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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19
CRIMINAL.

RICHARD GARRISON, notorious
green goods" swlndler, has been arrested
at Philadelphia.
MOB law reigns at Ell Reno, Oklahoma,
where lot jumpers are dispossessing the
holders of land and looting the stores.
MRS. HEDsRETH, wife of tue Glendale
train robber, attempted to kill herself in
San Francisco by inhaling gas.
LEOPOLD WERTHEIM, of New York,
committed suicide Monday morning by
cutting his Lead almost off with a table
knife.
FIVE masked men entered the house OF
James York, West Virginia farmer, and
burned his feet with hot irons until he
gave up his money, amounting to about
$500.
AMIZA WILLIAMS, a woman with four
husbands. has been committed to Jail IN
Wilkesbarre, Pa, on the charge of big.
amy.
A NEwBURG, n. J., burglar was traced
and captured by means of prayerbook
that he dropped in 3 store which he
looted.
CARLYLE W. HARRIS, the medical stu
dent who was convicted IN New York OF
numbering his young wife by morphine
poisoning, has been sentenced TO death by
electrocution within the week beginning
March q.
COWBOYS are reported to nave had 3
battle with cattle-stealing Indians neaI
Coolidge, n. NJ, in which three of the lat
ter were killed.
MARION c. HEDsPETH, leader of the
( gang that robbed the Adams Express cal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

near Glendale, Mo-, last November, has
been arrested at San Francisco.
CHRIST ToRsAD, a prominent young
farmer was killed at dance at Jack
Meyers house, near Lake Crystal, Mimi,
Friday night in row.
AT Bolton, Tex, Buck WiIkerson has
been found guilty of the murder of his
wife; the penalty, to be hanged. There
are two other charges IN the docket against
him, one for murder and one for incest.
IN Benton county, Tenn, John Key
ordered his son not to attend party. The
boy disobeyed. When he returned home
the old man took a cudgel, and striking
the boy on the head caused fatal injuries.
Key is still at large.
A SHORTAGE of $4,000 in the school
fund of Adams county, Neb., has been
discovered. This is additional to the
original deficit of $4,000 detected in the
treasuer's account last month.
DUGAY FERGUSON, son of Gen. w. S.
Ferguson, shot and killed Jas. Goodman
merchant and large planter, at Leesburg
Miss. Goodmans brother was also
wounded.
AT Phoenix, Ariz, Tuesday night, two
Chinese at the Parquahall mining camp
had their threats cut and their watches
and jewelry ard several hundred dollars
in money taken.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

As for the medieval ornamental scu.p-
ture we need no. consider it to be a spon-
taneous growth any more than medieval
statuary. In the arts there is always a
certain hllation to be traced. The theory
OF modern critics with regard to medieval
ornamentation is this: Eastern art. i'm
ported and barbarized in Scandinavia. was
introduced into Ireland in the first centuries
of our era. The Irish monks, who we're
SO powerful, and seem to have been the
principal agents of the Renaissance of the
epoch OF Charlemagne, created or in.
huenced, by their manuscripts and minia-
lures, that CarlOvlnglan art from which
proceeds the so-called Romanesque art,
which IN Its turn engepdered the orna-
mental sculpture of the thirteenth century
an art OF character so peculiarly deco
rat1ve, due evidently to very ancient ira
dItlons preserved and transmitted, and
then reJuvenated, strengthened, and trans
formed In details by the study of nature.
The architects of the Ile-de-France. like
those Of Reims, assimilated these pripci-
pies of the new art with marvellous skill
and a1aptability, of which we have numer-
Gus proofs In the statuary of the portals of
Notre Dame, at Paris, and in the accom-
fncundity of the French statuaries Of the
18th century are surprising. They seem to
have produced statues two or three metres
high with wondrous facility. The facade
OF Notre Dame at Paris, for instance,
which is far from being the richest, is
adorned with sixty-eight statues, much
larger than life, and most of them executed
with rare perfection, while in each of the
porches Of the cathedrals of Chartres and
OF Amlens there are more than a hundred
statues. Then, besides the statuary and
ornaments in stone, we have the wooden
images and wood-carving, the ivory cary
1ngs and the work in repousse metal,
which was carried to high degree of per
lection, thanks to the rigid rules of the
maitrises, or trade guilds, of which many
OF these objects bear the marks. Such
were the guilds of the imageries of Paris,
Cluny, Antwerp, Brussels, Munich, etc.
All these medieval arts, together with
that of mural painting, are Iucidly touched
upon by N. Corroyer in their connection
with architecture. and, with the aid of his
explanations and of the accompanying $50
illustrations, the reader Of "L'Art Goth
Ique" gains clear ideas as to the charac-
terlstlcs and development Of that architec-
ture, and as to the religious, political and
social conditions in which were built the
cathedrals, churches, abbies, castles, dun.
geons, Notifications, gates, bridges, hos
pitfalls, town halls, belfries, palaces and
houses during that brilliant period of
national French art which extended from
the twelfth to the end of the fifteenth CEN
tury.-The0dore Child in Sunday Inter
Ocean
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19
WISCONSIN NEWS.

