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

avenue ana Harriet street, occupied 0y
james Shannon and John McGinty
saloonkeeper, and Frank Maun, bar
tender. Shannon and his family lived
in the upper section Of the structure. !,
They were burned to death, being over
come by smoke. /
The American ship Joseph S. Spinney, !
Capt. Curling, was wrecked off Point !
Reyes Wednesday morning. The crew
escaped. The Spinney was vessel of
100 tons. and was out 1873 days from
New York. She had a cargo Of mer-
chandise consigned to Sutton & Beebe.
of San Francisco.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., of the Lex
ington Avenue Baptist church in the
New York and preacher of distinction,
has been fined S155 for shooting robins
Oh Station Island, where the birds are
protected by law from wanton slaughter
by persons not resident on the island.
Mr. DiXon's gamebag, when he was AZ
rested. contained thirty-one robins.
A cloudburst fifteen miles west Of
Uvaldc, Tex, flooded the Neuces river
and the adjacent bottom lands. S. NJ.
Johnson, Of the Southern Loan e
Building association, of Knoxville, lost
his life, while his wife escaped by cling
ing to a grapevine. Hundreds of cattle,
sheep and horses were swept away.
In the Old Bailey at London, on
Wednesday, Mr.. Alexander Robertson
applied to Justice Hawkins for a writ
of habeas corpus, demanding that Sir
Charles Russell the encouragement
show cause for the detention Of Mrs
Florence Maybrick. Justice Hawkins,
in reply to this application, said: Go
to Mr.. Asquith, the home secretary"
The stockholders of the Western
Union Telegraph met Wednesday and
ratified the resolutions of the board Of
directors to increase the capital stock
Of the company. The increase is made
| in the amount of $13,S00,0OO, consisting
of $4,000 shares at 500 each. This
amount swellS the capital stock to $Lvv,
100000.
A special report issued by the state
board OF agriculture, based on informa-
ton furnished by township correspond
ents, says the wheat product of Ohio
for the past harvest is estimated at an
average Of fourteen bushels per acre,
or atOtal for the state Of 4O,OOO,OOO
bushels, being short of last years crop
about 100000 bushels.
Ten coal mines north of Denver, Colo,
| have entered into combination. They
! are the Caledonia, Cleveland, Excelsior,
| Star Spencer, and Simpson mines of the
| northern part of the state and some of
the Canon City, Trinidad, and Williams
| burg mines south. The value on land is
, $673, 259.39; land owned in fee, $780,
| 900; leases on leased land, 100000;
| total valueation, $1,O23, 259.39. The
| combined output will exceed 100000
tons per year.
| Nine. Tisza, wife of the Hungarian
premier, is strong protestant, like her
| Gege lord. Recently she precipitated
an animated discussion at a meeting of
the ladies' association, by which hos
| pital is maintained at GrOSSWardein,
over the question whether sisters of
charity alone should be employed as
attendants, or whether various creeds
should be represented. She favored
the latter course, but was badly out
/ voted.
That the October gales are blowing
unusually furious this season and strew-
/ ing the Northern Atlantic ocean with
wreckage, is attested by the masters
of incoming steamers and sailing YES
| sells. Every vessel bring unmistakable
! signs in torn sails, broken sparS and
salt covered smoke stacks, showing
desperate battles with tremendous seas
and hurricanes, which arrived Tuesday,
ran into the hurricane which nearly
swamped the French line steamer La
| Touraine last week.
! David Dudley Field, the great con-
stitutional and international lawyer of
| New York, has donated his entire library
to the Washington and Lee University,
of which John Randolph Tucker is pro-
| fessor of international and constitution
/ al law. 1t consists of over 1000 vol
umes. Mr.. Field wrote that he would
! never need them again. and, on account
of the high regard in which he held mis-
associate in the Tilden-Hayes contest
over the vote of Florida, and on ac-
count of Mr.. fuckers prominence law
! yer, he desired it to be placed in his
/ charge.