Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-06-30

Arkansas den ocrats in convention at
| Guiding the denomination Of Governor
Jones
The dismembered body of a young
! Italian named Philip Forestano was
found in trunk floating in a canal
near Buffalo.
Judge Cooley, the noted jurist, whose
! mind gave way year ago, has been
returned to his home from an asylum,
but is no better.
An English syndicate has secured an
option on all the coal mines Of the
! Jellico district on the Tennessee-Ken
| lucky line.
Adelbart Ames of Massachusetts
! have been nominated to be brigadier
generals.
William Teke, sheriff of dearborn
! county, Indiana is dead. He had
| served a part of one term and had Sc
cured a denomination.
! Governor Black has prepared a bill
providing for the separation Of the
/ DtlAu VI Ci'NLlOll LlOLl lue pOllCG ut-
partment of New York city.
An alleged horse-thief, who gave the
name Of George Dewey, was caught
with companion by a posse of Mount
Gilead, o., citizens, after fusilade.
Colonel Henry Flad, a prominent
civil engineer of st. Louis, dropped
dead at Pittsburg. Heart disease is
supposed to have been the cause.
Maurice Mason of Chicago, son of
Edward G.. Mason, was elected editor
of the Yale Daily News, the official
university organ, for the coming year
Libbie Thompson, kidnapped when
six years old by an actor and his wife,
was restored, after 10 years, to her
mother and brother in Camden, n. j.
The class recently passed into West
Point were formally admitted, among
them being brother of Lieut.. r. P.
Hobson and a son of Gen. Phil Sheri-
dan.
The New York Presbytery refused
to license Mr. Bebb, a theological stu
dent because he did not accept the
historical accuracy of Jonah and the
whale.
President Gates of Amherst college
has sent letter to the trustees from
Cambridge, England, under date of
June s, resigning the presidency of the
institution.
EXMayor Frank A. Mcgowan OF
Trenton, N. j., was made a higamist
by the New Jersey court of errors and
appeals which refused to uphold his
Oklahoma divorce.
Capt. Charles Silva, who commanded
many filibustering expeditions to Cuba,
has submitted to the amputation of
leg as the result of a wound from
Spanish bullet.
Fusion with the democracy was de-
nounced by the middle-of-the-road pop
ulists of Michigan, who had a conven-
ton at Grand Rapids, where the other
silver parties met
Ninety per cent of the exports from
Hawaii are purchased by the United
States. The value Of the exports from
the United States to Hawaii will APP
proXimate s6,0O0,O00 this year
Mrs. Lowe of Atlanta, is The chief
candidate for the position Of president
Of the American Federation of Wo-
mems Clubs, which began its fourth
annual meeting at Denver.
The adherents of Mayor McKisson Of
Cleveland, We're turned dcwn by the
Hanna people in control Of the Ohio
republican convention at Columbus.
A state ticket was named
The conferees on the sundry civil ap-
preparation bill have agreed to pro-
vision for American representation at
the Paris exposition. The appropria-
tion is not TO exceed 100000
Senator Moran presented to the sem
ate a favorable report on the Mica
ragua canal bill He says congress
will pass the measure at this session
unless there Is an early adjournment.
10 is stated that another million has
been lost by Joseph Letter by the
shrinkage OF cash wheat this week.
and that he Is likely to lose much more
by Europe reflections Of wheat bought
ON option.
to utilize the water power of the Cat
skill mountains involves the supplying
or electric power for all the elevated
and surface railroads and factories of |
New York city.
Jacob Hoffman of Flatbush. an
American citizen of German parent /
age, has been arrested in Hamburg
and drafted into the German army.
Ambassador White at Berlin. viii be /
Instructed to investigate the case.
Rev. Thomas c. Hanna Of Plants /
vile. Conn, who lost his memory some /
time ago as the result of an accident, !
has been restored, and will be mar |
ried to the lady to whom he was en- !
gagged before the accident. but whom !
he had forgotten with everything else.
Charles O. Keiser. jr. under sem |
tpnCe Of death f1r u.ifa rnuraer ~ Nor