Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-10-11
THE LATEST TELECRAMS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

THE elections in the new state off
on Tuesday, and all have gone republican
except Montana.
THE receipts for liquor licenses at Mil
waukee from May |, 1883. to same date
1899, amounted to 324l 900.
THE Knights of Labor in New Jersey
carry their issue into the election and sup
port no candidate who will not give a writ
ten promise to support a secret ballot.
ONE of the curiosities to be seen by Wis
itors TO the World Exposition in Chicago
in 1892 will be the Cronin murder trial.
BY the time the fair opens an entire jury
may be sworn to try the ease.
SAN FEANCIsCo.- S24. 900. 900 estate
Of the late Charles Croker. vice-president
of the Southern Pacific road, has been dis
tributed among the heirs. One feature of
the will was the payment TO each servant
of the family of 500 for each years serv-
ice.
A Mrs. HARRISON, of Chicago, lost
pocketbOok at Racine, containing $3.50.
boy named Larson saw the lady drop it,
He picked it up, ran and caught her. and
returned the wealth. She was terribly
Profuse in her thanks and gave the honest
lad cents
he considers saved his life by shooting
Judge Terry. with a magnificent gold
watch and chain appropriately engraved.
The presentation took place in the presence
Of a large number of people and Justice
Field, in a speech full Of emotion. stated
the debt of gratitude he felt toward Mar
shal Maggie.
Chicago, ILL., - The ceremony of lay
ing the cap stone of the great auditorium
building in which President Harrison was
nominated, was conducted this afternoon
under the auspices of the Illinois Grand
Lodge of Masons. Previous to the cere-
monies was large procession of members
of Masonic orders.
WHEN he was in New York, very late
one night, Willlie Collins visited Il large
drinking saloon and stood for Il few min
utes gazing ut the throng of diSsOIuie men
and women. Fools! Idiots! Asses!' he
calculated; and then he added as he
sought the outer air IF we could but
persuade the world that morality is the
foundati on of wealth and success, this
would he a happy universe.
THE correspondent of ii Toronto paper
says that one of the reasons why the Eng
IIsh church is 50 weak in Canada is its
peculiar system of fees. In the Diocese of
Toronto there is an authorized schedule of
fees which the clergy are entitled to exact
for the performance of certain duties. The
fee for marriages, for instance, is 81 An
additional fee of 81 is cxacted for a certii-
cate The fee for burials is 81, and 50 if
at a distance. In this case also a certificate
entales an additional fee of 81. For pub
fishing the bans of matrimony, the fee is
81 in advance Nothing is charged for
baptism, but if a baptism certificate is de
sired 81 is charged.
New YoRK-A Rome special to the
Catholic News says: st. Paul, Mimi,
which was recently created an arch diocese
has been divided and henceforth will have
five suffragan sees. They are Winona, st.
Cloud and Duluth, MINI. and jamestown
and Sioux Falls, Oak. Right Rev Martin
Marty, o. $. B., d. d., now vicar apOs-
toIic of Dakota, will be bishop of Sioux
Falls. Rev. Joseph b. Cottcr, now pastor
of St Thomas church. Winona, will be
bishop of Winona Rev. James McGol-
rick, now pastor of immaculate Conception
church, Minneapolis, will be bishop of Du-
mth Rev. john S. Hanley, of the Cathe-
dral st. Paul, Mimi, will be bishop of
jamestown.