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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09

WASHINGTON, June There will be
ten contests before the House of Rep
resentatives next winter.
In Alabama, the seat Of James E.
Cobb. reelected from the Fifth Dis
trict as a Democrat, will be contested
by Martin w. Whatley, Populist.
In California the seat of S. G. Hill
born, reelected as Republican in the
bird District, is contested by w. B.
English, Democrat, the plurality in
this case being only 33 votes.
In Georgia, the seat of j. c. c..
Black, elect ed as Democrat in the
Tenth district, is contested by Thomas
Z. Watson, Popu'ist, who had the seat
in the last Congress.
In Illinois, the seat of Robert Childs,
elected as Republican in the Eighth
district,i is contested by Lewis Stewart,
Demo rat the plurality being only
thlrty-Seven votes.
In Kansas the seat of f. ii. Funston,
reelected as Il Repu blican in the Sec
ond district, is contested by II. L..
Moore, Alliance Democrat. their diff
ference being only eighty three votes
In Michigan is the closest contest.
George +. kichar> son holds the seat
for'the Fifth district by just ten votes in
total poll OF ebout AZ, 900. The con-
testant is the late member, Charles
Belknap.
In Missouri Charles f. Joy, Republic
can, holds the seat for the Eleventh
District. 1t is CONTESTED by John j..
O'Neill, The late keprv sentative, who
will have plurality of sixty-seven votes
to overcome.
In North Carolina the Fifth District
seated Thomas Settle, Repu blican. IL.
A. Williams, Democrat, contests his
claim.
In Tennessee the seat of b. a. Enloe,
Democrat, from the Eight District, is
contested by +. II. Thrasher, Populist.
In Virginia the seat for the Fourth
District held by James l.. Fps, Demo
crat, is contested by j. Thomas Goode,
Populist.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
STAGE GOSSIP.

Nine. Modjeska has educated and
named five nephews and nieces.
April Weather is to be the title of
the new play Clyde Fitch wrote for
Sol Smith Russell and which will short
ly be brought out in Chicago.
Ellen Terry has become a mother-in-
law. Her only son, whose stage name
is Gordon Craig, was married a fort
night ago to a young lady Of Is, not
on the stage.
Alvin Joslyn is filling an engagement
at st. Louis. In the hour of its mis-
fortune we hereby retract everything
unkind we have ever said about our
sister city.-Chicago Tribune.
Charles Dickson, who has been seen
in a clever little play called Incor,
makes the announcement that his new
play is called A Damn Fool, and fur
Their adds that if the title will offend
the public he will change the plays
name
l. Nine. Rhea has engaged Frank Dietz
to manage her next tour. which will
begin about the middle of September
Her new play is entitled The Queen
Of Sheba, a subject which admits .o1
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09

fine scenic display, as well as of poetic
treatment.
An English author has written a
drama around the part of "a mysterious
wife who ghostlike haunts the play of
Rosmerholm, by Isben and Minnie Selig-
man intends to produce it," Rather
an indifnite part, but this is all the
information about it at present at hand.
The New York Sun does not care for
Wilson Barrett. 1t says: Mr. Bar
ret's undertakings are ambitious, but
they are quite beyond his ability to
accomplish. His work is Spasmodic,
overwrought and at times perilously
close to the ridiculous. He aims, like
Irving, but doesn't hit the Irving
mark
A sign of the times is the production
at the Vienna Volkstheater of four
act drama entitled The Dawn of Day,
illustrating from a purely socialistic
point of view, the condition of the work
ing classes 1t is by DR.. Elbogon a
member of the independent socialist
party Though the censorship suppress
many passages, enough remained to
give an idea of the socialist program.
The play is said to be very cleverly
written and illustrates the growing self
consciousness and self-reliance of the
working classes.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
LIBERTY BELL DAY URGED.
Miss Mary Desha Makes an Appeal to
the WorId's Fair.

NEW York, June 3.-MisS Mary
Desha, representing the Daughters OF
the American Revolution Oh the Col
umbian Liberty Bell committee, has
addressed a letter f. ON Washington to
the managers of tne Worlds Exhibit
ton at Chicago urging that the Fourth
OF july next shall be made particularly
''Llberty bell day., the honorS being
divided oetweeA the Cd Liberty Bell
and the Columbian Liberty b>Il that
will be rung for the first time that day.
She also urges that not only the
Sons and Daughters of the American
revolution but all other patriotic
societies shall join that day, each in
the different locaiitie throughout the
United States, in following Chicago's
example and in having an old
fashioned Fourth of July, calling the
event Liberty Bells Day." She urges
that at tho time the Column biau Liberty
bell shall ring at Chicago that day the
bells all over the land shall take up
the refrain, from Maine to San Diego
and rom hey West to Puget Sound.
Her thought is that the bells
throughout the ooantry shall not ring
at Il o'clock noon at the time of day
with them but at the time that is II
O'Clock noon in Chicago so that the
bells throughout the land VIII be ring
ing at the same moment. She sug-
gests, also, that col. Alexander X.
McC lure of the Philadelphia Times be
invited as special representative of
the press to deliver the grafton at Chi
cago, taking as his subject The Vel
come of the Old Liberty Bell to the
New.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
TERRIBLE LYNCHING DOWN IN
ILLINOIS.
Party of Twenty-Five Men Forces Its
Way Throug Crowded Street,
Takes a Negro Prisoner from Jail
and Hangs Him to a Pole-Iistory
Of the Terrible Crime.

