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

1t is said that c. p. Huntington is
back of a proposition to buy the
/ Glover Leaf railroad.
Father Peter Phiambolis pastor OF
a Greek Catnolic church IN Chicago,
was arrested for perjury.
Leslie Parker, a lad at Muskegon,
Mich, was shot and killed while en-
gagged in a Halloween prank.
The Health Board has had the
New York house in which Col George
e. Warning, Jr., died fumigated.
Bonds Of over $40, 900 in value were
picked up by an Italian peddler in
/ New York and returned to the owner.
Senator Philetus Sawyer will ac-
company the official party which is
going to San Francisco to launch the
battleship Wisconsin
The fight between Dial Hawkins and
Jack Downey before the New York
! Athletic club was declared off owing
\ to financial disagreement.
/ Joseph Herbert, once a drummer boy
| in NapoleOn's army, died at the home
I in Chicago al the age of 10l years. He
came to Chicago Is years ago.
| Miss Mabel Gordon, youngest daugh-
ter Of Gen. W. w. Gordon, was mar
/ ried at Savannah to Rowland Leigh,
son Of Lord Leigh Of England.
Elmer Andrus, a farmer living near
Chetek, was poisoned by eating a
| piece Of wild parsnip. Doctors have
no hope for his recovery.
Mrs. Amelia Sonnabend, a first
cousin of Prince Hohenlohe, the chan
cellor of the German empire com
mItted suicide at Detroit.
Rev Il. d. Young, an old-time
preacher among the Chippewa In
dians, died of old age at Battle Creek
Mich. He was born in 1914.
The operation of Porto Rican tele-
graph lines is expected to shed light
on the subject of government owner
ship Of railroads and telegraph,
The Sd Wisconsin regiment, just
returned from Porto Rico, has been
furloughed until Dec. 81. They Will
then probably be mustered out.
Three students were 50 severely in
iured in a class fight at the Michigan
Agricultural college at Lansing that
they had 10 be taken to a hospital.
The monument erected to the mem
DRY OF Richard Morris Hunt, the
famous architect has been unveiled
in New York with simple ceremonies.
Soldiers of the LIST Alabama regl-
ment hung in efllgy Rev. O. p. Fitz-
simmons. their chaplain, because he
had opposed their being mustered out,
The Methodist bishops announce
that they will shortly make an appeal
for a twentieth century fund" of
$40, 600, to be used in church work
Charles a. Schott, chief of the COM
putation division OF the coast and
geodetic survey, has been awarded the
Wilde prize by the Academy Of
France.
Colonel James c. Biddle, who was a
member of General Meade's staff ana
served with distinction in the civil
war; died at his home In Philadelphia,
aged &c.
Michael Doty under arrest for
polygamy in Chicago. has been identi-
fed as Jacob AdoIph HUFF of Wheel
ing, w. Va, suspected of wife murder
in 1895
The war investigating sub-commis-
sion at Lexington, Ky, heard some
spicy testimony about faults at Chick
amauga camp from officers Who served
there
The schooner Capron, Capt Ander-
son. Of Racine, went on the beach at
Sturgeon Bay and will prove a total
loss, Her crew is in destitute circum-
stances.
The Highlander Chinese society in
san Francisco has threatened with
death those who are engaged in stamp
ing out the trade in slave girls in
that city.
r. G. Hamen and John r. West
TWO wel known business men of Yves,
Superior. We're drowned near Ely
Mimi. while hunting. Their bodies
were recovered.
Commissioner Peck has secured g.
GOO additional feet or space in the
Paris exposition, making a total OF
10000 feet additional set apart for the
United States.
j. X. Merit assistant adjutaut gem
oral C.. A. r.. department, of Mime
sou and one of the bes, known G. \. +
n men i'm the northwest, dropped
dead I'm Minneapolis
senator Hoar, in q ponlcal speech
at Worcester Mass, made a protest
against any absorption Of Spanish ter
ulory as a departure from American
aims ana purposes.
Stringent quarantine measures are
about % be enforced I'm New York 30
prevent the entrance OF hubonic
plague which has broken out i'm
Vienna, Austria.
The villa of Mr. Royal Phelps Car
roa at Newport r. H. caught fire and
,ho household had narrow escapes.
Valuable hunting trophies were ruined
10y smoke ana water
Adam Hammer, while temporarily
insane q, Beaver Dam. Wis, shot and