Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1905-12-28

the plans Oh the government nave D6Su
carried out the zone will be as health
full as any other place in the tropics,
says Secretary Taft.
Mrs. Laura Corey accepts the offer
of a s1,0O0,00O settlement with her
husband, who promises not to reopen
the affair with Mabelle Gilman, the
actress, on her agreement not to get a
divorce
The jury to try the packers i'm
munity pleas in Chicago is completed
and the hearing set for January 9.
Frank Willard, an insane man, shot
and killed Sheriff Henry Smith in
Judge Whites chambers at Ukiah,
Cal. He then fired once at Judge
White, but missed him. Willard was
arrested
The boiler of a locomotive DRAWN
a south-bound Lehigh Valley freight
train exploded one mile east of the
village of Van Etten, N. Y, killing
Fireman Frank Morris and fatally in
juring four Others
A dispatch from Toxic reports the
Higurashi on the charge of being con-
cerned in plot to assassinate the
premier, Count Katsura, because he
consented to a "disgraceful peace"
The motion for a new trial in the
Taggart divorce case was overruled by
Judge Edison at Wooster, O. Mrs. Tag
CARTS attorneys were fined for con-
tempt of court in criticising the rul-
ings of the judge in the former trial.
John N. Irwin died at Hot Springs,
Ark He was former minister to Port
uga1, governor of Arizona, governor
of Idaho, mayor of Keokuk, Ia, and
head of a wholesale mercantile COM
pany in the latter city.
Joseph H. Choate, who recently was
succeeded at the court of St. James as
United States ambassador by Whitelaw
Reid, in all likelihood will be named
by President Roosevelt as chairman of
the American delegation to the second
The Hague peace conference.
George H. Turner was hanged at
San Antonio, Tex, for the murder of
Mrs Elizabeth Lynch, March 9, 1905.
He left a note wishing everybody a
Merry Christmas.
Gottlieb Arnold, a saloon keeper, was
shot and killed and David A. Fuller,
a carpenter seriously wounded by an
unknown man, who attempted to rob
Arnold's saloon in Rockford Ill.
Herbert H. D. PIERCE, third assist
ant secretary of state, has been select
ed by the president as the first Ameri-
can minister to Norway. Charles
DENLY, chief clerk of the department,
has been determined upon as success
or to Mr. PIERCE in the state depart
ment.
William Clark and H. H McKiri-
han, members of the construction crew
on the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
railroad, we're killed by a passenger
train while walking on the railroad
tracks at East Moline, Ill.
A heavy rain and windstorm, which
practically reached the dimensions of
a hurricane, swept the Wyoming val
ley IN Pennsylvania. One man was
killed and property worth thousands
of dollars was destroyed.
Henry Harland. the American au-
thor, who wrote THE Cardinals Snuff
Box" died in Italy.
Patrick Reynolds. aged Fl, died in
Philadelphia from the effects Of a blow
received in boxing match.
Mir Longworth offers a bill appro-
priating s5,0C0,000 to purchase build
ings for United States missions in all
foreign capitals.
Standard Oil men deny rumOrs in
Wall street that the company contem-
plates increasing its capital stock from
$10G, OOC, 900 to $6O0,000.COO.
Mark Twain was crowned with a
laurel wreath at dinner given in his
honor in New York.
Former Gov. William R. Taylor, of
Wisconsin, who was swept into power
by the granger" movement and who
first established the principle Of state
control of railroads, has been beggared
by speculation and has entered a semi
Madison
Sir E~ry Campbell the
new British premier, has outlined his
policy. re faVors arbitration and dis
armament, free trade and home rule
Tor Ireland.
Assessment figures in Illinois show
that the ,otal wealth in the state
reached $5,486. 4S0,8S5. an increase for
the year Of S12,61O,470. Chicago's to,
tai valuation is S2,177, 515,39O.
w. M. Pryor, aged 81, a prominent
farmer, was shot through the heart
and killed by Mrs Ella Gholson. a
young widow. near Paducah, KY, in a
dispute over a tree the woman wanted
cut down.
News of a plot to assassinate Presi-
dent Reyes, OF Colombia, and over
throw the government, was received
at Washington.
Mrs. Michael Schultz, bride of a
month, died at Paynesville, Mimi. as
d result Of burns received while she
saved her three-year-old stepson from
death by fire.
A rumor is current throughout Tab
til that the United States government
has offered France 100000 for the
island
Treachery and attempts to wreck the