Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-07-18
WIRE TALES BRIEFLY TOLD.
They Give Summary of Events of
Interest in Different
Lands.

tons Wednesday for 169 vessels Of
the navy to engage in maneuvers, be-
| ginning July 20.
The residence of John Monroe, the
! American banker at Paris, was robbed
of jewelry valued at $4,000 francs. The
robbers left no traces.
An explosion occurred in the engine
room of the Kansas City Consolidated
Shelters company at Ell Paso, Tex,
Wednesday and set fire to the building,
causing loss of $250,O00.
The disintegration of the Indianap-
oils Baseball club will occur following
the game with Grand Rapids today.
1t Is understood that Marion will be
dropped, and that the organization will
play the balance Of the season with six
clubs. Lack Of patronage here is the
cause.
The judges of the Royal Canadian
Yacht club at Toronto have selected
the yacht Invader to make the attempt
to bring back the Canada cup to To-
ronto.
Gov. Yates of Illinois has appointed
II. A. Allen to be commander of the
Illinois naval militia to succeed Capt.
w. J. Wilson. resigned.
There is the highest authority for
stating that there is no truth in the
reported engagement of the cZarowitz
to Princess Cecile Of Mecklenburg-
Schwerin.
+. w. Dyson. an astronomer from the
Greenwich observatory, England, who
went to Summarize to take views and
make observations Of the eclipse there
in May. has arrived at San Francisco,
being the first member of the various
eclipse parties to reach this country.
He says the best photographs of the
eclipse were obtained by American
astronomers. He will make a tour of
the observatories of this country.
Capt. Charles ID. Sigsbee, chief naval
intelligence officer, who commanded
the battleship Maine at the time of her
destruction in Havana harbor. is Ill
with erysipelas of the face at Hemp
stead. l.. ].
The federal officers who are investi-
eating the shortage OF 100000 in the
mint in San Francisco have employed
an expert accountant to go over the
books. and also have ordered recount
of the SAT 900 900 in the vaults.
A horse mackeral. weighing prob
ably 800 pounds, was caught in a pond
off east beach at Watch Hill. near
Westerly, r. |. The fish was a lively
one eight feet long and five feet in
circumference, and is the biggest on
record for the Rhode Island shore.
The Kansas irrigation law has been
upheld by the state supreme court.
making it possible to execute the
greatest irrigation scheme in the his
tory of the state.
According to an official report posted
In the palace at Havana on Thursday
afternoon General Wood shows decided
Improvement.
Peter Smith living near Sister Lakes,
Mich, was killed while driving bind
er in a rye field today. The assassin
secreted himself behind a shock Of
grain and deliberately shot Smith in
the back.
Adjutant General Reece of Illinois
was Frustrated while reviewing the ma
tional guard at Camp Lincoln in
Springfield, H., Thursday.
General Sobeloff Russian military
expert says Russia is prepared to in
wade India and wrest it from the Brit
ish upon the slightest provocation.
American and Danish capitalists
propose to start a direct steamship
line from Copenhagen and Christiania
to Chicago American capital will be
The monthly statement of gross
postal receipts for June at fifty of the
largest postoitices show a net increase
of 5000, 1856, or Sc per cent for the fifty
offices over June of last year.
largely interested.
A representative of the firm OF j. p.
Morgan & Co denies the report from
Paris to the effect that the Moragn-
Rockefeller interests contemplated the
establishment of an international bank
in Paris.
Captain of the Port Young of Ha-
vana has informed the contractors who
have undertaken to raise the wreck of
the United o,ales battleship Maine that
unless the work is begun Immediately
the contract will be annulled.
Local companies at Knoxville, Tenn,
have received joint order for 100, 900
tons of East Tennessee and Southern
Kentucky coal to be exported 10 Venice
in the next six months. 1t is said to be
the largest single export order ever
placed with Southern mines.
Arrangements are in progress for
transferring the administration or the
Dominion Order in Canada and the
United States from France to this con
tinent. An ecclesiastical province will
be created in America under the di-
rection OF a superior president on this
side of the Atlantic.
Evelyn b. Baldwin, leader of the
Baldwin Zelgler Arctic expedition, has
arrived at rromsoe, Norway. He
boarded the rented Arctic whaler
America formerly the Esquimaux'
IN which he viii make his headauai-
tiers. where preparations for the trip
are proceeding apace.
Brooms have been advanced 20 cents
% cents dozen in price yesterday by
the Central Broom and Brush Manu-
factners' association. The higher
price takes effect at once and another
advance of similar amount will be
mous IN Aup The retailer is eX-