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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10

1t was slngulaIiy appropriate that Han
nibal Hamlin should DIE ON tue annivers-
airy Of the republics brth--a republic of
which there was no more loyal supporter
and to whose welfare large part Of mis-
most eyentful life was dedicated With
the death of Hannibal Hamlin there passes
away-now that Fremont Is gOne-neaIly
the last notable character which connects
the stirring time Of Webster
and Clay and the unparalleled
sectional bitterness of the ante .bellum
period, with the peace and national har-
mony of the present. He was a congress-
man when the first Harrison occupied the
white house, and, as democrat then,
survived to die republican witt repub
lican Harrison in the presidential chair.
His has been an interesting, almost a
romantic career Born in 1909, when the
republic had barely attained its majority,
he was in the Legislature Of his state at q,
and his political talent and force of char
acter twice made him speaker while he
was yet young man In 1912 he went to
congress as a democrat, and again in
1874 In 1913 he was promoted to the
senate to fill IA vacancy, reelected Ioi ,ne
full term in 1851, but b came a republican
on the anti-slavery issue. and resigned to
go back to Maine and b. inaugurated as
governor This was in 1857, but he occu-
pied the executive chair but a month when
he was sent back to the senae. He re-
nlained senator unit 1861, when he was
elected vice president with Abraham Lin
coin We find him again senator in
1869, and his tenure was two terms, closing
his career as a politician i'll 1881 at the
age of u after a public life of
over two score years that spauned the
stormiest perio through which nation
ever passed and yet lived. As has been
we'll said: During the years of his
activity savery was wiped odt a new en-
pire opened frcm the Aljcghenirs TO the
Pacific and new south started on a
career Of prosperity never dreamed Of
during his vie presidency. Ills wasa
remarkable life eventiul, patriotic. well
rounded and complete"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
No. 49,.

pEs MONIES, Iowa, July IA state
convention of miners had been called 10
meet TO morrow at OSkalooSa. The basis
OF representation is one delegate for each
nine of Rfty employees or fraction thereof.
The call is signed by President Walter ).
Scott of the United Mine Workers of
Iowa. Consideration of the recent strike
Is the supposed business.
WATERLOO, Iowa. July 7.-Fortv-nine
cases of beer, Eve cases and eighty bottles
of whiskey, the property of the Gibbs
Brewing company, of Peoria, Ill.,, were
destroyed here today by the sheriff. The
brewing company operated an original
package house in this city last summer.
and the goods destroyed today were seized
last October under this provisions of the
orlglnal-package act passed by the last con-
greSs. The company has endeavored to
compromise by paying the costs and ship
ping the lnterdieted liquor from the state,
but no agreement could he made and the
case has been hanging until the present
time.
Sioux CITY, Iowa, July IA special
from Fort Dodge, Iowa. SAYS: Jacob
brown, Jr., grocer, was attacked and
probably fatally stabbed 10y Cyrus Conlee.
who was under the influence of LIQUOR.
Brown 5 father came to the rescue and
was also stabbed. Conlee has been
arrested.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
TELECRAMS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

MEXICO is said to be on the verge of d
| revolution.
| OVER 10000 immigrants arrived at
| New York during June.
DR.. JOHN E RITTER, of Orangeville,
Ind, Is dead, aged seventy-three years.
WORK has begun on the building for
| mines and mining at the worlds fair.
r. DREW. farmer near Columbia
City, Ind, died of hydrophobia.
RUSSIA has finally accepted the invita-
tion to participate the Columbian exposi-
tion.
THE Chicago cold storage exchange has
been sold to an English syndicate for s4,-
100000.
The bank of Moses Brothers, at Mont
gomery, Ala, suspended payment Mon
day morning.
DoBsoN's plush mills at Philadelphia
have resumed operations with hfty-eight
weavers instead of the 46S strikers.
The first passenger train on the new
Pixies Peak railroad assembled to the sum-
nit Tuesday.
THE national youths worlds fair as
soclation has been organized in Chicago.
Children up TO Is are eligible for member
ship.
FARMERS in the vicinity of McGregor,
Iowa, report hat a light-colored insect Is
working In the rlpenlng grain, threaten
ing it with destruction.
Friedrich DOUGLAS, minister from this
country to Hayti, arrived IN New York
Ihusday morning from Port au Prince. q
CENTRAL HUDSON railway men who
went out in the great strike last August
are disturbed by a rumor that they are TO
be discharged.
The Mcbride Brothers. tea merchants
of New York City, have failed. Llabili-
ties, S3ll 53l; asetts, Sl8S 049.
THE grading for the site of the worlds
fair building is now finished, and work
has already begun on the mines and min
ing building.
Mill at Cleveland struck Wednesday be-
cause the company refused to sign the
amalgamated scale.
DURING the last six months there have
been 6,074 business failures in the United
States, with total liabilities of S92, OK, 900.
During the same period of last year the
number of railroads was 5,385 and the
amount of liabilities S65, 100000.
The Red Cloud, Neb., national bank has
been closed by order of Bank Examiner
Mcknight, and will be placed in the hands
of the receiver.
AND now the heresy craze has broken
out among the Jews. Rabbi Aron S.
Wise, of New York is in danger of in
vestlgation for decIaria4 that the doc
trinp of the trinity had its origin iii Juda-
ism.
ARBUCKLE, the New York coffee mer-
chant is trying to drive out competitors
in the territory about Knoxville, Tenn.
He is Offering the best roasted coffee for
twenty-one cents a pound. Retail mer-
chants in Tennessee are laying III large
stocks.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
CRIMINAL.

