Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-06-06

selectman, his wife and 14-year-Old
daughter were murdered and fire used
to conceal the crime.
Secretary Root and Colonel Ed
wards. chief of the insular bureau OF
the war department, are considering
plans for transporting teachers to the
Philippines. The salary will be SIS a
month and travelling expenses from
the Waited States.
General George A. Stone, for fifteen
years national bank examiner for
Iowa, died at Burlington, aged GO. He
commanded the 25th Iowa, served as
brigade commander under Sherman
and had a brilliant war record. He
leaves a widow and several children.
The end of the long and bitter fight
between the glucose company and the
| independent plants of the Charles
Pope Glucose company of Chicago has
been reached and final arrangements
for absorption Of the Pope company
are being made by the saccharine
| trust
| The election of officers by the labor
commissioners resulted as follows:
President, Carroll D. Wright of Wash
| ington; ecretary-treasurer James M.
Clark of Pennsylvania. The executive
committee includes John O'Donnell of
Minnesota 1t was decided to hold the
next convention at New Orleans.
Mrs. Edwin II. Conger, wife of the
American minister to China, said:
THE story from San Francisco that |
administered Christian Science treat
ment to Mrs Mckinley, and that this
| was responsible for her recovery, is
absolutely false | have not had COM
munication with Mrs. Mckinley"
Hiram Price who served many years
in congress as a republican representa-.
| tive from Iowa and who was com
missioner Of Indian affairs from 1881
to the beginning Of the first Cleveland
administration, died in Washington of
| heart trouble. He was 81 years OF
| age. He was president of the State
| bank of Iowa for many years.
ID. Allen T. Barnes, postmaster at
| Bloomington. H., died, aged 81. He
was a native of Kentucky, but lived in
| Illinois nearly all his life. He was
superintendent of the insane asylum
at Anna, H., several years and served
| in the Wilders brigade as major He
leaves a widow and one daughter and
a large estate.
DR.. Denison c. Thomas, eX-president
of Adrian college, dropped dead OF
heart disease at Adrian Mich. He
was born at Erie. Pa. in 1889 He re-
ceived the degree of Phi. ID. at the
Heidelberg university of Ohio in 1862.
Before he assumed the presidency of
Adrian college he was principal of the
state normal school of first district of
| Pennsylvania from 1880 to 1892.
IF army officers would only present
statistics showing the amount of dis.
order in military posts while the can
teen was open as carefully as they
have shown up those disorders since
| the abolition of the canteen, their re-
ports would lose much of their i'm.
pressiveness," said Mrs. Lillian M. N.
| Stevens, national president of the w.
G.. r. u There is a great deal of evil
dence that there is a conspiracy on
the part of some army officers to
work up public sentiment in favor of
the reinstatement of the c&rteen."
The dedication of the Hall of Fame
at New York University. an address at
Grants tomb by the Chinese minister,
and a parade of $4,000 men were the
features of New York's memorial exer-
cises. Twenty-eight Chicago Grand
Army posts took part in the memorial
| day parade, in which 500 veterans
and 1900 state troops and civic bodies
marched. Governor Yates reviewed
the line. The graves of noted dead
and other soldiers at Arlington Gene
terry were decorated by Grand Army
organizations, Carroll ID. Wright max
| ing an grafton. A confederate flag was
carried in the line of parade at Mem
phis by veterans of the lost cause.
| Captain Hobson made the principal ad-
dress at Detroit A soldiers monu-
ment was unveiled at Menominee,
| Wis.