Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-06-08

900 by the Diamond Match company
for controlling interest in the Con-
tinental Match company, and has been
admitted to the directorate OF the
former.
Jane L. Sanford, widow Of Senator
Leland Stanford, has decided the bulk
of her estate, valued at over 10000
600. for the improvement and main
tenance of the Leland Stanford Jr
university.
Third Assistant Postmaster General
Merritt has ordered a discontinuance
Of the practice of printing the names
Of postmasters on any book blank or
card used in conducting the registry
business.
Another big order has been placed
by the Egyptian States railway for
two more consignments of steel
freight cars with the Pressed Steel
company OF Pittsburg. 1t calls for
200 cars.
The employees Of the Cleveland,
Akron and Columbus railway, which
recently passed into the ownership OF
the Pennsylvania company, have had
the 10 per cent. cut in wages, made in
1893, restored.
Senator Mcmillan, of Michigan, rep
resenting the lumber interests Of the
west, urged Secretary Gage to impose
prohibitory duty on Canadian lum-
Der, in retaliation for duties imposed
by Canada.
A live electric wire connected with
a soft soap tube caused the death OF
Frank McGill in the carhouse OF the
Paterson, New Jersey railway. The
wire was attached as joke by two
other employees.
At Buffalo Mr. and Mrs. Kinter and
James c. and Mrs. Saunders, Chris
tlan Scientists, who were charged with
being responsible for the death of
young Roelf Saunders, were arraigned.
Both women were discharged
Because of the determined opposi-
ton of the parishioners OF st. Pat
rlcks Roman Catholic church in East
st. Louis to the appointment of Vicar
General Cluse as their rector, Bishop
Jansen will close the church.
Censure for a Christian Science
healer was contained in the verdict
handed down by the coroner's jury
in the case of Edna Hole, years old,
who died of diphtheria in Chicago
avenue without medical attendance.
With almost one accord the news
papers in Gen. Joe. Wheeler's congress
sional district have united on call
for him to enter the race for governor
and heal the descriptions that now ex-
list in the democratic party in Ala
bama.
A large lumber mill and adjoining
structures of Alfred Dickie at Lower
Stewiacke, AZ miles from Halifax,
n. s., we're burned Immense piles
of lumber ready for foreign shipment
are burning, and the total loss will be
very heavy.
At Oberlin, Ohio, Henry Lee is dead
at his home from injuries received on
memorial day. He was one of the
most prominent colored men in Ohio
and was the originator of the appeal to
foreign powers against the treatment
OF the colored people in the south.
The San Francisco Call asserts that
large quantities of bogus dollars are
in circulation there, and that the
work of the counterfeiters has been
SO we'll done as to almost defy detec-
ton The coins are said TO be made
Of Mexican silver and to have the
true weight and ring.
Robert Creighton, quarter-master'
clerk on the transport Sheridan has
committed suicide by shooting him
self through the temple with a revol-
yer. He was a native of New York,
aged so, and recently arrived here from
Manila. Dependency, caused by i'll
health is the supposed cause OF his act.
Chicago railway officials have re-
ceiyed notices from the inter state
commerce commission that an investi-
cation of the rates upon export and
domestic traffic in grain and grain
products would be held in Chicago,
June r. Three days later the com
missioners viii hold a similar hearing
at St. Louis.
The striking of match by a spec
tator near an oil we'll three miles east
OF Marion, Ind, caused the oil sur
rounding the we'll to ignite and the
flames instantly spread, consuming
everything for several squares around
Six men, who were on the tank into
which the oil was pouring, were ter
ribly burned.
Monsignor Conaty rector OF the
Catholic University, states that Arch
bishop Keane is coming to the United
States with the permission of the
pope. to ask endowments for the uni
vorsity There is said 70 be no foun-
dation for the report that the arch
bishop will succeed Monsignor Conaty
as rector of the university
Forty people were injured In a rear
end collision between a Harlem race
track special and a 18th street train