Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-11-30


be married to Miss Ethel Tucker.
daughter of w. A. Tucker of Boston.
Mrs. Ben G. HUMPHREYS, honorable
president OF the Mississippi chapter.
Daughters of the Confederacy, died at
her home in Greenwood, aged 70 years
The Illinois Central railroad practi-
cally secured control of Minneapolis
and st. Louis line, giving it an indie
pendent line from Chicago to st. Paul.
From diary found among her eff
fects. it is learned that the death In
New York of Mrs. Evelyn Adams, the
authoress was mainly due to starva-
ton
Representative Sulzer Of New York
has announced his candidacy for demo-
cratic leadership of the next house of
representatives. He is a supporter OF
Bryan.
Mrs. Dewey transferred that home to
the admiraPs son. A relative of the
family says the only object was to pro-
vide for a proper succession to the
property.
Il. /. West, a former assistant super
intendent of railway mail service IN
the sixth division, has been appointed
to succeed the late l.. L. Troy as super
intendent
At Missouri City Ernest Clevenger
recently convicted OF killing George
Allen and Della Cleyenger at a religi-
Gus meeting, has been sentenced to be
hanged Jan. 5.
At Kansas City Leonard b. Imboden,
formerly of Fort Worth, Tex, who was
found guilty Of conducting a wildcat"
bank, has been sentenced to ten years
Imprisonment.
President John Mitchell of the
United Mine Workers of America an
nounces that he may order strike at
fecting about 10000 coal miners in
Pennsylvania.
The movement for the purpose Of
purchasing a house for Rear Admiral
Schley was given considerable i'm
petus at a meeting of the general com
mittee in Washington
In a collision at Wilmington, Del
between the Colonial Express on the
Pennsylvania railroad and an express
train on the Atlantic Coast Line, four
persons were injured.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of labor testified before the
Industrial Commission and defended
the boycott as a legal and proper wea-
pom for the workingman.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, who has been sick
with quinsy, is improving, but slowly,
and her physician now says it is i'm
possible to tell when she will be able
to resume her role in Zaza.
Opposition OF republican congress
men to the house rules and the luke
warmth Of some republican senators
make gold standard legislation at the
coming session problematical.
At Kansas City the Catholic church has
disapproyed of the charity ball which
it was proposed to hold on Thanksgiy-
ing evening for the benefit of the news
boys fund, and it has been abandoned
President Gompers OF the American
Federation of Labor says working
men have had no cause of complaint as
to trusts, but it is too early to say
whether they are benefited by snem or
not.
Major Henry Clay Mcdowell one #
the best-known citizens OF Kentucky
died after a long illness, of heart trou-
BILE. He served with distinction in the
civil war on the staff of General Rose
crans
Mrs Eyangeline O'Neill of Chicago
was arrested at the Windsor hotel,
Montreal on charge of fraud, in
yolying the possession of diamonds,
precious stones and jewelry valued at
$4,000.
There are rumors that in the event
of the death of Senator-elect NJ, l..
Hayward OF Nebraska, w. j. Bryan
will be appointed by Governor Poyn-
ter to serve as senator until the legisla-
ture meets,
AS a result Of a meeting of the ma
tional democratic executive committee
in Chicago it is probable that anti
trusts and anti-imperialism will be
kept at the front as the democratic is
sues In 1900.
William e. Sawyer Of La Crosse. one
of the most prominent and wealthy
young lumbermen of the northwest
died at Pine Bluff, Ark of typhoid
malaria, He was born forty-one years
ago In New York
Six men Brooks Coleman, an
American, and five Italians names un-
known We're killed and four others in
jured in a collision on the st. Paul
and Omaha railroad 20
miles from Sioux Falls.
At a meeting Of the Utah democratic
state committee. the proposition that
a petition be gotten up requesting that
Congressman Roberts be unseated was
defeated. But one member was in ia
yor OF the proposition.
Emil r. Boaz, American manager OF
the Hamburg American line, received
a cable dispatch saying that the Pa
tria, which was abandoned on fire, has
arrived at Dover in tow Of the com