Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1903-02-19
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fers to the STANDARD Oil Croesus a.
John D Rockbaptist"
Ralph Millsanke, the British minis.
ter plenipotentiary died suddenly %
heart disease al Vienna.
In Finland reindeer are worth ONLY
about $3.50 a head. 4 reindeer can
travel about 1870 miles day.
Eighty-Gve years was the average
age Of the last four persons buried in
Creditor churchyard Devon, England,
Long stretches of Russian railways
are rendered idle by frost, and hun
dreds Of vessels are frozen up in the
rivers.
Chicago millionaire at a charity
bazaar paid $1,000 for three sausages.
Wonderful how civic pride will stir q.
man at times,
Charlemagne Tower. the new Ameri-
can ambassador to Germany, has rent
ed a princely mansion on the KONG
platz, close to the Reichstag. In Ber-
lin.
Prof Joiin W. Perrin. of Western Re-
serve university, has accepted an invi-
tation TO deliver this year the Albert
Shaw lectures on diplomatic history al
the Johns Hopkins university.
A monument to the cadet battalion
which fought the battle of New Mar
ket, Va, VIII he unveiled during the
commencement exercises of the Vir-
ginia Military Institute next June.
More than 524 900 acres of land in
the Indian possessions of Great Britain
are devoted to the cultivation of tea,
nine-tenths of the area being in As
sam and Bengal. Production is officially
estimated at 191 $50 900 pounds.
Each of the large ships of the United
States navy is 20 have in it's outfit Of
ordnance stores thirteen live and one
dummy naval defense mines, the latter
being for drilling purposes. They are
being prepared at the torpedo station
in Newport.
Joseph Wharton of Philadelphia will
build an addition to the University OF
Pennsylvania costing 5000. 900 for the
accommodation of the School of Finnae
and Enomy in that institution, which
he founded several years ago. His total
gifts to the university have thus far
amounted to over S700,000.
Prof Friedrich Delitzsch, of the Uni
versity of Berlin, whose recent lectures
on the Babylonian origin of Old Tes-
lament religious conceptions in the
presence of the emperor of Germany
created somewhat OF sensation, will
visit America in March and deliver a
course of Lowell Institute lectures in
Boston.
Edgar A. Bancroft was elected presi-
1apt Of tho TTpipp T aoppa pluh IF Chi
cago last week. by vote of almost
two to one. after, the Tribune says, the
warmest contest the club has ever
known. Mr. Bancroft was Republi-
can elector in the Harrison campaign
and is said to be close personal friend
of President Roosevelt.
John T. McDonough. former secre-
tary of state, labor commissioner and
county judge of New York, may be
chief judge of the Philippine islands il
he can arrange his domestic affairs to
suit the position. President Roosevelt
has rendered him the position, which
is life Office, at $40 900 year Judge
McDonough is one of the presidents
close friends.
There are two occasions in con-
CHEESEMAN'S life when his friends give
him flowers" said Colonel Pete" Hep
burn when he say a great bunch Of
roses on the desk of Representative
Hopkins of Illinois, who has just been
elected to the senate. What are they?"
inquired John Sharp Williams. when
he dies or when he is elected to the
United States senate"
According TO carefully compiled sta
tistics, the donations and requests to
educational, charitable and religious
institutions in 1902 foot up s77,397 49,
as compared with Sl23 ,SSS,732 for 1901
the record breaking year, and SCI, iGl,-
304 for 1901. No donation or bequest OF
less amount than 500 is included in
these sums. nor is any account taken OF
the special Methodist Twentieth Cen
fury fund of 500 100000
Levi Ankeuy, senator-elect from
Washington 70 succeed George Turner
is a millionaire banker and farmer. Mr.
Ankeny is awkward and diffident, so it
is quite unlikely that he will take
prominent part in senatorial delibera-
lions. 1t is generally believed that but
for the active and dexterous campaign
conducted by his wife he could not have
been elected senator. Mrs. Enkeny is
An effort will be made at the present
session of congress to have passed
bill PROVIDING for the purchase by the
government of the remaining acres OF
Clean Drinking manor and its preser-
walton to future generations as a show
place, illustrative of the old type OF
colonial feudal manors and as spot
whose history, next to that of Mount
Vernon, is probably more than any 9th
er linked with American independence
and the life Of George Washington.
According to the World Almanac for
1903 the membership OF the ten largest
fraternal organizations in the United
States and Canada is as follows: Odd
Fellows. ! ,0S9 .i73; Free Masons.
94f ,22l; Order of Foresters. 92S035;
Woodmen OF America. 705 sos: knights
Of Pythias. 5i0,13S; United Workmen,
100000 Woodmen of World $4,000;
Knights of the Macabees, 294 900; Or
der of Red Men, 2S9, 401: Royal Arcan-
uT, 240.644.
One ~ the most gigantic mining op-
erations ever undertaken is about TO be
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