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

and manager or the western BOOK
makers association, died from a
stroke of paralysis at his home in Lex
ington.
Mrs. Washington Mclean, Mrs.
Dewey's mother, who died of heart dis
ease, left an estate valued at nearly
s2,o00,0O0. She left three children
Mrs. Dewey, Mrs. Ludlow and John
r. Mclean, editor of the Cincinnati
Enquirer.
The corner stone of the administra-
ton building for the South Carolina
interstate and West Indian exposition
was laid with Masonic ceremonies in
the presence of 10000 people at
Charleston by Orlando Sheppard, grand
master of Masons.
At the mass-meeting of the city
vigilance league in New York all the
speakers declared that the fight this
year Is against Tammany and that the
city cannot be cleansed until the or
ganization is wiped out. DR.. Park
hurst sent ringing letter declaring
that Croker is the only target in the
reform shooting match"
Charles Passow, one Of Chicago
prominent citizens, died of grief over
the death of his wife more than nine
months ago. He was the senior mem
Der of the firm of Charles Passow &
Son, manufacturers of store and Of
fee fixtures and billiard and pool
tables. He accumulated a large
fortune, which will fall to his five
sons and three daughters.
Judge Sneed Of the Knoy county
court decided that the anti-cigarette
law, passed by the Tennessee legis-
lature in 1899, was unconstitutional
and void, in that the act does not
bear the signature of the speaker of
the house of representatives.
Louisville police were notified that a
handsome and richly dressed young
woman was performing the part of
Kate the kisser" on North Spring
street. Jeffersonvile. Several men
stated they had been seized and sub
jected to an osculatory assault.
At the meeting of the stockholders
of the Kentucky Trotting Horse
Breeders Association at Lexington,
the secretary was authorized to in
increase the Kentucky futurity stake
for 1903 and 1904 to $21 900, the larg-
est trotting stake in the world.
Backed by capital of $500, 900, II.
II. Sears of Chicago and DR.. A. p.
Bowman of Sioux City, Iowa, have UNI
dertaken to corner the soft-shellcrab
market. They now control 80 per cent,
of this years catch and are negotiat-
ing to control the entire output.
For the first time in many years
an American has been sentenced to be
shot in Mexico. The sentence was i'm
posed upon Bias Aguirre, native-born
Texan by n Juarez tribunal as the
penalty for making raid across the
border and numbering Juanes Cajera,
a Mexican.
The official vote of the state of
Washington is Mckinley, 57,456;
Bryan. 44,S33; Frank, republican, for
governor, 51,944; Rogers, democrat,
So ,574 The prohibitionists polled
= 40 NDttS, lUt SOCidl utUDCl dlS I,JVu
and social labor ,0G6. In 1896 Bryan s
plurality was l2,493.
The rivers and harbors committee
OF the house gave a hearing to the
Chicago and Illinois delegations urging
construction of the drainage canal to
the Mississippi An appropriation of
5000 600 for a survey expected. Mis-
sourians joined in the effort to secure
deep waterway.
The engagement is announced of
Miss Clara Loagworth of Cincinnati,
and Count De Chambrun of Paris.
Miss Longworth is the daughter of
the late Judge Nicholas Longworth
and granddaughter of Nicholas Long
worth, in his time wos one of Gin
cinnatis wealthiest men.
President Mckinley was informed
by the senate committee after secret
caucus that the HayPauncefote treaty
cannot be ratified without radical
amendment which will abrogate the
Clayton-Bulwer treatl The Davis
amendment permitting fertilization
was adopted by vote of 6S to II.