Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-10-31
FROM NElGHBORING STATES.
General Items Of News Culled From
ALI Parts of the United
States.

Captain Henry Hawkins, q Mason O
high standing, go years of age. com
mitted suicide at his home at Cowan
Tenn, by shooting himself through the
head.
Thomas Foy Of Rockford, ILL.,. ant
Miss Bertha NcFatridge were mar
rieG at Vienna. ILL.,, Wednesday, Boil
the bride and groom are deaf ant
dumb.
John f. Conrey OF Urbana, O.. fel
out of third-story window of a hote
at Memphis, Tenn, and died OF his in
ipries. No one knows how the acct
dent happened.
The body of William e. Parlshurst
who attempted to murder his Wife and
| disappeared after seriously woundine
| her. was found in a barn yard three
miles from Flint, Mich, Parkhurst had
blown his brains out
Representative Of automobile clubs
in Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus
and Dayton formed state organiza
ton. Il. l.. Strong of Cleveland was
elected president and Rutherford II
Cox of Cincinnati secretary.
John Mixer of Pokagon. Mich.
| started fire in the parlor stove, I'M
! der the top of which his daughter had
hidden 800 in currency and draft
All were reduced to ashes, the bills
being burned beyond hope of identf-
| cation.
| Jackson Bros, members of the Con
! solidated Stock and Petroleum ex-
| changes, New York. have made an as
| signment
| Charles Smith, tramp musician of
more than ordinary ability as violin
list, is dead at st, Joseph hospital in
Des Moines, Ia, where he is well
| known
| The death is announced in Paris of
| General Prince Joachim Napoleon
! Murat, a grandson Of the famous Muir
at. He was born in Bordentown, N. ].
! in 1884. His mother was Caroline
| Fraser.
! A dispatch to the Paris Eel o from
| Constantinople says the ro,te has
! sent sharply worded note to Greece
to the effect that Turkey would re-
| gard any attempt to secure the indie
| pendence Of Crete as casus belli
| A dispatch to the London Daily Mail
at the Casino there of S40U 300
through the collision of croupiers and
clerks, dozen of whom have conse-
quently been dismissed. No arrests
have been reported.
| The American Cigar company has
leased the cigar business of Brown
Brothers & Co, of Detroit for ten
years. The plant is said to have an
output of 40,000000 cigars annually.
The Northwestern Miller gives the
| -four manufacture for the week in
| Minneapolis as 100000 barrels, the
largest weeks output on record. re-
curing over 100000 bushels of
] wheat
| The Tilden mansion on Gramercv
park, New York City. was reported
! sold last week to operators who in
tend to tear down the house and erect
in its place a history apartment ho-
! tel
The Orange Judd Farmer puts the
fax crop this year at 29,070.o 900 bush
els, the largest on record. The three
northwestern states are credited with
| producing 25322.000 bushels. This is
away above other estimates.
| Mrs Nancy Jane Folsom, wife of q
farmer, while driving from her home
to the railroad station ut Boscawan.
! Ave miles from Concord. n. H.. was
waylaid. dragged from her carriage,
brutally murdered, and left among the
roadside bushes.
All automobile records from one to
ten miles were broken at the Crosse
Pointe race track, Detroit, last week,
| by Alexander Winton of Cleveland,
who covered mile on his big racing
| machine in 1906 2-5. lowering Henri
Fournier's record 2-5 of second.
Smith Jones. aged Is years. con
yicted OF murder in the first degree.
was received last week at the Indi-
ana state prison from Warrick county,
| The murder was so cod-blooded that
instead of sending young Jones to the
reform school the Judge sentenced him
to life Imprisonment in the state pri-
son.
As the result of mutual agreement
to commit suicide rather than face the
disgrace and separation which inn
pending discovery of their guilty love
would precipitate, Mrs. Nellie Hardif-
er. Wife of Denver contractor. is
dead and William H. Flanders, mar
ried hotelkeeper of Lyons. Col, is dy-
ing in the county hospital in that city.
Poison was the means used,
Sigmund A. Schmidt a wholesale
dry goods dealer OF New York. and q
prominent clubman there. will be
Obliged to pay 100000 to Albert c.
Whitney. employed in the bookkeeping
department of the American Steel and
Wire company in Chicago for alienat-
ing the affections of the latter's wife.
\ verdict for this amount was given
by jury in Judge Bishops court in
Chicago,
The University OF Nebraska will in
vite Former President Grover Clave-
Land to deliver the commencement day
address next June.
Negotiations have been reopened be-
tween the four protecting powers with
regard to the independence of Crete.
Judge John II Regain. chairman Of
the Texas state railway commission
and the only survivor of the Confeder-
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