Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-12-24

/ sylvania capitol fraud case were sem
fenced to two years in the peni-
Tertiary, $500 fine and costs, the maxi
mum punishment allowed by law, and
were released on 100000 bail on SUI
/ persedeas.
James Curren. IS years old, was
killed in boxing bout with Benjamin
/ Barnet, II years of age, at the Broad
way Athletic club of Philadelphia.
Franz Cain, city marshal of Higbee,
Mo, was shot and probably fatally
wounded and Elmer Magruder was in
stantly killed in the city jail by three
men whom Cain had arrested on a
charge Of robbing railway station at
Salisbury, Mo.
Eleven deaths have occurred and 10
men ave seriously i'll at Keithley
camp, Mindanao island, as result of
the men of the Eighteenth infantry
drinking calumbic acid, a vegetable
/ compound extracted from the columbia
! root.
Six hundred pupils calmly marched
out OF the high school at Altoona, Pa,
which was on fire.
Gov Campbell of Texas announced
that the law closing saloons on Sun
day would be enforced throughout the
state
Sir Max Waechter, who is touring
the capitals Of Europe advocating the
abolition OF emperors and kings and
the formation Of the United States of
Europe, was received by NJ. Pichon,
French minister of foreign affairs. Sir
Max fayors King Edward as the first
president of his proposed union
The Council Of Jewish Women,
through DR.. Cornelia H. Kahn, chair
man Of the committee on purity Of the
press has issued an appeal to newspa-
pers for the elimination Of indecent
details in the published evidence at
murder and divorce trials.
One man was fatally injured and
one seriously hurt in head-op COLI
sion between two passenger trains CA
the Big -Four railroad between Lilley
and Woodruff. III.
On a charge of criminal libel, made
by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., s. s. Car
valho president of the Star Company
publishers of William r, Hearsts New
York American, was arrested in New
York.
A considerable part Of Rostov-on-
the.Don. a busy Russian city OF l20-
600 population, was destroyed by fire
Frederick A. Storm, a real estate
dealer testified in the trial of Thorn
ton j Hams. as a principal with his
brother, Capt Peter c. Hams, in the
killing Of William r. Annis, that the
defendant had inquired as to the
whereabouts of Annis shortly before
the latter sailed up to the dock where
he was shot Charles Birchtield, a
] friend Of Annis, declared that Thorn
ton Hams drove him back with a
| drawn revolver when he sought to
| stop the shooting.
Postmaster General Meyer an
/ nounced that he would not renew his
order, issued in December, 1907. per
hitting delivery to charitable organi-
cations Of letters addressed to Santa
| Claus"
Oregon Railroad 6 Navigation train
No. /, known as the Chicago-Portland
| special. was held up and the express
| ear dynamited by four masked rob
beers nine miles east Of Portland, Ore.
Express Messenger O. H. HUFF said
the robbers secured little Of value.
Rev Joseph L. Sullens OF Spring
field. Mo, was shot and killed acct
dentally while hunting,
The tentative selection OF Salt Lake
city as the next meeting place of the
Grand Army of the Republic was con
| 6rmed by the executive committee
which has been investigating the &C.
commodauons afforded by the city
The doors of the First National
| bank OF Somersworth, N. H., were
| closed, following the discovery Of a
shortage placed at $4,000. and Fred
H. Varney. the cashier of the bank,
was arrested on a charge OF being a
dafaulter
Nine companies. with their subsid-
/ iares, are named as constituting an
4 Illegal combination in the final de-
cree, filed In the United States cir
/ cult court at New York putting into
effect the Judgment recently oh,
tanned by the government in its suit
to dissolve the so-called tobacco
! trust
The Dutch battleship Jacob van
! Heemskerk captured the Venezuelan
guardship 90 de Mayo and towed II 70
| Curacao, In Berlin President Castro
| called on the German chancellor and
was examined by physician,
On hearing OF the seizure by the
Dutch OF the guardship AK, Acting
| President Gomez declared Venezuela
in a state Of defense President Castro
arrived in Berlin and was given an
] ovation.
That the latest battleships built by
/ this country are vastly superior TO
| Eugland's Dreadnought, is emphatical-
! ly stated by Rear Admiral Rohley ID.
Evans In an article in the latest mum
Der OF Hampton's Broadway Magazine,
wherein he strongly defends the