Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-04-05

money on his contract nor be compell-
ed TO submit to union terms.
A death blow was given to cigarette
smoking In the weather service Satur-
day. when Chief Willis +. Moore is
sued an order prohibiting persons con-
nected with the service from smoking
cigarettes during office hours,
William G. Riley. Virginian after
seven years search which cost his
entire fortune, found his young wife
wing with a Chinaman in Pell street,
New York She refused to return to
him and he has sued for divorce
The amount OF bonds so far received
at the treasury department for ex-
change for the new.2 per cents is $780,
267 $50, Of which amount s15,993 800
were received from individuals and in
Istitutions other than national banks.
The Chicago Telephone company in
tends to cut the yearly rental of tele-
phones to a maximum of 800 per an
mum The price heretofore has been
$3.50 and 1925. A reduction is also
promised in the matter of local tolls
At Birmingham, Ala, Policemen
George w Klrkley and ]. II. Adams
were shot and seriously injured within
block Of the police station by two
white men, supposed to be safe crack
ers, who had been arrested and es-
capped
At Fort Plain, y. y, fire destroyed
the Clinton Liberal Institute building
entailing loss of $685. 900. The insti-
tuition was college preparatory
school and military academy, owned
and conducted by the Unyersalists of
the state
President Mckinley viii approve
/ he application for retirement of Rear
Admiral J. f. Day. president of the
retiring board, and that officer will re-
tire with the rank OF senior rear ad-
miral. Rear Admiral A. II. Mccormick
will be retired
| The publication Of Washington
! dispatch to the effect that William J.
Bryan contemplates leaving Nebraska
and taking UP his residence in Texas
causes considerable comment Charles
! W Bryan, brother of the presidential
candidate, denies the report
President Harper of the University
! OF Chicago announces that within the
last week endowment money aggregat-
| ing Sl27 500 has been bequeathed to
the Chicago university. Absolute Sc
crecy will be maintained as to the two
donors who gave between them S120,-
1 900.
Representative Fitzgerald OF Massa-
! chusetts wants the house of represent
atives to have full information regard
ing the orders which Captain Richard
t. leary, governor general of Guam
is alleged to have issued, interfering
with religious ceremonies and church
holidays
| Mrs de Pimeutal, Of New York. after
/ twenty-seyen years of unquestioned
faith in her husband, says she diseov-
cred that he had a second wife in the
! Azores whom he deserted thirty years
ago. In her suit for annulment she de-
clares that she crossed the ocean to
find her rival stlll living.
The Michigan supreme court had de-
cided that the complete dominion over
Roman Catholic church property is
vested in the bishop rhe decision was
| the result Of a suit brought by Bishop
Foley to GUST from some church prop
!erty ia AIlegan county number OF
ldisenters from his authority.
IN Chicago Albert Stedge, II years Of
age, avenged the insults cast upon his
mother, Mrs Bridget Stedge, ANA Ash
land avenue. by William Hobson a
boarder by dealing Hobson fatal
blow over the head with a barrel staye.
leaving his victim dead on the side
walk The boy then went to his room.
The war department has recognized
Honolulu as an open port by ordering
that the transports soon to sail from
here call there EN- route to Manila The
Hancock, which sails with the Philip
pine commission on April 10. Will stop
at Honolulu and Guam The Meade
and Grant viii also touch at Honolulu
President Mckinley has nominated
Rev. Barton w. Perry Of Oakland, Cal,
to fill the only vacancy in the list Of
chaplains in the regular army. with
the nomination was set precedent
for future selections Mr. Perry has
been subjected to rigid physical and
mental examination such as Is requr-
ed of Lieutenant in the army
Grace Holmes Of Peoria located an
other dead body in the Illinois river
TWO weeks ago this wonderful girl de-
clared that the body OF Mrs. SOM
mers was In the river and stuck to
her story. although few people paid