Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-12-09

| Great commotion is caused in tho
| French chamber of deputies by charges
of bribery in connection with the pana-
ma Canal company. Three challenges
| result.
| Luther Ripley, at enc time state or
ganiZer Of the Patrons of Industry, and
| recently lecturer Of the Michigan State
Farmers alliance, is dead at his home
i'll Lansing.
! Suit was begun on the 22nd at De
troit Mich, against Thomas Tuite, eX
! City Treasurer, and his bondsmen. to
recover $4,000, which it is alleged he
owes the city.
John r. MulIiken, formerly & neral
manager of the Detroit, Lansing and
! Northern road. was found dead in his
bed in Dertoit on the 24th. Cause Of
death, apopleAy.
The tour made by Prince Henri de
Chartrcs into Central Asia is already
matter of history. His cousin, the
Due GOrleans, has now embarked in
similar enterprise.
Carl T. VinniGcrholz, who achieved
considerable notoriety at the time Of
the investigation Of the Louisville Gas
company's affairs, died from the effects
Of q stroke Of paralysis.
c. Sinclair, cashier and confidential
bookkecper of the Armour Packing
company in New York, has disappear
ed, taking with him at least $4,000
Of the concerns money.
Death warrants fer the eight colored
men and boys in Chestertown jail, con
victed of the murder Of DR.. Hill, have
been prepared. December 13 Is the
date fixed for the hanging.
Congressman Sherman Hoar and Miss
Mary T. Buttrick, Of Concord, will be
married at noon Tuesday, Dec. 6, at
Concord. Only the intimate friends Of
the parties will be present.
One William Riley, under arrest at
Chippewa Falls, confesses that he is
the murderer of William Anderson, the
wealthy Eau Claire lumberman, who
was killed several months ago.
Forty employees Of the Grand Trunk
L
charged for taking advantage of the
company's liberaIity in furnishing them
coal cheap to supply their neighbors.
Mrs Sarah Stoughton, aged 100, died
at her home eight miles north of Co
lumbus, Ind, of old age. She had
lived in the county for sixty years.
Five generations will attend her funeral.
A syndicate of Eastern capitalists has
formed Il company for the purpose of
working the mineral and dry-bone de-
pOSitS at Dubuque, Iowa. A large num-
Der of miners will be set to work at
once.
A wagon containing four persons was
struck by Rock Island passenger train
at Peoria. Perry Horshor, one of the
occupants, was killed and the others
severely injured. The vehicle was de-
mOliShed.
Charles y. Young, boy of II, of
Denver Col, has built what his friends
claim to be the smallest coal burning
locomotive in the world. The engine is
said to be five feet long and weighs
235 pounds.
The plant of the Consolidated Tank
Line Oil company in Dubuque, Iowa,
was conveyed to the Standard Oil COM
pany on the 22nd and notice of the con-
vcyance fled with the County Record
er. The consideration named is 81.
The Emperor of AMMAN, who has
been mentioned SO often in the for
eign papers recently, has now 200
wives, each of whom, with her servants,
lives in house III the palace garden,
which is surrounded by a great wall.
Baron Hirsch is said by a London
newspaper to be the richest man the
world has ever known. the statement
being that he is worth 100000 4
year. This implies capital Of about
$500, 100000.
NJ. Averot, a Greek resident of Alex
andria, has presented the Queen of
Greece on the occasion of her silver
wedding with the sum of 100000 drach-
mas for the erection of d reformatory
for young criminals
Police authorities claim to have
clew to the identity of the man who
robbed w. G.. Pollock, the New York
commercial traveller, of $4,000 worth of
stones on n Sioux City and Pacific train
at Missouri Valley, Mo, three weeks
ago.
Harry Burt, whose home is at ST.
Joseph, Mo, was arrested and bound
over ut GalcSburg, Ill. on the 22nd in
the sum of $1,000 for stealing fifty
pairs of shoes from n merchant at
Ransom, H., by whom he was en-
ployed.
Rufus Is. Richardson. Professor of
Greek 1T Dartmouth, has been unani-
mously elected director of the Ameri-
can School of Archaeology at Athens,
Greece, for five years. lie will probab-
ly accept and commerce his work there
next fall.
The salary of the Prince of Wales is
100000 a year; Duke of Connaught,
S125,0oO; Duke Of Edinburgh, $125,O00
and the Duke of Cambridge, the
Queens cousin, 100000. The royal
family costs the British taxpayers $40,-
900 a week.