Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-12-22

Rev. John r. Paxton has resigned as
pastor of the New York Presbyterian
church
Crowds of visitors were in Atlanta,
Ga, for the peace jubilee. Mckinley
spoke.
The total dead recovered from the
New York gas tank disaster TO date
is six
A Chicago packing firm Is arranging
to erect cold-storage warehouses in
Cuba
Black steel and galvanized iron
sheets will probably advance 10 to IL
per cent.
Ex-Gov Merriam of Minnesota may
succeed Mr.. Bliss as secretary of the
interior.
A. NJ Palmer, Richard Mansfield 5
manager was stricken with heart fall
ure in Chicago.
/ The taking of testimony was COM
menced in the Botkin murder trial in
| San Francisco.
Capt. Knoch OF the Chicago police
force was poisoned by the famous
| I.uetgert sesamoid.
! 1t is stated in Washington that
| Joseph Fl. Choate will be the next am
bassador to England.
william Travis, the gentleman burg
| lar, was sentenced to prison for nine
years in Connecticut.
Vincenzo Garagusi, New York
! banker, was killed on his door step by
| Lawrence Priori, drug clerk,
! A bin to make per cent. the legal
rate OF interest will be introduced in
1 the New York state legislature
The $4,000 private car which Fred
Gebhart gave to Lily Langtry, will be
sold at auction at Cleveland.
The bridge over the Mississippi at
| Alton IS In the hands of the sheriff
for back tax amounting to $3l26.o3.
An extra session of the Kansas leg
islature, which is populist, has Seen
called to pass anti-eoporation meas
ures.
At a convention in st. Louis the
western fire insurance companies de-
cided to cut commission rates after
| Jan. l.
Marsh, president of the looted Key
stone bank, Philadelphia, was SEN
fenced to a fine and Imprisonment Of
~ years.
The editor of the Northwestern Mil
| Ter declares that the flour trust viii
not be able to capture the Minneapo-
! lis mills.
The Alton city council unanimously
| adopted resolutions for curfew or
dinance and for heavy license on
cigarettes.
square mile of Brooklyn was
flooded by the bursting of a water
main, causing damage estimated at
81 600 900.
Ice crushers have been called into
service to release vessels frozen in on
The great lakes.
United States deputy marshals are
| exonerated by officials who invests
gated charges made after the Leech
| lake outbreak.
Homer NJ Washburn, vice president
and manager of the Continental Wall
Paper company, died at Springfield,
Mass, aged 80.
Chris" Mage and Dave" Martin, It
is said, will stay out of the Penasylya-
MIA republican caucus. This would
defeat Quay
sulphur and arsenic fumes from the
shelters at Butte, Mont, killed -four
men. Some of the smelters may be
destroyed by a mob
! Rev. J. Luis Rivera, the Cuban lead
er, who was recently released from life
imprisonment in Spanish prison, ar
rived in New York
James Shaw, the only surviving
member of the Michigan legislature OF
/ 1S47, when Detroit was the capital.
died at Niles, aged SO,
Archbishop Ireland, who Is urging
for the annexation of Cu8a to the
! United States, Is believed to voice the
sentiments Of the pope
Albert Dickerson OF Atlantic, Iowa,
IS free, after four years in prison for
fraud in connection with the Cass
county bank Of Atlantic.
At Lincoln, Neh, Mayor Graham was
acquitted or the charge OF accepting a
bride of $50 from city employee who
desired to retain his place.
At Jacksonville lad, Ephrlam
Keigwiu, known far and wide as the
marrying squire" and who had we'd
ded 5000 couples, is dead, aged g.
Thirty-two stockmen have been in
dicted at Hot Springs, S. D.. for the
| killing OF sheep man who refused
TO remove his sheep from the range.
A mortgage for $4,000 on the Pres
byterIan summer school at Wfnona
Lake, Ind, was raised Thomas Kane
and Alexander Mcdonald donated the
$4,000.
Five suits in admiralty were begun
in the United States district court at
Chicago, against the owners OF La
Bourgogoe. In each case $50, 600 dam
ages is asked.
Twelve principal breweries of Pitts
burg and Allegheny and four outsid-
e@ will combine to form the United
/ Brewing company with a capital OF