Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-07-12
DOMESTIC.

Rains improve Tue crop COHuil4olis III
| the northwest.
A cotton oil mill will be erected IN
Tallahasse, Fla.
General crop outlook for Illinois is
on the whole fair.
Funeral Of seventy-six victims OF the
Hoboken fire was held,
Four to one on Mckinley is offered
| In Wall street with no takers
Three men robbed the passenger sta
ton at Lockport, taking 800.
Gov. Roosevelt scattered speeches
| through Missouri and Kansas.
A colored convention is called to
| meet in Washington on Sept. /.
A steamer arrived at Seattle bearing
$500 900 in gold dust from Skagway.
Chicago directory managers figure
| thai the city has 2,013, 403 inhabitants.
Milwaukee Building Trades council
is in trouble with its component parts.
The list Of missing from the fire at
Hoboken, n. j., now numbers nearly
800
Webster Davis is converted to de-
mocracy by the anti-imperiallstic
plank.
The Gypsy national convention in
progress at St. Joe elected a national
chief.
The L. S. battleship Oregon has been
Aoated and, it is believed, will be
saved.
Alabama coal miners accepted a
wage proposition made by the opera
tors.
Every Bessemer furnace in the coun
try IS to shut down to stiffen the
market.
Judge Day accuses Spain Of having
been the direct cause of the Maine
disaster
Great crowd will visit Canton July
u, when Mckinley is notified of re-
nomination.
In five days Roosevelt travelled 1000
miles and spoke forty-one times in
forty towns
Villatte formerly the leader Of the
old Catholics, is excol nunicated by
Pope Leo XIII.
Dr., Robinson Trip, one of Chicago's
pioneers, died at the age of IS years
from old age.
Fire in a crowded tenement-house in
Hoboken, N j., caused the death of
twelve persons.
horse frightened by frecrackers
broke into the ladies' parlor Of a
Washington hotel
The American Federation of Labor
may come to the support of Chicago's
unemployed workmen
OHcial reports received from Hayti
set at rest the rumors of disquleting
conditions In that island,
During first six months of 1900 nine
railroad companies, operating 97S
miles. went into the courts.
A water works reservoir at Grand
Rapids Mich, burst and swept away
many houses. Only one life was lost.
Indictments were returned against
a number of aldermen of Syracuse, N.
y, on charges of municipal corrup-
ton.
Two persons were killed and thirty
three injured in a train wreck at
Track Siding, Mont, twelve miles from
Butte,
Officers of the American missionary
board fear that seventeen workers from
the Chicago district were massacred
In pellin
The excursion steamer Riverside on
Niagara river, went ashore in a fog.
The officers prevented panic by
drawing reyolyers.
At Pittsburg fire almost totally de-
stroyed the large soap and fertilizing
plant Of the Walker tratman com
pany, Loss, $4,000,
Homer b. Galpin for forty years
deputy sheriff in Chicago died at his
home on West Monroe street Heart
disease was the cause.
In fight between cowboys and
Cinnamon in Duya county, Texas, four
Cinnamon were wounded one fatally,
aud a cowboy was wounded.
Director of the Census Merriam de-
ylarcs that he Will issue an order that
applications from clerks for a change
of work will be tantamouut to resigna-
gous.
Joseph Wylie, a prominent and
wealthy citizen OF Chester 5, c., died,
aged a. He endowed Erskne Theo-
logical seminary and gave a park to
Chester
AT santa Ana. Cal. Emil Marken-
berg, an aerouaut fell from a height
Of 500 feet and was crushed 20 death
A strap broke to which he was hanging
by his teeth.
Three tons OF gold have arrived in
Seattle from Alaska being brought by
the steamers City OF Seattle and City
of Topeka. This gold is valued at
over 100000
All the union coal miners In Ala
hanna 4b1Uf no AU0 I'm nuuhar Ouif