Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1885-03-06
Points of Wisconsin News.

Reports from Congressman Ran
kin are more encouraging.
The town of Janesville turned out
for wolf hunt last Sunday.
Gen. Bragg passed through Mil
waukee, on his way to Washington,
last Saturday.
Norman Clarke, an old resident
of Racine, died at the residence of his
son-in-law, ]. G. McMynn, on Satur-
day.
Judge Hugh Cameron, brother of
Senator Angus Cameron, is a candi-
date for re election as county Judge
IN Lacrosse county. He is quite pop
ular and will be reelected.
Commissioner Of Insurance Spoon,
er thinks it useless to prosecute cases
of underground insurance in Milwau
kee IN the municipal court. He thinks
Judge Mollory is prejudlced agaixst
the state
GAINESVILLE gives the tramps COM
mitted to Jail in that city the chance
TO select such banquet SIS they wish
out of bill of fare consisting of bread
and water. The jailer is little short
OF boarders.
The Green Bay railroad now runs a
telegraph operator with each passen-
gen. train, so that in case of snow block
ades or accidents the wire can be tap
ped at any point and assistance secur-
ed. 1t is a wise precaution and is
creditable to the management.
Bradley Schley, of Milwaukee,
who wishes to capture the office of
district attorney in the eastern dis
trlct, is distant relative of Senator
Bayard. Both Schley and E. E.
Chaplin are III Washington to endeav-
or to secure the prize.
Mr.. Cases string of trotters and
PAGERS, which will be handled by Ed
Blther the coming season, incluSes
Phallas, Jay-Eye See, Edgehill, En-
dymion, Victoria Sprague, Linda
Sprague, Gurgle, Phallas Chief,
Princess Sprague and Edwin Sprague.
Two sawyers and teamster while
taking the body of dead man from
Joseph Moses camp on Jump river to
Chippewa Falls, weie attacked by
wolves about midnight, rscently. The
Gllver piled the whip on his team,
while the two sawyers with their
Winchesters killed twenty-seven
vol yes. They arrived at the Falls all
right but pretty badly scared.
Rev. J. w. Olmstead, of Oneida.
was in Depere last week. to engage
the services of Drs. Fisk & Mailer, to
make medical examination of 60
Oneida children, 50 of the more ro-
bust of whom agent Andrews will
shortly send to Carlisle, Penn. to at
tend the Indian school there. Eleven
children were sent to the same school
last fall. The school is conducted in
the English language.
The Milwaukee Sentinel is IN
formed that the line of defense will be
to uulte different from what has been
anticipated. 1t has developed that
Miss Horan's attorneys have for sew
eral weeks past had Prof. Hindlay,
of Racine college, engaged in series
OF very important experiments and
practical tests, and upon the result
of this work Miss Horan's case will
be based, it having been found, it is
claimed, that after an embalming
fluid, such as that used on the body
of Miss Neliie's sister, has been ap-
piled to a body, no chemists analysis
can distinguish between TIE poison
which will thereafter make It's ap
pearance in the body, and the rem
nant of quantity of strychnine,
which may have been taken by
the individual before death. Prof.
Hindlay will be called upon, as az
expert scientist, to testify regarding
his work during the past few weeks
But it is not the intention OF the de
fense to drop their case with this plea
They profess to intimate friends to
have positive evidence that the pack
age of stryehnine parchased by Nellie
from Whitewater druggist, and
from which, the prosecution claim,
she took the deadly powder which
resulted in her sisters death, had not
been united from the time it left the
druggists hands until it was taken
from a drawer where Nellie had
placed it, and by her delivered to an
officer when it was asked for.