D. M. Benjamin has purchased the
Bush property on Prospect avenue, Mil
waukee, adjoining his residence on tn.
south. He paid $4,000 for it.
The engagement of Miss Kathryn Nj.
Bellows, of Chicago, to Rev. E. F. Gee,
assistant rector of ST. James church,
Milwaukee, is announced.
B. R. Huxley, a member of the Mil
waukee County Pioneer association. died
at his home in the town of Summit, Wau-
kesha county, aged IS years.
Banker Cook was arraigned in the cir
cult court at Juneau Saturday under eight
Indictment, BE pleaded not guilty to
each indictment, but nothing definite was
done. a deputy United States marshal
arrived from Milwaukee, armed with a
writ of habeas corpus, issued from Judge
Jenkins court, which was served ON Sher-
if Hart, who left with Cook for Mllwau-
kee.
DiHhtheria of malignant type is rag
ing at Pleasant View. The public school
has been closed and several houses have
beer quarantined.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19
Minority Report.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-Williams
Mass from the committee on coinage,
has submitted the views of the minority
on the Bland free coinage bill. The char
acter and purpose of the bill is outlined
and the report says, In part: The peril
is not great of the avowed depreciation
by our government of the value of its
own promises. We shall never openly
repudiate our debts or corrupt the medium
payment. The danger lies in legislation
such as this bill proposes, which shall
make the government unable to maintain
promises and tokens ON the basis upon
which they have been accepted. That
basis is a dollar which is exchangeabIe
eVe1ywh here; which does not give up thirty
cents at our border nor yield anything to
fire or water, the dollar of gold
Substantially all obligations now exist
ing In this country are expressly payable
in gold or have been incurred since this ma
ton resumed specie payments. The gold
dollar is, therefore, not only the
best, but the only honest dollar
in which obligations can now be
discharged. But, under the plausible
theory of confident prophecy, citiz ems may
be misled into reputation Of which they
would not consciously approve. To make
this bill understood as a measure of re-
pudiation is to secure its defeat.
at IS perfectly clear that at the very mo-
ment the treasury of the United States
shall refuse to pay gold coin upon demand
no one else will receive sixteen silver dol
lars in lieu of one gold dollar, because a
single customer of the world for silver at
that price has refused to purchase.
at does not follow that the price of
silver fixed By the ratio in this bill can be
maintained even if our government is
willing to receive the payment of its dues
In silver coin and to pay its debts in gold.
The exchange value of silver will be de-
pendent alone not on the willingness of
the government to keep up an exchange
out on It's ability to do so. Even specula-
tlon on the ultimate failure of our treasury
to maintain its policy, might well suffice to
drive gold to premium. precipltate
scramble for the gold in the treasury and
suspend gold payments by the government
the treasury
The minority submits that the only
possible result of the legislation propos-
ed in this bill is a prompt suspension
of gold payment By this government
and the Immediate adoption Of the
cheaper monetary standard of silver.
The history of monetary changes in
the past is recited. An international
agreement is urged as necessary; the
statement is made that the bill cannot
raise the price of silver to ratio value,
and will bring silver from foreign coun-
tries. The stock of silver in Euro
pean countries is set forth
at 81 ,389, 600 900. Silver coming
from abroad would destroy the gold
standard, and savings bank depositors,
artizans and pensioners would suffer.
Summarizing, finally, the minority
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19
SILVER AND TARIFF,
Approved Measures on Both Great
Issues Will be Reported
This Week.
Outline of the Bland Free Coinage
Bill, to be Presented
Today.
Comparison of Springer's Revised
Tariff Scheme With the
Mckinley Act.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 15.-With the
prospect of a free coinage bill passing
ing the House conservative people are
now looking to the Senate. They catch
hopefully at any straw. 1t is known
that President Harrison would like to
have the measure stopped in the SEN
ate. He will veto free coinage bill if
it comes to him, but he is not seeking
that opportunity.
AS to the Senate itself, the usual
misleading propheses are afoat. That
body undoubtedly has majority of
free coinage members. The only ques-
ton is, how many of them can
be satisfied for the present with
a temporary measure, such as
the proposed international con-
ference. The political causes are
powerful enough for the Democratic
leaders to make d supreme effort ana
stop a free-coinage bill from going
through. But most of them say that
the passage Of the bin by Democratic
House will commit the party SO far that
few Democratic Senators will dare stop
short of voting for a similar bill. If a
way covld he found to keep the Senate
from coming to square vote ON tree
coinage, there would be little trouble
in getting some makeshlft adopted.
This cannot be done. At some stage of
legislation, every Senator will have to
choose between voting for free coinage
or against it. The Senate has eighty
eight members, so that forty-fve would
be needed to pass a free coinage bill.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19
WEDNESDAY, FEE. 10.

