Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-01-24


ship of traction lines.
IS an undertaken started to prepare
the body Of Miss Schaefer, IA New
York school teacher, for burial she
sat up and spoke, and, restored from
coma ny heroic n,easHir-r r. iis4sr Ing
private husi,ital, doing very Web.
Eugene II. Perduc, for" many years
president and business manager of
the Cleveland Leader Printing com.
pany. has severed his ottici connec-
ton with the paper, and will shortly
go to Carlsbad for the benefit Of his
health.
The 33.karat diamond pendant and
the other jewels smuggled into the
United States from Mexico by Valno
NJ Preza and Alexandra Marcuci last
October were declared forfeited yester
day in New York for failure 10 pay
duties.
There has been little change in the
condition of Maurice Thompson, the
author, who has been seriously III at
Charlottesville, Ind, several weeks
He is extremely weak, but it is not be-
lived there is immediate danger of
death
Detectives raided 1t counterfeiters'
den at 34S West Lake street, Chicago
at midnight, captured J. p. McGarry,
the supposed leader OF the band, and
secured three bags Of spurious coip,
with a complete outfit for manufac-
turing it,
Scott Wike, who served in the lower
house of congress two terms. begin.
ming 1886 and who was assistant
comptroller of the currency during
President Clevelands last term, is at
the point of death at his home near
Barry, III.
A. b Sheldon, bookkeeper for
Colonel John Florer, United States
Indian agent at Grey Horse, Okla
homa, died. He had been In the
Indian service twenty-six years. The
body was sent to Sheddens former
home at Brooklyn N. Y,
At Albany, N. y, Louis Currier,
aged 40 years, cut his wifes throat,
broke his son Archies head with a
baseball bat, took dose of paris
green and then cut his own throat, dy-
Ing so.n afterward. He is said to
have been insane from drink
The report Of the appraiser appoint
ed by the New York surrogate TO es-
tablish the valuation of Ogden Goe-
let's personal property shows that it
was worth nearly s7000,00O instead of
hs,, t,it
mate furnished by the family.
II is reported that Mayor Van Wyck
will remove Police Commissioner York
and then join with other members of
the police board in retiring Chief
/ Deyery with pension, Similar ac-
ton was taken when Former Chief of
Police McCullagh was retired.
James r. Chapman, electrical engi-
neer for the Union Traction company
of Chicago, has been employed by
Charles I. Yerkes. the street railway
maguate, to superintend the con.
Tsc~rction and equipment OF his under
ground railway system In London
Baroness Won Ketteler of Detroit
formerly Miss Ledyard, widow of the
late general minister to China, will
sail for Germany the latter part of this
month Her health is now completely
restored and she desires to visit her
late husbands mother, who is so
years cid
On the steamer Tunisian, which ar.
rived from Liverpool at Portland, Me
were 80 lace-makers. bound for Zion
City Wis. Acting upon advises from
| the immigration bureau, the party
was not allowed TO land until the case
was laid before the authorities at
[ Washington.
VIM A. Eddy, the well-known
kite flyer, of Bayonne N. J says that
since 1892 he has drawn from his kite
wire hundreds Of electric signals
! which m9y have come from some
oth,r planet. The signals have been
usually In groups of three. regularly
| timed like a Morse sounder.
/ \ runaway engine In the Rock Isl
aud railroad yards at Council Bluffs.
/ Iowa, crashed into and overturned o
coach on the Wabash train. killing
! Jesse Bell porter. and inluring a wo-
man passenger and two children and
+ then collidcl with and disabled an
engine on Rock Islaad train.
Alaskan advices state that the Sitka
/ Indians, including the Eagle. Crow agd
[ Frog clans, who have been qnareling
over the use of certai1 totems and
other eUblems Of their respective
/ clans have decided to put aside their
differences and hereafter live the
/ lives of law-abiding American citizens.
! At West Point under the semi-annual
examination, Just flushed. twenty
{ cadets 20 back into private life
Among them were: Third-class, Amos
/ NJ. Cook OF Colorado fourth.class. Ed.
ward y. Finn OF Minnesota. Fred r.
Garges Of Nevada. Albert 7. Lyman
/ of Sogth Dakota ana James 4. Etorrer