Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-01-31

| form tax bills TO the New 10TH ieSiS-
lature, covering corporations generally
insurance companies and savings
| banks
Rev. william Wallace Sylvester
rector of the George w. Souoh
Memorial Protestant Episcopal
Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia
is dead
| II is reported that Altgeld will take
a hand in opposing the nomination OF
Mayor Harrison, his followers having
brought out j. J. Townsend as can
didate.
Representative Carmody introduced
bill at Springfield, H., prohibiting
bookmaking or betting at race meet
ings under penalty of imprisonment
and fine
The G.. A. r. of Illinois is opposed
to an appropriation for the st. Louis
fair because the Missouri legislature
passed resolutions Of sympathy for the
| Filipinos.
Citizens of Stroud Ind. T., appealed
to the governor for military portec'
ton against the Greek Indians. A
troop Of cavalry was ordered from
Fort Reno.
The senate bin, it is predicted, will
provide for a reduction Of about $45,-
600, 900 in the war tax, including a
large reduction in the rate on manu-
featured tobacco.
James p. Stewett, former chief
Justice of the supreme court of Penn
sylvania is dead at Philadelphia from
the effects of a carbuncle. He was
Is years OF age.
| Cullom was notified of his election
as senator at joint session of the Hi
nois legislature He accepted in a
speech favoring ship subsidy and an
American canal.
Dr. Redermund of Appleton, Wis,
rubbed smallpox virus on his face
and mingled freely with residents, eX-
| posing many. Citizens are indig-
nant at his action.
The Virginia court of appeals will
not grant a writ Of error in the case of
Richard Phillips, colored, sentenced to
be hung for the murder of Artillery
| man New at fnoeDuS.
Detectives are searching in the
west for Mary SCHNEIDER, daughter Of
the late DR. SCHNEIDER of New York,
who eloped two years ago. Her
! father left large property.
Elias Mnsuras, a Greek of Gonkers,
n Y, was stabbed in the face by three
alleged anarchists in that city. He
says they brought him here to kill a
public man, but he refused.
| A movement in favor of Generals
| Otis, Brooke and Corbin may force
| General Miles to retire next August.
so the others may be made lieutenanr
generals and retired as sucn.
| The Minnesota house adopted a
memorial to congress petitiohing for
a constitutional amendment providing
for the election of United States
senators by a vote of the people.
Coroner Blood's verdict in the Ere
donia IN. W normal school fire finds
that no officers of the school were
criminally to blame for the deaths oil
the six students and the janitor.
The election of United States sen
ators by popular vote and a plan tC
stop the manufacture and sale of cigar
cites in the state were the subjects oil
bills introduced at Springfield, Ill.
Colonel Samuel A. Forbes was found
dead in mis- room at the Meinhart
building il Ashland, KY He was 81
years of age and had long been identi-
fed with the development of the Big
Sandy valley.
Col. J. b. Barry of Chicago, an
authority on horse breeding, says he
can breed sorrel colts at will. He
declares that all blond men and wo
men are the victims Of personal or in
herited disease,
Prof. Witthaus's fec in the Bosschie
ter murder trial at Peterson, N. j.. vii
be $500, while Prosecutor Enjoys fee
| will be only SIS, the same as if the
conviction had been for any other
crime luan murder.
4 conference Of the house and sen
ate reached an agreement on the army
| reorganization bill Power is left
with the president toincrease the force
and the provision for reforming the
bureau stan is retained
Bins to exempt mortgages from tax
tion and to tax the surplus and un
| liyided profits Of banks and trust and
Insurance companies will be intro
iuccd in the New York legislature
! Gov Odell fayors them.
| Representatives of the builders OF
boston's new cup defender have made
4 request that Secretary Long ALLOW
.heu TO have the rope for the sails OF
he yacht manufactured in the rope
aIk at the Charleston navy-yard
The Ashaway Savings bank, OF Asha
way r l., closed its doors pending
ction by the depositors relative t,
ontuuiug business. 1t is said that q
light scaling may be necessary If tn,
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