Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-11-25
CONDENSED NEWS.

are to be placed in commission
There are 100000 commercial travel
ers in the United States.
Prince Bismarck says the American
army lacks officers.
The Non-Partisan w. C. T. u. met at
Cleveland, Ohio, on the 10th.
3. F. Rollins has absconded with
$1,000 from his employer at Gresham,
Oregon.
The St. Paul chamber of commerce
is holding its sessions in secret
The man who is perfectly proper
toned weighs exactly 20 "a pounds for
every foot of his height.
Mrs. Lease will be candidate for
United States senator, or senatoress, in
Kansas.
Miss Nora Houser has been chosen
as model for the silver statue of her
native State, Montana.
The convention Of the knights of
Labor is in session at ST. Louis.
Plans for Minnesota's new capitol
are being considered by the state CAPT.
tol commission.
Thomas Neil Cream, the woman pois-
oner, was hanged in Newgate Jail on
the 18th.
Another fight occurred at Homestead
between non union workers and strik-
CTS. Many shots were exchanged.
The Roumanian crown is made of
metal from the cannon captured from
the Turks at PleVna in 1877.
Governor Mckinley emphatically de-
nies the story that he will resign on
Jan. 1 and practice law in Pittsburg.
Paul 3. du ChailIu says that while
he was in Africa he had $4,000 oppor-
tunities to marry and declined them ALL
During the month of October there
were only 1851 steerage passengers
landed at New York, the lowest num-
Der since 1877.
The steamer Trave will carry abroad
today 100000 ounces of silver and 90,
900 Mexican dollars.
Arizona territory is making an effort
to be admitted into the union as a
state
Gen. W. S. Rosecrans is still very i'll
at Washington, and it is feared he can
not recover.
The wages of the employees in the
cotton mills at Providence aud Lowell
have been raised
A Washington dispatch says that the
i'll the pension bureau will
amount to $15,OOO,OOO.
Rolla Butcher, Il 13-year-old boy of
Tiffin, o., committed suicide by shoot
ng himself in the head with a rifle
Chris. Schilling, of st. Louis, has
made his record by eating Il gallon of
oysters in one hour on bet Of rs
cents.
The immense reduction works Of the
Harvey Peak Tin Mining company in
he Black Hills, S. D., is in operation.
1t is stated that there are 100000
volumes in the public libraries of
America, while there are but 21,OOO,-
IN III EUROPE.
A Cincinnati Southern train in Ten
lessee was caught by the cave-in of
| tunnel near Chattanooga, but luckily
10 one ON board was seriously injured
John Hoey eX-president of the Adams
express company, died in New York
M the 10th. He had been suffering
or years from Bright's disease.
Charles A. White Of New York, who
5 charged with stealing $4,000 worth
# bonds and securities from his wife
II Cheyenne, Wyo., has beer admitted
o bail in $4,000.
The Timers union of Dubuque, Ia,
las demanded Il nine-hour day and an
Increase of twenty-five cents day
lfter March L.
The trial of Frank Garvin for the
murder of his wife is being held in
The defendant is testifying
II his own behalf
The Chicago Edison company has
work on the north side
,lectric light. heat and power plant.
The improvement will cost 100000.
A leading Philadelphia society lady
las hair sixty-three inches in length.
She is only sixty-one inches Is feet l
nch) i'll height.
Paris detectives have arrested Il man
FAMED Collins, who contests to having
written letters to people threatening to
4 committee of the council Of the I'M
Derial Federation league reports Il plan
or federation of all the Self-goyernillg
states Of the British empire.
The census bureau has issued bulle-
in giving statistics of farm and home
ownership and a debt thereon in Iowa.
it makes Il good showing for the state.
The extra mail service for the Worlds
one year. Specially constructed ears
are to be used in the service.
The plant of the st. Paul Plow Works
insurance, $4,000. The works
will be rebuilt immediately.
Col. John Chinn, the well known race
starter and formerly gambler in st.
Paul, was fatally shot in East St. Louis
in Il difficulty brought on by himself.
There is ministerial crisis in France,
the cause being the bill empowering the
government to suppress yiolnt anar-
chiStic newspapers.
William Potter, of Pennsylvania, and
David r Thompson of Oregon, are ap-