Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-05-18
( the Nebraska grand lodge for 2s

marine OF Germany thanking him for
the courtesies extended TO the German
naval attache at Washington.
Louis Reward died in the Usage Ma
ton, aged SO. His grandfather was a
full-blood Usage Indian. Reward lived
in Chicago in the sos, ana his house
was destroyed by the great fire.
At Mount Victory, Ohio, Deputy
Sheriff Frank Morrison was shot deaa
by Ike Bird, while trying to arrest
him. After the murder Bird sent a
bullet through his own heart.
Hans Hogesburg, an absconding in
yestment broker Of New York, was ar
rested in California, charged with
making away with $4,000.
Mrs. William c. Whitney, wife of
the former secretary of the navy, died
at her home on Long island from the
effects OF an accident while hunting at
Aiken, s. c., fifteen months ago.
In New York John f. Zebly, an in
yesJment broker filed a petition in
bankruptcy. His total liabilities are
$7lS,O0O Of which 100000 is secured
He has no assets.
The president has decided TO APP
point Albert S. Kenny paymaster gen
eral Of the navy, to succeed Edwin
Stewart, retired. Kenny is now gem
egal storekee.pef.rr. in New York city. -.
Governor Roosevelt has approved
and mace public the findings OF a
board Of inquiry which convicted four
leading officers OF the seventy
regiment of cowardice at Santiago.
Friends of Archbishop ireland are
displeased at the bitter attack which
has been made upon him in IHrance.
II Is suggested that his sympathy with
Americanism is the cause of the at
tack.
1t is reported in Cleveland Ohio,
that a railroad trust is forming by
which the Baltimore and Ohio, Penn
sylyania and Vanderbilt roads Will
control all lines between the east and
Chicago.
In the case Of Ellsworth p. De
France, convicted in Nebraska in 1893
Of highway robbery of a mail mes
senger and sentenced for life, the pres
ident has commuted the sentence to
fifteen years.
The majority of congressman In
Washington are opposed to an extra
session Of congress. They say they will
not be ready to leglslate on financial
or tho Philippine question before the
regular session.
Mrs. Joseph Wallace, mother of
Edna Wallace Hopper, the actress, has
purchased Southern Farm, near San
Leandro, in Alameda county, Cal, ana
the place viii be transformed into a
fruit farm and country home.
Consul General Lincoln at Antwerp
regards it as fact worth reporting
to the State Department that during
the last quarter more than $4,000
worth OF rice from the East was eX
ported from Antwerp TO Cuban ports.
In the ease OF Chester W.4Cross, who
in 1896 was convicted of embezzling
the funds of the Palmer National
Bank Of Palmer, Mass, and sentenced
TO Imprisonment for five years, the
president has refused to extend Gle
mency,
The Texas senate yesterday passed
finally its antitrust bill, When orig
inally introduced the bill was identi
fed with the Arkansas law. 1t has
been materially amendedt however,
and is decidedly more drastic in its
provisions.
A. O. o,,;g NTrz Lranyip IL mn
of Grand Rapids, Mich, was re-elect-
ed president for the ensuing two years
OF the National Federation of Music
Clubs Cleveland was elected as the
city to hold the next biennial conyen-
ton.
Harvard defeated Yale i'm a debate
on the question. Resolved, that the
present method OF electing United
States senators is preferable to the
method of election by popular vote
had the Affirmative.
Notices were posted at the South
Chicago and Joliet mills Of the Illinois
Steel company announcing an increase
in wages. Common labor will be adj
yanced from 1919 to Is cents an hour,
ana all the other hands, except the
tonnage men viii be increased in pro
portion
As the New York grand jury failed |
10 reindict Roland b. MolineuX, who |
was charged with the murder Of Mrs /
Kate ]. Adams, he was discharged |
but was Immediately arrested on the /
charge Of assaulting Harry Cornish |
with intent to Kill by sending him /
cyanide of mercury
Il. G Curtis, OF the insofar commits /
sion. has returned to Washington, az !
ter his visit with the other members
Of The commission to Porto Rico. Mr..
Curtis stopped In cuba, and reports /
that he found a large majority of the
responsible people OF that island adyo- I
eating annexation
Supt. j. j. Sranahan OF the gov
eminent fish hatchery at put-in-Bay /.
has forwarded a report of a remarka- |
Bile tidal wave which took place there
on Friday The wafer rose fully ~ +
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