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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
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5 RINGFiELD, III MAY ga large
number Of bills were read III the House
a second time, me OF them of
character TO encounter serious upposi-
tlOn on third read NJ. Two revenue
bills called uD by MIR. COckrell were
made ;, ecial order for tomorrow
morning. Mr.. Mobiles bill for a board
OF managers for the charitable nstitu-
tIol = in Cook county, to be appointed
BY the county commissioners, was
ordered 20 a third reading; also the
an i-Pnkerton bill and the gross weight
coal biIi.
Several bills relative to wOme1 were
cons de- ed with equal favor, including
the Senate bill allowing women living
apart from q cir husbands to sue for
separate maintenance anywhere in the
State. Upon request Of Mr.. Moore the
motion to reconsider the vote by which
the wOman's suffrage bill was defeated
las week was postponed until Friday
next.
Mr. Myer of Livingston called up the
bill regulating the delivery of tele-
graph messages, when Mr.. Miller OBJ
iected, saying that the man who in
troduced it was present on the foor
and he was the proper person TO call it
up if he wanted it advanced. But Mr..
Allison. as on former noticeable oc-
casion of Il similar character, was
silent.
Another occurrence Of interest was
when Mr.. Adams called up the live
stock exc &c bill and Mr.. Hawley
objected to IT. consideration because
of the slim attendance. A few mo-
ments before this Mr.. Johnston had
called uD bill by number, and when
the reading was partially complet ed
II was discovered that it was the ar BIZ
tration bill ami objection was inter-
posed for the same reason and Mr..
Johnston WAS induced TO Withdraw it.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
CABLE FLASH Es

Thirty members of the English parlia-
ment are suffering from the grip.
The vatican is short of funds owing to
the falling off in Peter pence.
THE body of 15-year old boy, sewed up
IN black bag, was found floating in the
Liverpool harbor.
Rev. WILLIAM DALRYMPLE MACLAeEN,
bishop of Iitchfed, has been appointed
archbishop of York, to succeed the late
Archbishop Magee.
ANOTHER revolution has broken out in
llayti and Port au Prince is under martial
law.
ENGLAND has sent gunboats to Corfu to
project her subjects there during the anti
Semetlc crusade.
In the lottery mandamuS ease the Louis
lana supreme court has refused a rehear-
ing.
LoRs RoMILLY and two female servants
were burned to death at the upsetting of a
paratin lamp in his London residence.
EMPEROR WILLIAM of Germany is much
dispeased at his sister Sophie conversion
to the Greek church.
The pope has ordered all paper COM
ments on his latest encyclicai, especially
those of British and American papers, to
be sent to him.
LIEUTENANT ToTTEN, U. S. A. military
instructor at the Sheffield scientific school
at Yale, prophesies that the world will
end in 1899.
MUCH adverse comment is made by the
Canadian papers on the fact that the ma
tional debt of that government has doubl
ed in the last twenty-five years.
BARON IiIRsCH is reported to have com
pleied the purchase Of a large tract of land
in Uruguay on which to coOnize Jewish
refugees from Russia.
The village of Brense, near Merien-
weider, Prussia, has been completely de-
stroyed 10y FIRE The inhabitants are des-
titute.
A NUMBER of Bohemians. students
(Czechs), assaulted party of visitors from
Berlin at the fair and beat them brutally.
The assault was ,perpetrated without the
slightest provaCation.
A REPORT comes from Paris that an ar
raGgement has been made between the
United States government and the Chilian
insurgents regarding the ltata and other
vessels sailing under the latter's flag.
DURING Il game of base bali at Nash
vile, Brown county, Ohio, Philip Harden,
aged eighteen, completed successful ruu.
and seating Himself on . stone. said tally
one for me, and fell dead.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29

