Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-02-07
took and beat into insensibility the
kidnaper of his 7-yeat-old son.
The Indiana senate passed oill LOT
a canal from Lake Michigan at East
1890 Ind 10 tho Calumet river

Chicago. Ind, TO the Calumet river.
Robert >. Fosburgh, charged WITH
killing his sister, May Fosbourgh, IN
irittseia, Mass, was admitted 20 bail
The exact loss sustained by the
revenue Office at Peoria Ill, by rob
bers has been determined to be SOL
976.
Naval officers look for war with
Germany Admiral Dewey is said to
have predicted a conflict within two
years.
Disaffected Choccaw Indians have
Joined the Creeks, who are terrorizing
their nation. and Seminoles threaten
to rise,
James Bashford. a brother of Coles
Bashford, governor Of Wisconsin in
| lS55-57 is dead at Lyons, n. y, aged
81 years.
The Kansas state temperance union
in session at Topeka, subscribed 500
to buy gold medal for Mrs. Carrie
Nation.
Ten thousand Catholic members of
the federal party in the Philippines
have decided to separate from the
, Church of Rome.
A bill has been introduced in the
Tennessee Legislature providing for
state pensions to veterans OF the ciYi
war on both sides.
United States Judge w II Seaman
of Wisconsin was appointed temporari.
ly to fill the vacancy in the southern
district of Illinois.
The st. Louis municipal assembly
passed a bin providing for $5.Oo0,00O
bonds in aid of the Louisiana purchase
celebration in 1903.
The naval board which Inspected
the floating drydock in Havana harbor
decided it is not worth the price
Spain asks 1925, 900.
Louise H. schrader, a fensng
teacher Of Minneapolis, has challenged
Alicia Mower Of Chicago to a contest
with bare-tipped foils.
In Chicago Mayor Harrison aban-
doned his efforts TO repeal the mid
night closing ordinance which he said
he would enforce,
The will of Mrs. ID. Sturges of Chi
cago gives 100000 to brothers and
sisters and the remainder of $4,000
900 estate to six children.
Congressman Springer says he is
sure Chicago will win the drainage
canal case and in fifty years be the
largest city in tho world.
President Mckinley told callers that
he would call an extra session of
congress to consider legislation for
Cuba and the Philippines.
A shortage of IS 600 was discovered
in the endowment bank, knights Of
Pythias. and charged to a trusted
clerk. whose name is withheld.
p. ID. Armour's will distributed only
$4,000 900, the balance of his es.
timated fortune of $6O,00OOO0 having
been given away during life.
Or. Rodermuud. who broke small
poX quarantine at Appleton, was ar
rested In Milwaukee and forcibly
placed in an isolation hospital,
Iowa will make an effort to collect
from the government S250,000 to $3.50.
600 interest on bonds issued to equip
Iowa soldiers in the civil war.
Official figures show that since the
opening of the last century our com
merce with the rest OF the world has
increased more than twelyefold,
The house committee on coinage
agreed by a party vote to report
favorably the Hin bill TO maintain
the silver dollar at parity with gold"
Assistant General Passenger Agent
Grain of the Northern Pacific resigned
| to become general passenger agent Of
the Oregon Railway and Navigation.
Mrs Carrie Nation the temperance
crusader, called on GOWN Il, Stanley
in Topeka, and arraigued him for his
failure to enforce the prohibition law,
| The municipal council OF Chicago
| refused to pass a resolution of sym
pathy with the people of the British
empire on the death Of Queen Victoria.
The senate finance committee has
| agreed to recommend a reduction Of
the war tax on beer to $3.50 per barrel
The total reduction is about $4,000
600.
Tho value of agricultural products
exchanged between this aud foreign
countries in 1900 exceeded in value
two billion dollars and broke all
previous records.
The Hundred Year club has located
the Oldest man In lzal Rodofsky OF
Moscow. 1856, and the oldest woman in
Mrs. Nancy IIollodeld, III years old
of Battle Creek, Mich.