Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-09-28


surance department.
A test at Indian Head OF arcnor made
by the Kruqp process showed that It
was superior to the Harvey plates.
Admiral O'Neil will recommend it's
use by this government.
Some unknown persons set fire to
The property of the Dayton, Tenn, Coal
and Iron Company at ] o'clock, burn
ing down the power house, coal bunk
ers and other structures
Rev. James c. Caldwell, we'll
known Presbyterian minister, was in
stantly killed In a runaway accident in
Germantown. He was born in Elklns,
Ohio, and was IS years old.
The navy is feeling the advance in
rhe cost Of steel, and it Is learned the
government may find it impossible to
secure bids for new warships unless
the price OF steel is reduced.
Senator Burrows says Ayers with
drawal viii bring abou, harmony in
the party in Michigan. 1t is not
known whether Pingree viii run
against Mcmillan for senator.
John G. MESSENGER fell in a fit at the
inquest into the death in New York
OF Joseph Tetonia, then confessed
that he had given naphtha to George
w. Dorney, who poured it on Tetonia
Gorge w Bennett, a prominent mer-
chant at Nichols, Ga, was shot there
last night by w. A, MeCray. Bennett
gave shelter TO McCray's wife, whom
the later, it Is alleged, was abusing
ReY r. n. Deliver made plea for
the union OF the Methodist Episcopal
church and the Methodist church
south in a paper read in the Methodist
ministers meeting in Chicago yester-
day.
Howard Gould's steam yacht Mag
ara, which left May 10 with the own
err, his wife and party of friends on
a cruise by way Of the Azores to the
British isles and northern Europe is
back.
At Tysy, in Worth county Ga,
while Mrs. ]. 5. Johnson was III a cot
ton field, two negroes approached.
one Of them held her while the other
committed an assault They are being
pursued.
Colonel Ruhlen has received instruc-
tions ordeUng him to condemn for
military purposes the crown lands of
Kaheuki and of Leliehua, in Hawaii
containing respectively Liza and LAO
acres.
The Steger & Singer Piano company,
Chicago, has offered its employees a
guaranteed interest of 80 per cent on
their earning capacity. This means
500, 600 more pay a year for $50 factory
workers
The executive committee Of the Ma
tional Municipal League has accepted
the invitation Of the Ohio state board
of trade to hold the next meeting of
the league in Columbus November Is,
l6 and II.
Leaders OF the different railroad en-
ployes organizations are considering
plans for the establishment of en-
qloyes' grocery stores at the division
points Of the various lines throughout
the country
c. r. b. Howard famous for swind-
ling operations in connection with
European estates, and who was ar
rested at Horton Mich, was taken
back to the Ohio qenitentiary to serve
out his sentence.
Gen. H. V Boynton, presidenr of the
Chickamauga park commission, an
nounced that the government has pur-
chased another large tract OF land on
Missionary ridge to be added to Chick
national park.
Abraham p. T. Elder, manager of the
Publishing company,
arrested in New York on a warrant
charging him with using the mails for
a scheme to defraud, will be brought
back to Chicago for trial
Joseph Deemer Taylor Of Cambridge,
Ohio. died, aged 60 years. He was
for many years editor and proprietor
of the Guernsey Times, and served in
the forty-eighth, hftieth, titty-drst and
dfty-second congresses.
Andrew NJ Maxwell, a real estate
man Of ST, Paul, was drugged to death
and robbed in a saloon at Spooner
Wis. Maxwell recently bought a farm
near Spooner and went there with STATE
fair horses to stock IL,
AZ Lincoln. Neh, Mrs Henry Oliver
prominent In social circles, died sud
denly after having received Christian
science treatment Mrs oliver refused
10 consult a physician until a few
hours before her death.
Minnie Holmes, II years old, 6I23
Yale avenue, Chicago. was wayiaid and
robbed OF her tresses while on her way
to school \ negro attacked her az
SlNty-sixth street and Harvard avenue
ana snapped or her braid.
Mrs Grace Doyle. who shot her hus-
band. Richard c. Doyle, at LaSalle
avenue and Indiana street. Chicago
July :, was found guilty Of man
Her punishment was fixed
at one years imprisonment.
4 proclamation has been issued by
President Mckinley calculated 10 pre-
vent indisar.munate admission to
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