Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-02-22

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The National Biscuit company's net
profits for 1899 are reported at So .302,
1876, equal to $50 per cent. on common
stock after paying per cent. on the
preferred
Chicago builders placed at work 15i
non-union men No violence is at
tempted. The labor situation is un-
changed. neither side having any ad-
vantage
Al Las Cruces ~ NJ robbers held
M the cashier at b. c. Bowman's bank
and took $4,000. The famous sheriff
Pat Garrett and a posse are in pursuit
Of the thieves.
At South Bend, William r. Smiles,
10 years old, was arrested, charged
with embezzling $4,000 from the es-
tate of the late Samuel Halstead of
New York
Captain Arthur 5. Mckinley a first
cousin of President Mckinley. was
married at the Catholic cathedral in
Denver to Miss Regina Qulgley OF
Montgomery
Trinity Methodist church, Chicago,
was wrecked by fire which started
near the organ during a prayer meet
ing. Women wept as the roof fell in
pamage $4,000
r. c. Frlck has filed bill in equity
against the Carnegie Steel company
showing that Friclr values his holdings
at SIG 23S, 900, while Carnegie offers
him $4,000 900 for them.
Civil Engineer Asserson, at the
Brooklyn navy yard. has reported that
the fire at that yard is a heavy blow,
owing to the large number of histori-
cal and valuable records destroyed.
At Lansing Kan, the board of di-
Irectors Of the state penitentiary have
decided to hereafter sell the entire
output of binding Irvine of the Kansas
Ipenitentiary direct to the farmers.
A Kansas City jury gave a negro
footpad a forty-year sentence in the
penitentiary for snatching a white
woman's pocketbook. Two jurors
wanted TO give him a life sentence
Dr. William Steinitz. the famous
chess player, was taken to the insane
pavilion of Bellevue hospital, New
York He Is 50 years old and was con-
fined in an asylum in Moscow in 1897.
Commander Richard Wainwright
will be detached from duty in charge
of ships at the naval academy March
4, and assume the duties of superin-
tendent Of the naval academy, March
Il5.
| w. S. Taylor republican claimant
to the governorship Of Kentucky, is
sending the troops out of Frankfort in
| pursuance of his plan to have the leg
islatuTe meet again in the state capt
| tai
| The Clark investigation proceeded
and several witnesses for the senator
were heard One of them gave evil
dence for the prosecution. much to
the surprise of the defense which
called him.
| Among the commissioners to the
Paris exposition nominated by the
president were Henry A Parr of Bal
timore Mrs Bertha Honore Palmer Of
|Chicago and O. n. Fethers 6f James
vine. wis.
! In New York Cecil Leslie. .press
agent and emplove of the Miller 500
per cent swlndle. has made a con
tession. in which he says Miller must
have gathered in 81 900 000 out of the
scheme
The survey for cable across the
Pacific has been finished All sound
iugs have been made and the results
have been mapped ont. but they viii
not be given until transmitted to
Washington
General Miles laid the corner stone
OF the tower and gateway to be
erected at the dormitories of the Uni
yersity OF Pennsylvania in honor of
the university men who served in the
war against Spain.
n. n. Wells military governor Of
virginia i'm the reconstruction period
died an the home of his daughter Mrs
James n walker i'm PALMYRA \ Y
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