Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-11-14
FROM NEIGHB0RING STATES.
General Items of News Culled From
All Parts of the United
States.

Over a furnace eated to wilderness
in the assay Office at New York Maude
Adams, in gold, was melted. The
statue arrived at the assay Of
flee from Buffalo. It's weight
was 172 pounds and it took six men
to carry it into the Office. 1t was life
size.
| Ambassador Choate had an inter
view with President Roosevelt,
/ in which the history of the nego-
| tiations for the new canal treaty was
gone over in detail. Ambassador
Choate has completed his mission for
the time being and has returned to
New York.
In fit of jealous rage Fred Beck shot
and killed his wife at Springfield, III.
| Charitable and religious organiza-
tions, mainly those supported by the
Roman Catholic church. will be bene-
| flied to the extent of $3.50, 600 by the will
/ of Mary Corrigan, which was filed in
! Chicago.
! The United States transport Owen
owing to an accident in the Inland sea
will be locked at Nagasaki, Japan,
where the United States transport Sher-
idan is now being repaired.
The Iowa which is under orders to
go from Panama to Talcahuano, Chile,
to dock at that place, probably will
touch at Tumaco enroute to observe the
situation there incident to the blockade
Of the Colombian rebels.
| Prince and Princess Troubetzkoy
have arrived in New York on the steam
! ship Travc. The princess was formerly
I Amelia Rives and later the wife of John
/ Astor Chandler. She refused to an
/ swer any questions concerning him.
President w. r. Lockett of the Knox
/ Vile, Tenn. chamber of commerce call
ed upon Admiral Schley in Washington
end prevailed upon him to accent the
invitation to visit Knoxville Dewey
and Hobson, personally urged Seli7g to
accept.
4 {. *. G.. Billings of New York raid
/ $40 TO: n choice box for the corning
horse show in that city,
! Grant Householder, a hackman. has
( 0eeG arrested ut Buffalo. charged with
smuggling Cinnamon across the cor.
! der from Canada.
| j. NJ. Longyear, Marquette Mich
capitalist, who is diseruntled with his
| home town, proposes to move his half
million dollar mansion to Broollyne
/ Mass.
| The swilchmen on the Denver &
Rio Grande have declared general
strike and the men in Denver. Pueblo
and some other places went out.
/ Recognition of the pnion is involved.
/ The New York chamber of com
merce has gone on record as favoring
! the creation of a new cabinet office,
! that Of the secretary of the depart
] ment Of commerce and industries,
I which will also be new department
/ Colonel John Jacob Astor, who has
4 attracted attention in the world of lit
| erature and science on several occa-
sions by original and clever work, has
| invented design for marine turbine
/ wheel which experts say has great
merit.
Fifteen thousand acres of coal
! lands situated in Hancock county. w.
I Va, and in Green township, Beaver
county. Penn, have been sold to the
+ United States Steel corporation by Al
! Ian Mcdonald OF Hookstown. The
price paid was S25 per acre
/ The Commercial Cable company of
| New York announces that beginning
/ Nov. . the rate per word on cable
grams from that city to the Island Of
4 IMzon will be reduced from $2.35 to
/ q, &C. and To- all other islands in the
/ Philippines from S2.45 to SIG.
While out ouck hunting in n
naptha launch on Long Island
4 sound DR., G. n. Spalter, a young
( physician Of New York, was shot and
/ instantly killed Or. Spalter was ac-
/ companed by DR.. e, f. Tull. who mas
been held in $1,000 bail by Coroner
/ Banning.
Mrs. Catherine Cooper Skinner of
/ Fort Wayre died aged 100 years,
III months end II days. she re-
i tanned her mental faculties in a won
4 derful degree even up to a short ;ime
before her death. Mrs skinner vas
7 native of Ohio. having been born in
4 Lebanon.
T. j. Mcguire, OF Philadelphia. ono
/ OF the founucrs OF the American Fed
Grafton OF Labor aud the Brotherhood
of Carpenters. is charged by the gen
/ eral executive board of the carpenters
I organization with shortage in his
/ accounts OF Sl0.G14 % for the period
Z ~ blll jan ~ " July oF. iNNAs
The new telephone company at lndi-
annapolis has arranged TO give its long.
4 distance operators lessons in elocution
at the expense of the company in or
! der to improve their enunciation The
! company officials say that its long dis.
lance patronage demands this in order
90 make the service better
While Or r. W. Boyer. a prominent
dentist, and W. W Osbaud. a real es-
tate agent of Marquette, Mich. We're
/ hunting the former mistook Osbanu
for game and shot him. The bullet
passed through the BODY just below
the hip, making a dangerous wound
4 Oshand was taken to hospital.
On account OF i'll health Dudley
Buck. the famous composer. has been
compelled TO accept a six months
leave Of absence from his duties as or
ganist and choirmaster of the church
of the Holy Trinity New York city
where he has been Tor % years. This
leave OF absence was generously OF
fered by the vestry of Trinity church
Miss Helen Gould has accepted the