SENATE.-A bill was passed giving the
president power to appoint commission
ers to the Madrid exposition this year.
Senator Squires introduced a bill appro-
priating $500, 900 for public building at
Seattle. Fl. L. Besse was nominated as
register of the land office at Ashland
HoUsE-The building of bridge was
authorized across the river at Burlington,
Iowa. An investigation of the pension
bureau was ordered.
THURSDAY, Feb. H.
SENATE. After a short executive
session the printing bill was taken up
the question being on Coke's amendment
to increase the number of extra copies of
the agricultural report from 100000 to
100000. Agreed to. The report of the
bureau of annual industry was also in.
creased from 10000 to $1,000. Mr..
Gibson introduced a bill to improve
navigation and afford ease and safety to
trade and commerce on the Mississippi
river and to prevent destructive floods, APP
propriating S16, 100000 Of which not more
than s., 333, 900 be expended in any one
year.
HOUsE.-A resolution, reported by the
committee on accounts, to appoint Walter
+. HaIleck to the position of assistant
doorkeeper, caused an animated discussion
on economy and expenditures. 1t was
finally overwhelmingly defeated. The
military academy bill was concurred in
Mr.. Scott, of Illinois, introduced a reso,
luton instructing the ways and means
committee to report bill providing fol
the repeal Of the Mckinley lew providing
for bountles on sugar. He regarded the
measure as unconstitutional
| MONDAY, Feb. Is
HoUsE-Speaker Crisp being i'll, MI
was made by Mr.. Hatch to suspend the
rules and adopt resolution requesting the
committee on agriculture to report the eff.
feet on agriculture of the present tariff
The resolution, after lively discussion,
was adopted. A bill was passed, after a
short discussion, to establish lineal promo
| tons in the army.
SENATE-A bill was reported appropri-
ating SIS, 900 for the improvement of the
| Mississippi river, and placed on file. 4.
bill was introduced and passed providing
| for an investigation into the recent ad-
mission into the Iort OF New YORK OF
Rus sian immigrants infected with typhus
fever. The senate bill, on motion Of Mr.
! Gibson, of louisiana, appropriating $3.50,
| 600 for dry dock Oh the government res
ervation near Algiers, La, and limiting
the cost to 1850, 900, was passed. A bill
was passed authorizing the construction OF
bridge across the Missouri river between
its mouth and the mouth of the Dakotas,
or James river; across the Mississippi
river between st Paul, Mimi, and South
| port, La. and across the Illinois river be
| tween the mouth and Joliet, Ill. The bill
pn5 ,pr puplte pTlhen ana Oholne
ter some discussion and amendments, was
! passed.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19
TO CLEAR CURTIS.
| Outline of His Case as Given by His At
torneY.

