Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-11-09

wages
The democrats of the xixth Nebraska
are preparing the way for a contest in
the event of the election OF Judge Will
liam Neville, the populist nominee for
congress.
A freight train on the Big Four
crashed through a bridge mile west
of Guilford, Ind, killing two trainmen
and a couple of negro tramps who were
stealing ride.
G. b. Orvis, an oil operator Of Pitts
burg, was arrested in Chicago charged
with becoming connected with the for
gerry Of the name of f. l.. Parker & Co.,
of Baltimore.
At st. Louis Robert B. Jennings,
secretary and general manager of the
Broadway Gable company, was held
up and robbed of Sl,043 in cash and
SIS, 275 in checks.
Capt n M. Dyer, U. s. y who com
manded the Baltimore at the Manila
fight and who has been assigned to
Havana, has asked to be relieved on
account of i'll health.
The New York coroners investiga
ton of the wreck Of the ferry boat Chi
cago may result in charge of man
slaughter against the captains of the
Chicago and City Of Augusta.
Rev. b. S. Everett of Rhode Hall, y.
J., will marry Miss Mount next month.
She will be his third wife, and the
bridegroom's three sons, all ministers
will perform the marriage ceremony
United States Marshals Cannon and
Meehan have arrested Jimmy"
Dumphy, Kit Carney and Abraham
Abrahomowitz, Of Ashland, on the
charge Of furnishing liquor to Indians,
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Birmingham, Ala, was held, at which
preliminary steps were taken towards
entertaining Admiral Schley, who will
be the guest of the city Nov 6 and I.
]. j. Geraghty, a police operator in
south Chicago, was attacked by
horde of muskrats in a swamp near the
city. They first killed his dog, then
they made a vicious onslaught on
him.
A big excursion down the Chicago
drainage canal. to include governors,
senators, national representatives and
federal, state and city officials, is
planned by the sanitary district trus-
tees.
At Newbern, n c., terrific gales,
which blew Tuesday night, drove the
tide higher by two feet than it ever has
been The city was flooded and small
boats were placed in the streets TO al
low passage.
At Dennison Texas, bandits held up
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas train,
and, after murderous assault on the
express messenger, robbed the safe of
$40, 600 in money and valuables to the
amount of $4,000
The Womans Foreign Missionary
Society has declined to unite with the
Home Missionary Society of the Meth
odist church. the convention deciding
that both could do the most, good
working separately.
Sixty men Of the Gloucester, Mass,
fishing fleet were lost during the year
Just ended a less number than usual.
They left fifteen windows and twenty
six children. Fifteen vessels valued at
$79,75O were lost.
The gold output for Cripple Creek
district for October was S2,00l,600.
This is the first months production
that has exceeded $4,000. 1t is esti-
mated that the total of the year Will
not fall short of S1S000,000.
At Weir City Kas., Gus McArdle,
bartender, was shot and killed in sa-
loon, and in less than two hours his
supposed murderer, George Wells, a
negro miner, was hanging to a tele-
phone pole the victim Of mob,
The new administration building at
Sing Sing prison, built by convict labor
under Warden Sage, and considered 20
be one of the handsomest structures Of
the kind in the country, was half de-
sroyed by fire, Loss, s50O0't
On account of his indiscreet utter
ances ut a dinner party in London in
regard to the Venezuelan boundary,
the State Department notified Ambas
sador Choate that he must be more
careful in his utterances in public
At Plttsburg in the county court
Judge White held that an employer has
a right to operate his factory independ-
ent of a union, and that a union has no
right TO persuade his apprentices 70 be-
come members OF their organization.
The recent orders assigning Colonel
Samuel q. Sumner TO duty with the
British army in the Transvaal have
been revoked Captain $. l., Slocum,
eighth cacalry, military attache at VII
emma has started for the rransvaal
Assemblyman Allan Benny OF Bay
onne, \. j., published letters to Sena-
tor Sewell in which he declared the
PENNSYLVANIA railway refused to give
him a pass because he supported meas
ures distastetul TO the railway com
pauy.
IgO TalbO. the famous tenor singer