Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-17


health,
The Pennsylvania road, which has
purchased the Long Island railroad
announces it's intention 10 construct
a tunnel from Staten island to Bay
Ridge.
Because the public did not purchase
enough of the stock. the Siegel-Cooper
Co. has abandoned the project of a
cooperative store. with $1,000, 900
capital.
Since the spring opened and work
upon the tunnel began, there has been
a tremendous rush of laboring men TO
New York, especially from all parts of
the east.
Commander Schroeder, the new gov
ernor Of Guam, will sail in few days.
He will go to Manila and from there
proceed to the I.adrones, possibly on a
man of-war.
rhe reported intention Of the United
States government to transfer the
claims negotiations with Turkey to
Washington is apparently without
foundation.
The docks and sheds of the New
Jersey Storage company, connected
with the Standard Oil company, was
burned, it is suspected by strikers.
The loss is half a million.
At worth, Kansas, Sapho,
which has been played through Kansas
the past two weeks, was billed, but
Mayor Nicely forbade the production
Church people had protested.
A fruitless conference between state
officials and the parties to the St.
Louis street railway strike took place.
A woman passerby was killed by a
brick hurled at a suburban car
Kansas City will not have its new
convention hall ready for the demo-
Gratis by July 4, but the hall will have
the floor, four walls and the roof com
plete and this will satisfy the COM
mittee,
At Charlotte ~ c., fire broke out in
the Merchants and Farmers bonded
warehouse, partially destroyed 1900
bales of cotton and caused a loss of
SIS 600, which is fully covered by in
surauce
A shipment Of 1896 bags of rice
weighing $4,000 pounds went forward
from Georgia TO New York recently on
the order of the United States govern
ment to be reshipped at New York to
Porto Rico.
United States navy officer invents
shell that no armor plate at present
manufactured can resist This fact
was deemed so important that the
senate will consider the matter in
secret session.
AT mass meeting under the aus
pieces of the Frisco labor organiza.
tions, resolutions protesting against
violations OF the Chinese exclusion act
and the great influx of Japanese labor
ers were adopted
The amount of bonds received al the
treasury to date for exchange for the
new 2 per cent consols is $265 sol $50.
of which $4S.Sl2, 800 was received from
individuals and institutions other than
national banks.
The body OF Mrs Gen. j. H. Wilson.
who was burned TO death in Havana
April 28, was removed from the trans
port Buford by a government tug and
taken TO Jersey City from whence Il
was forwarded to Wilmington. Del.
Butterine makers interested In the
defeat Of the Grout bill claim vic
tory in the decision of the subcom-
mlttee that that measure shah not be
reported until May %, perhaps too
late for passage at this session.
Six men blew open the safe of the
Farmers bank at Sunbery, Ohio, and
in doing so blew the entire rear wall
out of the building. rhe noise aroused
the people and the robbers escaped.
having stolen three horses for the pur-
pose
Gen Silas VI, Bailey, one of the 306
OF the famous old guard" which stood
by General Grant in the convention Of
1881, died iu Uniontown, Pa, aged "a
years, of brain trouble, which resulted
from bullet wound received in the
war
Captain Thomas Mein, one OF the
best known mining men in California.
is dead Of lung trouble He amassed
a fortune in the Transyaal When Or
Jameson made his famous raid Mein
was one of the Americans taken pris-
uner
The husband OF Mrs. Geneyieye
,Jennsou, who drowned herself at
Wellesley, Mass, says she was deep.
ly melancholy because she could not
shake 6H the mastery Of her mind
held hy' Ivan Parin. a disciple OF
Toistoi
Middle OF the road populists nomln-
ated Wharton Baker for president ANA
lgnatus ponuelly for vice president
The platform Ayors an irredemable
paper currency, direct legislation. ana
public ownership OF railroads, teie-
graphs. coal mines, etc,
Franklin J.. Fisk u n. whose regis