Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-02-24

Luther G. Billings, pay director in
the navy, has been found guilty Oh
falsehood and scondalous conduct by
court martial and sentenced TO dis
missal from the navy
Charles Francis Winthrop Of New
York died in Paris at the age of 70.
Jacob Stage, one Of the first set
tiers in northern Indiana, dropped
dead at Ligonier.
Representative Sulzer of New York
has introduced a resolution in the
house setting apart the birthdays Of
Abraham Lincoln and Thomas Jeffer-
son as legal holidays.
A marriage license was granted TO
Robert r. Wallack, Of Washington,
and Miss Marguerite Letter, daughter
of the millionaire trader Of Chicago,
in Maryland.
Capt. Stenger. Of the lost Veendan
said before sailing away that he
thought the shaft had torn hole In
the ships bottom as well as in the
Miss Euphemia Deans, a New York
teacher has sued ex-Judge Hilton for
a one-sixth interest in a portion Of
the A. r Stewart estate, claiming
relationship.
The democratic central committee Of
! Illinois has selected May II as the
date for the state convention. Peoria
or Springfield win be chosen as the
/ place,
] The national committees of the dem
ocratc, populist and silver republi-
can parties have issued addresses urg-
| ing united action by these parties on
the money question
| Rt Rev. Charles Todd Quintard,
Protestant Episcopal bishop Of Tenn
/ essee and one OF the founders Of the
University of the South, at Sewanee,
/ Tenn, died at Meridian, Ga
Word comes from Or. James b. An
CELL now United States minister in
Turkey, that he will return to Ann
| Arbor in time to resume his duties as
President OF the Michigan University
/ next fall
| Representatives Of the National
| Woman Suffrage association appeared
/ before committees of the senate and
/ house and asked for a constitutional
amendment giving the franchise to
/ women.
The United States circuit court of
| appeals at New Orleans decided
| against the owners of the hlibuster
steamer Three Friends, who sought to
obtain her release from the govern
| ment
George J Iolany, the sculptor, who
/ expected TO be married to Mrs. w
Bette Newman in New York was dis
! appointed, as Mrs. Newman did not
arrive from Paris on the steamer she
was to have taken.
/ The Illinois supreme court con
| firmed the conviction of Banker
Charles w. Spalding, who as treas
urer Of the University Of Illinois de-
faulted TO the amount OF nearly
/ $500 000.
! Prof Edmund ] James of the Uni
versity OF Chicago has been nominated
! by the bureau of education to repre-
/ sont the United States at the inter
| national congress OF commercial in
struction to be held at Antwerp In
April
Alex ClaremOnt. who carried Uncle
Sans mail on foot from Green Bay
20 Chicago G6 years ago is dead. aged
81 He repeated the trip during the
worlds fair. He was born in St Tg-
mace and served in the Black Hawk
war OF 1882.
Vice Chancellor Stevenson Of Jersey
| city has decided in effect that union
labels designated to indicate fair-made
goods are not privileged trademarks
and may be copied with tmpunity by
! anybody.
The South Carolina house of repre.
sentatives passed bin for the an.
p"intment of committee to investl-
gate the dispeusary, Il being reported
that legislatures had been ENJOYING
free liquor in the state samplng room
The senate defeated the measure.
The liabilities of Henry Sherry of
Neenuh and the six companies In
which he is Interested are given
$l.27o,ooo, with nominal assets IF
| 100000 MIR Sherrys personal lila
! bllties are secs GOO. and I'm addition IN
4 this he has iudorsed the paper Of his
| corporations for S5VO ooO ,,,... NJ