Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-24

| Gov. Roosevelt, despite party lead
ers may call an extra session of the
legislature to repeal a Rochester school
law in which eighty words were in
serted by fraud.
Mayor Harrison is reported as about
to declare himself out OF the Illinois
gubernatorial race The rumor fol-
lows a request for information from
! w. H. Hinrichsen.
After writing a note Of farewell to
| his former sweetheart. Harry S. Bar
rett, prosperous in business and heir
to an estate worth 5000, took ear
! boic acid in Chicago and died
Mrs w. J Wilson of rifin, O. !,
smoked cigarettes in bed during her
husbands absence The bed clothing
caught fire and burned her face and
eyes and she may lose her sight.
One man has prevented a jury in
| Wilkesbarre, Pa, returning a verdict in
a wife-murder case The eleven jurors
who have agreed wear blue ribbon
badges TO indicate their unanimity.
Harry W. Cottrell clerk in the cor
responding department of Montgomery.
Ward & Co, is said to have made 81 900
or so by writing checks to Fictitious
customers and then cashing them
! Lodges recent speech has brought
| him into disfavor with the admins
| tration and an effort viii be made to
| prevent his acting as permanent chair
man at the Philadelphia convention
At Chicago Willie Collier the com
median read the Episcopal burial ser
| vice over the body Of Frederick Gr0s-
yenor Stanley. Through a misunder-
standing the clergyman had failed to
arrive
At Columbus the College of Journal
ism was incorporated by Murat. Hal
stead, George II. Davidson, A. E.
Brown, G. F. Osler and G. c. Archer.
Cincinnati is designated as its place of
business
Major Charles Whipple of the pay
department at New York city has been
| order ed to Chicago for duty as chief
paymaster Of the department of the
lakes, to relieve Major William f.
Tucker
Herman Sachs, acquitted in 1897 at
Middletown, Conn, OF the Hotchkiss
murder has just married MSS Dow,
who sent him delicacies while he was
in Jail but whom he did not meet mn
til after his trial
Rev II e. Niles, for 80 years pastor
Of the First Presbyterian church Of
York, Pa, died aged H. DR.. Niles
was native Of South Haley, Mass. lie
had formerly been pastor at Angelica.
n Y. and st. Louis, No.
Mrs Rosalia Farley wife of Edward
Farley, died at her home at Bancroft.
Neb. Her father was Joseph Lafesche,
otherwise Iron Eye, the last chief Of
Omaha Indians She was for years
known as the Cattle Queen.
The town Of Fisher, % miles west Of
/ Marinette. Wis, had a big Hre ana 200
people are homeless Every building
In the own was burned but two dwell.
ings the railroad station and a store.
The loss will aggregate 100000.
Inspector Zachary Wood of the Can
adian mounted police has been pro-
NOTED 10 the command of. that force in
succession to Colonel Steele. now ia
Africa Tie is descendant of Presl.
dent Zachary Taylor Of the United
States.
New gold fields riyaling in richness
| the deposits OF Cape Nome viii be
opened to American miners if the ez
pectatIons Of the members of Russian
expedition, which arrived in New York
on it's way to northeastern Siberia, are
fulfilled.
Learning that Mrs Clio Hinton Hun
eker was divorce, Rev. D. Parker
Morgan Of New York refused to marry
her to William Bracken, although
bride and groom we're at the altar
They were afterwards married at Del
monico's
Missouri republicans named a state
ticket headed by Joseph Flory. The
sentiment of the body was against
naming federal odiceholders for dele
gates at large and the names of Major
Brlttinger and Major Warner were
withdrawn
L. L. Morse OF Cedar Rapids. Iowa
left Nashville. Tenn, on horseback for
san Francisco. He Is rs years old
He says he prefers his adopted method
OF travel TO a railroad train and ey-
poets to make his 1000 mile journey In
thirty days
The jury in the suit for damages
brought by Mrs Elizabeth c. Reading
.of Williamsport Pa. against Mrs. An.
na Gazzlm for alternating the affections
.of the formers husband rendered a vag-
diet In favor of Mrs. Reading. award
ing her &25,oo00.
Commissioner Wilson of the internal
revenue bureau has decided that II a
stale bank ia accordance with the
provisions OF section 1854 of the re-
FIsed statutes. becomes a national