Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-08


Cornelius L. Alvord. Jr.. the note
teller who stole 100000 from the First
! National Bank of New York. vas cap
/ tured in Boston.
Floods cut off La Crosse from the
rest of the world Heavy rains
throughout Wisconsin drove hundreds
! from their homes.
The American league decided to
drop Minneapolis, Kansas City and an
! other town and take in Baltimore,
/ Washington and Philadelphia.
by the win of Edward n. Gibbs,
late treasurer Of the New York Life
| Insurance company, Amherst college
! is to receive bequost Of $4,000.
Valet Jones confessed to completely
in the murder of w. w Rice, New
York millionaire, and tried to commit
suicide. He accuses Attorney Patrick.
A steamer is loading at Duluth with
100000 bushels naxseed, valued at
$468 900 1t is the most valuable
cargo ever shipped on the great lakes.
Former Congressman Jam 81
heart trouble He was elected to con
gress four times. beginning in 1855.
Only 2.482 women in Chicago and
Cicero registered on the Two lays for
registration this year, as a+liusJ $500
in 1884, G,2G4 in 1896 and 1926 In 1898.
Maj. Henry j. Hearsey, editor of the
New Orleans Daily States, and one of
the best known newspaper writer's in
the south. died He was 60 years If
age.
DR.. Yosberg-Rekow, German dele
gate to the Philadelphia export ex-
position, says in a short while the
United States win conquer the world'c
markets.
John w. Yerkes, collector of internal
revenue for the eighth district of Ken
tuclyy, has resigned to take effect Nov
l. Yerkes is the republican candidate
for governor,
A story is published IN PittsbWrs
that the Cartegie Steel company in
tends to invade he shea steel bust
ness by manufacturing Gil ,"o4uct at
the Duquesle works.
Andre Dauchez, Paris, won the gold
medal and 1880 at the Carnegie art
gallery international exhibition at
Pittsburg Minister Wa made the
founders day address.
1t Is said the United States govern
ment will oppose any effort Germany
may make to establish coaling sta
ton in Venezuela or any other country
in the western hemisphere,
James Rudy, few years ago ono
of the best known turfmen in the west
and with his brother. Watson Ruddy,
proprietor of a large racing stable, died
at Aurora of typhoid fever aged So.
Benjamin J. Hamm. who gained
fame as the Turkey King of Chicago
two years ago, and was afterwards
convicted in the federal courts for
using the mails to defraud. is violently
insane
Many prominent NEWCOMERS, in
Guiding ev-Speaker Reed, Andrew
Carnegie. Bourke Cochran. w Is.
Vanderbilt, and w, C. Whitney will
not be able to vote because they did
not register
Louis Mofson, 10 years old, tried to
end his life in Chicago because he be
came convinced that he was homely,
unattractive and because his sisters
made his facial features the object OF
their ridiCule
General Wilson, chief of engineers of
the army, submits estimates for the
next fiscal year for Notifications
amounting to $57l5,000 and for river
and harbor improvements aggregating
100000 600.
Guilty Of murder In the second de
gree w's tho verdict brought In by
the jury of New York before which
Arthur Harris, the negro, has been on
trial for killing Patrolman Robert j,
Thorpe in race riots
At Bridgeport, H.. Samuel Bucha-
nan hit James PETER with an iron
weight and killed him almost instantly
in q quarrel over politics. PETER was
a9 aged saddler. Buchanan was
placed under arrest, ...
Professor Hilprec9t. University OF
Pennsylvania, returned from Mesopo-
tamio tells Of the discovery Of an
ancient Babylonia library in the Ttm.
pie of Nippur which sheds new light
on the worlds history.
Smallpox has broken out on a mum
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