Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-02-21
road, was robbed of $4,000 worth Q

road. was robbed Of $4,000 worth OF
diamonds in a sleeping car.
The Oregon legislature has declared
in favor of the repeal OF the clause OF
the State constitution forbidding
negroes TO live in the state.
The retirement Of Generals Wilson
and Lee will take effect Immediately
raflgr the co1iiis III s4ssiesi -ss their aosn3'
nations "a acknowledgements
Mrs. Carrie Nation. the Kansas w
c. T. U. crusader. met a cool recep-
ton in Chicago and her lecture was
delivered to a small audience.
The body OF j. G. Loomilter. blind
man who made fortune in Okla
homa, was found near Hazleton. Ind.
Murder and robbery are suspected.
According to report Ambassador
Choate is disinclned to accept the
Office of attorney general, preferring
to remain at the court of st. James.
H. Harris. for the past quarter Of a
century proprietor Of numerous low
priced circuses. and widely known
among showmen. is dead at Chicago,
Old doc" Petrie, Maryland noun
taineer. killed his wife and their cook
TO keep them from going to heaven.
Afterward he tried to burn himself to
death.
Miss Slagle, the pretty girl whose
name has been connected with the
Day-Hamilton murder, refused to tes-
tify because her evidence would tend
to criminate her
It is reported IN Washington that
it was the desire in certain quarters
to have General Miles retire and be
succeeded by Generals Brooke, Ohs
and Corbin in turn.
One hundred and fifty thousand men
in the Pittsburg section will go On a
strike this spring If the demands OF
various trades unions for wage in
creases are not granted.
Congress made an official canvass
of the electoral vote for president and
vice president, declaring Mckinley
and Roosevelt elected by 292 votes,
against 155 for Bryan and Stevenson.
Miss Mary Condit-Smth, who was in
Pekin during the siege, was married
at Washington to Lieut.. Hooker Of
the marine corps. At the request Of
the state department she will not pub
lish her story of the siege.
II. w. Schmidt. superintendent of
the Illinois Southern railroad. died at
Sparta, Ill. His son Harry died just
before, and Mrs. Schmidt is not ex-
pected to live. It is supposed they
were poisoned by eating corned beef.
Mrs. Reeder. wife of Commander
William II. Reeder. United States
navy, commanding the schoolship st
Mary's, now at the Brooklyn navy
yard, died aboard that vessel. She
was daughter of the late Rear Ad'
miral Clarke Wells.
A spirited contest for the presidency
of the new Morgan steel combine has
been begun by Henry c. Frick and
Charles NJ. Schwab of the Carnegie
company. The capital of the consoli-
dated company, it was said, would be
s950.0O0o00, with 100000 in
bonds.
Alexander Mckenzie was sentenced
by the United States court of appeals
at San Francisco to one years I'M
prisonment for contempt in connec-
ton with the Alaska mining con
troyersy and the court censures
Judge A. II. Noyes for alleged COM
plicity.
General John Ramsay, of Jersey
City, Is dead of gastritis. In the
civil war he commanded the eighth
regiment New Jersey volunteers.
He was said to be the youngest
brigadier general in the union army.
During President Harrison's adj.
mnistration he was collector of the
port of New York,