Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-06-20
WIRE STORIES IN BRIEF.
Flashes from This Country as Well
as Abroad Given in Con-
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Emperor William will start his yacht
! iduna in the Shelbe regatta on June
18th.
Andres DeWet, the Boer leader, says
he is going to the United States in the
middle of July to lecture.
The Berlin Anzeiger says a big re-
view will take place at Mayence ON Au-
gust IA in the presence of Emper Will
liam, King Edward and Car Nicholas.
Mrs. White. the wife OF the United
States ambassador. gave a farewell
luncheon at Berlin Saturday in honor
Of Mrs. Boise. The ladies of the Ameri-
can colony presented Mrs. Boise with a
valuable gift as a testimonial of her
efforts in behalf of the Berlin Ameri-
can Women Students club.
John F. Dupont, young society man
OF st. Joseph, Mo-, was drowned Satur-
day while bathing in Lake Contrary.
Emperor Williams yacht, the Meteor,
beat the Kariad by seven minutes Sat-
urday over a 44-mile course at Roth
esay, Fork of Clyde.
The entire plant Of the Wylie Cooper
age company at Interlochen, Mich, was
destroyed by fire Saturday night. The
loss Is estimated at $4,000.
Julian Phelps. United States consul
at Crefeld, Germany, has resigned He
was appointed from IoYa in 1897.
Dryers Brothers Mercantile company,
wholesale dealers in department store
supplies at ST. Louis, made an assign
ment for the benefit of their creditors
Saturday. The liabilities are $225,00
and the assets $375,000. Inability to
meet maturing obligations is given as
the cause.
A general strike Of the Brotherhood
OF Railroad Trainmen on the Maine
Central system has begun. Eight hun
dred men are affected. The men ask for
an advance of 25 cents per day.
Vandais in search of relics carried off
part of the mosaic floor of the capitol
building at Washington.
A new process of extracting gold from
low grade ore successfully has been
tested at Fort Wayne. 1t may revou-
tionize mining.
Great Britain has forced the sultan OF
Turkey to sign contract for new bat
tie ship, the price to include indemnity
claims of $4,000.
A deputy sheriff served an execution
York, in favor of Edward S. Stokes for
the recovery of money expended on the
place and for rent while he was receiver
of the house.
Hon. j. II. Manley has announced
that he is candidate for the nominal
ton for governor of Maine at the con-
clusion of Governor Hills term. Mr.
Manley declares that he favors a one
year term for the governor and the sup
preston of the whisky traffic
n. b. Carskadon, prominent attor-
ney. dropped dead of heart disease at
Kansas City, Mo. He was born at Kiser,
w. Va, in 1860. At the time of his
death he was acting as attorney for
Frank Rockefeller in his case against
Frank Sewell. former president of the
defunct SiegelSanders Livestock COM
pany.
With several stolen letters in his poe
kets, Samuel S. Goodman, a clerk in the
Chicago postoffice. was arrested for rob-
bling the mails. The prisoner has a wife
and two children and said that he had
been unable to support them on his
salary of $500 year. He waived ex-
animation and was held to the federal
grand jury
Southern ports of entry are seriously
threatening New Yorks prestige as a
commercial center, Boston having al
ready yielded second place to New Or
leans.
Cuban colonies in New York and
Washington warned Cuban constitu-
tional convention to act quickly on the
Platt amendment, as the independence
of the island was at stake.
Sixteen-year- Harry Kemp Of Ar
lington, N. j., arrived home from a
years wandering about the world, in
which he visited South America, Aus
tralia, China, Japan and the Philip
pines. He was at the looting of Pekin.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
Hungary. arrived 1T Prague, Bohemia.
thursday for visit Of five days. Il is
made in the hope of conciliating the
warning Czechs and Germans. German
colors floating from a club house were
tore down by an excited crowd of
Czechs. Otherwise the day was peace
FL.
General oJseph Wheeler. Rear Adj
miral Higginson and Captain Rich
mond Pearson Hobson were among the
speaker at the y. NJ. c. A. jubilee CON
vention at Boston Wednesday. In the
evening a RECEPTION in honor of the dele
gates was given at the Museum of Fine
Arts despite the protest of a few mem
hers that such action would commit the
association to the nude in art.