Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-08-31

may decide 10 have the 1900 convention
NEE. early as February
The Nebraska democrats, populists
and silver republicans fused and
adopted a Bryan platform.
Bryan democrats Of New York met
at Saratoga, completed a state organi-
cation and passed resolutions.
The army worm IS creating havoc
with the crops about Burlington in
Kit Carson County, Colorado.
Sir Charles Upper declares the
Americans are delaying the Alaskan
boundary negotiations for profit.
Leading democrats Of Mr.. Cookers
district the twenty-ninth, have re-
VOTED against his authority.
New York butchers decided TO make
general the fight against the beef trust
by enllsting butchers Of other cities.
At Seattle the steamer Roanoke ar
rived from st. Michaels, Alaska with
$50 miners ana $25OOOO in gold dust.
Miss Tottie Lewis Of New York is
suffering from malaria, which the doc
tors say was caused by mosquito bites,
Mayor Jones Of Toledo has in pre-
paration a letter announcing his indie
pendent candidacy for governor OF
Ohio.
The fish commission steamer Alba
trOss viii make an e.exnded tour Of
deep-sea investigation in the Pacific
ocean.
Committeeman Howe at Cape Town,
South Africa, reports fine market
there for products of Americn manu-
tacture
Princeton professors have returned
form an expedition to Patagonia, where
they found many skeletons of extinct
mammals
The union reform party in Ohio
dominates a state ticket, but Mayor
Jones of Toledo is not the nominee for
governor.
Nearly forty persons are reported TO
have been drowned and many houses
destroyed in storm in North and
South Carolina
Lane y. Robertson, a Chicago con
tractor, has filed a petition in bank
ruptcy The liabilities are S324O00
assets nothing.
Colonel Johnson's canvass for the
Office Of commander of the G, A. r. IS
said by mis- friends to be likely to result
in his election
George Boucher, charged with killing
an unidentified man at st. Joseph
Mich, was taken to st. Joseph after his
arrest In Chicago.
yellow fever experts declare that
Sanarelli has discovered the Bacillus of
the disease and a more powerful anti
serum may be produced
Brian G. Hughes, practical joker,
pretended to find $4,000 in the Ash
bury Park surf and was fined $40 for
causing a disturbance
A London hosiery firm has fled a
bankruptcy petition against the earl of
Yarmouth who has been a society lion
at Newport this summer.
The Lake Michigan & Lake Superior
Transportation company hit the Chi
cago ST. Paul lines By making a ire
mendous cut in freight rates
Assistant Surgeon Heser at Naples
has cabled that there is absolutely no
truth in the report that the plague had
appeared at Naples and Palmero
The resignation of Thomas B. Reed
as congressman in the first Maine dis
trict has been accepted by Governor
Powers and viii take effect Sept, 4,
The forest fires in The Adirondacks
are cAduguished or under control
The fires have mostly been In waste
lands, no virgin forest being burned
The supreme court of New York has
decided that. according TO law, negro
pupils may be excluded from public
schools where white children attend
The New York Butchers Mutual
Protective Association adopted a new
scale OF meat prices, making an adj
vance to consumers OF Q 10 cents a
pound
40 meeting of the National council
OF the Daughters OF Liberty The
charter fee wal, raised 10 S25, and the
regular report of the national councillor
was made
The Rev. H. w. sandford has founded
q new religions sect In Maine calling
itself The Holy Ghost and us which
has obtained a marvellous hold on the
people.
Aoou. 5000 masous iu Havana held q
conference al which q strike was
agreed upon They asked $3.50 q day