Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-26

man, during his absence in the Philip
| pines
! The National Colonization Aid so
ciety has been chartered in Chatta-
nouga, Tenn, to form a Western
colony where negroes from the sou.A
/ may settle and have government OF
| their own
| Nine Santa re conductors running
on the Western New Mexico and Rio
Grande divisions have been discharged
| for throwing cash fares up in the air
and giving the company only that
sticking to the bell rope.
The Kansas City Times, which has
been a stanch supporter Of William
Jennings Bryan, urges the candidacy
Of United States Senator Francis
Marion Cockrell for the democratic
presidential nomination In 1900.
All the important companies In the
world which are engaged in the pro-
duction of borax and boracic acid have
joined in trust The combination
includes companies In the United
States. England France and South
America.
The navy department has received
notice that the Bennington has sailed
from Honolulu for Guam. She will
stop at Wake island and take possess
sion OF It for a cable station The
Castine mas sailed from San Juan to
reinforce Dewey.
In pittsburg Michael RulInskl
known as the Polish dude, who strang-
led his wife TO death and then set fire
to the body and house to cover up the
crime, committed suicide by stranglirg
himself with a bedcord taken from his
bed In the jail.
fhe New York assembly has adopted
Il concurrent resolution authorizing
the governor to waive the claim Of the
state against the United States for the
pay OF the officers and soldiers OF this
state In the volunteer army In the late
war against Spain.
The detail OF the court TO try Com
missary General Eagan Includes Gen
erals Merritt, Wade, Butler and Young,
and Brigadter Generals Frank, Pen
Randell, Kline ana Comba.
Lieutenant Colonel George Is. Davis
will be the Judge advocate.
Colonel Sexton, the Chicago member
Of the war investigating commission
who has been confined 10 his hotel
for about two weeks with an attack
Of the grip, and finally with a severe
attack Of rheumatism, has been taken
to a Washington hospital
Explorations in Keely's laboratory
at Philadelphia have disclosed hidden
tubing under the ilon and IN the
walls which, taken in connection with /
the recent finding of a large steel
reservoir, points TO compressed air or (
gas MS the secret Of the mysterious F.
motor
The administration has finally de- .
,ided, Il Washington dispatch states, to /
order the trial of Commissary- Gen 4
Aral Eagan by a court-martlal, over
which General Merritt will preside
General Eagan has revised his origi- .
nal statement SO as to omit all abuse .
IF General Miles,
Bishop Potter, in an address before /
he Church Temperance society at
New York, said saloons were the poor
mems clubs and were a social ueecs
3ity, and declared that they would
continue to exist until something
equally attractive TO ahoring men
vas substituted for them
In Cleveland while seeking safety
from the flames which we're destroying
their home Mrs Fred w Tisdel was
Instantly Killed aud her husband sus-
.aned severe Injuries ana may die
Mr. Tisdel II chief clerk in the audit
ing department Of the Lake Shore
road
Fred Peck, Jr., of Chicago, Is to
we'd Miss Leah Lefiingwell, of Chicago
,liss Lefingwell, while having lived
n Chicago for some years, Is really
, Kentucky girl having spent all Of
Ter younger life in Bardstown, Ky
'he Is petite blonde and hardly more
han 10 years of age.
The Santa Fe has announced, semi
)uiClally, hat ON Jan. 20 it viii re-
luee by one or possibly, TWO hours ine
Wnniug time OF it's mail and passfn-
,er rain leaving here at 10 y, m. aud
Kansas City at N the fol-
owing morning. This practically os-
ures another rime war.
a large majority OF Of the different
3tecl ana wire companies stock hay
,ueady been deposited with T. and W
a Co. under the agreement
inferred into for The organization Of
/ corporation under The laws OF the
.late 81 New Jersey, 10 be known as
hg american Steel and Wire company
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