Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-31


monastery at Dunkirk, N. Y, was
elected provincial OF the Order of the
Passionist Fathers, now in session 1t
ST. Paul's monastery in Pittsburg.
President Mckinley has been elected
to represent the Columbus encampment
No. rs, Union Veteran Legion, at the
national encampment, to be held in
Baltimore Sept. 10, IA, and Is.
The soft coal trust has options on all
mines in the Pittsburg district except
the Massillon Coal and Coke company,
about 100 properties in all. The cap
ltal of the trust will be SG4,000,000
General Daniel Butterfeid, who has
been seriously sick at Cold Spring, n.
Y, Is now out Of danger, but will not
be able to resume his work in connec-
ton with the reception Of Admiral
Dewey.
The stage between Salmon Lake and
Red Rock Mont, was held up just in
side the state line T. NJ Reilly lost
more than $4,000 in gold dust, which
he was bringing to Dillon. The rob
bers escaped.
The Toledo Commercial, which has
been run as an Independent paper, was
sold yesterday by George Hull to John
r. Mclean, owner of the Cincinnati
Enquirer acting through c. c. Stiyers,
| his business manager
Governor Bushnell VIM go % Boston
to present handsome silver service
to the gunboat Marietta on behalf of
the citizens Of the Ohio town. The gun
boat was named in honor of Marietta,
the oldest Ohio settlement.
The barn on the New York estate of
Horace Greeley was partly burned, and
Rev. Frank NJ Condemn son-in-law
of Mr.. Greeley, charges that it and the
Church of Westchester, of which he Is
rector, were set on fire.
One Of the issues in the presidential
campaign next year will be President
McKinleys leniency toward Captain
! Carter, who was convicted by court
martial of appropriating to his own use
| 81 roo, 600 Of government money.
Owing to the constantly increasing
price of meat and the falling off Of
trade in consequence the st. Louis
/ butchers are organizing to fight the So
called beef trust, which they say, is
responsible for the higher prices.
In Chicago the bonds OF Daniel
Coughlin, charged with jury bribing
and at present a fugitive, and those Of
his alleged co-conspirator, William
| Armstrong. have been declared for
feited Armstrong is in custody
The fifteenth annual convention Of
the Daughters of St, George. one Of the
best-known benevolent societies of wo-
men in the world. was opened at Pitts
/ burg with about 60 delegates from all
parts of the United States and Canada.
The chairman of the committee on
| invitation Of the G., a. II. encampmen5,
| which convenes Sept at Philadelphia,
received President McKinley's accept
ance OF the invitation to review the
! parade and attend the banquet Sent ;.
The GOODNESS between the Afro
! American council and Booker T. Wash
! ingtcn because the latter did not at
tend the sessions of the council has
resulted in Mrs. Washngton's name
being stricken from the council rolls
Physicians do not generally indorse
the recent findings of the Marine hos
pital commission as to the causes Of
yellow fever. Drs Reed and Carroll
are preparing a report along quite DIFF
ferent lines which will be awaited with
/ interest
The date has finally been set for the
reburial Of the bodies Of the followers
of John Brown, who met death with
the intrepid leader at Harper's Ferry,
Va. in 1859 The ceremony viii take
place Aug. 2S. at . p. m, at North Elba.
n. Y.
II Is proposed that a special session
OF the North Dakota legislature be held
to Appropriate $4,000 to bring the
troops of the state home from San
Francisco; the legislators raising the
amount by returning their per diem
to the state
Baron Won Herman, agricultural eX-
pert of the German embassy, is just
back from a tw0-months' visit to Ger
many He states that there is every
indication that the meat controversy
with the United States viii soon be
satisfactorily settled
Two hundred men of the first Geor-
g.a infantry were sent to Darlen TO
suppress an incipient riot and bring
negro charged with assault upon
young girl The crime was committed
several months ago, and recently the
0egro tried to kill the girl
clayton c. Mason. a nephew Of Sena-
tor Mason of Illinois, died in Wash
inE.on from an overdose OF morphine
taken hypodermicaly, presumably to-.
ease pain due to kidney trouble. Mason
was an enploye al the capitol His
widow Is q resident of Chicago
Miss Viola Horlocker who Is under
$4,000 bond chaged with having
attempted 90 take the life of Mrs
Charles A. Norcy at Hastings, Neh., by
sending her q box Of poisoned candy
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