Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-03-17
Chief of Police Mccullagh Of New


YoiK has issued renewed orders TO
the captains to close gambling houses,
30 icy shops and pool rooms.
Mrs. Olga Demorest, living at Grove
City, twelve miles from Columbus,
Ohio, while insane killed her four
year-old son Arden with a razor.
The factory of the Liverpool Basket
company, at Liverpool, n. Y, was
burned Loss, $4,000. covered by
| insurance.
d. Schroeder & Co., jewelers. Of
Cincinnati, have assigned Liabili-
ties, $1,000; assets, 100000 prefer
ences, $4,000.
Fire caused damage OF 100000 in
the Rehm building, Monroe and Mar
! ket streets Chicago. The building
was occupied by light manufacturing
concerns.
The whaleback steamef Christopher
Columbus has been bou2ht by the
! Chicago & Milwaukee Transportation
company. and will again be put into
excursion service between those cities.
DR.. A. NJ. Curtis, surgeon in chief
of the Colored Provident hospital Of
Chicago has been appointed surgeon
in charge of the government colored
| hospital
Tax Collector Ernest in Chicago Sc
cured $165, 79249 from six banKs in
one day under threats to close them
up. They protested the payment, and
claim the tax is excessive and fraudu-
lent
Gov Pingree has issued call for
a special session of the Michigan leg
islature March %, to consider local
taxation Of the property of railway.
telephone and telegraph companies.
At meeting Of prominent republi-
cans at San Diego, steps were taken
to promote the candidacy OF U. S,
Grant for the United States senate
from California.
Indian Head one of the most notable
features of the Palisades and which
was located just above Fort Lee. New
York, was destroyed. The work was
done to supply stone for road max
ing.
Lorenzo Barnes Was hanged at East
Cambridge, Mass. He murdered John
Dean, a farmer, rs years old. who
lived between Maynard and Acton,
on Dec II.
Edward B. Coombs, formerly a
coroner Of Brooklyn, is on trial on
the charge of manufacturing mys-
terious cases of death for the sake
Of fees.
The court-martial of Capt. o NJ,
Carter, in progress at New York. has
decided that an army officer has no
private rights and that his papers are
at all times open to the wish of the
government.
Canada is said to be strongly op-
posed to the propositions of the
! United States concerning reciprocal
agreements in Alaska and the North
west Territory
! The Canadian atlantic Steamship
line has chartered number of steam
ers in Cleveland TO build up big trade
on the great lakes eastward to Parry
sound.
Frank C. Lac y and Joseph Short
are dead and two companions are in
a critical condition at Moose Lake,
Montana, from the effects of drinking
1 wood alcohol.
| II is stated that another strike of
illinois coal miners is probable as q
/ result of the cut in wages by the
Big Muddy Goa company of Carriers
Vile.
Every man employed in the canal
/ work between Utica and Rome n. Y,
/ quit work. There are about 1000 OF
/ them. They demand that the pay OF
/ laborers be increased from 1921 cents
to Is cents an hour
Newman Miller, secretary of the
/ respondence-study department of
the extension division OF the Univer-
sity of Chicago, has resigned to be-
come proprietor of the Albion Recor-
der, at Albion. Mich.
George S. Crale, a notorious pen
sion swindler, has been taken to To-
peka. Kansas, for trial, after being
arrested at Holton. He is wanted in
i Iowa, Missouri Nebraska and other
states
j. c. Cox, one Of the younger board
Of trade operators and known among
his associates as The little plunger +"
has been taken to the detention hospi-
tai in Chicago, and viii be tried for
his sanity
/ The Northern Pacific and the Great
/ Northern have cut the rates to
Seattle to $40, to meet the Soo's slash
from St Paul The rate war for the
NIondike business IS now at it's
height.
William Harris, one of the two
negroes who attempted to rob the
store of Mrs. Caroline Middleton in
4 Myponoughyille, opposite New
/ Orleans, was probably lynched though
} no trace Of his body can be found.