Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-10-06

| pavard died at Dedham, Mass. He
was 20 years old.
Colonel William Jennings Bryan OF
the Cd Nebraska regiment is i'll with
malaria at Washington.
American Tobacco company STOCK
! took a bio tumble and many lambs
were feeced in Wall street.
Colonel w. f. Fulkerson of Jersey
county has been elected president OF
the Illinois board of agriculture.
Three persons were killed and sew
eral buildings wrecked by a cyclone
at st. GATHERINGS, Ont, yesterday
| President Mckinley's postofiice de-
partment has abrogated Cleveland
"pernlcious political activity" rule.
Tod Sloan, on Lorillards 3-year-
| old colt Elfn, won the Newmarket
| welter handicap, worth 500 sovereigns.
John B. Parsons, formerly Of Chi
cago. has been elected president OF
the Philadelphia Union Traction com
pany.
SILK goods Of American manufac-
ture are sold in Lyons, France, TO the
exclusion of goods made in Austria
Hungary.
President Hill is credited with an
intention to straighten the Great
Northern line between the twin cities
and Duluth.
Gen. Joseph Wheeler and Mrs. U.
5. Grant met at reception in New
York and talked reminiscently for a
long time.
Frank Ehret, son of the New York
millionaire brewer, was secretly mar
ried to Ada Dare the actress, six
weeks ago.
The citizens union has selected
Theodore Bacon, of Rochester, to
head its state ticket in place Of Col.
Roosevelt, who declined.
An American company, styled the
Island of Cuba Real Estate company,
has begun business in Havana. 1t
will deal in country lots.
Miss Louise King of New York,
who disappeared mysteriously after
entering a bath-house at Coney island,
returned home a bride.
Jay Cook is said to be at the head
of a combine with s25,000,000 capital
which proposes to buy up all the
large breweries in the United States.
Ex-Governor Robert Il. Pattison,
who was nominated for congress
few days ago by the democrats of the
sixth Pennsylvania district, has de-
clined
Col. Theodore Roosevelt was nomi-
mated for governor OF New York by
the republican convention at Sara
toga. Lieutenant-Goyer Woodruff
was renominated.
Gov Smith, in charge of the Ma
tional Soldiers home near Santa
Monica, Cal, was shot by an inmate
of the hospital. His wounds are
considered fatal,
Dr.. Geo r.. Puryes, who was for
merly a pastor in Baltimore, is spoken
of as the successor of the Rev. DR..
John Hall, pastor Of Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian church in New York.
1t is believed the president Will ten
der the post of ambassador to Great
Britain to Representative Hit of
Illinois, chairman of the house com
mittee on foreign affairs.
Or" Nancy Gmlford, accused Of
having caused the death of Emma
Gill, at Bridgeport, Conn, was ar
rested in London, England, shortly
after having left a steamer from
Montreal,
Politics has invaded the signal SER
vice OF the army to such an extent
that General Greedy has made a vigor-
Gus protest against practices employed
in mastering out companies of the sig
nal corps.
The $1,000 Geo estate Of Charles T..
Croker, the late California railroad
magQate, has been divided. The COM
missions OF the executors amounted
to $4,000, and $4,000 was paid out
in attorneys fees.
Albert Grtiths, better known as
Young Critic, the pugilist, is
strapped in a straight jacket in Chi
yago police station, where he Is being
held pending an examination into his
mental condition.
ne 9nlWbu5 district attorney mas
threatened to prosecute Magistrate
Crane, who said in dismissing TWO
hartenders that the police discrimi-
mated in favor of saloonkeepers who
| paid for protection.
The preliminary survey of the route
Of the proposed Niearaguan canal has
been completed and the engineers
/ have returned to this country and are
going 10 Washington TO make their
report to the canal commissioners.
Special Agent Murray. in charge OF
the Seal islands, reports that during
the past season 1851 skins we're Sc
cured This IS decrease of about
/ 5000 in the number taken in 1897 He
reports general decrease in the seal
herd
a receiver was asked aud obtained
for The New England Loan ana Trust
company because. it was stated, the
company had many bad investments
in western city mortgages. made dur