Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-12-26

OF the greatest wine-prOducing district.
in Europe. The products Of her<vine
i yards in 1900 was valued at 81 800 900
About eight million dollars were spent
on the great Chenab irrigatins canal X
India: but the crops Of last year from
the irrigated lands are valued at twice
that amount.
Frances Davis was alta .ned in Nor
| folk. Va. by an unknown woman. who
threw pan OF concentrated I've in her
face. destroying both her eyes and hor
ribly burning her. jealousy is suppos
ed to have prompted the assault.
George w. F. Perry. one of the last
of the Confederate brigadier generals
died at his home in Bowling Green Ky
after long illness. lie was In his
9th year, and for many years had
been connected with Ogden college.
The London World says the propos
ed visit Of King Edward and Queen
Alexandra to Ireland. which was to
have taken place in the spring or ar
ter his majesty's coronation has been
abandon ed on account of the disturbed
state OF that country.
One of the boldest burglar.as ever
perpetrated in Oak Park occurred
| Thursday noon within half block Of
the police station. The jewelry store
of w. Fl. Dreschler. 131 Lake street.
was broken into and valuable jewell v
and money, the total amounting to
about 500, were taken.
The London school board has opened
the first of series Of schools for Grip
| pies. The children are taken from their
homes to school IN an ambulance and
afterward taken home by ambulance.
The school curriculum includes sub
| stantial midday meal
| Ernest Sapoli, former steward on
the steamship La Gascogne of the
Transatlantic Line, was sentenced to
ten months Imprisonment in New
York Thursday for attempting to bribe
an immigration officer to pass certain
immigrants as citizens. Federal Judge
Thomas imposed the sentence.
| The state bank of Gothenburg, Neb
closed Thursday by order of the Ne
braska banking board, and an exam
liner placed temporarily in charge. The
bank is capitalized at $4,000, and at
the time OF its last report had deposits
of $4,000. @. V. Carlson is it's presi-
dent and Mary Z. Carlson cashier.
William G. Whitney and his train
ers, John Higgins and J. W. Rogers,
have selected Nasturtium to run in the
English Derby next year. Nasturtium
Will be shipped to England on the
Minnehaha on Dec. %, The colt was
purchased from A. l. Aste for $780,
600 by Mr.. Whitney last summer.
According to the Odessa Novosti the
Trans-Siberian railway. when it was
begun ten years ago, was estimated to
cost $50 0000 900 roubles f$1S0,2 50, 000)
but the difference estimated and actual
up 70 a year ago. was over 1870 900 900
roubles The total cost, it is believed.
will be over 900, 900, 900 roubles ($513,-
900 00ol.
Inc remaining four submarines
building at Barrow for tie British ma
w will be- launched before the end OF
the year, and they will be completely
finished and ready for their trials be-
fore they are placed in the water. The
tests made with the first boat have been
{ satisfactory
! The industrial crisis throughout Rus
STA Is becoming intensified. in the Kieff
district, the cases of bankruptcy are
very numerous. entire works with ell
their fittings. are being offered for sale
in all directions. Sugar factories and
chemical works are on sale to the high
est bidder
Andrew Carnegie has notified the
New York Press club that he intended
presenting it with IA library to the
value of $4,000. The selection and
/ purchase OF the books are to be left
70 an especially appointed committee
of the club, which, when the $4,000
/ limit has been reached, is to refer the
bill to Mr.. Carnegie.
John r Hayden, lately a bookkeep-
err in New York for Swift & Co. the
! Chicago packers, pleaded guilty to
grand larceny in the court OF general
sessions and was sentenced to states
prison for not less than one year nor
more than five years. Hayden was
employed by Swift < Co.. at their
office in New York, Last August he
stole $4,000
The police of Berlin are seeking for
/ young American calling himself Har-
+ ry Marshall who has disappeared from
/ Berlin Marshall obtained several thou
I sand marks in cash and pewelry from
/ American residents there. He repre-
scented himself as a Cincinnatian, and
/ as former employe of Senator For
/ akcr. Ii Is believed Marshall is an in
/ tcrnational swndler
! As a result of much local agitation as
to the proper charge on the part of the
Detroit Gas company for fuel and illu-
mnating gas. the common council has
amended the existing ordinance SO as to
require the gas company TO deliver both
kind of gas at 20 cents per 1000 feet
. At present the price OF illuminating gas
is 81, and of fuel gas 80 cents per 1000
feet.
\ tobacco exporter who has just re
turned from a trip to England says
the members of the Imperial Tobacco
company have pledged themselves to
spend half their private fortunes II
necessary, TO defeat the American
company's designs on the British
trade. He thinks the general cutting
that will follow means low prices tol
leaf next year, so far as exporters are
concerned