Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-12-12


admission OF colored women dele
gates.
The Twin City Rapid Transit COM
pany operating all the street car lines
in Minneapolis, ST. Paul, AID Stillwat-
er, has announced an increase in the
! wages OF motormen and conductors
averaging cents an hour, to take eff
feet on Jan. !.
Burlington railway detectives are in
the vicinity of Beverly, Mo, making
an investigation into the wreck of the
flyer at that place last Thursday, and
sufficient evidence has been found to
prove beyond doubt that an attempt
to wreck the train was made.
Francis Gordon Dunn. a New York
sporting man, was sentenced in Ber-
lin yesterday to years penal seryi-
tude for signing the name Davidson"
TO check given in payment for 81.
600 watch. Davidson is the name of
Dunn's fiancee, for whom the watch
was intended.
In the Edgar county circuit court at
Paris, ILL.,. Miss Rosa Ella Graham.
daughter of wealthy citizen here.
has been awarded $4,000 damages
against Barnett T. Morrow Tor breach
of promise. Morrow belongs to a
wealthy family and for TWO years was
openly devoted to Miss Graham.
At the request of Governor General
Wood of Cuba the itinerary of the
North Atlantic squadron has been
changed 80 as to have the squadron
at Havana during the Christmas holt
days--from Dec. II to 26.
A movement is on foot to organize
all the basket manufacturers east of
the Mississippi into trust One of the
leading promoter of the scheme is Will
lard Ducomb. president Of the Findlay
tOhio) Basket company
Last September in the United States
district court, James Considine. we'll
known as theatrical manager, was
convicted on the charge of robbing the
postotiice at Greenville. O.. and SEN
fenced to five years in the penitentiary.
Pending his appeal Considine has been
OUT on 100000 bond. The United States
circuit court of appeals has affirmed.
The finding of the district court.
At the session of the Masonic grand
lodge of Texas a resolution extending
fraternal recognition TO the grand lodge
OF the valley of Mexico. at the City of
Mexico and of the grand lodge Benito
juarez, Of the state of Coahuila was
adopted and the representatives Of
those bodies invited to seats in the
grand lodge of Texas This action is
important TO the Mexican Masonic
lodges. as it gives them standing and
recognition in the United States.
The failure of Woods & Malone, oper-
ators of cotton factories, was announc-
ed at savannah, Ga Wednesday, Their
liabilities are $l50.000 and assets $780,
goo.
Romano Taubaux a Frenchman.
while intoxicated. "Wednesday shot and
fatally wounded his wife and son, Cir
aurd TaubauX. and two other sons at
his home in Weir City, Kan.
The publishing business of Earl B.
Dumont of Chicago is in the hands of
receiver, The liabilities are s250,0Oo
and assets s537 900.
Edward John Eyre, who was COVER
nor of Jamaica and its dependencies.
1896, and who put down the mutiny
of the negroes there is dead. He was
born in 1915
A rare printed edition of 1907 OF
Byron's Poems on Various Occasions.
with three original verses in Byron's
handwriting, was sold at Sotheby's,
London, yesterday for cps
The monthly coinage statement is
sued by the director of the mint shows
the total coinage executed at the minis
no 4. Cd Gt,t toe Il
1901. to have been 81 asa 900. as follows.
Gold, $6,670,000; silver, 1917 900; minor
coins. 1927 600.
At a special meeting of the stockhold-
ers Of the Pittsburg Plate Glass COM
pany the capital stock was increased
from $40 100000 to $4,000 600 The in
creased capital is to be used To extend
the stock house system of the company
in different parts of the country
The First National bank of Ballston
Spa, New York. was closed by a vote
OF the board of directors. The comp
troller Of the currency has issued a
statement to the effect that this action
was taken owing TO the discovery of
dedication by the teller. Charles T..
Fitcham, amounting to 100000
The directors of the American Sugar
Refining company have declared the
usual dividend of | 81 per cent on its
common stock for the quarter and the
regular quarterly dividend of 3-4 per
cent on its preferred stock.
Theodore Molkinten once crack
horseman OF the Germany army, SAYS
he will break the worlds record by
riding 'om New York to Chicago on
one horse in seven days
j. L. McAlister committed suicide
by taking carbolic acid at the Grand
Central hotel at Tacoma Wash. drink.
ing the poison in the hall and then
walking to a chair in the main office
where he expired.
r II Weber sentenced to Is years
Imprisonment by a Kansas City court
for burglary said he had been in the
business Is years, He was trying To
save enough money to start a tailor
shop and get married
prisoner in the Jail at Wichita.
kas. known as Shin. has confessed
that he, with Clyde Moore and "Shor.
ty Mcfarland Killed c. J.. Wiltbere-
er a wealthy farmer in Cowley coun-