Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-11-21

Iaveraging Ar pounds that sold at
Sc 90. These steers were OF the very
| well known Wv brand, bred by B. r.
Brooks, OF Casper. Wyo. The steers
| were all reds having been sired by
! Short Horn bulls from Angus cows
| The cattle were on feed since July |,
| getting crushed corn with oil meal dur
ing the last 80 days feeding period.
They We're bought by the United
Dressed Beef company for shipment 20
New York.
DR.. Tyree, physician at MCGEE, l.
T., shot and fatally wounded Thomas
Moag. drug clerk, in a quarrel over
a prescription. Moag in turn turn
shot Tyree, causing a slight wound.
The body of man supposed to be
Herbert Ellwanger of Cleveland was
found in fairmount park. Philadelphia
He had evidently committed sui
eide as there was a bullet wound in
the head and pistol lying beside the
body.
G. +. Sismey, a London lawyer has
been granted divorce from his Amer
lean wife, formerly Miss Catherine
Woodhill, on statutory grounds. The
couple were married in San Francisco
| in 1890 Mrs. Sismey is now believed
to be in San Francisco with her par
| ents
Peter Miller. a Swedish laborer sui
cided at Omaha in tragic manner He
used a knife, spike, Ratchet and finally
| a rope
| Captain Hartman S. troop of the First
cavalry early surprised 400 insurgents
at Buan Batangas province, in south
western Luzon, killing 16 wounding
! five and capturing nine rifles The in
surgents broke and ran, the cavalry
pursuing
1t has developed that Mrs. Rathbun
was not implicated in the insurance
swindle at Jeffersonyille, Ind.
All efforts to find clue to the muir
! derer OF the two women whose dead
bodies We're found at Evansville, Ind.
have proved unavailing.
The statement of mission ..ies ar
! firms there is III, ground Whatever for
| criticising Miss Stone for want of pre-
caution in making the journey at the
! time she was taken
Between Is 900 and 10000 freight ears
are needed for immediate use by the
railroads centering in Chicago Not
! Slllit lNob mas iHt iitlSui Val 0ilbI Ia ST
/ been so great as at present.
The city treasurer is taking steps TO
collect from the American Sugar Rein
! ing company $4,000 in taxes on sugar
| recently shipped into Omaha to meet
| the demand caused by the sugar war.
! A meteoric shower of great brillan-
| Cy and considerable length occurred
early Friday morning at Phoenix, Ariz
! 1t continued half an hour. More than
! two hundred meteors were counted.
The navy department has been in
/ formed that the transport Buford with
| two battalions of the Twenty-third in
fantry sailed from Gibraltar Friday for
! New York
The grand jury of the United States
| court at Indianapolis. Ind. has begun
| to consider the most importnt case that
will come before it during the present
| session that of Richard Davis, former
cashier of the Peoples National bank
of Wash ington Ind. Davis is charged
with embezZling and squandering ST.
/ 900 in bank funds. Davis made good
! TIA losses.
In the sale of Is shorthorn steers at
/ the Chicago stock yards this week the
! highest price of the year was realized.
/ The sale was made at $40 a hundred.
/ the average weight being .572 pounds.
| Two ears of cattle were also sold during
/ the day at Sc so. both sales being made
on their merits.
! The president has signed an executive
order creating naval reservation of
/ large tract of land just acquired by the
navy department at Onlongapo. on Su-
I I 10.
will proceed with all dispatch to con-
struct at this point a navy yard and
/ station
The American Anti-Cigaret associa-
. ton, which is said to have member
/ ship of over 800 goo, is said to have
drawn pledge which is to be read in
every Sunday school in the United
( States ON Nov, "a, II binds the signers
! to abstain from the use of cgarets or
! tobacco in any form until p years OF
age and il is expected that several hun
dred thousand signatures will he OBJ
tanned.
! The proposed railway from Dawson
! 70 the klondike mines will be built
next summer.
\ James Gongs was found dead in his
buggy few miles south of
Cave Springs. Ga. his neck having
been broken. VI is thought he was
murdered and robbed by highwaymen.
The Colonel II @, Jordan dairy
farm COW barn ut bingham Mass,
was burned causing loss of be
tween $50 900 and 100000. Besides
farming implements 40 head OF cattle
and seven horses were burned,
Rufus w. Blake. the piano manufac-
turer of Derby, Conn. who died of
self indicted bullet wound in the head
leaves 81 500. 600 to his young widow.
Mr. Blake was twice married
Mrs Cora l.athrop Patterson,
treatment member OF the society of
Colonial Danes. Virginia chapter.
| Omaha has filed an answer To her hus.
bands petition Tor divorce. She al
leges that the son OF the millionaire
tobacco King had treated her cruelty,
has been d. mixing excessively and neg
lected her ana her child.