FIVE prisoners escaped from the NJ assa'
chusetts state prison. Two have been re-
captured.
BERRY TURNER. charged with having
killed six men, was arrested Wednesday
near Knoxville, Tenn.
SHERIFF WAKEFIELD, of Arkansas City,
Ark, is said to be a defaulter to the extent
of S55, 900.
GEORGE JONES and William Newton,
two Tennessee farmers, fought duel neal
Knoxville Thursday. Both men were
killed.
G. NJ. LowERY, agent for the New York
Life insurance company at Oakland, CAL,
is charged with embezzling 1000.
In quarrel at Brierfeld, Ala, DR.. G
r. Grove shot and fatally wound ed 7. +.
Glass, father of F. P. Glass, editor of the
Montgomery Advertiser.
AN attempt was made to wreck pas
senger train at Hartford, Ct, Wednesday
night, by placing a dynamite cartridge on
the track
In Chicago, Axel Lund. tailor, was
murdered and robbed at Chicago and Nil
ton avenues, Sunday night. Two men are
under arrest Tor committing the crime.
ALoNzo Gibbs, a well-known negro
political worker at Camden, n j., had
his throat cut by Alfred Boyer, Saturday
night, during quarrel over the collection
of gambling debt. Boyer is in Jail.
E. L. MANN, manager of the Shelby
plantation, in Bolivar county, Mississippi,
was murdered Saturday night. A negro
tenant is suspected.
FRANK PIERCE, the notorious prohibition
searcher of Des Moines, shot and fatally
wounded an old man Tuesday. Threats of
lynching are freely made.
w. B. NEwBERRY and w. V. Nolan,
prominent cattiemen of Magdelena, n. NJ,
engaged in a street duel over trlfling
matter. Newberry was instantly killed
and Nolan mortally wounded
VIM. GATES, aged twenty, was hung to
a tree nine miles west of West Point,
Miss, and literally shot to pieces, Sunday
night by fifty citizens. His crime was at
tempted rape on a sixteen-year-o daugh-
ter of Mr.. Gus. Goodem.
FROM the backwoods of Baldwin, Ala,
come the report of a tragedy in which
Jesse Cartwright killed his brother ohn,
and afterwards cut his own wife's throat.
He was jealous.
AT C.uyuun iowa, last Monday. some
of his companions nailed Isaac Montgom-
erv, aged % years, in box and told HIM
they were going to throw him III the
river. The next day he died raving
maniac.
In Chicago Tuesday night Fred Stem
man, an iron moulder, fatally shot his
wife and then b'ew out his own brains.
The double tradgedy was caused by jeal-
ousy on the part of Steinman regarding
Peter Reise, carpenter, who borded with
the family.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
HISTORY OF TIC HTS.
The Were First Donned by Nuns in a
French Convent.

