Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-12-06


Vickery. Chicago, and shot himself in
an Intellectual attempt at suicide
Jealousy caused the tragedy.
Henry w. Bigler. who was a mem
Der of the Mormon battalion working
at Suffers mill race in California
when the discovery of gold was made
in 1913, is dead at Salt Lake, aged rs.
The lifeless body of w. II. Fullhart,
an eccentric ranchman living near
Anselmo, Nebr., was found. His skull
has been crushed. Fullharts only
companion, who was hired man, IS
missing.
In making up the republican caucus
list of the senate the name of Sena-
tor Wellington of Maryland has been
omitted at his own request. He has
chosen a seat on the republican side,
however
A gasoline tank in the Westing-
house foundry in Allegheny, Pa, ex-
ploded, forcing a heavy casting
through the roof, partially demolish-
ing the wall and badly burning four
workmen.
Fire which broke out in the general
merchandise store of Begole C Vars.
dale at Beatrice, Neb., destroyed the
brick block in which it was located, to-
gether with the stock, involving a loss
Of s85,O00
The Turkish minister at Washing
ton asked Secretary Hay why the
battleship Kentucky is at Smyrna.
He was told there was mo present
hostile purpose" 1t may be regarded
as hostile act
Ten thousand spectators saw the
University of Chicago football team
Unexpectedly defeat Michigan by a
score OF Is to 6. Northwestern
played a tie OF to with Iowa at
Rock Island
Captain w. NJ Meredith of Illinois
has been appointed chief of the bureau
of engraving and printing at Washing
ton. Mr. Meredith served as chief
clerk to the bureau under the Harri-
son administration,
Edward Robinson, in charge of the
Greek room at the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts, announced that twenty-five
our of twenty-eight terra Gotta statues
supposed to have come from Tanagra,
Greece are forgeries.
Mrs. Joanna Robinson, a second
cousin Of President Mckinley died at
her home in st. Paul, aged rs years.
On the occasion of the presidents
last visit to the northwest he made
long call at the Robinson home
Albert Bart Roeder, formerly of
Madison, Wis, president of Orinoco
Iron company, New York, filed a petit
tion in bankruptcy. Liabilities, $434,-
255; assets, nothing. He is a son-in-
law of Searles, the sugar magnate
Leonard r. Day, son of the late mil.
lionaire lumbarman of Minneapolis,
was stabbed to death and Frank H.
Hamilton, newspaper man, is held
on suspicion of being the murderer
Day was 20. There is a lady in the
case.
The roof of glass works in San
Francisco, from which 100 men were
wrongfully watching a football game
gave way and they fell on top of hot
furnace. Eleven were killed outright
and eighty injured. fifteen Of whom
will die
In an address to the students of
Colorado college, DR. d. X. Pearsons
the Chicago philanthropist announced
that Jan / 1901, he would make The
college a gift of $4,000 toward the
cost OF completing the new scientific
building.
4 London bric-a-brac firm, with a
claim Of $3S5000, obtained an order
from the New York supreme court
restraining the trustees under the will
of Jay Gould from paying Anna Could
any money until the further order of
the court.
At Syracuse, N. Y, Harriet SChmoll
has been acquitted of the charge Of
murder June Q, 90, she shot and killed
Mrs. Lulu Ostrander at Baldwinsyille,
and it was shown at the trial that
Mrs. Ostrander had been intimate with
Nj. Schmoll
Senator Cushman Kellogg Davis of
chairman Of the committee
on foreign relations, died Tuesday
night at his home in st. Paul after
an illness of two months of Brights
disease, aged So Ills parents ana a
widow survive
Terry aIeGoyern signed articles
1t Chicago to meet Ben Jordan Of
England IN a sixround contest some
time in January or February. The
fight is to be for the international
featherweight championship and a
purse Of $1,000.
The win Of Charles H. Hoyt RI
quests that Frank Mckee continue to
manage the business OF Mckee q I
Hoyt All the profits to so to Mex e
except d share to Eiwood NJ Dasher
ReCuests are made to friends, but
nothing to relations.
James W. Golden. the New York
iaators helper failed owing
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