Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-07-05
.ansas. being nominated for COVER

Heatwole were renomnated
Long" Jones lost his home county
of Waukesha to La Toilette.
Governor Smith of Maryland Is sug-
gested as Bryan's running mate
Wisconsin fire insurance agents re-
solved to check overhead writing.
A conference of prominent anti
imperialists was held in New York.
Indiana silver men say there Is a
plot to prevent Bryan's nomination,
Croker will stop at Lincoln to see
Mr. Bryan before going TO Kansas
City.
Platform adopted in committee at
Springfield upholds the declaration OF
1896
Della Fox is discharged from a san
itarium with health and mind re-
stored.
Politicians are already arriving in
Kansas City for the democratic con
yentlon.
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
earnings are lower than for many
months
Politicians in Lincoln Neb., think
Bryan is opposed to d. b. Hill as run
ming mate.
six excurslonlsts were killed and
34 injured in railroad wreck near
Green Bay.
James II. Norton, principal of the
Lake View Illinois high school, died in
Southampton.
The Burlington road will employ
Grow Indians to grade section In the
Big Horn region.
Mayor Rose Of Milwaukee is practi-
cally selected for temporary chairman
of Kansas City convention.
Thirty-hve persons were killed in a
railway wreck on the southern rail-
way near McDonough, Ga
The schooner Everett was wrecked
on a st. Lawrence island Five of the
crew of six starved to death
Admiral Dewey said emphatlcally
that he would not accept the demo-
cratic vice presidential nomination.
Bryan in an interview says he ex-
poets the Chicago platform to be re-
affirmed at the Kansas City conven-
| ton.
Some Pennsylvania councils Of the
Junior Order of United American
Mechanics have seeded from the ma
tional body.
1t is estimated that 100000 persons
will attend the Roosevelt Rough Rid
ers reunion at Oklahoma City July /,
2, and 4.
/ -Four cases Of leprosy have developed
at Boise, Idaho, among returned vol
unteer soldiers who served in the
Philippines.
Bryan is regarded as opposed to hav-
| Ing d, b. Hin as a running mate, but
southern delegates are declaring for
| the ex-senator,
United States Senator George +.
Hoar of Massachusetts, has made a
public statement declaring for Nc
Kinley's reelection.
Railroads between Chicago and Kan
sas City give notice that passes will
be denied all visitors and delegates to
the democratic convention.
Brg-Gen Joseph Wheeler, who is
to assume command of the department
Of the lakes, arrived in Chicago. His
two daughters are with him.
/ In Chicago Harley Mcpherson, a non
| union laboTer, was attacked by three
men aud shot, fatally woundlng James
| Welth, one of his assailants.
Mrs. Ruoy Kennedy Scobell, the
| organizer of the Womeu's National
Promotion of Health Society three
years ago is dead in Chicago.
Prohibitlonists in state convention
nominate Judge V,sscher We're Barnes
for governor and select fun ticket.
Women win fight for suffrage plank,
The union reform party in state con
yention nominated Floyd Spencer OF
Chicago for governor The platform
advocates initiation and the releren-
dunn,
Gus Rubin knocked out Tom Shar-
/ key at Coney island in the fifteenth
round of terrific glove contest that
was scheduled to so twenty-five
rounds
Miss Helen Gould unveils a pedes-
tailed cannon captured in Manila from
the Spanish fleet by Admiral Dewey at
Three Oaks, Mich Thousands were
/ present.
John q Woolley Of Illinois for pres
.deut and Henry b. Metcalf Of Rhode
I Island for vice president We're nomi-
mated by the prohibition national con-
yention.
Aaron T. Bliss was nominated for
governor by Michigan republicans on
the nineteenth ballot his four rival
candidates remaining in the race to
/ the last
The Port Clarence and Cape Nome
and Norton Bay Railroad company OF
/ New York has been incorporated with
Il capital OF SlO00,o00 TO construct and
/ lnIrHfa "a -4FI,ypy In NtlaNa