The recent discovery of a defalcatiou of
over S4OO, 900 10y President Hill. of the
Ninth National bank of New York. re-
calls similar robberies 10y trusted officials
and suggests line of thought for the
student of the times The president of
this bank was. until the time of his death.
regarded as man of strict integrity as
tinancier of the highest standing. Yet
at his death when the accounts were ex-
amined, as they should have been before,
1t was found that he had plundered the
bank from time to time through long
period of years. The bank examiner ex-
plains tina, he always found sufficient col
lateral, which it is now known was furn-
lshed by placing securities which were held
in charge by the president. This suggests
the fact that there is really no limit to the
ease with which depoSitors may be robbed
by the authority in charge of a one man
bank. There are directors and officers, of
course, but they are too often dummies to
be twisted at will about the fingers of a
shrewd rascal who controls affairs by
sheer force of superior intellect, aided 10y
a fair degree of plausibility. The average
director OF bank is too careless in his
duties. How many a case may be recalled
where banks of the highe ,anding have
been robbed to destruction by the deliber-
ate rascality of the president2 Our banking
laws are supposed to be all that legislation
can devise for the safety of depositorS,
and yet it apparently is an easy matter
| for bank examiner to be deceived In the
| accounts of some of the soundest institu.
tions. The only save check is to divide
| the responsibility in the management of j
national banking institution. The patrons
| place first confidence in the directors, who
are primarily responsible for the integ
rity of the bank They cnnot testify tt
the honesty of the officers, but they car
place it beyond the power of one man t,
steal hundreds of thousands through
long series of years. No public institution
so nearly touches the popular interest as .
bank in which the savings of depositor.
are placed. and certainly no corporation
should be more closely watched.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
CENTENNIAL FIGURES.
Some Statistics of the Centennial Exposi-
tion in Philadelphia.

Inquiries are frequently made at the
Columbian exposition headquarters for in
formation concerning the statists in con-
nectIon with the Centennial exposition
held in Philadelphia in 1876. The fol-
lowing figures and statements are given In
answer to such questions:
Sixty thousand applications were made
for application by the exhibitors.
The main building covered twenty
acres, and gave employment to 700
people under control of the centenniel COM
mission.
The ground covered by the exposition
was 326 acres.
There were .309 men employed ir the
private police, known as the centennial
guards
Three hundred men were employed in
special fire department.
Total number OF admissions at Phila-
delphia, 10164. .489, including employees
and exhibitors.
Admission fees received at the gate, a
little less than s4,000,000.
Average attendance per day, g.. 333.
Largest attendance any one day, ga
9l9.
Most popular week day, Thursday. 76.-
average attendance twenty-seven Thurs
days, lo,oU0.
Lightest day, Monday, average for Mon
days, 50,05I
Largest week receipts from admissions,
s308, ,854 26.
Capital stock of centennial exposition
$50, 100000
Amount of stock subscribed, g, 800, 900.
Cost of buildings and preparing grounds
5000. 900.
Total ipeov,,a e. S1I 215
Foreign governments appropriated and
spent at the centennial exposition over
5000, 900, of which s300, 900 was from
Japan alone.
Increased passenger receipts OF the Pen
sylvania railroad for the year 1915 over
1875 or 1877, 3, 900, 900.
Moderate estimate of attendance at the
Worlds exposition In Chicago l00, 900 per
equaling Is, COG, 900 for six months, or l65
days, making gate receipts 81 800, 600.
Estimates of sale Of privileges and for
sale Of buildings after the exposition
sufficient amount to make total re-
eeipts 100000.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
eAPTISrS AT CINCINNATI.
Interesting Reports Of missionaries
Land. iIi IIAa Orient.

CNCINNATI, OHIO, May 26.-Ths
seventy seventh anniversary OF the
American Baptist II s>ionlrv unlon was
observed at the Pike opera house.
This j. the Oldest society OF the
Bal fists. The chairman. the Rev. DIR.
Northup. president of The Chicago
Theoiog cal eininary, announced the
usual commi tees. The p esd ut's ad-
dress was next in order. Hs spoke for
a thousand million of his fe low-men
and made a strong appeal for more
earEestEess in sending the gOsp t 0
the p gan world: Baptists should give
more men and money fve-fJid.
DIR. Murdoch presentei the report Of
the executive comm tee on progre SIS
the last year. A halr-million dollars
has been raised and upward Of $1,000
converts b ptized. The missionary
church members now number 1852.
The European missions in
ciude G rnany, Russia, / enmdrk,
France ard 81 ain. Tie Asialic Geld,
embrace Burmah. Assam, Telugas
India. China, aud Japan. Africa is
also an important fed. The most i'm
p9rtant work has been among the
Telugas of whom thousands have
been ba ptized recently, and who now
number bout forty-two thousand
BapIists.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
FATHER FIGHTS SON.
Details OF Il Duel Between Two Men
Who Loved the Same
Woman.
The Girls Guardian and His Son
Settle Their Differences
i'll Death.
Brutal Battle Results Fatally TO Both
Principals and Perhaps to the
Young Lady.