DECATUR, H., June Sag Bush,
the negro arrested near Windsor early
Friday morning for outraging Mrs.
Vest Of Mount Zion To ,nShiD, was
lynchcd at o'clock this morning. A
guard of twelve men was put in the
jail and an extra force of men was put
on duty outside
AT just : o'clock twenty-five men
came on Il rush up Wood Street. They
force their way through the crowd
anu shocked on the door of the Jail.
Deputy Sheriff Midkitf and Special
Officer Foster sat inside and refused
them ADMISSION. one blow from a
sledge crashed in the wooden door, and
the two officers We're surrounded by
twenty-five armed men. The
men then went to work with
sledge hammers and chisels on
the outside door 1t was of sold cast
iron an inch thick twenty minutes
elapsed before it was forced. Marshal
Mason forced his way through the
spectators and into the Jail, and started
to address the men at work They
seized him and crowded him
out the door. Three men rushed
il apparently empty. They ierked
tumbled out the negro, lie mad crawled
inside ''Gentlemen You are killing
an innocent man., he said He was
dragged up into the jail office. So
many men stood around that it took
five minutes to pull him through the
crowd 10 the street.
\ rope made of halter straps had
been put around the negro's neck.
When the crowd stopped at the foot of
the pole the victim asked for time to
pray. The men said, Give him all
the time he wants. lie knelt down
on the bricks and began to pray
in sing way, calling on
Jesus to come and take his soul and
forgive the men who We're murder
ing him. The spectators began to get
impatient, A man had climbed half
way up the pole and stood in the glare
of the light all the time Cut that
short he said; he gave those women
no time. Others took up the cry.
Hang him; he's prayed enough
LET him go" was yelled. The rope
was passed to the man on the pole, he
put it over guide wire, and the crowd
pulled.
The negro's body, now naked as the
day it was born, swung up into sight
four feet from the ground and fell
back. \ few in the crowd groaned,
while others yelled. Then hack was
driven into the crowd against the pro.
tests of the cab-man The negro was
told to stand up on it. He refused,
when half dozen hands threw him
up and then held him while the rope
was tied to the cross-arm on the pole.
The hack was then driven away and
ha "a
two feet from the ground.
Monday last the dead man went te
the house of Mrs. ]. Il Dill and com.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
GRADE CROSSING DISASTER
Rock Island Train Runs Down Street


Car-One Killed, Several Hurt.
CHICAGO. June "a Rock Island
passenger train crashed into street
car at Sixty-niath Street. The dis
aster was directly d'.e to the negli-
gence Of w. d. De Norm ndy, the
gate-k eeper at the crossing:
The dead are:
UNKNOWN WOMAN, years old Body
st 500 State Street.
The injured are:
f. G. HULL, 1912 Wellington Avenue. two
ribs broken and inter nally hurt. Taken
home
CLARA ELLIS, 1925 Eggleston Avenue,
both arms broken.
EDWARD FITzGERALD,d driver of street car,
internal injuries. Taken home, 6S27 Peoria
Street.
Car No. 452 of the Chicago City Rail
way Company's Sixty-ninth Street line
left Halsted Street east-bound at $50
o'clock w. L. Aaron was the con-
ductor in charge and Edward Fitzger-
aid was the driver. The car carried
six passengers
As the car approached the Rock
Island crossing a south bound passen-
ger train passed the crossing, leaving
dense cloud of smoke.
The gates we're Immediately raised,
ana conductor Aaron, Supposlng that
the tracks were clear, signalled his
driver 20 go ahead,
Driver Fitzgerald released the brakes
and whipped his horses into run, and
just as they reached the south bound
track a work-train with laborers APP
preached rapidly from the south.
The driver saw his danger and made
desperate effort to clear the track.
The locomotive struck the car fairly
in the center and crushed it to atoms.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

Judge Sanford heard the arguments
in the Tunniclitf-C Cooke Mayoralty
contest at Galesburg, Ill, and re
served his decision.
The Business Mems Association Of
Sullivan, H., will be incorporated for
the purpose of encouraging factories
to locate at Sullivan.
VIM. A. Webb, druggist of Deca-
tur, was found drowned in creek
near Dalton County, Ill. He was sup
posed to be temporarily insane.
John Stipp, farmer living near
Bloomington, Ind, was swindled out
of $4,000 by bunko men. He loaned
that SIM on an alleged $4,000 stone
quarry for security.
The resignation of William F. Rea,
at springfield, as First Lieutenant of
Company G, First Infantry. Illinois
National Guard. has been accepted.
An election is ordered in the company
Wednesday, June 7, to FIJI the vacancy.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
THE BLAKE NOW AT HALIFAX.
Commander Bayley Dilates Upon New
York's Hospitality.

