Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1901-12-26
GENERAL NEWS BY WIRE.
Matters of Interest Covering Various
Parts of the World and Put
in Concise Form.

/ The navy department announces the
+ final acceptance OF the battleship Wis
/ consin.
! The navy department has announced
/ the final acceptance of the battleship
/ Wisconsin.
4 An unidentified woman, SIS years old
1 nois Central suburban train at Thirty
! first street, Chicago.
/ Arbuckle Bros. and the National
Sugar Refining company have reduced
4 the price of refined sugar 10 points.
William Tanda has been reelected
mayor OF Mexico City for another year
I ly term. He has already served two
years.
Thomas Bracket Reed former
speaker of the house of representatives,
has Just been informed that he is one
I Of the heirs to 81 900 900 worth of prop
I erty in the heart of Portland M.
The Atlantic R;lbber Shoe company,
I capital $4,000 000 was incorporated at
+ Trenton, n j., The company is author
/ lied to manufacture and prepare for
! market rubber and all its by-products.
+ The average weight of the hogs re-
/ ceived at Chicago last week was 20l
/ pounds, against POI pounds for the
week previous GAG pounds for the cor
/ responding week in 1900, and 245
pounds in 1899,
Mrs. Luther w. Osborne. wife of the
late consul general to Samoa. arrived
/ in San Francisco in the steamer Son
/ oma with the body of her husband
which will be taken East for inter-
I ment
/ A new cure for typhoid feyer--in fact,
for almost every fever--has been dis
covered and experimental with success
fully in New York The patient is put
in specially constructed refrigerator
and the fever frozen out.
While attempting to evict a man
from his shop on Clark street, Chicago
John Irwin was stabbed with a knife.
He was taken TO the emergency hos
pital, where his injuries were pro-
nounced not serious, His assailant
escaped arrest.
The conservation Of the Rev. G. II.
Brent as bishop Of the new diocese Of
the Philippines, took place in st. Steph
ems Episcopal church at Boston with
imposing ecclesiastical ceremonial The
edifice was crowded to the doors,
Two daughters of Mrs. James +. Ew-
ing. 6 and years Of age. We're burned
to death in fire that destroyed the
house occupied by Mrs. Ewing and her
six children in Canon City Col Anoth-
er child was so badly burned she will
die.
j. b. Treat as court receiver is in
possession OF SamuelKellner's depart,
ment store at Monroe Wis Liabilities
are estimated at between $4,000 and
$4,000, with assets $4,000 Action
VS. taken on the petition OF Chicago
creditors.
While suffering from an attack of in
sanity Sunday night Dexter Knight, a
ranchman living near Bryan, Idaho,
killed his 5-yearold boy and severely
injured his two other children. Knight
/ killed his son by hitting him with the
I babys cradle.
At the Old Bailey London, the grand
jury returned true bill against Theo-
dore JACKSON and Laura Jackson (An-
ma Odelia Diss de Barr. The recorder
in charging the grand jury commented
Z
character of the evidence"
Compared with the corresponding
week In other years the six leading
/ Western markets received more cattle
/ for the week ending Dec, II than ever
arrived before The total was $4,000
I Chicago alone received II 500, or 1900
more than a year ago,
The municipal council has voted to
/ hcstOw the freedom of the city uf Dub
4 lin on John Redmond, the Nationalist
! leader in the house of commons, who
/ las returned To Ireland from n visit
/ to the United States on behalf of the
f United Irish league.
The transport Sheridan will depart
from San Francisco on Jan ]. the
Fitzpatrick on Jan. l. the Thomas on
Feb /. carrying the Twenty in
tantry, aud the Grant will sail at about
the same time on special trip with
! iusular employees and school teachers
The lower house of the Norwegian
/ parliament has passed a law fixing
1 punishment for the gloritieation of
I crimes against social order. The ma.
iolty contended that men who incite
anarchists 90 crime are conspirators
and deserve punishment.
Mn Iazare Weller who has been
commissioned 10y the French govern
ment to visit the United States and in
Qnire into the working arrangements
%, trusts and also To study the organ,.
2ation Of technical schools. sailed from
Havre for New York on the steamship
La Savoic
The correspondent in st Petersburg
ot the Cologne Gazette telegraphs that
@ number OF experts representing big
American firms have arrived at Nladi-
Nostook. enruute for siberia. where they
viii build factories and exploit the agri-
cultural and mineral wealth OF the
country
Elun Mr. kwgrr's grandson, has
sailed from Holland FOR I.ourenzo Mar
qurs with intent to examine the milf
lary situation In South Africa aud il
jt should he found advisable 10 sue for
pe1ce ON the broad line OF autonomy
under the British flag similar To that
enjoyed 10y Canada
Mrs McKnley's condition remains