tornev
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. I5.--In opening the
defense in the Curtis case today, Attorney
Wilson stated that they would prove that
Curtis was not left-handed; that the nip
per on his right wrist would have prevent
ed him from shooting Officer Grant and
that he did not do the shooting; that wit
nesses had been tempered with by the
police and testimony suppressed.
Wilson said that on the night in ques-
ton Curtis was under the influence of
liquor and near the corner Of Third and
Folsom streets was accosted by a man who
asked him for a light for a cigarette ami
reminded him OF having played with him
years before. They walked several blocks,
Curtis trying to get rid of the man. Sud.
denly he was knocked down, when
Police Officer Grant came up
and arrested both of them.
The man started to run and Grant put the
nippers on Curtis wrists Curtis did not
know he had been robbed till he reached
the station. The officer took the two men
across Folsom street, when the shot was
fred. Two other shots followed, and be-
lieving himself shot at, Curtis broke away
and ran.
Attorney Wilson said he would intro
duce witness who saw two men with
Officer Grant and saw man run rapidly
up Third street after the shots were
fired. Other witnesses would say the
same thing, and that the man who ran
up Fifth street was not Curtis.
The defense will show that Curtis was
not in the habit of carrying a revolver,
and had none that night; that the man
who robb5 d him fired the fatal shot.
Curtis then took the stand and testified
that on the night in question he left his
wife at the theater and took walk. He
told of meeting man whom he did not
know and of the subsequent happening as
told by his attorney above. He said he
did not have a pistol that night. For
three or four weeks after the shooting he
had violent pains in his head.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19
CONGRESS.
TUESDAY, Feb. 8.

SENATE.-A favorable report was made
on the bill appropriating $500, 900 for &
statue to Gen. Grant in Washington. Sew
eral silver bills were killed, but many 9th,
ers remain subject to future action.
RoUsE.-Measures were taken to probe
to the bottom several of the great bans
failures occurring the past year. Mr.
Bushnell, of Wisconsin, proposed that
final adjournment occur May 81, and he
introduced a resolution inquiring whether
any American made articles were sold in
Europe cheaper than in the United States
and ii so, why.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

The report of the majority Of the
Committee on Coinage, Weights, and
Measures, recommend the passage of
Bland Free Coinage bill, will be pre-
scented to the House tomorrow by Mr..
Bland and by consent of the minority
Of the committee has been made public.
The report discusses the various objec-
tons made Against free coinage, show
ing where, in the opinion of the
minority, those objections were i'll
funded, and how free coinage of silver
would greatly benefit this country,
and especially the producers.
The report begins with an eXplana-
ton of the provisions of the bill re-
ported. Free coinage of silver is pro-
vided, and it is required that it be of
standard fnenesS to meet the alloy
used, the alloy being all the expense
now being eXacted of depositors of
gold. Coin notes may be issued on the
gold or silver deposited, if demanded,
instead of waiting for the coin.
The committee raised the maximum
denominations of these notes from
$500 to $1,000, SO as to accommodate
dealing in large transactions and
bank exchanges. These notes are
made legal tender, redeemable in coin
on demand. The bill provides for the
conversion of all our gold and silver
notes into coin notes, redeemable in
coin, thus doing away entirely with all
legal distinctions. 1t is believed this
will greatly tend to promote equality
in all respects. There will no longer
be issued gold notes or silver notes,
but bimetalic notes payable in either
coin at the pleasure of the government
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

PHoTOGRAPHs of speech, or rather of
the feeting expressions and movements of
the human countenance during speech, is
the latest of the many triumph8 Of the in
Simultaneous process.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

WATCH crystals are made by blowing a
sphere of glass about one yard IN diane
ter, after which the disks are cut from it
by means Of pair of compa8ses, havin g
a diamond at the extremity of one leg.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

Children are not numerous In France.
Out Of 10000, 900 families in the republic
one-ffth have no children at ali and an
other fifth have only one child each.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

Though Victor Hugos Hermann has
Deen ruled out of public school as unfit
for children to read, scene from that his
toric drama figures very extensively in
Mrs. Wards The History of David
Grinun
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

RIDER HAGGARD at one time wore a
gold ring taken from the mummy of the
Egyptian Queen Tala. In It's place his
finger now bears sign9t ring found with
the coffin of Rameses the Great, the
Phanaon of the Oppression. Dijching-
ham Hall, his home in Norfolk, abounds
in curious and SPORT ng trophies.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

IT has been estimated that the motive
power furnished by the steam engines of
the world, represents the strength of l.
900 milsons of men, that is to say, twice
as many as there are Workmen.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

MORE than % per cent. of the freight of
the country is coal. The demand for coal
in all parts of the country is improving,
and it is taking the place of wood as fuel
in remote sections.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19
Personal POINTS.

