Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1909-12-23


| forth the tortures to which Ielsyas
! prisoners have been subjected, and
pitifully requests the Intervention Of
the American government.
A negro highwayman shot and
killed Che motorman and fatally
wounded the conductor of an Alta
| slta street car near Fireworks station
In the southeastern section OF East
St. Louis, H. The car bearing the
! bodies of the dead motorman and the
/ Unconscious conductor ran wild at
/ high speed for more than four miles
/ into the heart of the business district
| after the highwayman escaped from IT,.
Engineer Tom Walker and Fireman
| p w Bauer, both Of Tucson, were
! killed, ten persons were seriously in
! jured and 10 others cut and bruised
when the east-bound Golden State
Limited a Rock Island train running
over the Southern Pacific tracks west
of Ell Paso, was wrecked three miles
west OF Benson
The general belief Is held at Copen-
I hagen that the commission having
charge of the investigation Of DR.
Frederick A. Cooks polar records
win report that DR. Cooks papers do
not provide a basis for any we'll
founded scientific Judgment
Emulating his brilliant brother
Lamar Harris, whose suicide in High
land Park, H., after robbing a bank
several months ago, caused ma
tonal sensation. Leslie Harris, at
torney and mining man. was caught
in the act of robbing the safe of the
mcfarland Shirt Company, at Los
Angeles, Cal, in broad daylight,
Nelson county, Kentucky, went
wet in a local option election by
$50 majority.
J. w. Bridge, superintendent of the
Pittsburg, Monongahela g. Washing
ton Railway Company, fired a bullet
into his left side just below the heart
at Monongahela, and is dying at hos
pital.
A telegram was received at the
Anchor Line office In Buffalo stating
that the crew Of the propeller Wis
sahicken had been rescued from the
outer Duck Island, Lake Huron, and
re en- route to Sault Ste. Marie.
After celebrating for nearly TWEEN
ty-four hours the jury in the case of
Garrett Johnson and Arthur Clear,
the alleged leaders of the night riders,
charged with the murder of capt.
Quentin Rankin at Union City, Tenn,
is apparently hopelessly disagreed.
The end Of Cleveland's eightyear
traction fight is in sight, through Fed
eral Judge Taylers determination of
the Cleveland railways property ana
franchise values, a rate of fare and
liability for the redemption Of guar
anteed stock. The city council pledged
! Itself 20 abide by his decision, and
| unanimously passed a 25-year fran
| chise based on the Judges decision.
Before beginning HIS niRe-year sen
tence IN the penitentiary for the kill
ing of Joseph b. Richeson, a farm
hand, Ernest s. Stout OF Grand Is
land, Neb., voluntarily settled $1,000
on the children OF the man he killed.
Stout was convicted OF manslaughter.
Head hunters OF the Solomon islands
are on the warpath because of mar
riages between their women and
white men, according 20 news from
the antipodes. brought by the Royal
Mail steamer Aorangi
The bonded debt Of New York city
has reached 81 ,0OO00O,000, according
to q report issued by the comptroller.
This amount, however includes more
than $200Oo0,OO0 held by the city
sinking fund
After sending his resignation TO the
! Nicaraguan congress, President Zelaya
sent a conciiatory cablegram to Presi-
dent Taft, saying that he had shown
his good faith by resgning in order
that Nicaragua might resume friendly
relations with the United States lie
added that he proposed to leave the
country but stood ready TO account
for his acts as president
The white slavery" issue was
| brought before the house at Washing
ton In tangible form when a drastic
compromise bill was reported from the
| immigration committee. The bin Inn
poses imprisonment and heavy fine
for any person importing women into
this country for immoral purposes or
harboring them after their arrival
/ here
4 feat in engineering is the con.
struction of siphon "a feet In diam.
eter under the Colorado river 70 carry
water for IA miles and irrigate $4,000
acres In the Yuma valley.
Joseph Bergin, a business man OF
! Burlington. Ia, was brought 20 Joliet.
H., ON eXuadition papers issued by
GOV, peneen and honored by Gov Car
roll of Iowa TO answer TO the charge OF
bigamy Bergiu was married recently
60 Miss Olive Lord prominent young
woman of Plainheld, uL and is alleged
10 have another wife living at Bur
4 lington
Il IS learned al Copenhagen that
] Captain Losses statement has been
compared with Or Cooks and various