Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1900-10-18
Domestic.


The Idaho Soldiers home burned
entailing a loss OF $4,000. There
were 500 inmates. No one was in
jured.
The ordnance board sustained Cen
eral Miles opinion that disappearing
gun carriages for coast defense are
obsolete
Mrs. Edward Goldberg of Seneca,
Mo, died from toadstool poisoning.
Her husband, government agent for
the Quapaw Indians, died from the
same cause,
The board of naval construction APP
proved the designs for the three new
protected cruisers, which are re-
garded as an improvement On the
Olympia type.
The wife of Rev. Charles Meeder of
the Emanuel Evangelical church,
Pennington, Kan, jumped into a els
tern with her 3-year-old child and both
were drowned.
The Rev. Richard A. w Einsiedel
left his Lutheran pastorate in Beloit,
Wis, under a cloud of suspicion, part
of the cloud being 900 empty whisky
bottles in the rectory.
Samuel J Ritchey of Baltimore,
Md, who has been on trial at Ottum-
wa, Iowa, charged with completely in
the celebrated Eldon bank robbery,
was found not guilty.
The conference of the western dis
trict German Evangelical Lutheran
synod of Missouri. Ohio and other
states, convened at Concordia, Mo,
for a six days session,
The ninth annual meeting of the
Order of Hoo Hoos assembled at
Dallas, Tex Two thousand mem
bers are present, coming from all
parts of the United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland and
the little Clevelands returned to their
quiet Princeton home after spending
summer in pleasure and health
seeking at seashore and mountains.
Harry Courtaine, seyenty-one years
old, up to ten years ago a favorite
actor, well known and esteemed both
in the United States and England, is
dying in utter restitution in New
York
1t is urged, in the annual report of
Maj. Gen John r. Brooke, command
ing the department of the east, that
a pressing necessity exists for the
reorganization of the army on modern
lines.
Employees of the Terre Haute Elec-
trical Street railway struck. No cars
were started and no electric lights or
power is in service The men de-
mand increased pay and shorter
/ hours.
Chief Constructor Philip HicAborn,
/ U. S. n. has been awarded a diploma
and gold medal for the Franklin life
buoy, Hichborn turret, and models of
war vessels exhibited at the Paris
exposition.
Captain ~ e Jones, widely known
in army circles as the man who fred
the first shot at Gettysburg, died at
Wheaton, Il. He was born in Poult-
ney, Vt, June 5, 1880, and came to
Illinois in 1858.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the American Bicycle com
pany the treasurer reported net
profit of S605,5797t for the year end
ing July the first year of the COM
pauys existence.
The president aud Mrs. Mckinley
arrived from Canton The president
will remain in Washington until
about the POD or 23d of the month.
when he viii again 90 to Canton to
remain until after the election
Colnel Joseph Payson Wright,
assistant surgeon general Of the
United States army, died suddenly at
his home In Washington, in the sixty
fourth year of his age. Interment
was in the national cemetery at Ar
lington
p. II Gilhooley counsel for the
EIizabothport, \. j., Banking com
pany announces that william SChrie-
Der, a missing clerk OF the bank, was
a defaulter to the amount of $l0S,000
dNN AlAHl iAlt bdAh NAtNNbI0 udu HlduC
good the amount of the shortage,
Twenty Cinnamon and Italians have
been arrested at El Paso, Tex, charg-
ed with eyading the immigration laws
OF the United States. 1t is said hun
dreds have made their way across
the Mexican border. As fast as APP
pretended they arc oeing deported.
The launching OF the monitor Ar
kansas has been set for Nov. 10 at
the Newport News yards. II is ex-
pected that the two monitors not
yet launched will be in the water be-
fore the close OF the year, so ali four
OF this type OF ship will be anoat be-
fore the year ends.
Charles Wheeler, who resigned as
treasurer OF the Colorado and South
ern railroad last April on account OF
i'll health, is dead in Denver, Col He
Was connected with the Union Pacific
railway system for twenty,eight