Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-09-08
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC.

New YORK:
Mayor Van Wyck signed a reso u
tod fixing the tax rate Of New York
city at s2Q1.
A Klondike ship brought 81 100000
in gold and drafts to Seattle.
Two wings OF the populist party in
Idaho have dominated full state
tickets
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Gerhard
have leas ed country home in Long
Island,
At Toronto. Canada, fire destroyed
Bertram's ship-yards. The loss was
over s250,o0
At Bristol, England, several ware
houses and other buildings burned;
loss s750,000.
The president and several members
Of the cabinet will visit the camp at
hoDtauk, l.. l.
The greatest passenger rate war in
the hist ~ Of American railroads is
Just beginning.
There were five deaths and twenty
prosirations' from the intense heat in
chicago Thursday.
Surgeons at Camp Thomas are
charged with having been too hasty
in cutting men open
Gen. Whe Ter has ordered a full In
vestigation Of all charges agains-
Comp Wikoff's management.
Miss Maud Livingstone, hancee Of
the late Lieut. Tiffany, is the center
OF social interest at Newport
The five story building Of tn A.,
Gelsal Manufactur ng company ia St..
Louis burned loss, 100000.
At Narragansett Pier, II. l., Miss
Winnie Davis daughter OF jeff Davis,
Is seriously III with gastrits.
Congressman Walter Reeves has
becn renominated by the republicans
OF the eleventh Illinois district
The mayor OF Galveston, Tex, fred
upon riotous strikers. The fire became
general aad several men were shot.
Joseph ". Ellington was saved from
drowning in New York bay by sailors
from the battle-shlp Massachusetts,,
A tin whistle was swallowed by
Frank Jacobs, 2 years old, Of Chicago,
His physicians despair Of his recovery.
ASS slant Surgeon General Sem pre-
diets a typboid-feyer epidemic at
Camp Wikof II soldiers are kept
III re.
The nomination or Col, Theodore
Roosevelt as the republican candidate
for governor OF New York seems to b.
assured.
The public demand for action is
likely to eau the president to order
an immediate investigation Of the
army camp horrors.
Samuel NJ Jarv s, who established
United States bank I'm Santiago, says
business conditions and prospects are
cd in that city
Cowb US attempted TO run Fort
Pierre. S. D., and In the shooting that
lnsued Cne man was killed and an
ether wounted.
1ha treasury department Of the ma
tional government has distributed war
bonds to the amount IL s7LS6i,li0
amuOg 1898 subscribers.
III MI g,.tt - H., ..,,,,i
nc W. ~ IN 800 $50. 49,
So n'' u.,i,o, '.!'. 'uv So, =.
HNpi' VS. .o'''l'""' "'',, pay ''' '"e
The death Of King Malietoa may Pc
surt IN tho div.si,p' ~ tho somoan rs
land on,rpr me Irpitad stats Graz,
Britain and Germany.
Js'nh W GuU. I,,a wholesale
stamp clerk in the On cago postodice
has been arrested charged with steal
inc $1,000 worth OF stamps.
L. y Troutman. secretary OF the 81
Cloud tMFnnl Mutual building ana
Losn ossoclatloQ. embez2cd almost
$4,000 Of the associations funds.
A board comp 3 d n aHicers Of high
rank has b.cr appointed TO c,usi Ter
promotions IN tha navy for merito 10 g.
serv COS in thn war with Snain
The union republic q stat, conyan-
ton n Delaware minated John II
Hoeecker Tor congress and accented
the other nominees of tho reeuIars
Admiral Cou.,r, .uI. 81, r.. ,,,,.