Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-03-01

| lean Theater company and sailed for
Europe to study grand opera
| At Springfield, Ohio, X. 5. Thomp-
son, state and national chairman of
the reform party, received word of the
death OF his brother in the Fiji is
| lands leaving an immense fortune. He
was killed in an nsurrection of ma
| tives.
At Eldora, n j.. the wife and two
sons OF Enoch Ward were drowned.
The boys were playing on the ice,
when they broke through Their
screams attracted the attention of the
mother, who ran TO save them, and all
persisted
The democratic members Of the Ken
lucky legislature, who have been hold
| ing sessions at Louisville since w. 5.
Taylor the republican claimant for the
goyernorship, barred them from the
state house, have resumed their meet
ings at Frankfort
Chicago bonds amounting to 81
! 500 900 are to be issued by the city for
! the erection Of plant to utilize the
drainage canal water power, under
contract with the sanitary trustees.
rhe city council has passed an ordi-
nance 10 this effect,
/ At Paris, H., Newton e. knight,
aged 80, is under arrest charged with
the murder OF his brother, 5. H., aged
| 50. He claims the murder was COM
mitted by stranger, who crept up be-
hind him and his brother as they
were repairing a fence.
Jean Louis Legare. who surrendered
Sitting Bull and hundreds of his Sioux
to the United States government in
| 1881 and 1882, is on his way to
ottawa to push his claims for sl3,400
and interest from the time of its pres
entatlon eighteen years ago.
The Western Union Telegraph com
pany has completed the purchase of all
the telegraph lines of the Deseret Tele-
graph company which has heretofore
belonged to and been operated by the
Mormon church. These lines extend
throughout Utah Idaho and Nevada
/ Dr. Leslie f. Kelley, inventor OF the
gold cure system for the drink habit,
died at Los Angeles, Cad, of heart fail
ure While being treated by Christian
Science methods by eX-Judge Ewing
OF Chicago lnterment will be at
Dwight, Ill. His estate is valued At
ST 900 600
AT Kansas City, No Arthur Girls
som. the poet and editor OF society
paper, has dismissed his $4,000 dam
age suit against his father-in-law, DR..
W. s. Woods. for alternating his wife's
affections, and Mrs. Grisson has been
granted divorce and custody OF their
2-year-old child. Grissom received
$50 600
! Commissioner Wilson Of the Internal
revenue bureau has made a decision
in which he holds that a special tax
stamp held by corporation as q
iliauor dealer cannot cover the same
business carried on by any other per-
son upon the ground that he had been
a stakeholder in the corporation at the
time Of It's dissolution,
At Edgemore, Ind, passenger train
! No. 3 of the Baltimore & Ohio road
was telescoped by milk train.
Michael Kelly, engineer on The milk
train. James c. Baghitt fireman and
the steward of the dining car, We're
seriously injured, Conductor John
Emmert of the milk train was struck
in the head and became insane.
| General John b. Gordon, command
ling The United Confederate Veterans,
calls the attention of all Confederate
posts ana veterans to the circular OF
the Chickamauga park commission ap-
pointing a general inspection OF the
| park IN October next, and invites lhe
veterans Of all the armies to attend
for the purpose of testing the accuracy
of historical work thus far completed