Mark Twain is seriously ill with inhu-
enza at Berlin, and the hey of Tunis is
also i'll with the same complaint.
80
When Tennyson is invited to read aloud
from his works he almost invariably picks
out the Ode to the Death of the Duke of
Wellington first, and then Maud.
The six Shields brothers, of Collin coun-
ty, Texas, have an average height of six
feet eight inches, and Colonel Henry
Thurston, of Titus county, Texas, towers
up to the height of eight feet FIVE inches.
Bret Harte's manuscripts Of a story was
once refused by the publisher, James
Fields, of Boston. A few years later
Fields paid $4,000 to Harte for all stories
the latter should write during the year.
Harte furnished the Atlantic few stories
and made $500 out of the deal.
AA-bONS1hCI L SDuSNlNallld :
great executive in the war days, says that
he proposes to pass the remainder of his
life writing history of the events in
which took some small part
The Duchesse de la Rochefoucald, whose
church marriage took place Feo. 1.-THE
civil marriage Feb. lois now one of
four American women in high social po-
sltlon IN France, There is the Duchesse
de Dino, once Mrs. Stephens, of New
York; the Marquise de Choiseul, who was
Miss Clara Coudert. also of New York,
and the Viscountesse de None, who was a
daughter of the late General Harvey.
The remains of the late Henry w. Grady
were recently removed from Oakland Gem,
etery in Atlanta, their temporary resting
place, to the fine white marble vault erect.
ed by Mrs. Grady in Westview cemetery
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

A MICROSCOPE which magniies to 49,
900 diameter8 has been made in Berlin,
says the Philadelphia News. Send US one,
please, so that we can look for the Hol-
mar BOOM
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

Miss Sarah Orne Jewett, who has lately
suffered severely from rheumatism in the
ewes. is reported to be much better.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

THE eyeball of an owl is immorably
fixed in the socket, hence the look of
wisdom that that bird always appears to
have. In the horse, an eye in which white
predominates indicates vicious nature
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

Sir Morrell Mackenzie daughter,
Ethel Mackenzie McKenna, has made an
interesting name for herself in newspAp sr
work as writer of cor e5pondence from
London.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

PENCIL tracing cannot be affected by
acids. There is no solution or agent
known to science which can dissolve pine
carbon or its equivalent, plumbago, of
which lead pencils are composed.
AN ocean pier 1000 feet long is being
constructed at Puerto Columbia, in South
America 1t will be entirely of iron and
steel, and from six to ten vessels can be
accommodated at once
CHIEF JUSTICE BEAsLEY of the New
Jersey supreme court has been reappointed
to the bench for his fifth term Of seven
years. He is one of the ablest jurists in
the country.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

THE McKIN LEY BILL.
An Attempt Made to Prove it Unconstits-

CHICAGO, FEB. 15.-The constitutional
ity of the Mckinley administrative act is
to be attacked. The first M I'VE was made
in the United States court this
afternoon by fling a motion to
dismiss the appeal Of Collector Clark from
the decision of the board of general APP
praisers assessing certain duties on dress
goods belonging to Locke, Huieatt and
Company
The melton is on the ground that the
administrative act is void and number of
technical points are raised In support
Of it,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

SToCKMEN in southern Idaho are feel
ing very gloomy over the poor prospect for
an early spring. The situation on the
ranges is deplorable. Thousands of ami
mails are already dead. and owing to an
other severe snow storm this week efforts
to save the remaining thousands will have
to be abandoned. The present winter is
one Of the toughest on record in Idaho.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-02-19

Major General Paul Bernard, on the re-
tired list of the Austrian army, com
mitted suicide few days ago in Krems,
Austria. The dead soldier was one of the
trusted officers of Emperor Macmillan, Of
Mexico. He served with distinction in
the Mexican army, and remained true tc
his unfortunate emperor until the last
moment. After Maximilian's death ht
re-entered the Austrian army