Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-12-13


January /.
John p. Kunze paroled convict
who figured in the Cronin case was
kidnapped in Milwaukee and taken
back to Joliet to serve out his unex.
PRED term.
At Portland, Ore, six masked men
held ND the Office of the Western Lum.
Der company, took $4,000 and escaped
while a dozen men were in the vicinity
of the mill.
General Charles p. Eagan was re.
stored ana retired, making vacant the
post Of commissary general of sub
sistence, which will be given to
Colonel John F Weston.
General Greeley, chief signal of
fcer. has been informed that 200 miles
of telegraph land lines have been con
structed in the vicinity of the south
ern Yukon and Nome, Alaska.
Ferdinand w. Peck presented his
report as commissioner general to the
Paris exposition, showing an ex-
penditure of 1899 ,465, including many
items regarded as extravagant.
Arrangements have been made to
pay full military honors to the mem
DRY of Colonel E. H. Liscum. who
lost his life at Tientsin, on the occa.
sion of his obsequies in Washington.
That the foremost specialists of
Europe are growing new ear drums
for Miss Rockefeller the daughter OF
John d. Rockefeller is the disclosure
made in a letter from medical stu.
dent in Vienna
The Walker commission unanimous
! ly recommended construction of the
Nicaragua canal at cost of 5000, 000,-
900 instead of that at Panama for
| $5S, 000, 900 less and government own
ership and control.
Secretary Gage reported a surplus
of nearly $4,000, 900, recommended a
reduction of revenue by $50 100000,
and estimated that the government
hereafter will cost about 100000, 600
a year in time Of peace.
Thomas McMullen Of Excelsior
Springs, Mo, shot and fatally wound
ed his step-daughters husband. A. f.
Chambers, on the street The shoot
ing was the sequel to a family quarrel.
Both men are prominent.
Governor Lind appointed Charles A.
Towne of Duluth United States SEN
ator from Minnesota to succeed the
late Senator Davis j J. Hill is named
as a possible candidate before the
legislature next January.
A New York committee appointed
to decide upon the most beautiful wo-
men in America have concluded that
Miss Maud Coleman Woods of Vir-
ginia and Maxine Elliott are perfect
types of blonde and brunette.
After serving as postmaster AMI
assistant postmaster continuously for
SO years, John Pynn. St George. Utah,
has resigned. He is SIS years old. and
only a few postmasters have out
ranked him in point Of service.
At Williamson, w. Va, S. Davis
Stokes shot and instantly killed Rev.
John w. Wohl in a street duel Stokes
being also dangerously injured. Mr..
Stokes is one of the most prominent
young lawyers in Mingo county.
Judge Dunn, at Paris, near Spring
field, ILL.,. sentenced VIM. Owens, alias
Radcliffe, upon the plea of guilty, to
hang Dec. q. for the murder of James
Bogue on a freight train between
Paris and Terre Haute, Sept %.
Mrs. Helen Taylor, 10 years old,
who was married in New York a few
days ago has been deserted in Youngs-
town Ohio, by her husband, Theodore
! Taylor. Mrs Taylor alleges he also
relieved her of $50, all her savings.
At Tacoma Martin Stickwell has
made a confession to the effect that he
and +. G.. Pierce murdered Cornelius
Knipp and his Wifi near Castle Rock,
Wash, also that they murdered a
rancher named Shanklin a year ago.
Governor Pingree has issued call
for an extra session of the legislature
to meet Dec II, for the purpose of
enacting taxation legislation along
the lines of the constitutional amend.
ment adopted at the November cleo
/ ton.
Former Governor Bradley of Ken
lucky. of the counsel. for the republi-
can contestants for the minor state
offices, which cases We're disItsed Of
| in the court OF appeals several weeks
ago. filed a petition for a rehearing OF
| them.
The New York chambers of com
merce adopted a resolution asking
congress to pass bin authorizing and
directing the secretary Of the treasury
to exchange gold coin for any other
money of the United States when nee,
essary.
Miss Eugenia Washington, great
grandniece OF George Washington, one
of the old fonders Of the society of
Daughters of the American Revolu-
ton. and president of the society Of
Founders and Patriots, died in Wash
mgton
The widow OF George Everal, Of
New York. who died on November 3d.
1900, has been restrained by an order