Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-07-19

holding war dances nightly and an
outbreak is feared
The st. Louis street car men struck
again, claiming the company has not
kept faltn with them.
Judge Kohlsaat decided that the
constitution does not of its own power
apply to the Philippines.
Arthur CroebeI declares that the
murderer Of his brother, William
Goebel, is jam Howard.
Rivals in business are accused Of
poisoning horses Of the New York
Fruit Dealers association.
Mike Comfy, arrested at Cairo, con-
fessed that he had share In the Hi
nois Central train robbery
John w. Morrison, accused at setting
his hotel al South Bend on fire, was
held in $4,000 bail for trial.
Returned gold-seekers say that law
Iessness, suffering, disease and death
are features Of life at Cape Nome.
Katie Agnes sheehan committed
suicide on her mothers grave in In
dianapolis after her sisters funeral.
John d. Howard of Dimondale,
Mich, a paralytic for ten years, re-
ports a complete cure through prayer
There are now as war vessels, rang
Ing from battleships 10 torpedo boats,
being constructed for the government
Returns to date show twelve deaths
in Chicago due to fourth OF July ceie-
bratlons Ten were killed by toy pis-
tolls
Chicago merchants are receiving in
creased orders for Kansas and Missouri
because Of the large yield of wheat
there.
John Dewitt, Of Meriden, Conn,
while showing his wife his new police
mans pistol. accidentally shot her in
the head
Houses at Peru, Ind, were shaken
and occupants aroused by a mysterious
explosion Residents believe it was
an earthquake
The National Telephone and Tele-
graph company, with an authorized
capital Of 100000 600, files articles OF in
corporation at Trenton, n. J.
An unknown disease of great viru-
lence is raging in Caldwell parish, La.
Experts from the state board of health
have been sent to the scene.
Crop reports show an increased
acreage Of wheat, tut marked de-
cline in condition of wheat, barley and
cotton throughout the country.
Two boys attempted to wreck the
Chicago Flyer on the Lackawanna road
between 0swego and Lounsberry. N. Y,
rhey were arrested and confessed.
The preliminary hearing of Frank
SchreiIler of Joliet, accused of killing
his wife by pouring gasoline on her
clothes and setting them on fire, began.
The price OF cotton advanced mater
tally owing to the Chinese war and
the scarcity in the crop and the slight
increase is voted in the cost of choice
meats
Official reports from the Cape Nome
district indicate that the government
will be called upon to aid many thous-
ands of stranded gold hunters during
the coming winter
The steamer st. Paul arrived from
st. Michael. Alaska with news that
martial law had been proclaimed at
Cape Nome. The st. Paul brought
Sl.500,000 in gold,
The government crop report indl-
Gates a wheat yield of 4S6, 100000
bushels, the smallest since 1896. The
past week has helped crops east of
the Rocky mountains.
One United States marshal Instantly
killed and three desperadoes MORALLY
wounded and captured is the record
for fight on the Arkansas river forty
miles east of Glencoe, Mo
AT the National Educational council
President Harper opposed a national
university and said many small col
leges should be strengthened and
others reduced to academies.
At New London, Ma, the trial of
Alexander Jester, charged with the
murder Of Gilbert w Gates, brother of
John w Gates, the steel magnate,
twenty-uine years ago, began
Cardinal Gibbons has decided not to
go abroad before next spring. con-
trary to the general impression that he
would visit the Paris exposition and
The Passion Play at Oberammergau
Thomas T. fireman Of Plttsburg, who
has been deaf and dumb for fitty-nine
years had his voice restored ara the
result of a shock caused by fan from
a building on which he was working.
Jay Cooke. lhe aged fnancier, who
was thrown from his carriage while
driving near his homo al Ogontz, Pa,
suffered very little discomfort from the
accident and is up and about as usual
Marguerite Caravan of St. Joseph,
Mich. was poisoned by the bite Of an
unknown insect and the symptoms
parallel those 3t City Attorney Ryan
90 Chicago who was bitten at Benton
Harhur