Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-01-05

started.
Wearled of life by years Of illness.
Louis Schlick of Chicago, thrust his
head into the kitchen stove and held
IL there until the burning Goals and
the suffocating fumes caused him to
lose consciousness. Schlick was IS
years of age.
Earl Herring, "A trumpeter OF Com
pany 0, of Springfield, doing riot duty
al Pana, H., entered an old coal shed
for protection from the rain, and IN
the darkness stumbled and. ,c!. his gun
being discharged and the ball passing
through his heart
Joseph H. Choate says that once,
as Harvard student, he went into a
Boston cheap clearinghouse and asked
the waiter what they had. Every
thing" was the answer Get me
some" said Mr. Choate. One order
of hasn't" said the waiter.
The late Calvin Brice's only ex
PLANTATION Of his remarkable sigma
ture was that he had always writ
ten that way and couldn't make 1t
palmer It was n mere series of up
and down marks which bore no sim
litude of English penmanship.
rhe latest trust is a consolidated
Of the three great thread manufactur-
Ing concerns which practically control
the thread business in this country.
| These concerns are George A. Clark
Il Bros, the Clark Mlle-End Spool Cot
! ton Company and the Coats Thread
| Company.
Thomas Bailey Aldr1ch was dining
with Rudyard Kipling when the news
of the signing Of The peace treaty be-
tween Spain aud the United States
was announced. Aldrich read the dis
patch aloud ana added: All, kIpling
what's that you used to say about the
sun never setting on the British flag ?"
Jerry Murphy, a we'll known miner
OF Calumet Mich. sold his big ST.
| Bernard, Barney" to a Klondlke
party eighteen months ago The dog
was taken to Dawson City and per-
formed good service. Barney" has just
reappeared at Murphy's home in Cal
nmet. How he succeeded in returning
from Alaska is a mystery.
A secret melting of sewerplpe manu-
facturers was held at Akron o., in the
interest OF the proposed new trust with
100000 capital The purpose was
TO arrange for the purchase Of Akron
works. Indications now favor q sue
cessful termination Of the conference
Akron manufacturers have blocked the
deal heretofore.
All Of the roads west of Chicago
have agreed to allow reduced rates
for the following meetings; Imple-
ment Dealers association. Omaha,
Neb.. Jan. SIS; Dairymen's assocIa-
tion, Galesburg, H., Jan 1912: Ag
riculturn society st Paul, Mimi,
| Jan. 1912, and meeting OF the Ma
! tional association OF Builders, Mil
waukee, Feb. 7-10
Judson w Lyons. registrar of the
/ treasury, whose signature appears on
1 every piece OF paper currency now
| being Issued by tue United States, is d
tall, robust c6iored man. with high
| forehead and square Jaws. His APP
pontment as registrar Is understood
to have been made by way OF re-
ward for swinging the Georgia vote 10
I Mr.. Mckinley at ST. Louis
/ Paul Dwight Moody son OF the
| famous evangelist is In many ways
| the counterpart OF his venerable
! father This Is especially the case in
regard To personal appearance and
( department The resemblance also
/ holds good as to his effectiveness of
! language and earnestness. Father
and son save been conducting meet
/ ings in .enyer.
| Augustus w. Peters. president of the
/ Borough Of Manhattan, died suddenly
at his home In New York of heart
| ldent OF the Consolidated exchange,
and chairman of the Tammany eXecu-
/ live committee Mr., Peters was a
/ prominent Mason He was born at
/ ST. Johns ~ h., and was 81 years OF
age
! Twenty four ont OF 80 Japanese la
/ horers brought 10 San Francisco by
. the steamer Alice Blanchard from
I Cllperton Dec rs appealed 10 Wash
ingtnn from the decision of The COM
missioner OF immigration. who re-
/ fused permission TO land on the ground
| that they were assisted immigrants
( Acting Commissioner Larned has re-
vcrsed the decision OF North and the
Japanese will be permitted to land
Official notice has been received By
/ Mai.-Gen Merriam nj San Francisco
that Gen Shafter ia 10 be assigned "a
the command OF The department OF
California Il Is expected that Gen
Shatter viii take charge about the ION
Of next month Gen Merriam has no.
yet been assigned, He may 20 north
again 20 The department OF the Comm
hia The Impression prevails how
ever. that he will 80 10 Denver to com
mand the department OF Colorado anJ
that the department OF California an,
the Columbia will he combined uudel