Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-06-19
LATEST TELECRAMS.
NEWS IN BRIEF.

The agricultural department will test
Senator Farwell' 5 rainfall scheme about
| June Is.
THE body of Sir John Macdonald lay in
! state In the senate chamber at Ottawa,
on Tuesday.
WM. ARNOLD, of the dry goods firm of
Arnold, Constable & Co., died suddenly at
New York Monday.
THE estate of the late ?. T. Barnum has
been appraised at S4, 5000.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass, policemen stopped a
funeral Sunday and searched the carriages
for liquor.
JUDGE isaac G. WILSON, of Geneva.
ILL.,, died Monday evening. He was born
at Middlebury, N. Y, in 1916
The Dallas (Texas) land and loan COM
pany has assigned with liabilities estimat-
ed at $500, 600.
JOHN D ROCKEFELLER is seriously i'll
with n rvous prostratlon at his residence
near Cleveland.
BISHOP KNIGHT was inferred in a
| plain pine coffin without an outer box
This is IN accordance with his wishes.
The international Typographical union
has adopted a resolution favoring d nine
hour day after Oct. /.
RECENT discoveries clearly show that
John Bradsley embezzled fully 100000
| of Philadelphia money.
SlxTY-NrNE retail st. Louis grocers
have been indicted for selling oleomarga-
rlne from unstamped packages.
SENATOR ABBOTT, of Montreal, has
been called upon by the governor of the
Dominion to form a new cabinet.
OWING to the decreased demand from
America, fOurty-three Welsh tin ulate
works will shut down during the month of
July, locking out $4,000 men.
SENATOR JoHH ABBOTT, of Montreal,
will succeed Sir John Macdonald as Pre-
mier Of the Dominion,
JOSEPH X. EMMETT, the famous char
acter actor, died suddenly Monday morn
ing of pneumonia, at Cornwall, N. Y.
ENGLISH capitalists have bought the
great copper mines at Anaconda, Mont,
paying S25, 100000
CHARLES H. HAwLEY, a respected resi-
dent of Portland, Iowa, dropped dead
while in attendance at church Sunday
night.
The balance sheet of the iquidators of
UlIt bdllIlS bIOS., Sub" l1dpIllblcS Ol S,DD-
100000; assets of S42, 900, 900.
AT a French cabinet council it WAS de-
cided to ask parliament for the credit
necessary in order to enable France to take
part in the Chicago world fair.
The new Guatemalan minister to this
country, Senior Antonio Batres, has a CO.
coanut plantation that yields him the snug
little income of SAC, 600 per annum.
AT meeting of the trustees of the new
| Chicago university authority was issued to
! the building committee to proceed at once
with The erection of buildings to cost
$3.50, 1000.
GREAT excitement prevails among the
| people of LeTshaw over the valuable
! treasures which were buried in that neigh
borhood twenty-four Years ago when
/ Shermans s army was passing through
! South tT4---zsiat.
| a YELLOW fire tree measuring l13 feet
in length by So inches in diameter at its
big end was shipped by rail from Seattle,
| Wash, Wednesday to be exhibited in
| Chicago. The tree will be called The
| Seattle.
OBITUARY: At Poughkeepsie, N. Y,
| Benson }. Losing, the historian, aged sew
enty-nine. At Evanston, Chas. Grand,
| aged sixty. At jacksonville ILL.,, Deliah
Vaughn, aged one hundred At Atchison
Kan, David H. Spellman, aged fifty seven.
GABLE tI-A> Hygs
The districts of east and west Prussia
are threatened with famine.
The pope has made will bequeathing
! all his personal property to the holy
sea.
PINrER, the philosophers stone
swindIer, has been committed for trial in
! London.
AN earthquake in Verona and Mantum,
! Italy, wrecked number of houses and
caused a heavy loss Of life.
ANARCHISTS at Paris Tuesday exploded
dynamite cartridge in front of police
station No one was killed.
NATIVES of Mmouga have massacred.
roasted and devoured the French expedi-
tion from the Congo undur NJ Crampel
A BARGE bound for Siberia, with 500
prisoners aboard, sank in the Volga lake;
Sunday, many of the convicts were
! drowned.
LATER details of the accident on the
| MoenChenStein & Bagle railway in Swift
erland, place TIE number of persons killed
at 100.
! THE Princess of Wales has started a
subscription among the wives of army Of
! 6cerS for the relief of Mrs. Grimwood,
widow of the British political agent killed
at Manapoor.
The eruption of Vcsuvius continues.
| The director Of the observatory on Vesu-
| vius anticipates that it will become violen
at an early date.
THE execution of a Sepoy deserter from
a native regiment. who was one of the
leaders in the recent rebellion in Manipur,
| took place in Calcutta Monday.
FEUERHEERD, May & Co., London
! wine merchants, which concern is an out
| growth of an old Oporto firm, have failed,
with liabilities amounting to 81, 100000.
AT Tocopila. Chill, cruisers recently
! landed twenty-hv men who destroyed the
archieveS in the government Office, the
! custom house the post and telegrah Office
aud carried away all the mouey they coul d
find.
IT is semi-oficiaily announced that the
| Russian government is ready to negotiate
| with Baron Hirsch for the transportation
! of the Russian Hebrews to the Argentine
Republic
RECENT heavy rains have benefited the
wheat crop in southern Russia so greatly
that the harvest will probably be but little
| below the average.
STRIKING fremen Of the North Ger
man Lloyd steamship company at Bremen
rioted ThuSday morning and the fire bri-
! gade had to be called out to assist the
/ police in suppreSSing them.
A TERRIBLE hurricane swept over
eastern Galici, doing much damage to the
| towns Of Podkamin and Prinikwa and
! partially uprooting the entire forest.
Several people were killed outright and
numbers injured by the falling debris.
| r-f.sF,~ AND CASUALTIES
! WILLIAM BARRIER, a brakeman. was run
| over and killed in Peoria, Ill.