Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-09-14

Two Chesapeake and OHIO passenger
trains ran together in collision near
Denton, Ky. Engineers Wheeler and
Robinson were killed and passengers
on both trains were badly shaken.
The trade OF the United States with
Africa has increased nearly 500 per
cent. in the past 10 years, American
manufactures have supplanted arti-
cles formerly supplied by other coun-
tries
Rev j. Reeves, presiding elder of the
Lexington district OF the Kentucky
Methodist conference, was found guilty
by an investigating board of conduct
unbecoming a minister and was ex-
PEELED
Navy department officials are not
alarmed In regard to the safety OF the
practice ship Monongahela, which is
overdue at Annapolis. It is thought
the vessel may have become becalmed
in the south Atlantic.
The officers of the Rome Iron com
pany, which owns large furnaces at
lockwood. Tenn. announced that they
will begin the erection Sept Is Of an
other large furnace at that place and
win expend 100000.
Annie Nuenschwarder, aged IA years,
was Killed and five other persons were
injured at a grade crossing accident
in Gloucester, N. j. They were pas
sengers on a trolley car which was
struck by a Reading train.
ut 4 a,.I M ie
appeared several weeks ago, was found
in Tiger river, Greenyillc county, S.
c., partly eaten by dogs. He had been
shot and a coroner's jury finds that
James Suddeth ala the killing.
A petition filed in the district court
by Acknowledgement Smythe declares
the existence of school furniture
trust. and asks that the alleged un-
lawful combination be prohibited from
doing business in Nebraska.
Henry Hofheimer, formerly a mem
Der OF the firm Of Henry Hofheimer
Son & Co., wholesale dealers in boots
and shoes at Norfolk, Va, has filed
a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities
Si30S0i nominal assets $4,000.
The Employers association, repre-
senting from $7000,O00 to $4,000, 900 Of
local capital has been organized in
Spokane to resist any demand of or
ganlzed labor in the city which the
association members may regard as
unjust.
The United Starch company a con-
soldation of the Oswego starch fac
tory. the American Glucose company
of Buffalo, the Argo Manufacturing
company of Nebraska City, Neb,, and
the Sioux City Qowa) starch works,
has been organized.
During an attack by a mob on a
Mormon meeting at Pine Bluff, Tenn"
Miss May Hardin, young woman, was
killed by bullet. Burton Vinson, a
young farmer, confessed firing the shot
but said it was an accident He COM
mtted suicide.
A special train bearing Cooper's cir
Gus was wrecked in Tennessee by the
bursting of an airbrake hose Twelve
persons were injured and circus prop
erty and animals scattered in all di-
rectlons, No one is thought to have
been fatally hurt.
The inability OF a number of ship
yards to secure steel will cause delay
Ia the completion of warships under
construction The bids on the six pro
tected cruisers will be much higher it
is thought, ON account of the rise in
The price Of steel
by the explosion of a calcium light
tank filled with carDunic acid gas at
the Calcium Light companys machine
room, Chicago, Frank Hopkins was fa-
tally burned and Howard McClenethan
was severely injured The first floor
of the building was wrecked.
The central Porto Eican relief COM
mi,tee has issued another appeal to the
people of the United States on behalf
OF the sufferers from the hurricane.
The appeal declares that Sl50o,o00 viii
be required to procure for the desti-
mle the bare necessities of life.
Julius n. Dawes OF Chicago has been
arrested at Stoughton, charged with
using the mails to detraud Last No
vamber he organized the Northwest
ern Investment company, which
agrel 10 sell diamonds at ywo-thirds
their value ON weekly iustallments.
rhirty-dye thousand G. a. Il. yeter-
ans were reviewed yesterday in Phill-
ielphia by President Mckinley Hho
afteyward visited Admiral Sampson S
Gee. The next convention will De
beld IN Chicago Gen. Shaw Of New
York was chosen commander-in-chiet
Two masked men walked into Harry
Green's gambling rooms at Spokane
and held up Is men, looted the tils
and safe and escaped with $1,000 IN
cash ana bills In the chase aud sub
ssqucnt capture Of one OF the men Pc
! liceman Gemmrig was severely
wounded
+ The republican state executive com-
mlttee OF Virginia has issued an ai-
/ dress 20 the republican voters OF Viz
gIu.a advising that mo steps be taken
looking to the nomination Of repuh-
IlHan candidates for the next legisla-
urc. This body viii elect United