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

sued for divorce, alleging that htS
wife made him sleep with pug and
ST. Bernard in bed.
Diamonds worth $I7 800, brought
into the country by Antonio Ahenia'
were seized by the United States mar
shall at Hoboken.
The National live stock convention
at Salt Lake City sent a memorial 10
the senate protesting against the
Grout anti-oleo bill.
l.. A. Porter cashier OF the Warren
Deposit Bank, Bowling Green, KY IS
short $4,000, which was made good
| by the stockholders
A spinning machine invented by
William II. Drury, OF Waltham, Mass
threatens to revolutionize the WOODEN
industry in England.
The seventeenth Council Union of
| American Hebrew Congregations met
in Cincinnati, with 800 delegates and
many visitors present.
A. b. Abbott, telephone expert, says
the principle of wireless biography
may possibly be used for communica
tions from mind to mind
The Kelly Nail and Iron company of
Ironton, O., has declared a so per cent.
semiannual dividend This makes
200 per cent in eighteen months.
General Leonard F. Ross died in
Galesburg, ILL.,, aged II years. He
was a hero of two wars, having enter
ed the Mexican war at an early age.
Cornelius l.. Alvord, Jr., who plead
ed guilty at New York last week TO
stealing 100000 from the First Ma
tional Bank, was sentenced to Is years.
Representative Boutell repeated the
statement that Chicago must lower
her tunnels before the river and har-
Dor committee will do anything for the
river
Rupert Schefbauer, chief electrician
of the Sterling Arc Lamp Compare
2lS West Twenty-sixth street, New
York, was instantly killed by cleo.
tricity.
Two men charged with borse-steal-
ing we're taken to Lafayette, Ind. They
were arrested at Grenehill after "A
desperate encounter with posse of
citizens.
! The Michigan Legislature asked to
relieve Van Buren, county of its local
option law. Another bill requires
sleeping and buffet cars to pay $500
| license.
Recent United States senators
chosen were: y. X. Tilman, South Car
DINA, e. w. Carmack, Tennessee, M.
S. Quay, Pennsylvania, S l.. Cullom
! Illinois
| Senator Chandler attributes his de-
feat TO the influence OF the Boston and
Maine railroad and is expected to
make war on IL in New Hampshire
! politics.
! Elijah w Blaisdell one of the foun-
ders of the republican party and said
| to be the first man to propose Abra,
ham Lincoln for the presidency, is
dead at Rockford
At Buffalo. n, Y, Mary Spitzman
and Clara Meyers, servants, were
| burned TO death in fire that destroy.
ed the fifth floor of the Buckingham
| apartment house.
The river and harbor bill carries
about 100000 600, two-thirds of which
will be expended in the seventeen
states represented by the river and
I harhor committee
News was received from Washing
ton OF the death Of Or Benjamin
! Brown Of Chicago. who was prominent
! both as a physician and a politician
He was sc years old
/ Five persons were injured by a
/ falling elevator in the Warren Spriu.
ger building in Clinton street, Chicago
one was killed and eleven injured in
the saem building previously
Mrs John White, for love of whom
! Miss Katherine Gorham committed
suicide ten days ago at Winchendon
Mass, was taken to a private sanitar-
ium in Brattleboro, Vermont
Major Nat Burbank Of tie New
Orleans rlcayune widely known as q
dramatic critic and as the author Of
the humorous column of that paper
died suddenly in street car
Capt n. II. Fraser OF Union Springs,
/ Ala, offered $500 reward for the re-
turn OF his sol, Bass Fraser, VITO is
supposed 10 have been kidnapped re-.
/ Gently from school I'm Atlanta.
Six men broke into Carpenter &
Iacobus' Bank, at South Lyoas,
I Mich. and blew open the safe. They
were discovered. but after an OK.
change Of shots escaped on n haudcar,
w n. Redman, speaker of the Iowa
house in lSSS, died suddenly at his
home In Newton lie was 9 member
Of The Loyal Legion and served with
distinction ia tho war of tho rebeliou.
soyantc Anderson, a SwcIc shot
and killed his Wife aud probably
fatally wou23cd his mother and Z,
Naarol1 boy NJ fhcir homo i9 Jamaica
Plains. Mass He theu MlleI himself
Marvin Kuh7s. a 3esrtrado, who
escaped from Che Ohio pe~ttanfiagy.