Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-05-25


ploy about 1000 men.
Admiral Kautz' report upon Samoan
affairs fails TO make mention OF the
reported participation of the German
planter, Haffnagle, in the ARRAY of
April !, as previously reported.
Ira J. La Motto, formerly of the
Schiller theater, Chicago, has filed "a
petition in bankruptcy at New York
Liabilities, $l0,16S assets, S37 worth
Of clothes and one pair Of eyeglasses.
Governor Roosevelt will issue a call
for a special session of the legislature
to meet May %, and il by the 9th 10
satisfactory substitute for the bill tax
ing franchises is passed, he viii sign
the Ford bill.
It is expected that Yale win choose
Arthur r. Hadley successor to Dr.
Timothy Dwight as president. Profess
sor Hadley for eighteen years has been
professor OF political economy in the
university.
The American and British delegates
to the coming peace conference at The
forts to have the question of interna-
tional arbitration advanced to the first
place on the program.
At Cleveland, a movement is said TO
be on foot to institute custer proceed
!Rgs -.&gaiagt Mayor Ioh2s~4k4, Esss2teJ}'
who was elected April 3. The action,
it is said, will be begun under the cor
rupt practices act.
James Tango, a Waterbury (Ct)
bicycle dealer, and well known in
Connecticut had his skull fractured in
a bicycle collision 1t is thought the
accident will prove fatal.
The interstate commerce commission
will begin in New York the most inn
portant investigation in its history,
relating to the discriminating rates
charged by railroads on grain for eX-
port and grain for domestic consump-
ton.
Governor Tanner has appointed Gen
eral William Clendenn of Moline a
brigadier general in the Illinois ma
tional gard, and assigned him to the
command of the third brigade, to sue
coed General Andrew WEIGH Of Aurora,
resigned
The Southern Baptist Convention,
in session at Louisville, Ky, selected
ex-Mayor Robert c.. Davidson, of Bal
timore, to join delegation of English
Baptists in a personal appeal to the
car in behalf of prosecuted Russian
Baptsts.
The body of Mrs. William NJ Stay
uer who disappeared from Milwaukee
eight months ago, was cast up by the
lake at Kenosha. She suicided leav-
ing two small children Her hsuband.
a dentist. was in the far west trying
TO make a living
A Wisconsin Central train ran down
wagon containing four persons at a
crossing at Burlington, Wis, killing
Mrs, G. initial of Milwaukee and
August Kleinfeldt her brother Of
Norway, wis, Joseph Huenig Of
Waterford was fatally injured
G. j. lowell and his as
sociates have a,qunl ii a controlling IN
terest in the Wisconsin Telephone
company, capitalized at $1,2O0,OO0
This places under one management the
telephone interests in Minnesota, Mich
gan, Wisconsin, North and South Da-
kota.
Following advances in wages by the
Minnesota Iron company, the Illinois
Steel company has announced that all
of its concerns advanced the wages OF
10000 men May IS 10 per cent. All
other Federal and National and all
other steel concerns will likely do the
same.
r. l.. Coleman, president of the
Western Wheel Works OF Chicago, has
renewed his option for the sale of the
bicycle plant to A. G. Spaldlng This
ends the opposition to the American
Bicycle Company, which will control
20 per cent of the bicycle output In
the United States
The fourth and last Of the $4,000 OI0
treasury warrants paid to Spain for the
Philippine islands was presented at the
National City bank in New York by
an attache of the French embassy.
Not one dollar of the Sl5,000,000 al
ready paid to Spain has really gone out
Of this country,
rhirty-four iron and steel concerns
in Ohio, Pennsylvania Indiana, Hi
nois, Minnesota, Alabama and Mich