Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-09-14

was murdered and robbed by two men
who had been his schoolmates.
Alfred Henderson, Spring Lake, n.
! mead OF the seed firm OF Peter Hen
derson & Co., died, aged 80 years.
The state tax board has increased
the assessments OF New York ana
Kings counties by nearly $500 0JO,O00.
New England blmetallists held a
meeting at Providence, II H. whien
was addressed by prominent speakers
Charles Y. Wheeler president OF the
Firth Sterling Steel company OF Pitts
burg. died at New York, aged 80 years
Frank Blair. one Of Capt. Carriers
counsel. has fled with President Nc
Kinley charges against Gen. Elwell 5
Otis
Mrs. Grace Hammil OF Pleasantyille
n. J., kidnapped her sister Grace
North. eleven years old heiress to
$40 coo.
John y. Rockefeller has contributed
$3.50 o0O TO the S2,OO0.00o endowment
fund now being raised for Brown uni
versity
Bishop Henry Niles Pierce Of the do
.ase of Arkansas died AT Fayetteville,
-\sa after 40 illness. Of ten DAYS, aged
"a years
Commissioner of Navigation Cham
berlain thinks the United States should
adopt Europe's plan Of Substituting
vessels
James Kneeland a wealthy resident
and former banker OF Milwaukee, died
from "A stroke OF apoqieXy. He was SO
years old
Colonel David Henry McComas Lam
sing. Mich, military man and polltl-
clan. died suddenly Of heart disease.
aged years,
Or. May Reid Of Racine has received
notice that she has fallen heir to $500
600 left by an aunt who recently died
in Pennsylvania,
Abe Dreyfus, aged 80 years, said to
be a cousin of Alfred Dreyfus OF
France. Is dead in Joplin, Mo, Of ty-
phoid malaria
In Chicago August Jernberg, real es-
tate dealer. confessed bankruptcy
placing his liabilities at SlA33, 1871
without assets
Il has been definitely decided to hold
congress of agrleulturists in Chi
caeo during the progress of the fall
festival next month.
The boiler in Chapman & Sargents
Bowl factory, at Copemish Mich, eX-
ploded, killing three men and fatally
injurlng four others.
Governor Bushnell in behalf OF the
citizens OF Marietta presented a silver
service to the gunboat Marietta at the
Charlestown navy yard,
Prince CantacuzeEe, Count Speran-
sky OF Russia, who is to marry Miss
Julia Dent Grant at Newport Sept -,
arrived at New York.
The United States cruiser Detroit has
been ordered to Venezuela, where
American interests are reported to be
meuaCed by revolution.
black Hawk the most noted Of Tie
chiefs of the Wisconsin Wnnebago In
dams, died In the town Of BrockGay
Wis, aged 90 years.
The steel steamer Douglas Houghton,
the largest ship on the lakes was run
down 10y It's Consort the Fritz, and
sunk in St. Mary's river.
W. ] Bryan, who viii speak in forty
Kentucky cities in twenty days, has
asked candidate Goebel 20 conduct his
campaign ON free-s.lyor lines
John II. Iutz, the crank who threat
eued TO Kin j. Plerpont Morgan unless
he got $500, is still In the insane
pavilion of Bellevue hospital
Rev. William Noffat. D. ID, IL. D.
puc West S. c.. for twenty-eight years
president of Erskiue college tAssoci-
a.od Reformed prcsbyterlan), is dead.
Judge BALDWIN. Of the Connecticut
supreme court. declared in an address
chat Il was wrong for doctors in cases
a1 mortal disease to seek 10 prolons
lite
Mark Twain has engaged rooms at
Che Princeton Inn, y Ja and expects
to spend ,he Gan ana winter there Tie
may make Princeton his permanent
home
Tho American Tobacco company viii
hereafter buy leaf direct from Wiscon-
Sin farmers ANA viii erect q big depot
m Madison for sorting ana storing It's
purchases.
a mammoth excursion, with Prcsi-
dem. Mckinley as guest, To the pro.
. ..s..H .tnfttnuf DnrLs iu northern Min