Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-12-20

train at Sag Bridge. Two engineers
and two fremen were injured.
Arthur Reynolds, president of the
Des Moines and Northern Iowa rail
road announced that road would
build into Des Moines next spring.
Two clever confidence men who rob
bed the head of the Jesuit Institute
in Turin, Italy, of $4,000 are believed
to be on their way to this country.
Joseph Huffman shot and killed
Thomas Meeham, a rival coal dealer,
and then killed himself at Fifty-sixth
street and Lake avenue, Chicago.
An Illinois Central fast train was
held up near New Orleans, and the
conductor was shot in the back The
mail car robbed of money packages
Construction work on the Rock Isl
and's new trarscontinental line from
Liberty Kan, TO White Oaks, n. NJ,
will begin in the spring.
Oklahoma and indian Territory com
bned have 100000 inhabitants and Ii
movement to have the two territories
admitted as one state is to be pushed.
Dennis O'Halloran, one of the oldest
and best-known engineers on the st.
Paul road having run. an engine for
thirty-fve years, died in Milwaukee
The sheriff of Edgar county, H.,
asked the governor for troops to pro-
tect John Owens, who is to be hanged
at Mattoon Dec, q, from mob VIC
lence.
The Illinois Central paid to the
state of Illinois in lieu of all taxes for
the year ending Oct. 81, 1900, 1884, 093,
the largest amount for any year on
record
Rev Father Linnecamp, pastor of
the Church of the Immaculate Concep-
ton at St Joseph, Mo, has had con
ferred upon him the title of Monsig-
nor.
The American Federation of Labor
in a convention at Louisville, voted
down resolution asking for a de-
partment of labor in the national cab
met
Rabbi Leon Harrison, pastor of
Temple Israel, of st. Louis, declined
to call to Temple Emanuel, of New
York, the leading Jewish synagogue in
the east
Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., former
note teller of the First National bank
in n. Y. accused of having embez-
zled s69O00O from that institution,
was indicted.
A bill is to be introduced in the
Illinois Legislature to utilize stone
taken ont of the drainage canal for
making hard roads. Convict labor is
to be employed.
The Vanderbilt interests have placed
orders for 10000 tons of steel rails at
S26 ton. This breaks up the organ
| lied effort of the railroads to force the
price down to S22.
Mrs. II. II. Applin, Az Washington
boulevard Chicago, and her guest,
| Mrs. Mada NJ Hart of Indianapolis,
| Ind, was robbed of diamonds, jewelry
and money aggregating $S,ee0.
Samuel Griffin, colored one of the
! sailors who was on the battleship
Maine when it was blown up, was
shot and killed during a quarrel with
Herman Harris in New Jersey.
Joseph Dupuis, noted dwarf, died
at Kankakee, H., aged SO years. Du-
puts was but 43 inches tall and wore
child's shoe. He had accumulated a
large estate through farming.
The national meeting of the Young
Peoples Union, United Presbyterian
church, has selected Winona, Ind, as
the next meeting place in 1901, to be
held the second week in August.
Wall street was amazed on reading
the schedules of the late Cornelius
Vanderbilt's holdings to learn that he
had so much Brooklyn rapid transit
stock and so little New York Central
stock.
Miss Caroline Moss Thornton,
daughter of the Montana copper king
and James Guerrero OXhard were mar
ried at the home of the brides mother
Mrs, John G. c, Thornton, In New
York
Maj. James Converse, widely known
throughout the southwest, died at
Abiine Tex, of congestion of the
lungs, aged n years. He built the
Southern Pacific railroad through
Texas
The Iowa state agricultural conven-
ton adopted a resolution fayoring the
creation of a national park at the
headwaters OF the Mississippi river,
r. j. Johnson of Humboldt was elected
president
The SaXton Block, owned by Mrs.
NJ. c. Barber, sister of President Nc.
Kinley's wife. was destroyed by Gre at
Canton Twenty families who occupied
the houses are homeless. The loss
will reach 100000.
Fire destroyed the four-story brick
building, 263-267 Prospect avenue,
Brooklyn, causing a loss OF $4,000
partly covered by insurance. The
building was opened and used by John
kOlle rs a concert hall
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