Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1898-09-29

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Lieutenant Colonel Nicholas Sem,
| chief surgeon, United States yolun-
! teers, has been honorably discharged
from the service of the United States,
his services being no longer needed.
| Dispatches confirm the news that
Messrs. Philip ID. Armour, Marshall
Field, Norman b. Armour, and James
i. Hill have made deal for acquiring
e1 tensiye interests in the b. and o.
railroad.
| George Bowman OF Bridgeport,
| Conn, was murdered in Alaska,
during a terrible snow storm by a
con panion n2med Johnson, of
Springfield, Mass. who was lost in
the storm.
Mrs. Joseph Culpepper, wife of
Joseph +. Culpepper Of Chicago, is
suing Mrs. Henry b. Borie of Phil
adelphia for $4,000 damages, alleg-
ing that the latter assaulted her and
&c He'd her a thief.
II. B. Dame was nominated for con
gress by the republicans of the second
| Wisconsin district. Congressman
William McAleer, democrat, has been
| renominated from the third Pennsyl-
yania district
Frederick Short of Chicago and
party of seven bound for the Klon-
dixie have not been heard from since
they started to cross the floating
marshes between the Nelson and
Pease rivers last spring.
! The New England Sabbath Protec-
/ tive League sent to Mayor Quincy
protest against the action of the may
OF and board OF aldermen of Mlwau-
! koe last Sunday. A banquet, speech
es and an excursion were part of the
! program
II is believed that Germany will
try to acquire an island in the Phil
/ ippines in which there are coal de-
posits An examination OF the is
lands has been made by the German
naval commander and an engineer
under instructions from Berlin.
Col Theodore Roosevelt has de-
clared himself a machine republican,
and says he has not much faith in the
lasting qualities of Independent
movements, because machine poll
ticians work all the time, while indie
pendents work spasmodcally.
Perry o. Symonds, a Leland Hart
ford university student, has been Sc
lected by the British museum to
make thorough geological collection
tour Of South America, from Ecuador
to the straits of Magellan, and he
will leave Sept. 2S to begin his duties.
As far as new discoveries went, the
expedition sent out by the University
OF Pennsylvania to study northern
Alaska from a scientific standpoint,
has been failure. Nearly $4,000
specimens, weighing lll2 tons, are in
the collection brought back, but it is
said there is little that is new.
William II. Madden, a barber of
Joplin, Mo, was arrested at lola,
Kan, charged with bigamy. Four
wcmen claim him as husband, one in
Elgin, H., one in Joplin. one in Kan
sas City and one in Bronson, Kan.
The Elgin wife began the investiga-
ton which resulted in Madden's ar
rest.
The Michigan republican state con
vention renominated Governor Ha2en
S. Pingree The remainder of the
ticket includes o. w. Robson for
lieutenant governor; Fred NJ. Warner,
secretary of state; Roscoe d. Dix,
attorney general; George A. Steele,
treasurer and f. Marsh, chairman
state committee.
Among the passengers who ar
rived on board the North German
Lloyd steamer Kaiser Frederick from
Bremen and Southampton were:
CLYDE Fitch the playwright II. Jose /
ply, the pianist; Consul f. Ritch, |
Henry Willard of New York; Captain /
Whitehouse, IT, 5. N; Beriah Will
kins of Washington, and Colonel G. !
V Darlington.
United States District Attorney |
John c. Black Of Chicago, has begun |
suit against the Chicago and North |
western Railway, charging a viola |
ton of the section of the federal stat
utes which provides for the proper |
transportation of cattle. The charge |
is that the company confined cattle |
and swine for period longer than |
twenty-eight hours without unloading |
same for rest. water or feeding"
Ten lives We're lost by the burning |
OF the Union Railroad and Transpor
tat5on compauy's elevator at Toledo. /
The dead are Samuel Alexander. John |
Carr, John Dalbrosk. Fred Garrett, !
Charles Keefer, Miss Grace Parks, !
Harold Parks, John Smith, Frank |
Ngnhoesen ana Frank Wainwright. |
The fire was caused by an explosion |
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