LEWISTON, Me, Nav ga dispatch
from fethel, on The Grand Trunk rail-
road. in the extreme western portion
Of the Sat, = YES the particulars of
errIble tragedy between Il father and
sen for The possession of a Young
woman. The affair occurred Saturday
night in lumber town in the Raugely
Lake region. and the parties impu-
cateA are all luutbermen.
About two years ago Peter Lancrac.
trench-Canadjan, who kept a country
store, at Bethel, Que. died. leaving his
busiue and some 50, 600 to his only
child, Jeanne, who was then Is wears
of age. Oa his deathbed the father ap-
pointed Jack on Older haw, a lumber
boss. her guardian until she was u.
OIders hlw was wIdower with an
only so0, Roger, a young man aged 22
oth father and son were men o. pas
slouate and selfish natur,s and both
cast coNetouS eyes on young Jeann
and her little fori une. The old man
had EreIt ililuence over the girl. who
stood much iG fear OF him, aud after
persistent persuasion on his part prom
Ised to marry HIM, although size pre-
terred the son The latter learned of
his fathers jnteutIons and got the Girl
to promise to e!ope with him Saturday
night.
They attempted to steal off while
the elder Oldersuaw was away. but he
returned uneNl ectedly and caught
them II tne act In fit of rage he
drew revolver and fired at his son,
but the GIri Jam ed between them and
received the ball lu her shoulder In
IA ling she kuo kei the pistol out of
DID, II
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
11UOII IClI COCletV
TELEGRAMS.
y EWS IN BRIEF.

lowA's crop bulletin shows continued
bright prospects for grain and fruit.
The Star clothing house, of Springfield,
Mo-, has failed. Liabilities, 50,000, as
sets unknown.
HENRY SHELTON SANFORD, ex-Unitet'
States minister 20 Belgium, died at Heal
ing Springs, Va.
The Star Rubber company, of Trenton,
n. J., is reported to be in trouble. It's
liabilities are said to be $500, 900.
OMAHA was selected as the place for
holding the next Trans Mississippi con-
gress.
AT New Haven, Conn. Bunnell &
Scranton, bankers, failed Wednesday with
100000 liabilities and no assets.
CATTLEMEN in the vicinity of Emporia,
Kas., are alarmed over the appearance of
an unknown fatal disease among all their
herds.
AT New York, Satterlee, Bostwick &
Martin. insurance brokers, failed Wednes-
day because OF mIsappropriatiOn of funds
by members Of the firm.
A FORTY-Two inch vein of coal was
struck at ChandIervllie, H., at depth of
seventy-fve feet. The coal is said to be of
superior quality.
AT New haven, Conn Bunnell & Sean
ton, bankers, assigned Wednesday,
Liabilities about $1,000 assets prob
ably less than 100000.
THE Kentucky prohibition state conven-
tioI met at Louisville Tuesday and NOM
mated full ticket, with Josiah Harris for
governor.
THERE were copious rains in northern
and western Iowa Wednesday, breaking
tie drouth, which was becoming serious.
POTTER WHITE & BAILEY, shoe manu-
faCturers. of Boston. have failed. Their
liabilities are 81 ,000,0Q0.
IT is probable that the United States
will secure a cOaling station in SANTANA
Bay, San Domingo, the negotiations fer
Mole st. Nicholas, Hqyti, having fallen
through
MANY ministers have objected to the
selection of Phillips Brooks as Episcopal
bishop of NJ massachusetts, and ne may not
be confirmed.
The farmers alliance of Nebraska pro-
pose to elect another governor. They con-
tend that Gov. Thayer can hold the office
only until the first election
The amendment attached to the world
fair bill in the Illinois senate Wednesday
making "a compulsory eight-hour day on all
work done on the lllinOl exhibit, was re-
considered Thursday morning, and the
bill with IA 81 100000 appropriation sent
to IA third reading.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
FIXES AND CASUALTIES.

