Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-11-08

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bers of the church.
Fire which started in the building OF
Tarrant & Co. wholesale druggists
northwest corner of Warren and
Greenwich streets, New York city
caused a property loss of s1,3OO,OOO
and the death. it is feared. of Al per
sons. Several hundred were injured.
The sequel to the finding of the body
of Mrs. Charles A. Keffer on public
road eight miles below Reading. Pa,
shot to death. developed when the
| body of her husband was found in a
coal chute. He had killed her and
then committed suicide. Jealousy was
the cause.
Gen. D. NJ Frost for fifty years one
of the best known residents of st.
Louis, is dead, age ". He was born II.
Schenectady county, New York, in
1923; was graduated from West Point
in 1874 and served in the Mexican ana
civil wars-in the latter on the con
federate side
Clifford Cawthon. 16 years old, was
found dead in his bed at the home ofhis
widowed mother in Chattanooga, Tenn.
His head had been hacked to pieces
with a Ratchet. Mrs. Cawthon, ac-
cording to the police. confessed that
she killed her son because he was bad
apJ cr,,plya1 piUarottac
Congressman Charles A. Boutelle,
who has been an inmate of the Mclean
asylum at Waverly, Mass. since last
spring, and who was recently re-elect-
ed by the people of his district in
Maine, despite his known condition, Is
regarded by the physicians at the in
stitute as hopeless case.
The jury in Chicago in the murder
case of Henry Crawford for killing
Wesley j. Constant last May, returned
q verdict Of acquittal The plea CT
Crawford was seifdefence. Constant
had eloped from St Louis with Craw-
fords wife, having borrowed the
money from Crawford for the trip.
The steamer Dolphin arrived a.
Seattle from Skagway with 100 passen-
gers and 100000 in gold from the
Klondike. The klondikers came up
the river on the steamer Zealandia,
leaving Dawson Oct I. The river wa,
then full of floating ice and the
weather was bitter cold.
The gun from which the first shot
in the Spanish-American war was fred
has reached Nashville, which is to be
it's permanent home 1t is a Hotchkiss
rapid fire one-pounder and comes from
the gunboat Nashville. which sent a
shot over the bow of the Spanish mer-
chant vessel Buena Ventura.
An explosion of acetyline gas that
was to be used for a stereopticou en-
tertainment wrecked the interior of
the First Presbyterian church in Aus
tin. H.. and the operator. George W.
Leitch, recently returned from mis-
sionary work in India and Ceylon, lost
his right hand and sustained a number
of other injuries.
William Cawthorn was hacked TO
pieces with pocketkuiyes in the hands
OF a mob near Tyler, Tex. The crowd
gathered outside a school house whore
divine services were being held They
got into a quarrel and disturbed the
congregation, When Cawthorn came
out and endeavored to quell the dis
turbanee he was assailed on all sides.
Najeeb Arbeeley, consul general to
Egypt during Gen. Grants first adj
mlnistratlon, was stricken with paraly-
sis at the barge Office in New York.
For some years he has been one of the
immigrant inspectors. having in
charge the oriental bureau, Najeeb
Arbeeley's father was a member of the
Turkish parliament and the son was
educated in this country,