Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-01

shows that since June 10 last 1890
Japanese have been landed there.
The third assistant postmaster gem
eral reports an increase OF 1852 per
cent. in the issue of postage stamps the
last quarter. This means that 5,344.3l0
postage due stamps were issued in
the last four months of last year.
against 3,905.S7O stamps issued in the
same length of time in 1898.
julius A. Menzel, a non-union em-
picya. killed Edward A. O'Connor. sec
rotary OF the Metal Workers union
during an assaultsupon Mcneil as he
was going home from work at Wins
low Bros. ornamental iron works.
Chicago. Brass buckles were found
clinched in the dead mans right hand
Dr. William George Young of Grand
Rapids, Mich. and Miss Lora Black
man of Bristol, Wis. were married in
Chicago, enacting the last chapter in
a romance which began in the hospital
at Puerto Rico, where ..iss Blackman
was a trained nurse. Her parents are
wealthy.
eral grand jury in $500 bonds on
the charge of stealing a sack of gold
from the United States subtreasury in
Chicago, in which he was clerk.
He received by mistake $4,000 in gold
more than his requisition called for
and retained the money.
II is rumored that strong feeling
of resentment against the United
States has been aroused in Nicaragua
and Costa Rica, as the result Of the
action of the senate and house com
mittee in reporting bills contemplate
| ing the acquisition of the territory
through which the canal will be cut
The December statement of the col
lectors Of internal revenue show the
total receipts to have been S24219,30S
an increase over December. 1898, OF
81, 02G, 4l6. The total receipts for the
six months of the present fiscal year
were 1851, $50, 15S, an increase of sl3,
547, 6S3 over the corresponding period
last year.
a large part of the town of Ward,
a mining camp in the Colorado noun
tains, was destroyed by fire which
started in the McClancy hotel A
high wind was blowing and the fire
spread rapidly among the frame build
ings, but did not reach the mills and
mines. The loss Will amount to
$4,000
Or. Howard Kelley, professor of
gynecology in the medical school of
Johns Hopkins university, was bitten
on the hand by a large rattlesnake,
which ne was exhibiting to illustrate
a lecture The doctor sucked the
blood from the wound and continued
his lecture for nearly an hour after
the occurrence. No serious results
are anticipated.
In 1899 the total production of pig
iron in the United States was 49,
$50, 703 gross tons, against 11,7S3,954
tons in 1898, an increase of l,S46, 769
tons. The production of Bessemer
pig iron was SCOT tons, against
7,3313S4 tons in 1898. The stocks of
pig iron which were unsold in the
hands of manufacturers or their
agents on Dec. 81. 1899, amounted to
90 429 tons
On account of the opening of the
drainage canal, the Chicago river has
fallen three feet at Bridgeport, leay-
ing out of the water the intake pipes OF
the pumping works at that place,
which pump $4,000 feet Of water a
minute into the Illinois and Michigan
canal The American Strawboard
Paper Company has made complaint
of the lack of water-power to the
drainage board.
John b. McDonald's $4,000 600 con-
tract for the construction of the I'M
derground railway in New York may
have been the cause of r. T. F. Love
joys resignation from the office of
secretary of the Carnegie Steel com
pany Il is rumored that Carnegie is
angry over an old option on vast
amount Of steel. given when prices OF
structural steel We're low, for the con-
structon of the tunnel,