ELEVEN blocks were burned by 4 FIRE
Wednesday night in Houston, Texas.
Loss $500, 900.
Isaac SCoTT, a farmer living near ST.
dell, H., was killed by lightning Satur-
day.
ALL the records and papers Of the
United States court for the northern dis
triCt of Florida have been destroyed by
FIRE. The records ran back $50 years.
DISPATCHES from Knoxville Monday,
announce the death of Congressman Houck
of Tennessee. His death was due to Il mis-
take in taking dose of medicine.
AT Perry, N Y, FIRE started in 5. Cold
water Il Bros store and DESTROYED prop
erty valued at 100000.
AT DAYTON. Ohio, VIII Dmgherty was
killed while trying to board a train Sat
urday morning. He was mangled beyond
recognition.
AT Minneapolis Saturday morning a
fire in the house Of Felix Lawler burned
to death his daughter, aged 6, and an
infant son. His wife was also seriously
burned
4 TERRIBLE tornado passed Mexico,
Mo, Tuesday afternoon. Ten persons
Ntit hiiAStt' anu great tttthi' Sc NttS dolS
to property.
AT New York seven frspien at a small
blaze were terribly burned by the explos-
ion of barrel of gasoline. Captain
Thomas kenney is know to be fatally in
jured.
TWELVE persons were killed and
hundred injured 10y cyclone in AUDI ain
county, Missouri. Wednesday. Over fifty
residences were demolished.
/ THREE children of Joseph Sherman. a
/ farmer living near Wichita, Has, were
! drowned Wednesday by the sudden rising
of mountain stream.
THE Rev. J A. Hamilton. of Home
stead. Pa, delegate to the Baptist con-
vention at Cincinnati, was killed by a
stone which fell from new building
which he was passing.
/ 4 REPORT has been received that a
Santa Fe bridge near Albuquerque. n NJ,
| fell last Friday, carrying a passenger train
with it, and that twelve passengers wer
| killed.
THE works of The Joliet. fIll) Enter
| prise company have been entirely destroy
ed by FIRE, involving a loss of SI25,0 coo;
insurance of $40, 900. Three hundred men
are thrown out of employment.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
THEY WANTED IT MADE GENERAL

The Ashland Press notes another instance of the
hollownesr Of democratic parade of virtue. Dur
ing the campaign one of the strong democratic
virtues was the demand that the public funds
should draw interest only for the public and not
tor treasurers. bill was introduced in the last
Legislature applying this principle to county funds
A According to The Press, It wHs fought in t he sen
ate by John 7. Kingston, chairman OF the com
mIttec to which It was referred, and by other dem
ocrata "lIe and every one Of the thirteen who
opposed II were democrats The bil was sup
ported by rcpuhicvns aud only carried 10y one
vote the republicans having the assistance of only
three democrats. Milwaukee Sentinel.
Senator Kingston led in the opposition
to this bill. not because ii proposed TO
give TO the public the profit that its funds
might make while on deposit but because
of the limited application of the measure
II applied only to counties with IA specified
population, and Senator kingston and
his fellow democrats very sensibly could
see no good reason why every county
should not be privileged to derive the
benefits which it was supposed the bill
would confer. Therefore, they opposed
the measure.
tion will hurt either them or their party
Their Judgment will be amply vindicated
when the people are made cogniaant of
the true ground of their opposition.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
ETuE FURST BISMARCK.

The trip of the magnificent new Ham
burg American liner, the Furst Bismarck,
which has made the best maiden voyage
from southampton to New York on record,
is another triumph for the twin screw.
The best previous run ON this route was
made 10y the Columbia in June, lS90-in
six days sixteen hours and two minutes.
The new sister steamship of the Columbia
has beaten her record by nearly two hours
When the City of New York Toutonic and
other twin screw vessels were building
many doubts were expressed rs to the
superiority of double propellers. 1t now
looks rs if the next move will be to have
three or more screws. But further in
crease of speed ON the ocean will be at
tanned only by greatly disproportionate
expenditures. Germany is to be congrat-
ulated upon having in recent years built
up the splendid fleet of steamers, of which
the Furst Bismarck is the finest specimen,
without resorting to the policy of paying
heavy bounties and subsidies.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
WASHINGTON

PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued .
proclamation opening up to settlers ,600,-
600 acres Of land In the Fort BerthOld In
dian agency In North Dakota.
The president has appointed David r..
Austin collector of custOmes at Miami,
Ohio.
1uE president on Monday appointed
Michael Piggot, or Iinois, special agent
to make aiotments # lands in severalty to
nOn-reservatiOn In lIans
The United s. ties supreme court Mon
day decided the case of the Chicago distiIl-
ing company Eainst ex-internal revenue
collector Stone in favor of the company.
The method OF computing the output of
distilleries is ronounced wrong.
The presid mt on Monday appointed
Sose Segura of Santa Fe, N NJ, to be
agent for th9 Indians of the Pueblo and
Jicarilla az nCy in New Mexico.
SECRETARY FOSTER has appointed a
commission composed OF Ex-Congress-
man Grosyenor, of Ohio, DIR. Walker
kempster, the noted expert on insanity
and r. Powderly, brother of 7. V.
Powderly, to proceed to Europe and in
vestigate the immigration theory
THE secretary of war has made alIot-
ment Of money to various states and ter
ritories for the arming and equipping of
militia on the basis of congressional rep
| resentatiOn. Illinois gets 800, 0,27l; Iowa
81 ,978; Nebraska, 81, 8O7; South Dakota,
s., ,6S5; Wisconsin, SlO,l35.
N. CORTE Italian consul at New Or
leans, has arrived in Washington. The
department of state has not yet received a
request from Gov Nichols to grant
Corte's exequatur, but there is still little
Likelihood that he will ever again repre-
sent his country in the United States.
As the new navy increases and full
powered steam vessels take the place of
the Old wooden ships which relied in part
upon their sail power for propulsion, the
amount of coal consumed increases in
rapid proportion. This fact has led to the
issue of an order by the secretary of the
navy directing officers in command of
naval forces, whether squadrons of single
ships to practice the utmost economy in
! No., Il,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29

