Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-01-11


democrats Of the Kentucky legsla-
ture
Henry Watterson predicts Gen,
William f. Draper ambassador to
Italy, will be McKinleys running
mate.
Omaha, Kansas City and Eastern,
Omaha and St Louis. and Kansas City
and Northern railroads will be COM
bined,
The Ohio legislature has organized
at Columbus by electing republicans
as speaker and as president Of the
senate,
Jan. 8 Bishop Spalding will sail from
New York on a voyage to Rome. He
goes to secure a rest and to transact
business.
Five nations with spheres Of in
Ruence" in China have guaranteed
equal trade rights to America in the
empire.
Pngree asked the Michigan legisla-
ture to amend railways special chart
Iers, making them taxable under the
general law
The Northwestern university has IS
sued an appeal TO Methodist church
members for S2,OO0,000 to meet it's
growing needs
The United States navy tug Reso-
Iluta was sunk in collision in New
/ York harbar; p persons were on board
but all escaped
The FIRST refusal OF a steamship
7mpany 10 return contract laborers
brought to the United states IS noted
at Galveston
Representative James J Meyers Of
Cambridge was nominated for speaker
Tot the Massachusetts house by the re-
publican caucus.
The annual distribution Of seed by
1.-THE agricultural department win be
Imda shortly The cost to the govern
'mcnt rs $4,000
The majority report OF the com
'uutee Investigating the case of Rob
|er.a vii recommend that he be eX-
Guided from The house
! AZ Lancaster Pa, County Treasurer
Il II Harsehy is a deflulter to the
extent of $4,000 lie Is believed to
/ have gone 10 Canada,
/ William II Putnam, the undertaken
/ who conducted the funerals of Henry
1 Clay and Daniel Webster is dead at
New York, aged 81 years.
The big Painter gas well in Richie
county, W. Va, is burning. Millions
Of feet OF gas are going and the fnan-
Icial loss will be enormous.
At Pittsburg 10000 puddlers and
duishers employed in iron mills will
get an increase Of wages Jan. 10, rang
ling from 50 cents to 81 day.
Lawyer Carl Fischer-Hansen an
nounced that the United States prob
ably would acquire the Danish West
Indies by April 10 for $3,O00,O00.
Professor Felix Adler and Rev,
Charles 4. Briggs viii at once COM
mence a crusade against vice on the
Hover east side Of New York city.
The republicans in the Ohio legisla
ture excluded from their caucus, at
Columbus, Senator Brown, a fusion
candidate from Hamilton county.
Ross Raymond, formerly a we'll
known journalist, has been SEN
fenced TO the Milwaukee house of cor
Ireotion for sixty days for yagrancy.
The Cleveland Leader says Hanna, at
Mckinleys request will be both tenn
Iporary and permanent chairman Of
/ the Philadelphia national convention.
W. r. Moody, eldest son Of the late
/ evangelist has been appointed ad-
Iminlstrator of his fathers estate.
Moody left no will, The estate is very
small
Levi r. Doty Chicago capitalist and
formerly president OF several large
coal companies, Is relieved of llabill-
ties aggregaung S5,0O1,000 by order of
the court
At Stromsberg, Neb. Eden Baptist
church was destroyed by fire and two
persons seriously injured The fire
was caused by an explosion of acety-
leue gas
Wallace Collins has resigned his po-
sition as general manager Of the c., NJ.
a ST. p. Ry His successor will likely
be Heary r. Williams general super
in,eudent
Charles \. Tracy confidential book
keeper for p. y. Bagley & Co, Chicago,
has been missing since Dec no. His
books are straight and his wife thinks
he is dead
The university OF Chicago by a vote
of 20 to lt has placed itself on record
as rayoriug The use Of the reformed
spelling adopted by the National Fiu-
Dat,0ual association.
Bishop jackson, eoadjutor OF the
Protestant Episcopal diocese of Ala
bama, has sent his resignation to
Bishop Doane OF Albany chairman of
the house of bishops.
President Hadley of Yale, who has
been In Chicago talked to the Alumni,
asking them 20 contribute TO the ST.
100000 being raised by graduates for
the university this year,
40 Pap,udon Neb., Corporal Fair
ana Private Jockens, charged with
murder 10 shooting a deserter, had