Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-06-02

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ment proposes TO collect the Philip
pine customs revenue.
Twenty men were injured by the
explosion OF a gasoline tank at a !
steel plant at Granite City, III.
/ ]. II. Maybury, Wisconsin's crack
sprinter denies the charges Of pro-
! fesslonalism made against him.
John Bolte killed his brother, Al
ONO, years old H., while practicing
shooting at a target, at Winnetka.
Gen. Henry A. Jackson, a confed-,
crate general and minister to Mexico
and Austria, died at Savannah, Ga.
Thomas NJ. Jet was UNANIMOUSLY
renominated to represent the eigh
tenth district of Illinois in congress.
George w. Cromer of Delaware
county, Ill, was nominated for con-
gress by the eighth district republi-
cans
June p has been decided upon as
| Illinois day at the ransMississippi
and international exposition at
Omaha.
William II. Slayton's suit to re-,
. CONtI FDtyNNb llblh WI . II'Lhy bIttu
for legal services has been discon-
! tinued.
The national supreme court decided
! that the Pennsylvania and New
Hampshire oleomargarine laws are
| invalid
Private Barbee of Durham, ~ c.,
was killed in an accident by a train
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to Florida.
! Senator ravis speaks In favor Of
the United States buying out the Mic
arauga Canal company and complet
ing the canal
The Indiana Novelty Manufacturing
company of Plymc uth Ind, fled !
papers Of assignment in the amount
of $4,000.
The republicans of the ninth con
gressional district of Indiana re-
nominated Charles B. Lands of Car
roll county by reclamation.
Bandits held up an express car in
New Mexico, threw the express safe
into a ditch, blew it open and then !
riled it and rode away on horses.
Joseph Mitchell, a colored brake
man, was lyrched at Rives, Tenn,
for causing the death of white boy
by pushing him from a moving train.
Major George w Steele of Marion i
Ind, was nominated for a seventh /
term in congress at the convention of
the republicans of the eleventh dis
trict.
All the speakers at a dinner in New
York to E b. Baldwin, who is going
to search for Andree, the arctic tai
loonist, expressed the belief that
Andree is safe.
George Francis Train, Jr., who
claims 10 be a son of the sage Of
Madison Square attempted suicide
at Coney island by taking laudanum
He will recover.
Miss Dorothy Mauer was arrested
+ for choppng to pieces a number Of
valuable groups of Cupids which dec
Grated the fine arts building Of the
Omaha exposition.
1t is stated that a deal has been
practically completed for the CONSOLE /.
dation Of the Cramp Shipbuilding
company OF Philadelphia with Wick
ers Sons and Maxim OF England.
Henry Re ter 25 years old, was
killed at The Chicago Packing Box
company's factory by falling down a
sawdust chute He was to have been /
married this week TO Miss Lillian
Schonbard.
It was proposed to the general as
sembly of the Northern Presbyterian
church at Winona Lake, Ind, that a
conference committee be appointed to
arrange a plan of union with south
ern Presbyterians.
The New York surface street rail 4
way companies have applied for
authority to ctauge the motive power
on $50 miles of road, at a cost Of
$50, 900 600. 1t is thought the under
ground trolley system will be adopted
and the cable conduits used.
Garfield King, negro aged about .
Is, was taken from the Jail at Sails /
bury Md, hanged to tree and al
most shot to piec, S He was await /
ing trial on the charge of having !
deliberately shot Herman Kennel, a
white boy about the same age as the
negro
General George w. Clark, an en- /
ploye of the land office, died at +
Washington. He was colonel Of the
thirty-third and thirty-fourth Iowa I
Infantry in the civil war, was bre- I
veted brigadier general and FOR four
years was United States marshal for
the Iowa district
The berkshire Life Insurance com
pany asked the superior court TO en-
join Henry Schwartz and Henry Veg (
enhenkel from realizing on a $4,000
policy on the life OF Charles Sheldon, 1
who died a month ago of consump- !
tion. The company charges conspiracy
between Schwartz and Wegenhenkel.
and the deceased
Al Denver Judge Dixon gave a de-
cision in the district court sustain F.