Apropos to the recent legislation against
tights on the stage by the Minnesota leg
islature, a Paris newspaper gives some
interesting facts as to the history of these
garments. 1t seems, according TO this
authority, that tights are only extremely
ancient Gallic ''braies," or closely, fitting
pantaIoons, which in the middle ages
became the haut- de-clausses worn by both
sexes, and which, according to a curious
letter addressed by Heloise to Abelard,
were donned by the nuns of the Convent
Of the Paraclete. The ''haut de. ehausses"
for ladies' were discarded when stockings
came in, and they were not heard of in
France from the period of the j jrafo:IT--- IL !;
r. that of the revolution. huer une VI
rectorate there was Il craze for everything
cIassic-Greek and Roman furniture, din
ners after the manners of the ancients,
and ladies costumes initiated from designs
of Etruscan vases and the paintings at
Pompeli, were the delight of society in the
gay city; but some of the sham antique
dresses were so perilously transparent in
texture that Grundyism "a la Parisienne"
resuscitated silk tights. Such a garment
was worn by Nine. Fallen at ball at the
Sale Frascati. The tights were of roseate
hue, enriched with golden bangles above
ami below the knees, and on both her
great toes the elegant citizenuess wore dia
mond rings The remainder of her attire
was a single robelof gauze, which foated in
the abundent air.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
COU RTING THROUGH \ KEY
HOLE.
The Mean Trick the Doctor Played on Ii
Housekeeper's Sweetheart

The Mean Trick the Doctor PLAYED on His
Housekeeper's Sweetheart
An Irish physician, late one night. i'm
agined he heard noise in the kitchen.
inconsistent with the quietude and secur-
lty of a house like his, so taking candle in
hand, he proceeded to investigate the
cause. His foot being heard in the lobby.
the houSekeeper began with all earnestness
to cover the fire, as if preparing for bed.
''lere late up ton. cht, Mary?"
I'm just rakin' the fire, sir, and gaun
to bed
That's right, Mary; l like timeous
hours.
On his way back to the study he passed
the coal closet, and turning the key, he
took it with him. Next morning, at an
early hour, there was rap at his bedroom
door and request for the key TO light the
fire.
'4e,re too soon up, Mary go back to
your bed yet"
Half an hour later there was another
knock, and IA similar request in order to
prepare The breakfast.
81 don't want breakfast so soon, Mary;
go back to our bed.
Another half hour, and another knock
and entreaty for the key, as it was wash
ing day. This was enough. He rose and
handed out the key, saying:
Go and let the man out"
Mary's sweetheart had, as the doctor
had shrewdly suspected, been imprisoned
all night in the coal-cloSet, where Pyramis
and Thisbe-like, they had breathed their
love through the ey-hole.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10

menacing her coast upon that side, and
therefore this desire for some definite
assurance of support from England All
this shows that the reports that England
had joined the alliance were net in the
least premature, although rot necessarily
misleading, for Rudini's reported refusal
to sign a renewal of the treaty until Eng
land 5 purposes were known may only mean
that Italy insists upon definite pledges in
stead of general promises. That some
kind of an understanding with England
exists has been admitted in the commons.
but it is probably not clearly enough de-
fined so that it could be called a compact
or agreement to defend the Italian coast
against France, as Prince Napoleon said 1t
was. The other interesting fact Is that
the striking article in the Contemporary
Review on the condition of Italy was not
written, as was generally supposed. by
Signor Crispi, but by Jessie White Mario.
the English widow of the patriot Alberto
Mario. This authorship robs the article
of political significance, and leaves it
simply the expression of a very competent
observer of the events and conditions with
which she is surrounded
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
WORLDS FAIR OFFICERS.
That Forsythe Will Yet be
Confirmed.

CHICAGO, July 7-Wm. Forsythe, of
California, whose appointment as chief of
the worlds fair horticultural department
is still pending, appeared before the com.
mittee on agriculture today. The COM
mittee went over various unpleasant
charges made against Forsythe by enc
mics in California. He answered
the accusations by demanding documentary
evidence tie prove their truth, and the
committee took the matter under advise
ment
1t is believed here now that Forsythe
will be confirmed All of the opposition
comes from California, and the director
general said tonight if the nomination is
defeated he will not be likely
to choose another California man.
because Of the factional bitterness that
seems to have been aroused Gen. Alex
ander Campbell, of West Virginia, will
tomorrow be nominated as special commis-
sioner to Australia and Henry Ballantyne,
United States consul at Bombay, as com
missioner to India.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10

THE fourth of jug glorious alike to
he small boy and the angel of death-hss
come and gone, and sorrow reigns in the
usual number of households The sky
rocket, that pernicious and never failing
agent OF death when it ohtairs half
chance, performed its customary act in its
hyperbclic career by passing through
human bead here and there; but it was
GLORIOUS fourth, and may the evil one
himself continue to encourage the use OF
the deadly sky-rocket! For what is a
fourth without fatality, and how can one
be assured without the sky-rocket? So
here's to the sky rocket, and may its
splendor never be dimned so long as the
wisdom of civilized man sarctions It's
sale
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
HAM LIN DEAD
The Venerable - ,ca-I'resident Passes
Awsy.


