Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-04-21

Consul General Pratt at San Francisco
The receiver Of Seymour, Sabin & Co.,
saltwater, brings suit against ex-Sena-
tor Sabin, Mayor Durant and others to
recover $54,255.51, with interest.
LIE Mars, Ia, has adopted the gold
treatment in the police court. For the
second ofense of drunkenness Mayor
Alline gives the prisoner his choice of
ten days on the street with ball and
chain or course Of treatment.
| At the meeting Of the state board of
live stock commissioners at Springfield,
!, ILL.,, the secretary reported that during
the month Of March six horses affected
with CHAMBERS in Cook county, one in
Rock Island and three in Saline were
killed.
The entire property Of George Abing-
don Baird, the noted sporting man, bet
ter known as Squire Abingdon, is left
to his mother during her lifetime, and
upon her death is to be shared among
the cousins Of the deceased.
The siege against Mrs. James G..
Blaine, Jr., who has been confined to
her rooms in a New York hotel for the
past ten weeks, on account of her sons
attack of scarlet fever, has been raised.
She has gone to Atlantic City.
Mgr. Satolli lectured at st. Johns
seminary, Brighton, Mass, to the sem
inarianS and a large number OF catholic
clergymcn on the topic And the Third
Day He Rose Again From the Dead.
Tie birthday Of Gen. Grant-April y
will be celebrated ON q large scale at
GaleDa, Ill. The idea Of Il celebration
originated with Ii. H. KohlSaat, of Chi
cago, who two years ago presented the
city Of Galena Il bronze statue OF Grant.
Or. Hams Won BuloW has recovered
from his long illness, the greater part
Of Which he spent in Il private asylum
III Berlin, and conducted the last Phil
harmonic concert recently in that city.
1t is said that his recovery is complete,
and that he looks better than he has
for Il long time.
The youngest man who can write his
name as governor is John Il. Osborne,
the chief executive of Wyoming. He is
only thirty-four, Il doctor by profession,
very good looking, of pleasing address,
and came to the West from Vermont
some fourteen years ago, though Il
native of New York.
A freight train on the Jacksonville,
Tampa & Key West Railroad was
wrecked on Buffalo Bluff drawbridge,
six miles below Palatka, Fla, and
| plunged into the river, carrying six cars
with it. A. G. Knox, the engineer, of
Sanford: j. Ii Olmsted, the fireman, Of
birmingham, and j. A. Lewis, Of BOs-
ton, a stockman, were killed.
| Carl Benedict, aged Is, son of Il pro
fessor in the Cincinnati university, is
charged with poisoning 81 900 worth Of
fine dogs in Clifton, a residence suburb
of Cincinnati. He is said to have been
inspired and abettG1 in the work by
Mrs linn, Il wealthy widow, who had
fine lawn on which dogs i'll general
gamboled.
| E,X-Secretary William G. Whitney has
returned from his trip to the south and
west Indies, physically rejuvenated,
though still bearing traces Of his domes-
! tic sorrow. He denies the statements
which have been published, saying he
would retire from active business, and
also states that he is in no way inter
ested in the purchase of the New York
Times, rs reported.
The steam missionary packet Morning
Star, Capt. G f. Garland, made its ap-
/ in, IInnn1JII1 In.
~. The Morning Star sailed and steam
ed over $4,000 miles through the South
Sea Islands during the last nine months
Suit will probably be brought against
the Ann Ar0or Railroad company by
the strikers for $4,000. 1t represents
the difference between the arbitrators'
scale adopted in the Ann Arbor strike
of two years ago and the amount paid
by the company.
A young man named Martin, Stepson
of Senator Vance, attempted suicide at
Washington while calling on Il young
lady. The bullet wound is not serious
Martin is the man who caused a sens;l-
ton by smashing Il window in the white
house some months ago.
More than 1000 of the clergy and
laity of the Massachusetts Episcopal
diocese have decided in favor of DR..
Greer as the successor to Phillips
Brooks for bishop of Massachusetts.
DIR. Greer is pastor of st. Bartholo-
news church in New York city, that
being the church home of the Wander
bits, the Rhinelanders, the De PeysteIs,
Chauncey Depew, and other old Knick-
erbockers