Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-07-22
NEWS IN BRIEF

| Cyrus w. FIELD died Tuesday morn
ing.
The Chinese restriction law is being
violated In San francisco.
SCORES of Idaho strikers were arrested
by United States regulars.
AMERICAN capitalists are about to
establish a cotton exchange at Hamburg
The funeral of Cyrus W. Field took
| place at Stockbridge, Mass, Friday after
nooa.
ARCHBISHOP IRELAND has arrived
at New York on his way home from
Rome.
". 0. JUDGE, of New York, is elected
president of the whole theosophical
society.
THE New Jersey Oil company has been
purchased by the Standard Oil COM
pany.
MRS. ROSE TERRY Cook, the authoress,
died a5 PIttsfela, Mass, Monday morn
ing.
HEIRS to the McCagg estate in New
York are fghirg over the distribution of
81 200, 900.
ExGov and ex United States Senator
Newton Booth, of California, died Friday
of cancer Of the tongue.
THE Michigan democratic convention
for the nomination of state ticket has
| been called to meet at Grand Rapids,
August II.
THE last weekly statement of the New
York banks shows a reserve increase of
81 $50, 125. The banks hold S19, 2G6 $50
in excess Of the amount required by law.
90 n al 1ah O
forty-acre tract in Duluth, loses his suit in
the United States circuit court Of appeals.
On Tuesday, Addison Moore, colored
man who claimed to be 131 years old, died
at Meridian, Miss.
AT Sacramento, Cal, Judge Edmund
Roberts. register of the United States land
cff1cp, died Tuesday night.
EIGHTEEN persons are reported to have
lost their lives on the lake at Peoria, lii !,
a cyclone striking and excursion steamer.
A MISPLACED switch at Lawnmoor,
Iowa, caused the wreck Tuesday night, of
FIVE cars of stock train. Fireman Geo.
Cox, Of Clinton, was killed. Engineer
Fisher was slightly hurt.
GENERAL freight and passenger agent
d. E. Brown of the Canadian Pacific has
for an Australian line of steamers.
DENIAL is made of the story that
George William Curtis is dying of cancer
of the stomach. He is dangerously i'll,
but the exact nature of his disease has not
been determined.
A SECRET organization of workingmen
is said to have been formed in Boston with
the purpose Of giving union men military
training.
A DELEGATION of the homestead strik-
ers left for the east Monday for the pur-
pose, it is said, of heading off some Bel
CLAN workmen who are reported to have
been brought over by the Carnegie COM
pany to take the places Of the strikers.
IT is proposed to fuse the democratic
and peoples parties in Iowa, the former
being given the candidates for state
offices and the Latter the electoral ticket.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS, the distin-
gulshed writer and editor of Harper
Weekly, is reported to be suffering with
cancer Of the stomach, and may not live a
month.
The nomination of George D. johnson,
of Louisiana, to be civil service commits
| sioner, vice Il. S. Thompson, resigned, has
| been confirmed.
The president has ordered that federal
troops be sent to the scene of the miners
troubles in Idaho, and General Sch0feld
has repeated the order to Generals Ruger
and Merritt.
MONDAYS elections in Mexico resulted
in an overwhelming victory fer President
Dlaz. There was virtually no opposition
to him.