Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-03


guns in tle coast defenses
Amelle Riyes, the Princess Trouble
tzkoi is suffering from nervous pros
tration at the home OF her father,
Colonel Riyes, If Virginia.
Stuart Robson, the actor, was sued
for $500 room rent, and set up as de-
Tense that the apartments were in
/ aabited by rats and yermin.
The Iowa mlddle-of-the-road popu-
lists hold a state convention at Des
Moines and select delegates to the Gin
cinnatI national convention.
Admiral Dewey and Bryan will not
meet in Chicago, owing to the date Of
banque,s being changed to May s.
Admiral Dewey leaves May a
At the Ohio republican convention
Hanna told Of prosperity during the
Mckinley administration and de-
| clared expansion Is destiny
At Kawkawlin, Mich, the packing
house Of the Ajax dynamite mills blew
up, killing William Waever, Ed Hal
ligan and William Van Yasseler.
At CoEnellsville, Pa, an unknown
man committed suicide at the foundry
works Of the II G Frick Coke com
pany by diving into a coke oven.
st. Louis union men, including mu
| sicians, are TO boycott the St. Louis
Dewey parade if the admiral occupies
non-union grand -tand in Chicago
The United States consul at Cliff
ton, Canada exonerates Finians and
grain shovelers from completely in the
attempt to blow up the well and canal
President John Henry Barrows, of
Oberlin University, announces that DR.,
Alice II . Luce, Of Wellesley college,
| has accepted election as dean of Ober-
lin
Capt. Carter must serve his sentence
! for embezzlement in the prison at
| Fort Leayenworth. the United States
supreme court having denied his ap-
peal.
| William Douglas, an inmate Of the
reformatory at Green Bay, Wis, was
shot and killed while trying to escape.
He belonged 10 a good family in Chi
cago.
Employees Of the Spring Valley Coal
company voted to go on strike be-
cause of alleged violations OF the
agreement entered into by the com
pany.
At Dover, Del, Ephralm Wilson,
colored, aged 1916 years, died. He often
referred to incidents in the war of
1912 and said he saw George Wash
ington.
Electricity has supplanted steam in
the operation Of the big packing
houses Of Armour & Co. at the Union
Stock Yards. The new plant cost
$1,000 600.
The Hub Motor Transit company
incorporated in New Jersey for $1,000
600, promised Chicago scent fares In
automobiles and general traction
revolution
Armed boycotters drove non-uniou
clerk from Butte City, Mont, threat
cniHg him with death if he returned,
because he did not observe an early
closing rule
rhe reception committee OF the
Chicago Dewey celebration has receiy-
ed formal notice from President Nc
/ <inley of his declination Of the lnvi-
latiou TO attend
Henry A. Robinson, ex-statistician
OF the United States agricultural de
partment and former state labor COM
missioner, died at his home IN Detroit.
aged S. years
The eruption Of a volcano Is re-
ported from the Philippines The
/ place was the extreme southeastern
! portion OF the island of Luzou. IN the
province Of Alhay
James harris arrested az Otumwa
charged with the murder Of John
Allen, q wealthy merchant has made
o written confession duplicating The
wife Of the deceased.
The Troy conference of the Metho-
/ dist Episcopal church today advised
} the retention of the possessions that
= came to the United States as re
| suit of the war with Spain.
Australian dispaJchs tell of the dis
coyery of rich placer ground at We'd
/ derbuu, Victoria John Boyd, the
| first man to stake ground, uneartAed
a 6l-ouuce nugget at % feet depth
At Lima. Ohio an indictment was
returned against y. L. Michael ex-
yice-president of the American Ma
tional bank, which was mysterlously
robbed here two years ago Of $4,000
AT ChIlcothe, Ohio. James Stewart
veterinary surgeon, was found dead
IN the street George Poe was arrest
ed and confessed that he struck
Stewart with a stone in a drunken row
The indictment against W, 5, ray
lor republican governor OF Ken
lucky, viii be held up untn after the
argument before the supreme court
Of the ease Involving the governor