A DANISH woman named Henderson
hanged herself and her three children at
Harlan, Iowa She was insane.
Ed. HERMANN, confined in the county
| Jail at Devils Lake, South Dakota. at
tempted TO escape ana was fatally shot by
Sheriff Wagner.
The American express Office at Carroll,
| Iowa, was robbed of $1,000 Sunday night
| by men who bound and gagged the man In
charge of the office.
Dr. JOHN HYDE, a prominent citizen of
| Springfield. Mo. comm tied suicide
| Sunday night by hanging while insane
| from grip.
EDWARD HoCKING, a prominent citizen
of Pen Argyll, Pa, has absconded, taking
with him. it is alleged, $4,000 His wife
is left in destitute circumstances.
| JOHN J. DoUGHERTY, collector of taxes
| for the northern district of Delaware, Is
short in bis account about $4,000. He has
| fed and is supposed TO be in New York
City.
JOHN and VIM. Anderson (colored) who
held "a girl, Jane Ware on the railroad
| track until train killed her were pursued
by posse of negroes, captured and
hanged.
ANOTHER Jack the Ripper has been ar
rested In New York, after a desperate
struggle in which he and the policemen
the prisoner One was table knife, re-
sembling very much the one with which
Carrie Brown was cut.
LESTER S. SMITH, formerly collector
for the Boston Post, and who is wanted
for endorsement of 81 900 from that
paper, has been arrested in Montana.
WILHELM WEIDEMANN, a cigar dealer
of Chicago, died Monday with tn, symp-
toms of arsenica poison. His relatives
charge his wife with his murder.
IT is asserted that Jacob Franzel, secre-
tary of the Camp Washington Building
association, is short about $1,000 in his
accounts.
AT Chicago, Alice Martin, desoIate
woman. was found murdered in her apart
ment Wednesday morning. She had been
dubbed to death. J. H. Painter, who
had lived with the woman, is locked up on
suspicion of being the murderer.
Ex-Gov. RAMSEY, of Minnesota, admits
that he was blackmailed out of large sums
Of money by his coachman whom he paid to
leave the country.
FRANK LAWRENCE committed suicide
Wednesday in Chicago, by shooting He
lived with his parents at 079 West Van
Buren, street. was a single man, and %
years old. He was dentist by occupa-
ton.
AT Grand Rapids, Mich, the street car
strike eliminated in three serious riots in
which seven men were hurt seriously and
one, James Z. Marshall, conductor, was
fatally injured.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1891-05-29
ARRESTED A TRAMP.
Suspected Train wrecker In Jail at
duncan.

PORTAGE, May 24-Frank Hartman, of
Waukesha, well known in Columbia coun-
ty, where ne has relatives of excellent
standing, is behind the bars at the Dane
county jail in Juneau, awaiting examina-
tion on a charge of attempting 10 wreck
passenger No. / on the St. Paul
road in the town Of Elba, Friday
night May Is. Il is claimed that
the fellow, who Is a uamp, was put off
freight train near by Lat same evening
by Conductor Russell, and that later he
placed the obstruction c1 lbe track which
so nearly hurled a ira .cad Of people into
eternity. This Hart rIa1 denies Of course;
circumstantial eyil least is strongly
against him TO Sheriff German
belongs the credit for prrest, as il was
made az Waukesha upo form alton fur
nished 10y that ofnccr on inves-
tigation down the line toward Water
town. A telegram from the company
started him out on the detective work.
Last night on passenger No. two of the
company's detectives arrived in Portage
with the prisoner, having been under the
impression that the crime was committed
in Columbia county. Sheriff Irvine Kept
Hartman over night and today the officers
took him to juneau, the seat Of tine county
ir which the affair belong.