Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1899-02-16

| company will soon be incorporated
Under New Jersey laws, with a capital
stock of s60,000000
! Ore assaying 20 to so per cent, cop
per and $50 ounces of silver to the ton
! is reported TO have been found in Mon
trose county Colorado.
| The repeal of the last remnant Or
| disqualification against ex-cOnfederates
will be recommended by the judiciary
committee Of the house.
Plymouth church trustees, Chicago,
| have decided to release DR. f. w.
| Gunsaulus so he may accept the pas
torate OF Central church.
Thirty jewelers. in Milwaukee have
agreed to close their places of Business
Wednesday and Friday nights at 6
o'clock, beginning Feb. 10.
Postmaster Hutchinson Of Oak Park,
H.. went to Washington to ask con
gress for an appropriation of 100000
for a new postofflce building.
Colonel Hiram NJ Bledsoe COM
mander of the famous Bledsoe battery
during the civil war, died suddenly at
his home near Pleasant Hill, Mo.
Eight Jewish pupils have been re-
quired to leave the Catholic convent
and school of the Sacred Heart at
Omaha on alleged religious grounds.
At Washington Agoncillo's coll
leagues are without instructions, and
Ralston and Siddons, their Legal ad-
vlsers, have withdrawn from their ser
vice
The British parliament reopened A
conservative member, in moving the
reply to the queens speech, spoke IN
favor OF an alliance with the United
States.
Land Commissioner Hermann denies
that frauds were discovered in connec-
ton with the dead-and-down timber
operations on the Chippewa Indian
reservations.
James n. Holmes, prospector, has
been found frozen to death on Pixies
peak He got caught in the blizzard
and q searching party has just found
his body
The secretary of war has sent to
congress a statement Of the militia,
showing a total organized force OF
10l .53G: total unorganized and avail
able, $3.50 S25,
At Middlesboro, KY, Mrs, Mary VIII
liams, her son Harvey and two small
children were drowned while fording
Clinch river The river was swollen
by the recent rains.
Moore Bros, of Chicago are reported
TO be organizing a rival for the federal
steel trust, with a capital OF 100000
600. Andrew Carnegie is said to be in
terested in the new combine
Ex-President Cleveland was asked
for an expression of opinion on the
battle of Manila and the ratification of
the peace treaty, but he declined to
say anything on either subject.
The miners at Rendville, OHIO, who
have been on strike for some months
have broken away from the united
miners organization and gone to work
at As cents, 81 cents less than the scale
Dr. Henry t. Reyes and his wife
we're found dead In their bedroom at
the Ardsley Casino, at Ardsley-on-the-
Hudson. they had evidently been as
qhyNiated by gas from a stove In the
room.
f, NJ. Flshback died at Carollton
IN. lie was a member of the thirty
seventh general assembly of Illinois,
and was one OF the l01 who succeeded
In electing General John NJ. Palmer to
the United States senate.
A desperate attempt was made to
hold uQ the Jackson-Ione stage in
Colorado, but the horses were put to a
gallop and they got beyond The range
of the robbers guns The robbers are
being pursued by posse and blood
hounds,
At Trenton, n J, articles OF lncor-
poratlon were filed with the secretary
Of state by the Electric Boat company
with an authorized capital Of 10000
GOO The company is empowered to
construct and operate steamships and
other vessels
Right Reverend John Williams
n. d., IL. d.. OF MidJletown Conn.
died of grip, aged 81 years lie was
bishop OF the Protestant Episcopal
church. diocese of Connecticut ana
senior member o1 the house of bishops
of The Episcopal church IN America.
Electricity is tn De Installed as the
motive power for the Manhattan Gle
waited railway at New York. and SIS
100000 of additional stock will he is-
sued no meet the expense. It lis OK
QectcJ that the change viii save
100000 a year in operating eX-
I pgnses.
+ At Kingston. Jamaica, a negro has
been elected legislative representative
( for ST. Elizabeth over a white caudi-
/ date THE principal white and colored
magistrates and members OF the paro-
/ chlal board have res sned as a protest
against the vote aud further compl-
cations are feared
/ The executive committee OF the Ma
7 tf,u8f NfrnfriDgl aar1fa h4l decided tD