Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-07-06

Congressman Loudensager OF New
Jersay saved Prof. Moore, chief of the
signal service, from drowning
Pingree's plans for municipal own
ership of street cars in Detroit were
shelved by the common council.
Eastern capitalists propose to build
a $3.50 900 steel plant, TO employ
6 600 hands, at Menominee, Mich.
rhe company manufacturing ~
media biscuit secured temporary
Injunction against "Iwanta biscuit"
A race riot near Cardiff, Ala, re-
suited in the killing of three negroes
and the fatal wounding Of a fourth.
Rev. Dr. n. f. Wood, formerly of
Chicago, has been chosen president OF
Newton, Mass, Theological institute.
stephen Clark, the South Dakota
fugitive who shot his wife and daugh-
ter is thought to have committed sui
eide.
Lack OF patronage from stockhod-
ers is the reason given for the assign
ment Of a cooperative company at
Elgin.
Prominent men all over the country
have accepted invitations TO attend an
antitrust conference in Chicago in
September.
Mrs. Helen J. Gibbs Of Galesburg
has been sentenced to fourteen years
I'm prison for the murder of Mrs. Ida
Bates OF Galva.
Ex-Mayor David Austin, one of the
Jlat-st arr gssst .. praminept.l lumber
men in the northwest, died at La
Crosse, Wis
At Buffalo the freight handlers
strike has been declared off, the men
returning to work this morning UNI
conditionally.
The new industries in Tennessee re-
ported for the second quarter of 1899
exceed by GO per cent that of the same
period last year.
Proceedings are to be brought
against the United States Flour Mill
ing company under the Minnesota
antitrust law.
Friends of the administration object
TO the control of the republican cam
paign in Maryland this year by Sena-
cor Wellington.
Mrs Ellen c. Johnson, superintend-
ent OF the Massachusetts, women's
prison, died suddenly at
London, aged Is.
New York custom-h house experts APP
praised jewels seized in Mrs. Dodge's
baggage at 100000. One necklace
is valued at $4,000.
Colonel Charles G. Dewstoe, former
sheriff OF Cuyahoga county, has been
appointed postmaster at Cleveland by
President Mckinley,
John w. Jones, aged &c years, and
Miss Jessie G. Cressor, aged IS, both of
Kalamazoo Mich, eloped and were
married in Constantine.
f. Lorillard has resigned as presi
dent OF the American Tobacco COM
pany, and Thomas Maloney has been
elected as his successor.
The inventory of the estate of Mar
tin Meier who was murdered June ),
as flied in the probate court, Chicago,
places its value at $50, 900
Louis +. Menage returned to Mimi
eapolis after six years exile, pleads
not guilty to three indictments and
was released on $1,000 bail.
John Marks, a farmer near Water
loo, Iowa, was found dead in his pas
.ure Murder is suspected. He was
q years old and lived alone.
Mrs. George b. Barrow was SEN
.enced TO u years and 10 months in
prison for her share in kidnapping |
Baby Clarke from New York,
The freight steamship Pawnee was
burned off the North Carolina coast
all the officers and crew being saved |
~ the steamer George w Clyde.
After doing business since 1892. the
'aducah Building and Trust company |
has assigned. rhe liabilities are |
;2o0 0O0 and the assets the same.
The Jewels taken from Mrs. Phyllis |
y. Dodge on the steamer St. Paul are |
,aiuod at more than $1,000 includ- |
ny a necklace estimated at $4,000.
During a tempest lightning struck
'y-prcsident Cleyeland's barn at
Cray Gables and his coachman had a
narrow escape from being killed,
\ l0-year-old boy caused a terrific I
NpIoslon at Squyten Duyvil, n. Y, by
browing frecracker into a magazine
containing 500 pounds of dynamite.
Henry @. Payne OF Milwaukee is
said to have been offered the chair
uauship of The republican national |
committee. 10 succeed Mark Hanna.
Under the auspices of the New York
Herald Mr.. and Mrs John u. Davis
started from New York City In a mo-
on carriage bound for san Francisco.
After making two successful at
ompts 20 elope Sheppard Cabanue and
Minnie Leonard OF St Louis, succeed
VI in being married az Metropolis, III. |
The report that \. J. Whitemau,
he Duluth eN-state senator, had fled to
Europe Is denied hy friends, who say
lo is iu nansvjlie ~ Y, where he re-
sides
At Syracuse. y. Y. Col NJ. = Maus.