Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-12-14
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Fire Yesterday destroyed the oLnlohi
Mass tbeater and several adjoining
bindings. Loss, S15000O
Milwaukee citizens will hold pup
lie meeting to protest against the
New York franchise scherne. /,
The Pollak-Virag system OF RAPID
Biography was tested satisfactorily pc
tween New York and Chicago
six passengers we're killed in COZ
usion on the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad at English siding, Col.
Russian of wealthy family and
who is charged with embezzlement was
tracked TO Montana and arrested.
Four hundred and fifty Swedes ana
Danes left Chicago on the annual ex-
cursion to Scandinavian countries.
The estimates of the secretary OF the
treasury of appropriations Tor the next
fiscal year aggregate $63l ,Osl,994.
The Cramp shipbuilding company OF
PHILADELPHIA will. It Is said. establish
branch at Vladivostock, in Russia
Asia
Rev. Lee A. Brink of Iron River
Wis. was found in Chicago, having
mysteriously disappeared several weeks
ago.
Chicago creditors of Mrs. Evange-
line Claire ONeill told Judge oicott
that she left Sl1lOO Of unpaid bills
behind.
George c. Maynard, Belleville, Ill,
died at Havana, Cuba, Dec. 3, 1899 Mr.
MAYNARD was connected with the pos
tai service.
Ex-State Senator Samuel II Martin
of Carmi. H., is dead at the age OF 70
wears. He was a captain in the MeXi-
can war
George and ed Smith, young men,
are in Jail at Fort Scott, Kas., charged
with the murder of Leopold Edinger,
farmer.
CYRUS Davis, the Toledo counter
feiter. has been identified as Charles
Johnson, who comes of a family Of bad
moneymakers.
John Sfmson Woolson, Judge of the
United States court of the southern
district of Iowa, died in Des Moines,
aged SO years
Yale chose Brown for football cap
tain, and Harvard elected DAILY. Ath-
letics cost Yale $5G,3S4 and Harvard
$6i 600 last year,
The new practice ship Chesapeake the
only sailing vessel OF the new United
States navy. is ready for its trial trip
at Charlestown, Mass.
The state election commission OF
Kentucky met at Frankfort to decide
whether Taylor or Goebel shah get the
certificate as governor.
A brief was filed by counsel for Well
come in the Montana dlsbarment pro-
ceedlngs growing out of the election
of Clark to the senate.
Attorney General Griggs reports that
the nation can prosecute trusts only
in restraint Of interstate commerce, A
land claim court Is needed,
Henry Gage Of Terre Haute, has con
fessed throwing a stone and injuring
Charles Moberly on Thanksgiving day,
So that he Is likely 70. die
The democratic congressman nomi-
mated James d. Richardson of Tenn
essee for speaker, and he thus becomes
leader on the floor to the house
An open switch on the Milwaukee
road, near Beloit wrecked a passen-
ger train without loss Of life but with
serious damage to the cars.
In Philadelphia Rev. John b. Hes
pelin, c. S. 5, r.. the Oldest member Of
the Redemptorist order in the United
States. is dead. in his 18th year
The treaty providing for the parti-
tlou Of Samoa was signed in Washing
ton by Secretary OF state Hay and the
British and German ambassadors
4 petition In bankruptcy was filed by
John II. Howe. lumberman and mer-
chant Of Amery, Wis. Liabilities, S53,-
600 assets not quite half that sum-
j. G. LeftwIck, a negro federal en-
poye, has gone TO Hawaii to study the
prospects there for his race He goes
as agent for negro association in
Alabama,
ON account of the failure of the Bay
field Western railway to complete It's
road in time. the Bayfield, (Wis)
county board has cancelled the $4,000
bonds voted
The proposed combination of the
hat manufacturers throughout the
country, which has been under CON
siierotjon for some time, Is likely to
become reality
4 Wabash railroad passenger train
struck a Thlrty-drst street electric car
In Chicago, iujuring eleven persons
ana demolisb.ng the car None Of
those injured will die
Rev Richard Hassell, pioneer Con
wegltou1l minister OF Illinois and
Wisconsin, died az Seattle, Washing
ton, of seuile decay, aged 70 years He
settled iu Illinois in 1912
~ tine trial i'm New York of Roland
b MoliucuN for the murder OF Mrs
Katharine j. Adams, Assistant District
Attorney Osborne made the opening
statement FOR the prosecution
GEN Henderson was uuan .mOusly