Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-03-24
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flicting a slight wound.

| Pres Dyterldn general assembly mas is
sued a circular advising parents to
be careful Ia selecting Institutions for
their boys.
| Perry Gardiner enticed VIII Rogers
into an unoccupied building at Pulaski,
| Ill.,, and beat mis- brains out with a
club. Gardner and Rogers were play
mates, aged l6.
Jacob Tome, the millionaire philan-
thropist and founder OF the Jacob
/ Tome institute, died at Port Deposit
Md, after brief illness of pneu-
mona.
Lydia Matteson MoGinis, aged 81,
wife of John McGinnis, Jr., of New
| York, i lead at Paris. She was
daughter OF the late Governor Joel A.
Matteson of Illinois.
| Henry j. Butler OF Fort Scott, rep
resenting about half million dollars
of interests of Pennsylvania people in
Kansas, is reported to have disap-
peared.
Mrs, Frederick Gerhard, her sister
Miss Morris, and other ladies promi-
nent in New York society appeared in
tableaux for the beaefit of the Society
of Decorative Art.
The Pennsylvania supreme court
has affirmed a decision refusing to
grant an injunction to prohibit the
carrying out of plans for a costly new
state capitol at Harrisburg
Charles o. Skier, the millionaire
coal operator and an ex-director of
the Lehigh Valley Railroad company,
Is dead at Mauch Chunk, Pa. He was
so years old
Mrs. Martha LYDIA Poland Thurston,
wife OF United States Senator Thurs
ton of Nebraska, died from apoplexy
op the yacht Anita as 1t was entering
Sagua harbor, Cuba
Polish Catholics who wish to be in
dependent of bishops in the secular
side of their parish affairs formed the
synod and diocese of Chicago, with
Bishop Kozlowski presiding.
The herring catch on Lake Michigan
last year was 22,000,000 pounds.
1000, 900 pounds more than on Lake
Erie, and greatly exceeding the catch
of any previous year.
New Bedford. Mass, cotton mill
strikers, who have been out nine
weeks, are appealing for funds, and
acknowledge defeat unless they can
get financial assistance.
Edward Dorsey, an indianapolis
colored man aged nearly 100, was
married Tuesday to a widow of 81. 1t
is Dorsey's sixth marriage, and ne has
40 children by his other five wives.
! Over 100, 900 head of cattle will starye
to death in California this year unless
( the government can be persuaded to
speedily modify the quarantine lines
against fever.
The Peoples Savings Bank at
Mount Pleasant, Mich, which sus-
pended last October and is now in the
hands Of receivers. was robbed Mon
day. The thieves secured $1,000 in
bonds and 500 in cash.
! Title Andel son, champion of women
! bicycle racers in America, and Lisette.
the most expert Of the fair sex in
Europe, will probably meet in a match
race in Chicago the latter part of
April
I EX-State's Attorney T. S. Bottum
died of Brights disease ia Chicago.
His age was 40 years Mr.. Bottum
won celebrity by his successful pros
/ secution of Prendergast, the assassin
| OF Carter II. Harrison. Sr.
! The Missouri supreme court, in an
opinion by Chief Justice CAN'T, de
clded that the inheritance tax law
passed by the Legislature in 1895 for
the benefit of the state university is
unconstitutional.
Josef Holman, the pianist, met
with an accident recently while on a
bicycle ride, and as a consequence Mr.
Thomas has been compelled to cancel
dates in Philadelphia, Baltimore and
Washington.
Two negroes are to be sold into
legal slavery at Glasgow, Ky. They
have been committed for vagrancy,
and under the state law the county
has advertised their services for sale
during the time Of their conviction.
Al Charlton, Iowa, the Christian
CiJizensh p league has succeeded in
having all the liquor permits taken
away from the drug stores in CHAIR
ton. Application was Immediately
made to the court for new permits.
At Ann Arbor, Mich, an anu-saloon
league, composed principally of stu
dents is endeayorng to secure the
prohibition of saloons within five
miles of the university 1t would drive
all the saloons out Of Ann Arbor
Rev Samuel G. Bettes, the cowboy
preacher, Is going to the Klondike In
a nineteeQ-foot canoe, which he is
building at Grand Rapids. Mich. He
I will DO evangelical work along the
way and depend upon his collections
| for subsistence
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