HALIFAX, n. S., June 3.-Admiral
Hopkins has arrived with the warship
Blake, from Bermuda. Commander
Bagley of the Blake said to a CORE
spondent, that neither himself nor Ad-
miral Hopkins would ever forget the
mob c reception and kind hospitality
of the New York people.
The total loss from the British
squadron by assertion at New York
was 101 men. The Blake only lost
fftyfve men. Among the deserters
was warrant officer, Gunner BIuit
Commander Bayley was naturally
proud of the distinction achieved bv
the Blake at New York and referred
particularly to the precedence secured
by Admiral Hopkins and the Blake
over the Russians.
The Mohawk is coming from the
West Indies to Halifax. The Magi-
cienne is still in the West Indies: the
Australia has sailed for England to be
paid off
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09

IN a row over their partnership at
fairs at st. Paul, Mimi, George Tren-
ton beat II. W. Covington in the head
in their carpenter shop on St. Paul
Street and it is feared the injuries will
prove fatal Trenton was arrested
and claims Covington was the ag-
gressor.
c. c. Benton, Treasurer of the Broad
wav Theater in Denver, Col. and
Harry Watcham, advertising agent of
the Brown Palace Hotel, had a fight
in the foyer of the theater as the eli
max of an old dissensio1. Benton was
the aggressor and was arrested. He
was released on 81. 900 bail.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
ALASKA'S BOUNDARIES.
Noted American aud British Engineers
With Large Parties at Work.


With Large Parties at Work.
OTTAwA, Can, June 3.-Prof. w. f.
King, Canadian Commissioner in the
Alaska boundary question has arrived
from Vancouver and reports that the
Canadian and United States survey
parties are all under way. Prof Men
denhall, the United States Commits
sioner, was not at the coast, but his
assistant, Mr.. ogden, superintendent
the dispatch of the American parties.
Prof. King sent out seven Canadian
parties, each comprising surveyor, an
assistant surveyor, and from four to
seven men. The steamer Thistle has
been seft up the coast to give all the
help 10 sible and carry reserve of
provisions. Both the Canadian and
the United States parties W II report
in Septeni Der, but will prob; bly, only
be half through work by lat time.
They are expected to need all next
summer. Profs. King and Menden-
hall are required to report to their
respective governments with n two
years.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
KILLED BY BURGLARS.
Office Of the Hygeia Water Co. Entered
Yesterday.

Chicago, June 1.-The office of the
reia Water company was entered
by burglars at an early hour this morn
ing.
Shipping Clerk Fleury was aroused
and grappled with the men. One of
them threw him against the wall and
other fired three bullets into his
body, infiicting fatal wounds.
The burglars then fed, leaving their
tools behind them. They were just pre-
pairing to blow open the safe when
F1eury came upon them.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
NELLIE HOLGATE is ALIVE,
A Seattle Girl Caused Sensation but

Seattle Girl Caused n Sensation but Is
Heard of in Dakota.
SEATTLE, Wash, June 1.-Miss Nellie
Holgate, the young woman who dis
appeared so mysteriously while boat
ing on Lake Washington May 3, and
for whose body the lake has been
dragged ever since, has been found
alive at her former home in Lead,
S. d.
A resident Of Seattle, last night re-
ceived dispatch from her in which
she says she was robbed of 500 and a
gold watch and was then kidnapped by
a man and woman. This statement
is weakened, however, by the fact that
she had 81 900 life insurance, and two
Seattle men have been offering to pro-
duce her for a consideration.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
Count Wallis Under Arrest.

VIENNA, June 1.-The chief topic in
military circles here is the arrest of
Count oliver Wallis a staff captain
who is charged with defrauding his
brother-officers and with embezzling
the regimental funds.
The accused officer claims to be re-
lated to Queen Victoria. He was ar
rested at the Hotel Semmering, where
he had been stopping for a week, hid
ing from the military and police au-
thorities. Count Oliver is 33 years old,
and is the son of Franzislla de Paula,
born Dorner.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
FIVE PEDDLERS MURDERED.

