Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-12-12
GENERAL NEWS BY WIRE.
Matters of Interest Covering Various
Parts of the World and Put
in Concise Form.

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Kan, was married in St Joseph. Mo.
Nov. 10 to Mrs. Eva Springsteen,
known also as Mrs. Fair. She says
she came from Chicago, but her home
was originally in Atchison. Kas. it is
said
Formal notice of the absorption Of
the NJ. c. Wetmore Tobacco company
of st. Louis by the Continental Tobacco
company has been issued to dealers.
Brigadier General Crozier. chief Of
ordnance, has been detailed as a mem
Der OF ordnance and Notifications to
succeed General Burlington, retired
Senator Fairbanks introduced bill
for the admission of Oklahoma as a
state, and providing that the capital
shall be located at town to be called
Mckinley, in honor of the late presi-
dent
Jessie Earl l3-year- old girl of Adj
vance, Ind, a small station perhaps
saved the lives of many people by flag
ging the eastbound passenger train on
the Chicago Southeastern railroad be-
fore it reached burning trestle.
Wall street bankers have asked Sec
rotary of the Treasury .iage to aid
them in establishing a great interna-
tional bank in China. The suggested
4 capital is si0,o00,000 and the money is
said to be waiting on favorable advices
/ from Secretary Gage,
The steamer Boscowtz, which ar
rived Friday at Victoria. b. c., brings
news that the steamer Elk from Cape
Nome for Seattle with 81 passengers
| is in Sushwartie Bay, at the head Of
Vancouver island repairing her rud
| der The vessels left Nome, Oct 20
and is considerably overdue,
! Attorney General Sheets Of Ohio,
has rendered an opinion on the Ohio
debenture law, in which he holds that
any debenture company desiring to en-
| ter the state after the law of 1900 went
into effect must deposit 100000 at
once with the state treasurer.
New York and Boston relatives of
! Emeline II. Balch. late Of Manchester,
! n. H.. have began to contest her will,
which leaves S250.0 600 to Manchester
! institutions. Mrs Balch made her will
a month ago and soon after drowned
herself in bath tub.
NJ. Constantine Makovski, Russia
noted painter of portraits, will begin
at once portrait of President Roose-
welt. The sittings will take place in
the cabinet room. and the president
will probably be portrayed seated at
the head of the cabinet table.
The New ersey state board of
health is starCled by the tact that the
vital statistics show that in the year
ending oct. 81 there were 00l deaths
from cancer, or twice as many as from
smallpox, diphtheria. scarlet fever and
typhoid fever combiled in New Jer
sey
A letter from Honolulu. dated Nov
&c. says: Two little children have
been eaten by canni0ais on the Sa-
moan island OF Tutuila Two of the
man-eaters have been hunted down
( and killed. The third is in hiding and
the Samoans in the American colony
fear that he will resume his caunibal
practices "
Commenting on President Roose-
vet's recommendation that the Chi
nese exclusion act be reenacted w ].
Bryan asserts that the present eXclu-
sion act does not so far enough. In
his opinion the law should be amend
ed so as 10 bar out Japanese and the
tilipinos.
4 monument to Robert Fulton, the
inventor of the steamboat. was mveil-
ed the other afternoon in Trinity
church yard. New York City, after a
memorial service that crowded the
main body of the old church The mon.
ument was erected by the American
Society OF Mechanical Engineers, who
have been holding their annual con
yontion in this city for the last two
DAYS.
\ Dispatch from New Berry, Fla
tells of n street tragedy Friday in the
place. in which J. B. Esterliu, one Of
the most prominent citizens. was
killed by n Johnson, another white
citizen.
Ernest Wade. former empIoye az
Wells. Fargo x Co. has filed suit at
III Paso, Tex. against the company
asking S500u0 Tor alleged false impris
ounent
Col Henry Watterson Of Kentucky
Friday gave a lecture before the stu
dents Lecture Association at Ann Ar
Dor. Mich. on Abraham Lincoln, eulo-
gi2ine him as the hest frieud the
South ever had
The Mexican government Will tender
the delegates of the Pau-AmeriCan con-
ference a magnificent ball on the last
night OF the year at the national pal-
ace, This viii be the most gorgeous
and costly ball Vet given aud the ex-
ncuse Will not be less than 100000
The dynamite factory az Pretoria has
started work ON 4 small scale to meet
the immediate requirements Of the coal
mines
Mrs Belle Hottakiss, charged with
the murder on James Duney, her broth
erin-law. Vas convicted of manslaugh-
ter IN the third degree at Great Bend
kas. The killing was provoked by q
quarrel al long standing.
In a railroad collision near Eharhin
Russia - Chinese and seven Russians
were killed 1wu - the latter we're
frozen to death.