
forcements are on the way. A gen
eral Indian uprising is talked of.
r. c. Rudolph of Paducah, KY, ad-
ministrator of the estate of Charles
Craft, a young man who committed
suicide in June, has filed suit for $l0,-
O0O against c. NJ. Merquoit, the drug
gist who sold Craft poison.
A West Indian hurricane, accom-
panied by terrific winds, did much
damage along the coast Of Georgia
and South Carolina, running crops,
driving vessels ashore and imperl-
ling the lives of many persons,
United States Senator Quay, his
SON. Richard Il. Quay, and Charles II.
Mckee of Pittsburg, law partner OF
Lieutenant Governor Walter Lyon,
were bound over in $4,000 bail each to
answer to charges of msusing Penn
syvania state funds.
The supreme court in Brooklyn has
decided that surface railroads which
issue transfer tickets are obliged to
accept the same even If the time limit
/ has expired, providing the person
holding the ticket has been unable to
secure a seat in a car before the time
specified has passed.
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