Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-05-31

formerly lumber dealers at Burlington
| Vt. al, Morse & Cromble, have filed a
petition in bankruptcy Liabllities
Sl33,1 100, OF which 500 800 is partly Sc
cured.
The United States supreme court
decided the Kentucky goyernorship
| case in favor Of Governor Beckham
! democrat, dismissing the writ of err
ror from the Kentucky court Of APP
peals.
Policeman McRae was shot and
! killed by St. Louis mob while he
was attempting to repel its attack on
a street car. Strike riots we're general
all day. A 3-year-old boy was shot
and may die
rhe National Travellers Protective
association declared that trusts have
thrown $50 0oO commercial travellers
out of employment and withheld
| SO 600 900 daily in advertising from
| country newspapers
The insurance department of the
! Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
wound up its affairs without acting up
| on the question of establishing an in
digent fund of $150,O0O as a branch of
| the insurance work.
Francis Bicknell Carpenter, whose
great historical picture of Lincoln
reading the emancipation proclama-
ton to the cabinet which made him
one of the best-known historical
painters in this country, died in New
York.
/ w. A. Clarks latest credentials as
senator from Montana were laid on
! the table in the senate, Maginnis'
| credentials are due No action Is
| likely on either, but the senate will
wait for the legislature to fill the
| vacancy.
At Atlantic City Col Wickham
Hoffman, aged 10 years, who was in
| the military service of the govern
ment through the civil war and then
Secretary, charge d'affaires, and
minister on the European continent
| from 1860 to 1886. died.
| Frederic A. Bell, who made a vast
/ fortune III lut Ultutillllptt1 'btti bh9i'AN''A
! in Philadelphia, and who was subse-
/ quently president of the Buffalo Ele-
waiting company is dead at his home
| in Madison, n j., aged s. years He
| leaves an estate valued at $25 600 900.
At Philadelphia, superintendent of
Police Quirk stated that Henry Ivory,
a culored laborer, has confessed that
! he was with the murderer of Prof.
| Roy Wilson White, the young law in
structor Of the University of Penn
sylyania. who was killed on the street.
! General Albert d. Shaw, commander
in-chief of the c. A. r., in company
with Mr.. Patrick of the G.. A. r. COM
mittoe on legislation, called on the
president and invited him and Mrs.
Mckinley to attend the encampment
Aug. q. Tie promised to be present, if
possible.
Charles w. Mussey pleaded guilty
in the United States district court to
misappropriation of funds Of the Mer-
chants National bank Of Rutland, VT,
of which he was cashier, and was SEN
fenced to seven years Imprisonment.
John G., Farrar, former cashier of the
Waterbury National bank pleaded
guilty to abstracting 100000 and was
given a term of six years
At Greenwich, Conn. a huge pink,
granite boulder, weighing nine tons,
arrived and was taken to the small
on the brow of Puts hill and placed in
honor of General Israel Putnam, who,
history tells us, pursued by the Brit
ish in revolutionary days, rode astride
a horse down hundred steps which
| then stood there, mid shower of
bullets, and escaped to Stamford
The Methodist general conference
resolved to elect two secretaries for the
| Freedman Aid society. one Will be
/ NJ. c. B Mason. a colored man. The
secretaryshlp of the Epworth league
was abolished The conference viii
adjourn May %. The conference
elected David II. Moore and John w.
| Hamilton bishops. The organic law
was amended SO as to admit women
! 20 the general conference and abolish
ing the 5-year limit for pastors.
German relchstag passed meat bill
/ and the bundesrath's approval IS as
sured rhe bin bars canned meats
and sausages of which 60,000,oO0
| pounds were imported from America
! last year. Chicago packers protested
| TO Secretary Wilson against the bill.
/ The secretary has power 20 retallate
1 by excluding any German products
ON the score OF danger to public
/ healta. Agrarians are angry because
1 the bin permits entry OF salt meats.
The following officers were elected
/ at the conference OF charities and cor
recuons President, John M Glenn,
Baltimore. Md: vice presidents.
Daniel C.. Gilman, Johns Hopkins
university; T. j. Charlton, plainield
I lnd. Michael Heymaun New Orleans
/ La. general secretary, Hastings II.
Hart Chicago. treasurer, Alfred o.
r.