BANGOR, Ne, Jul. g. 6-Ex-Vice-Presi-
dent Hannibal HamiIn died Saturday
night at 8:I5 O'Clock. He was down
town in the afternoon and visited the Tar
rstine club rooms. g1ere he was playing
Pedro, when his head fell forward on his
chest. He was picked up unconscious and
died soon after.
WASHINGTON, July 6.-President Har-
rison to- night authorized the following
official announcement of the death of ex-
Vice-President HarhIn.
To the People Of Inc Tn ted States:
The president, with profound feeling
Of sorrow, annon lces the death CT Hanni
bal Hamlin, at eae time vice president of
the United States, who died at Bangor,
Me-, Saturday, July A. Few men
in this country have filed more
important and more distinguished public
positions than Nr. Hamlin, and IN recog-
milton Of his many eminent and varied
services, and as an expression of the great
respect and reverence felt for his memory,
it is ordered that the national flag shall
be displayed at half mast upon all public
buildings of the United States on the day
of his funeral.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
BOY TRAIN WRECKER
A Lad of Twelve Years Said to
Have Caused the Lansing
Disaster.
Four Others Present at the Time
but He Did the
Work.
The Young Fellow Now in Jail AT
La CroSSe-0tficerS
Reticent.

LA CROSSE, Wis, July T. Chief of
Police Byrnes returned this evening from
Lansing, Iowa, bringing witt him a
young led Of twelve years, who it it is
said has confessed that he tied the nut to
the rails on Saturday which caused the
wreck that day near Lansing, Iowa, in
which Engineer Todd lost his life
-Four other farmer boys are said to nave
been present at the time but the one under
arrest is believed to have done his awful
work alone. The police here are very
reticent and the above facts were
cleaned from railroad men.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
WHAT AILS DREW.
Correspondence Concerning the Bank
Examiner Made Public

WASHINGTON, July 6.-The cerre-
spondence relative to the dismissal of Bank
Examiner Drew was made public today
June 20, Comptroller Lacey wrote to
Drew calling his attention TO the fact that
in the report of Jan. "a as to the cOndi-
ton of the Keystone bank, Drew
had omitted completely TO mention the in
debtedness of the bank to the clearing
house of $544,8 4,85l, for which notes and
bills amounting to 5720, ,308 were pledged
as security. Drew under date of June
80 responded that his failure
to meption this amount was clearly an ac-
cident He did not include il in his regu-
lar report. intending to make 1t subject
of special note. The correspondence
also touches on other points and
ends with a letter to Drew, from
Comptroller Lacey, under date of July 2,
Informing the examiner that so important
an omission after fifteen days examina-
tion of bank is not consistent with the
confidence which must be reposed by the
department in the reports of examiners
and calling for Drew's resignation.
Bank Examiner Shepard, Of Pittsburg,
and Bank Examiner Belts, of Cincinnati,
will conduct the affairs of the Philadelphia
office until Drew s successor is appointed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
The pastor of the church and two ladie:
have died.

The pastor of the church and two ladies
have died.
Tim entire population of Averyville,
H., has been fruitlessly searching for
three little children-David and Luther
Carndall and Arthur Elwarm-who dis
appeared Tuesday afternoon.
The boiler of a locomotive on the Cen
tral railroad of New Jersey exploded Mon
day night near Nequaboming Junction,
Pa, instantly killing the fireman, engineer
and brakeman.
A CONSTRUCTION train left the track at
Million, FIVE miles from Richmond, KY,
and killed four colored men and injured
six others. The names of the killed are
Arner Hagan, Matt West, Joseph Swopes
and William Davett.
The fast express train, on the New
York. Lake Erie and Western Railway,
which left Chicago and Cincinnati Friday
evening for New York, was run into while
standing in the depot at Ravenna, Ohio.
Two sleeping coaches and day coach
were demolished and afterwards burned.
From twenty to twenty-five persons lost
their lives, and many others were injured.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
COSTLY NDER.
Republican Papers Estimate of th
Tin Plate Sch ~dule.

