Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1890-02-21

| opera house, Oh Monday evening, was
one Of the most pleasing entertain
ments ever given in Mineral Point.
George Jeuck, as commissioner Of
the poor for Iowa county, is attending
the meeting of the state board of char
tiles and corrections at Madison this
week.
Hon. H. II. Gray and Hon. P a.
orion, Of Darlington, started on Tues
day last for New Orleans. They will
visit numerous other points in the
southern states before returning home
Rev. Cyrus Knight, bishop of the di-
geese Of Milwaukee, will administer
the apostolic rite of confirmation in
Trinity church, Mineral Point, on Sun
day morning, March ID.
\ synopsis of the new general cleo
ton law will be found on the second
page of The Democrat. If voters il
the city viii preserve it, they will lind
it convenient at the time of the spring
election.
A. :. Cronk, formerly of Burlington
Wis, has been released from Joliet,
H., prison. where he was serving a
term for perjury, His pardon was
due to services in breaking up large
gang Of counterfeiters.
The Harvey c. \. r. post Of Oar
lington, on Tuesday evening of last
week, adopted resolutions opposing
the dependent pension bill and favor
ing the service pension bill now before
congress; and also recommended com
rade John Meehan for senior vice
commander of the department of Wis
consin.
Two men, Metcalf Hillary and Jerry
Harry, were accidently killed in the
mines Of the Wisconsin lead and zinc
company, near ShuIlsburg, on Tuesday
Of last Wee. They were at work
near the mouth of the tunnel or drift,
when many tons Of rock and dirt
rolled down upon them, killing them
instantly.
y clean newspaper has, in the long
run, the most permanent circulation
and patronage. The paper which goes
into the homes and is read by the fam
lilies is the paper which counts its sub
scribers 10y the year. 1t does not have
to depend upon Misrepresentation
and the abuse of others to keep it
before the public EX.
The Shipman engine in the office of
The Mt Horeb sun exploded, owing to
a defective steam gauge. The editor
and publisher, G. G. Mandt was lean.
ing up against the boiler at the time,
but only received a stunned leg. Mrs.
Mandt and baby were also standing
close BY, the pieces flying all around
them but they received no injury.
On Tuesday afternoon, William
Wallis, of Darlington, James b. Wallis,
of Mineral Point, and Joseph Wallis,
of Palouse City, who We're here visiting,
went over to Dubuque in response to a
telegram announcing The serious illness
Of their mother there. John b. Wallis
was suffering from on attack of intIu-
cnza and was not well enough to leave
home
Frank Pugh, aged about Is, and
residing at Nankeetown, Crawford
county, was shot through the heart
and instantly killed, about nine o'clock
Friday morning, leaving wife and
child, in whose presence the deed was
committed. 1t is supposed to have
been 4 suicide. No cause is assigned.
This is the same neighborhood where
the O'Neil homicide occurred Il few
weeks ago.-The Richland Observer.
The Richland Observer: William D.
Towsley, formerly of this city, was
crushed to death under the wheels of a
freight train at Ashland Junction last
Thursday morning. He stepped be-
/ tween the moving cars to pull a coup
/ ling pin. lost his footing and fell, the
trucks passing over his right arm and
/ leg. When the cars had passed VIII
sat upright for several minutes, He
was taken to Ashland and at l.
o'clock expired. He was y years old.
unmarried.
The weather the past week has been
very springy. If it keeps on in this
direction it will call out the shovel
and the hoe, garden and flower seeds.
the house and yard cleaner, the painter
and poet, and if the latter does not
keep an eye weather-ward he Will
loose his calling and spring will come
without a harbinger This has been
4 year where fall and summer merge
and unless something wintry happens
very shortly there viii be no winter of
ISS9-9O to chronicle.-The Shullsburg
Local
The Iowa County Inter Denomina-
tional ). ). convention has been called
/ by direction of the Wisconsin execu-
! tive committee to meet at Dodgeville
on Tuesday, March /. 1890. Hon
James Spensley has had the work OF
organization in charge, and as pres
ident of the district will respond tc
the greeting to the convention by Hon
:. W. Reese, of Dodgeville. An in
teresting program has been prepared
in which Rev. q. W. Horton, Rev. N
Chase and Rev. ". J. C. Bond, of Min
eral Point, are to take important parts
/ The committee requests every Sunday