Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-01-06


The Geolog. cal society o. America
elected john j. Stevenson OF New
York president. One OF the council
Iors Is NJ. Il. Wadsworth Of HoughtOn
| Mich
AT Clinton, la, Theodore Burtoch
and Ernestine Burtoch have been ar
rested charged with the murder OF
Charles Selhousen, the woman's for
raer husband, in September.
p. II. Mabry, agent Of the Southern
express company at Brunswick, Ca
disappeared with $1,000 consigned TO
the Brunswick Savings * Trust com
pany and $1,000 consigned to the Ma
tional bank of Brunswick.
Mayor Harrison has barred boxing
| ir Chicago The promoters Of pngil-
| istic bouts so his honor says, abused
! his confidence. While he would per-
nit scientific sparring, he objects to
| wholesale encounters
BY the will of Mrs Henrietta X.
Fales Baker 100000 is bequeathed
to the Pennsylvania hospital. The
bequest Is made contingent upon the
death Of the son and daughter Of the
testatrix without Issue.
The Very Rev William Corby Of
Notre Dame, head OF the order Of the
Cross in America, is dead at South
Bend, Ind. He was the chaplain of
the famous Irish brigade Of the civil
war
The manufacturing potters of Tren-
Ton, n. j., and the men employed in
the clay department, have agreed
that the ~ 1-2 per cent cut maae in
the mems wages in 1894 should be re-
stored.
The business portion OF Muchaka-
rock a mining town four miles south
of Oskaloosa, Ia, was practically de-
stroyed by fire. The fire started in a
restaurant There was no water to
fight the flames and fire burned itself
out.
The Bath schooner Arcola, Capt
Weeks, bound to Boston from Ran
dolph, Me, with a cargo of lumber, was
wrecked ON Green island near Port
land Me. The crew after clinging to
the rigging for four hours was taken
off
The ovsrturning Of lamp for heat
irg glue in Whitney's planning mill at
San Benardino. Cal, caused fire
which burned property valued at $780,
600. Four OF the residences, an Episco-
palian church, a skating rink and
hardware store were burned
A Tacoma dispatch says that floods
have caused damage estimated at ST.
000,000 In the northwest during the
last three days. The Northern Pacific,
Canadian Pacific, and Great Northern
tracks are washed out and traffic Is al
most suspended
At New Haven, Conn. William
James Linton, an engrayer poet and
politician writer. is dead aged IS
years, He was born in London He
was intimately associated with NJ,
/ AZzlni, Garibaldi, Louis Blanco and
other European republicans.
The Wisconsin State Teachers as
ISOLATION adopted resolutions strongly
supporting the semi-centeunial cele-
bration next June and providing for
committees to see that the educational
interests of the state are properly
represented in the exercises.
The Missouri experiment station
which has been making experiments
with sugar beets, has given out the re
suit Of its experiments which demon
strates that II would not be profitable
for the Missouri farmer to raise beets
for sugar purposes.
Mrs. Woolsey G. Sterling is dead at
Bridgeport. Conn. aged So years She
was a prominent abolltionjst and her
home at Bridgeport WIS q station on
the underground railroad she
founded the first sanitary society for
soldiers during the Civil war.
In New York Pre- Daniel l.. D1wd.
the strong man, died from consump-
tton fastened by an attack of the grip,
aged 40 years. He was known
throughout the country as a teacher of
athletics and for his practice inyeu-
tons TO hang upon the wall.
Patrick Brady. convicted of embe2zl-
ing S& GOO from Wapello county la,
while oyerseer Of the poo" aud SEN
fenced to one year in the penitentiarE,
was plrdoned by Governor Drake He
had served six months and was
brought home 10 the deuthbed of his
child.
Ii Is reported that the notorious
Black Jacks gang OF outlaws have
crossed the line from Mexico en- route
TO silver City for the purpose of re
/ leasing the southern Pacific train rob
beers captured recently near Steius
/ Pass. The deputy United States mar
/ shall is ON the look out for the gang
The new plan Of the Kentucky dis
/ tjlers and dealers OF Bourbon whisky
! rs for "a general pooling of stocks and
I their sale through central agency.
i 10 is estimated that thirty-fve firms
own 20,oo00oo gallons Of the principal
/ brands on $4,000 barrels. which IS
| sufficient tn control thg market