Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-08-19

scale with slight amendments. There
were about about five hundred men out
The Gilman and Cheney Flour com
pany, Of Boston, fails because of the
absconding of the senior member. The
liabilities are reported at S1.5oO,00O.
Some village lads in Shelton. Conn.
while playing circus, hanged little Ed
Gould as horse thief. The perform
ance was SO natural that physician
exercised his skill half an hour before.
Eddie recovered consciousness
An engine on the Circle railroad
struck an electric car at a street in
terectiOn at midnight Thursday, killing
one person and injuring seven others.
most of them fatally
Michael Harkens the dynamiter who
was arrested and imprisoned for try
ing to kill Queen Victoria on Jubilee
day in 1887, is dead in Philadelphia.
D. Gallagher, who was with him at thu
time is still i'll prison.
Mr.. 6. F. Puggles, of Aurora, H.,
was the victim of a serious accident
Thursday evening. While sprinl1ling
his lawn and dragging the hose as
he walked backwards he stumbled and
fell, breaking his left LEG just below the
knee
Thomas Deyine, Of Jeffersonville Ind.
has been arrested on the charge OF
poisoning fish. His arrest was made
at the instance of the Game and Fish
club. Poison had been thrown into
the river in large quantities at a point
near Salt river, and fish taken from the
stream by the wagon load.
United States revenue officers sur.
prised Il moonshiner's camp near Well
ston a mining camp on the Ohio
Southern railroad. The still was III
a wild ravine near a deserted furnace.
The officers destroyed the still and
were fired upon by the moonshiners.
The encampment of the Sons of Vet
Grams, held at Helena, Mont, elected
year: Marvin E. Hill, Of Michigan,
commander-in-chief; George W. Pow
let, New Jersey. senior vice comman-
der-in-cliief; John w. Miller, Montana,
junior vice commander in-chief
At Grafton, Neb., Lizzie and Bertha
Schultz, We're thrown from a buggy
the horse running away, and both re-
ceiyed slight bruises on the forehead.
Some hours afterward, while at home,
the girls both dropped dead within Il
fa1Sy rl1ipI1toc of aacI othar
The Elliott lodging house was burned
to the ground Thursday morning. Two
children, aged and years, sons Of
Milton Tanner, We're burned to death.
Three residences adjoining We're all
burned. Loss 100000.
Mr.. Callan, Parnellite, who was de-
fcated in the northern division Of
Louth by Timothy Healy, anti-Parnel
election Of Healy on the grounds that
voters We're inundated by the
priests.
VIM. Rouse 4 Co, the Oldest wor-
failed With liabilities amounting to
100000. This is the third large failure
in Bradford within fortnight and
manufacturers say that the outlook
has never been So gloomy.
A dispatch to the Standard from
TientSan says: The extreme gravity
Of the situation of the P;mir question
is beginning to be recognized here.
been ordered to proceed from hasllgar
to Raug!lul in the Chinese province OF
s;ari!.ol."
The Innai copper mine i'll AkitIilen,
Japan was inundated July Il by Il
Sudd en- overflow of the river GlnZan.
Nearly all the buildings near the mine
were washed away, and according to
some accounts sixty miners We're
drowned.
Near Elk City, Idaho, William Eats
ton, aged IS, attempted to drive away
two cinnamon bears which We're carry
ing off his cattle. They seized and lie
yulued him. His invalid wife, power
less to help him, was Il witness of the
horrible affair.
tbtt-S La W l1IlN ( VI tii' FSetl'A NhAAN
court. of New York. has decided that
Queen Victoria will have to file surety
of $3.50 for court costs if she wants
to bring suit against the Standard as
phalt company to recover $4,000, a
quantity of asphalt alleged to have
been stolen from Trinidad.
Elmer Walters, young man, shot
Mrs Peter Wall and Ira Wall, the wife
and son of business man OF Elsinore,
Cal, while they We're driving through
TemeScal canon. IRA died instantly
and his mother was badly wounded
Walters is one of two brothers who
have been having some difficulty with
the Wall family over water rights
which the courts decided in favor of
the Walls
The Paris Temps says that the
French government has decided to an
Lex to France the islands Of ALlSter-
dam and st. Paul northeast of Korglte-
len. in the Indian ocean. The French
have occupied the Gloriosa island, stu
ated north of Madagascar
Seven soldiers We're drowned at
Neisse. III prllssian SILICA. while pracSi-
inc in the military swimming school.
The men were ordered to 90 into water
beyond their depth, the preceptor sup
posing them to be sufficiently practiced
to be able to swim.
A two years study at Gizeh. mas CON
yinced Mr. Flinders Petrie that the
Egyption stone workers of 1000 years