Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1892-09-30

severe case of nervous prostraion
at Sandusky, Ohio. While his friends
are not sanguine of Lis restoration to
health they do Dot anticipate an i'm
mediate. fatal termination of his mala-
dy. Gen. Pope Is In his seventeen
year.
A younger brother of the pugilist
Corbett, serving three years sentence
in the San Francisco house of correc-
ton for having forged his fathers
name to check, broke Jail Wednesday,
and is at large. He fell into trouble
through being addicted to the use Of
opium.
At Jonesboro, Ark, John Manning,
a young farmer, was arrested Wednes-
day night for causing COttonbelt
railway wreck over a year ago. 1t
has been proven that Manning malic-
iously misplaced a switch in May, 1891,
causing wreck, in which three people
lost their lives.
Miss Florence Blythe, whose success
full suit to establish her paternity in
Thomas II. Blythe, one Of the early
California millionaires, and who died
supposedly a bachelor, made her heir
to 100000, was married Wednesday
to Fritz G. Henckley, young insur-
ance man of San Francisco.
The Mexican minister of finance has
introduced in congress bills for the
taxing Of inheritances and legacies,
for imposing taxes on tobacco and
liquors, for conceding titles to holders
of government bonds, and for provi,l-
ing new insurance regulations obliging
companies to guarantee policies by
bonds.
Fire destroyed 100 houses in Olkusz,
Poland, near Cracow. The flames
were spread through the town by a
high wind with such rapidity that doz-
ems of persons were injured before
they could flee to the fields. Fourteen
persons were burned to death and
eight others probably will die of their
injuries.
William Rice, farmer near Bethany,
Harrison county, Mo-, was murdered
by a neighbOr, III. l.. Long, Tuesday.
After the deed, Long, who was insane,
compelled his wife and daughter to
drag the corpse from their home to the
Rice place. Long attempted to cut his
own threat when arrested, but was
cverpoWered.
A carload of dynamite in a Phila-
delphia and Reading freight train eN-
ploded at New Hartford, CT, blowing
five cars to atoms. The track was torn
up and q hole twenty feet wide and
ten feet deep left where the car stood.
Orlando Clark, q brakeman, was slit
ing on the car and was blown a dis
lance of 120 feet, his clothing ripped
off, but he escaped with slight injuries.
Mrs. Mary Anne Armagost of David
City, Neb., is under arrest charged
with poisoning her first husband, A. j.
Roberts; the mother Of her present
husband, Mrs. Mary Armagost, and
her 12-year-old stepdaughter, Hattie
Armagost. Hattie died last June. Rob
Mrs. Armagost in February 1890. The
accusation is based upon chemical an
alysis just made of the stomachs of
the two last named.
John w. Hall, living i'll poverty near
Kirkwood, a suburb of st. Louis, enter
ed the residence of Wilbur F. Warner
in the town named, for the purpose Of
robbery. He was discovered by Mr..
Warner, who shot him in the side.
MORALLY wounded, Hall managed to
climb out through a window and then
fell Realizing his position, he shot
himself twice, the first ball grazing
his forehead and the second entering
his brain through the left eye.