Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-11-14
THE Latest TELEGRAMS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

JUDGE ORLANDO H. SIMMONS. of St
Paul, is dead.
DR.. A. G. BYERs, secretary Of the OhiC
| state board Of charities since 1887, Is dead.
HERBERT WARD defends Bartteiot from
Stanley's charges.
The pan-American republic congress will
meet during the worlds fair.
THERE has been a rich find of gold neal
Lake of the Woods.
CHICAGO anarchists decorated the graves
of their dead Sunday.
UNITED STATES minister in England.
Robert T. Lincoln, has arrived in New
York. He brought with him the remains
Of his son Abraham.
MADAME PATTI is confined TO her bed
In Leicester, suffering from chill con
tracted at concert III London.
A LOCAL builder OF Woodstock, Ont
secured the contract recently for building
the scaffUid on which Bircheil is to be
hanged.
BELL q Co., provision dealers, of Bos-
ton, have failed The liabilities are said
to be heavy.
The president has issued a proclamation
designating Thursday, November q, as a
day of Thanksgiving
THREE bandits were captured near Du-
buque, after ralding two Iowa villages
and shooting a man.
The Oklahoma Legislature has passed
the bill locating the territorial capital at
King Fisher. Tlla bill now goes to the
governor who has five days in which to ap-
prove or veto it. 1t is generally supposed
he will veto it.
MEssRs. DILLON, O'Brien, O'Connor,
Gill, Harrington, Sullivan and the re-
mdinder of the Irish parliamentary party
spoke in Boston, Sunday.
DANIEL II. BURNHAM, the well-known
architect Of Chicago, has been appointed
by the worlds fair directors as chief of
construction, with salary of 81, 900 per
year.
Mr.. SCovILLE, the London tenor singer,
and his wife, formerly Miss Roosevelt. of
New York, have sued the St. Stephen 5 Re
view for damages for saying that he mar
ried her for her money.
Mus. Rowland, wife of the Rev. Will
liam Howland of Passaic, n. Y, secured
divorce at Fargo, n. D., the custody of
her daughter and $500 a year Mr..
Howlands salary is 81 800 year.
JUDGMENTS aggregating s676, ,121 were
entered by default in New York Thursday
against Lilly Warren Churchill, duch-
ess of Marlborough The debts are for
money borrowed in Birmingham, Eng,
Sept. 26 last
The American committee for the relief
of famine in Ireland withdraws its appeal
TO Americans for contributions because the
British government is moving in the mat
ter.
DURING the height of the excitement
attendant upon the heavy decline in values
change, james Struthers, a wel-Inown
mediateIy expired.
MIR. AND Mrs ASA BARR, of Kansas
City, have Just discovered that they are
brother and sister. They were abandoned
by their parents when they were infants
and were adopted by different families
JAMES FUTILE, seventy-three years old,
of South Acton, Mass. has been sued for
$50, 900 damages by Arthur Hughes fer
alternating the affections of the latter's
wife. Mrs. Hughes is less than thirty
yems old.
lT is rumored in New York that Post
master General John Wanamaker has bor-
rowed 81, 800 900, and it is claimed that he
intends to become the pOssessOr of a tele-
graph company which shall rival the West
ern Union.
THE remains of Abraham Lincoln, the
son of Minister Robert I. Lincoln. were
placed in the crypt in the Lincoln monu-
ment at Springfield. Saturday, above those
of his iIlustrious grandfather. The be-
reayed father was the only member of the
family present
In Chicago stock is being taken in a
company to build worlds fair tower
400 feet high and covering q much larger
area than did the Eiffel tower. There
will be II spinal driveway with "A gentle
incline by which carriages may be driven
to the top. The length of the drive is
three miles. There will also be an in
clined railway and elevators.