Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-06-07

treatment OF members OF lHe mouse
than Gear" Reed ever was.
During the conduction Of memorial
day observances at Byron, H., stroke
Of lightning shattered the marble
shaft Of a soldiers monument.
rhe court OF appeals decided that
those who refuse 10 pay judgments
under the bankruptcy law may be i'm
prisoned until the debt is paid.
The circuit butterine BILL favorably
reported to the house, imposes a tax
Of 10 cents a pound on oleomargarine
colored in imitation Of butter.
David Word, Mlchigan's pioneer
lumberman, died at his home in Pom
tiac. He was rs years old and had
acquired fortune Of s25 100000.
James Fitzharris and Joseph Null
| let Irish Invincibles, were excluded
from this country by New York immi-
gi alton officials and will be deported.
Strong expansion sentiment was
| shown at mass-meeting in Detroit,
Mich. in connection with the Ameri-
can Baptist missionary anniversaries.
| Among the nominations sent to the
senate was that of Brigadier General
| Tlwell 5 Otis to be made major gem
/ era!, vice Merritt. who is soon to retire,
The Western Union Is said TO be
about to enter the long distance tele-
phone field in opposition to the Bell
company which has hurt its business.
The sheriff is empowered to call a
posse comitatus Of 1000 citizens to
preserve order in St, Louis, and as
many more will he called as necessary.
All but four Of the S34 delegates to
the republican national convention
| have been elected. Contests in Ala
bama, Delaware, Tennessee, and
| Texas
Major General Elwell s Otis is said
70 be slated for head of the department
of the lakes, with headquarters in Chi
cago. Army men expect him about
| Aug, l.
The four newly elected Methodist
| Episcopal bishops, Drs. ID. II. Moore,
J. w Hamilton, L. w Parker and
Frank Wesley Warne, We're conse-
| Grated
Judgment against the estate Of the
late Rufus n. Ramsay for $1,000 is
entered by the circuit court of Clinton
county, H.. in a suit brought by the
! state
Gold has been discovered in Sui
! phur Lick creek near Elmville Ky.
Assaylsts Of Denver and other cities
have examined and pronounced it
/ geu line.
IA speech at Clinton Ia, Lleuten-
ant Governor Northcott Of Illinois de
clared himself a receptive candidate
for the republican nomination for vice
| president,
Mrs, Annie Meyer authoress and
prominent In the Womans congress
at the worlds fair, went to the Chi
cago brjdewell under a sentence for
shoplifting.
A number of Friends from Baltimore
held services in the old Quaker Meet
| Ing House at York, Pa, the site
which was donated by son Of VIII
liam Penn
Eleven more persons were saot and
many were injured by missiles in
riots provoked by the St. Louis strik-
ers Three Of those wounded are
expected to die
Timothy b. Blackstone former
president Of the Chicago and Alton
railroad and one Of the Oldest railroad
chief executives in the United States,
died aged n years
Harvard viii send two representa-
tiyes to Paris to the socialists CON
gress next September They are w.
p Eyarts, 1900, and w q Monroe,
of the graduate school
A duel to the death was fought by
Emmett Coy and Bonifacio Perez, cow
boys, In Hidalgo county, Tex, at 100
yards Winchesters were used. Both
men fell dead in their tracks.
KID Mccoy given the decision
over Syracuse Tommy Ryan al the
end of the siX-round bout in Chicago.
The defeated man hit Referee Malachy
Hogan, who returned the blow
The labor troubles in Chicago may
be ended through a proposed plan OF
the Masons and Builders association
TO treat with individual unions, lgnor-
ing the building trades council
President Mckinley has been forced
by the temperance element TO abandon
his support Of the army canteen BY
his orders the anu-canteen bin was
reported fayorably to the house.
Mayor Mayhury called the Detroit
council in special session and had
street-railway tracks, laid in defiance
OF the mayor, council and the courts,
torn up the day they We're laid.
Navy department. is arranging for
the fertilization OF Dry Tortugas,
Pearl harhor. Pango Pango and
Guam. with these Alaska. and Cavlte
America would dominate the Pacific.
Indiana gold democrats said silver
was not dead. denounced Bryan and
Mckinley and declared they would not