Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-10-17
0LIO OF EVENTS.

railroads are ONhcu CASiuoi'Siy W
the respective governments.
A committee of citizens of Harris
brro Pa. is at work to secure suit
ofts memorial for John Harris, the
founder Of the city.
M the 557 towns n New England
101 manage their schools under the dis
frirt system. eighty-one of them oeing
in Connecticut
The Italian government purchased
oil private main railroads of Italy in
1855 and leased them for 20 years to
private corporations.
The New York Women's Health Pro-
tartiye association intends to erect a
memorial TO the late Colonel War1ng. A
life member has given $500 to the fund,
The khedive is anxious to introduce
Swiss cattle into Egypt. At the con-
c]usion of his recent visit TO Europe he
took a number of these cattle to Cairo.
Travellers on Prussian railways
whose baggage, through no fault OF
their own, fails to arrive with them,
can now have it sent, on request, free
10 their houses.
Swiss papers record a decline in the
cvnort of wood-carvings, and attribute
Fl to the lack of variety in the cary
;nzs, me few subjects being monOton-
ously repeated.
BY the will Of the late Mrs. Martha
callahan. who died on Aug. II, the
Home for the Aged at Des Moines, Ia.
receives $4,000 and $4,000 Is be-
cueltled TO the Tuskegee Normal and
Industrial Institute OF Tuskegee, Ala.
.Jutaro Komura, former minister
from Japan to Pekin, and later to
Washington, has been formally install
cd as foreign minister of the imperial
cabinet Of Japan. He is a graduate of
the Harvard Law School.
The German crown prince has COM
uletcd his first term at the University
of Bonn. For the next semester the
DIan arranged for him comprehends
Fl lectures a week including 'privatis-'
sma' by nine professors.
Ii is now said in London that "E. 3.
Iqnin." author of striking book about
Russia, is in reality Dr.. E. J. Dillon CT
the Telegraph, who has the widest
r1ugc of European acquaintance
among statesman and people alike.
The wonderful specimens cf mediae-
val work in goldsmithry left 70 the
Louvre ny lDdt pH AlBltp|iSt VIC itDhilN-
child have been arranged in q special
gallery and opened to tho public. lie
left $4,000 for the expenses of install
meut.
The total emigration of Swedes to
America during the last so years has
exceeded $4,000, while about l59,090
Swedes have gone TO other countries
Of the emigrants to the United States
ONLY per cent have returned to their
native country.
In Victoria a sick voter can record
his vote by post: it has just been en-
acted through the local postmaster
from the returning officer, fill Il Tip in
the presence of the policeman, who
must not look at the name he is writ
ing, and post it.
The constructed of cable railway
has been common ed from Zakopane,
favorite mountai resort six hours
Journey from Crawcow, Poland, to ths
PIack lake. one of the m0st beaut'fu'
OF the Carpathian lakes. It is expected
to be ready for the tourist season EeXt
year.
The gold medal of the | allan Peace
society was presented the other day tc
Siguor Marconi The presentation wac
made by the Marquis Luigi Solar q
LorCto an officer of the Italian navy
who subsequently gave a dinner in hon
or of the event and expressed the 20
uirat.on of Italy for her distinguished
SON
President Roosevelt belongs to sever
al scientific clubs at the capital Re
many years he has been a member 6
the National Geographical society. II
iea mcu Der also OF the Columbia His
torigal society and the AnthropolcGi
l5I society His exploits in Switze-
land gained him membership in the \!
phine club. of London.
THE cattle king of Australia ia Som
vel McCaughey an Irishman who wen
10 Australia in 1856 with practically
nothing He now owns more land ttan
caf la One of his farms on the DAN
tar downs is sc miles long and 20 m'ler
w.3r Altogether he owns more than
n million acres and leases about mil
.a7 or so more.
or the vice presidents Of the United
sttas who have succeeded to the prci-
U.Y through the death Of the pre-
at Tyler, served three years arc
,.Nl months; Fillmore, two years
.n months and &c days; johnson
t." vclre, ten months and 20 days
al.~r. three years i've and han
Roaaevelt'e term is three
. Eve months aild - days.
a Paris spcri~g pepper Eeeus MP it,
f's...s 3e S- Ell to show the rarity
~. tgcuhoa resulting from auto
il states That during the
Of fune tG persons were killed
I5t injured b. wagon accidents;
..I and 2e3 injured by railways;
.li and l24 injured by bicycle
m" killed and GO injured by
Ter.
r1g Hass., the employees Of the
I1s are d.Ecu sing the ad-
aaEi & the employers &c
Pc usual uumer Saturday
a'na throughout the year One
rgt employers OF the town is
.t.ve that good to al concern
'1 result from the ye2r-ccund
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