Chicago Tribune: For just about year
the Welsh tiuplate makers have had
soft time of it. They Lave sent II the
United States during that period 30 per
cent more in quantity and got more in
price for their products than during the
preceding twelvemonth The nome it
was known that the Mckinley bill raising
the duty to % cents pound was going
ta pass the American demand began in
creaslng, and the Welsh manufacturers
put up their prices. They did not raise
wages not did their raw materials cost
them more, hence America has been a
bonanza for them.
Having sent 10 this market all it can alb
sorb, and others being probably well sup
piled, the manufacturers have decided to
shut down for month, beginning last
Monday, when about 5000 Welshmen
we're thrown out of work. The workmeu
have protested against what they called
the injustice of this action, since they had
worked along without calling for more
pay, but the millmen insist on shutting
down. From moral point of view it
cannot be said that their action Is praise
worthy They have reaped where McKin-
ley sowed. and propose to pocket the en-
tire harvest for themselves They have
already raked in about 100000 from
this country in extra price.
Probably they look at it from purely
business point of view. They know that
whatever happens the American demand
must be comparatively small for a few
months to come. For some months at
least the American manufacturers of tin
plate wherever they are hiding them,
selves-will have no active Welsh compe-
tition. During that period they can get
their mills in working order and prepare
for the conflict with the WelShmen, who
have no intention of surrendering the
profitable American market without
fight. Owing 10 the big stocks ON hanC
it will take several months to get an ide,
of the effect Of the increase in the duty
1t must not be forgotten, however, tina
il makes no difference to the creates
single consumeisof tinplate-the Standar'
Oil company and the canners-what tn
duty is, for they get the drawback on a
which they use for cans sent abroad. Tn
American t,nplate men will find that thes
greet consumers are quite lukewarm o
the subject of encouraging the making .
home of this particular article. Thi
whole tinplate change of the tariff hs
been costly blunder.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
MARVELLOUS SURGERY.

Another of those interesting surgical
operations which the surgeons nowadays
are attempting with boldness and fre-
quenoy was undergone by Mrs. ]. H.
Weber at the university of Pennsylvania
hospital last week, among the operators
being Dr. D. H. Agnew. Three inches of
the sciatic nerve taken from a living dog
hip was transplanted into Mrs. Weber 5
upper arm to connect the disjointed ends
of a nerve which had been cut out in an
operation for the removal of a tumor.
The dogs nerve was incased in a sheath
of dIscalci6ed chicken bone. The sheath
will be absorbed, and meanwhile it is
hoped that the two ends of the human
nerve will send out flaments oper this
bridge and finally join together again.
The success of the operation is expected
to allow the patient once more the use Of
her arm
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
A Fragile Structure.

system which chronic Indigestion has depict
ed and rendered nervous and feeble, IL indeed
very fragile structure, $ tenement fast topping
into irretrievable decay. Excessive irritsbiiity
of temper, abnormal and csuseles anxiety, hypo-
crondria hysteria and sieeplsssaess-these are
some Of the manifestations of nervousness Thst
grand invigorstins nervine, Hostettsr's Stomach
Bitters, tranquilizes by strengthening the nerves
accomplishing the double result through the
medium of renewed digestion and assimilation
No tonic in existence exhibits such thoroughness.
produces such speedily appreciAbls effect. the
BiIters- IL Is perfectly reliable safeguard
against malaria and dangerous kidney trouble
and remedies completely liver and bowel InsctIy-
ity and disorder. Nervous invslids should not
fail 10 fortIfy their systems with this benign pro
tectIse, which well merits . persistent UAA
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-07-10
WILLIAM HENRY GLADSTONE,
Eldest Son of the Great Englishman,
Passes Away.


LONDON, July 6.-William Henry Glad
stone. eldest son of the Rt. Hon. William
Ewart Gladstone, the great English
statesman, died Saturday morning. De-
ceased was born at Hawarden, Flintsnlre,
in lS4O, was educated at Christ church,
Oxford, entered parliament in 1865, repre-
senting Chester, sat for Whitby
from 1868 to 1880, and subse-
gently represented East Worcester
shire. The late Mr. Gladstone was lord
of the treasury from Is to 1884, and was
a deputy lieutenant and justice of the peace
for Flintshire at the time of hes death.
Mr. Gladstone has long been a confirmed
invalid, and his death followed closely on
an operation to remove tumor that was
pressing on his brain.
The ex-premier arrived at his SON bed
side after the latter had expired. His
grief was intense, and it was feared the
results to his Lealth might be serious.