Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1889-06-07
WASHINGTON.

No FEAR of war with England on ac-
! count of the seal fisheries is apprehended
at the state department.
WAsHINGroN.-Admira Kimberly has
reported 10 the navy department, under
date of Auckland, May 27, that the natives
have disbanded. Peace prevails.
LEE WHITEHEAD, the Wisconsin forger,
now in Canada, will quietly return to
Eau Claire, where he will be tried.
. The Navy Department has decided to
send the remains of Captain John Erics
son to Sweden, his native land for burial.
rhey will be taken ON the new steel cruis-
er Chicago.
ADJUrANT GENERAL DRUM has been for
mally retired d from active army service,
he having reached the age of "a years.
General KitOn will act as Adjutant Gen
er8l until General Drums successor is ap-
pointed.
PRESIDENT HARRISON devotes about an
holr day to newspapers. He reads the
editorial comments cut for him by Elijah
Halford, spends few moments GU the
telegraphic news, and always looks over
the base ball scores.
Ir is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that there has been a decrease of
IS 100000 in the public debt during the
month of May, Notwithstanding disburse
ments to the amount of nearly $4,000
600 during the month on aocOant of pen
sions. The treasury surplus is nov stated
to be $54 ,0OO,OOO
GARDNER VAN OsTRAND, brother of one
of the ladies who were imprisoned in Nice
during the early part of the month, owing
to trOu les over Il dress-maker's bill,
called at the state department and laiu
the facts before Solicitor Walker Blame,
who assured him that the department
would investigate the matter and have it
settled.
LATER news from the Samoan itlands
has just been received. Admiral Kim
berry has succeeded in his efforts to stop
hosrilities for the time being. Mataafa
and Tamasese have agreed to truce,
pending the conference at Berlin. Ad-
mIral Kimberly has again dispatched the
steamer Nipsic to this port, additional
repairs having been made. She is escort
by I'll. NJ. S. Alert, which was also saved
from the general shipwreck at Asia.
w0ODRUFf MAY CONFESS.
He Realizes that He Is i'll a Very Tight Place
Woodruff has weakened. He said Sat
urday morning that he might conclude to
tell al h knows about the CrOnin case.
81 have not decided just what to do. If
thought it would do me any good l would
tell everything, but | am not so sure
about thaU. 1t might not do me any good
and it might get me out of this fix. Oh,
| amt worrying much. Nobody can say
| am getting pale and morose from con
tinement. | am NIL right; still, come to
think of it, believe [ would go up and
plead guilty on that horse case if they
would let me oct on the Cronin business.
l used to say l would rather hang for
murder than to go to prison for theft, be
cause it was more respectable, but now |
think differently. am rather in a fix,
guess, for it looks as though they were
bound to hang somebody" Woodruff
looks very healthy. He is given an hour
and half's exercise each day, a. are the
other prisoners. Woodruff says the re
ported interview with his step-father,
telegrsphed from San Francisco, is
"joke." He says mis- sep father is 400
miles from San Francisco. and would not
make the mistake of saying there were
two fingers gone from his hand instead of
one. There is but one finger gone on
Woodruff's hand.