Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-10-18


ore mines. which have been operated
for the last eighteen months by NJ. A.
Hanna & Co Of Cleveland, will soon
shut down. About 400 people will
be thrown out of work No explain
alton is made as to why the fires
will be drawn.
The supreme court announced that
it would hear oral arguments in the
Chicago drainage canal case on Nov.
II. This suit involves the state Of
and the Chicago Drainage commits
sion, the contention being that the
Chicago drainage canal from Lake
Michigan emptying into the Mississ-
ippi river pollutes the drinking
water of the city of St. Louis.
A cablegram received from Com
missioner General Peck at Paris
contains an announcement OF the
final results obtained by the various
countries in the form of awards at
the Paris exposition. The United
States received 2,475 awards, Ger
many 1926, Great Britain 1.727, and
Russia 1893. The United States
leads not only in the grand total but
also in all grades of awards, from
grand prizes to merely honorable
mention
There promises to be lively com
petition for building the new battle,
ships and cruisers. Several of the
shipbuilding industries already have
their representative securing the
specifications for the ships prepare
tory to submitting bids. These in
clude some yards which thus far
have not done any government work.
The present low price of steel is ex-
pected by naval officials to result in
giving the government the advantage
% low bids.
The Kankakee, H., land owners
will combine in sending an agent to
south Africa and Holland to en-
courage the settlement of boer
colonies in the Kankakee valley in
La Porte, Lake Porter and Stark
counties The Kankakee lands are
adapted to the raising of cattle and Of
recent years immense crops of corn
have been produced. The Kanhakee
valley promoters took the initial
steps to encourage colonization dur
ing the last stages of the boer war.
There is now reason to believe that
their work will prove successful.
Secretary George Hartlein of dis
trict No 8, which embraces the
counties of Schuylkill, Northumber-
land Columbia and Dauphin, in
Pennsylvania, said that the $4,000
mineworkers of the district would be
represented at the Scranton conven-
ton by from 200 to 225 delegates He
said that besides voting for reduc-
ton in price of powder, observance
OF the semimonthly pay law abol-
ishment of sliding scale and accept
ance of the 10 per cent. increase, in
case the operators guarantee to main
tain the increase for one year. the
delegates will vote to compel opera
tors and representatives of coal car
union
Four steamships, each carrying
1000 tons of steel will start from
Conneaut harbor, O., on Nov for
Liverpool, England. This is one of
the dreams of Andrew Carnegie. to
have his own line of steamships to
carry Pittsburg steel to all parts of
the world. A new transatlantic
freight line is to be established, and
after it gets into actual operation
Mr. Carnegie expects to underbid the
world in the making of steel con
tracts. The company has chartered
the Le7Geld, Nonkshayen, Paliki and
Theano English ships now in the
lake trade, These will be used to
inaugurate the new service, but con
tracts have been OF will be placed by
company for steamships of its own.