Their Money and Goods Excited the
Cupidity of Mexican Outlaws.
CITY OF MEXICO, June News has
reached here of the murder and rob-
berry OF five peddlers by a band of
briganGs in the State of Jalosco. The
peddlers were passing in body along
an unfrequented road when the ban
dts, eight in mum Der, led by Manuel
Logarto, attacked them.
The peddlers attempted to defend
themsel> es and all were quickly killed.
Their goods, money and mules were
taken by the outlaws. troop OF
ritiemen are in close pursuit of he
robbers
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
STAMPING OUT CHOLERA.

Chief Monod of Paris Does Not Appre-
bend Any Serious Results.
PARIS, June AT sitting of the
sanitary board, Monod, chief of the
sanitary department, announced that
forty choleraic cases had been reported
in the department of Morbihan in the
western part Of France since May Is.
OF these cases twenty-three had re
suited fatally. Monod said that the
outbreak of cholera in the departments
Of Finistere and Nendee, the former of
which lies on the south and west of
Morbihan, had been stamped out
There had been no deaths from the
disease in these departments since May
70
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
THE GARRETT STARTS OUT.
British iiehring Sea Patrol Begins BUSH
Saturday.

VICrC \. i. c., June 3.-H. Nj. S.
Garnet, the first of the Behring Sea
patrol, leaves for the North this morn
in.
She will warn all schooners relative
to the continuance of the modus vivendi
and also Of the Anglo Russian agree
;2cnt as TO the zone about the islands.
The Nymphe will go north Monday or
Tuesday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09

MIR. Bussey Held That James Hamlin
Was Slightly Disabled

was S1lShtly Disabled.
New YORK, June 81 have in nv
pocket a document which shows the
size of the corns on which a pension
was granted by Assistant Sc rotary
Bussey after the pension-office physi-
clan had declared that they did not
constitute disability;
1t was Congressman John Tarsney
of Missouri who made the above stale
ment to-day. The man who has the
corns is James j. Hamlin, who served
in Company c, Seth Illinois volunteers.
His disabilities" We're two, as given
in the transcript of his case: one was
an insignificant annoyance from hem
orrhoids and the other corns
This case was passed on by DR..
Alleger and the memorandum on the
papers in the case show that it was re-
jected on the ground of mo disa bility''
by DR.. Alleger and was successfully
appealed to the Assistant Secretary OF
the Interior and the pension was
granted for the corns.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
NEW BADGER POSTMAsTERs.

Washington, June 1.-The following
Wisconsin postmasters were appointed
today: Asheridge, Richland county,
Park Stokely; Bloom City, Richland
county, S. r. Harris; La Fargo, Vernon
county, S. G. Carpenter; Newberg Cor
ners, La Crosse county, Ernest Muen-
senberger.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
Cowboy Race Starts June Ii.

CHADRON, Neb., June 3.-The great
cowboy race starts from Chadron to
Chicago June ID at 5 D. m This was
decided upon at meeting of the COM
mittee. On account Of conflicting re-
ports numerous people have been de-
ceiged and the number of entries re-
duced. For this reason the committee
unanimously agreed to hold the list
Ct entries open to the day of starting,
thereby giving all a chance to enter.
No other material changes We're made
In the published rules, and they will
stand
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
Must Include All Nations.

LONDON, June 1.-The Daily News
In an article on the seal Fisheries ques-
ton SAYS:
Gwen if England and the United
States agree to protect the seals in the
event of Judgment being rendered by
the court of arbitration against the
American claim, we fail to see how the
two powers can do more than prevent
the seizure by their own subjects of
vessels caught poaching."
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
Promotions to Re Made at Rome.

ROME, June AT the consistory to
be held June 10, Arch bishop Lec,t of
Bordeaux, the bishop of Kodez, De-
partment of Aveyron, France, the
bishop OF Grosswardein, otherwise
Nagv-V arad, in Hungary, and Monsig-
nor Grannielo, Secretary Of the Sacred
Congregation of the State of the Regu-
lar Clergy, will be promoted 10 the
rank of cardinal
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09

BERLIN, June 1.-The wedding Of
Miss Mary Phelps, daughter of Judge
W. W. Phelps of New Jersey, to DR..
Won Rottenburg, Secretary in the De-
partment of the Interior, took place at
IL o'clock.
The ceremony was performed in the
so-called yellow room of the lega-
ton. 1t derives it's name from the
color of it's exquisite furnishing, whose
wall hangings, ceiling decorations,
carpets, furniture, even picture frames,
consist Of Or are covered with yellow
damask. The bride was in travelling
costume.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
SEIZURE OF sMUGGLED TIN.
Eastport (MeD Customs Officials Captare
200 Cases OF Contraband Goods.

200 Gases OF Contrabsnd Goods.
EAsTPoRT, Maine, June "a scheme
for defrauding the government out of
revenue for imported tin has been I'M
earthed by special customs inspec-
tor.
The merchandise has been struggled
across the st. Croix River into East
port from Eeaver Harbor, n. b. The
tin is used chiefly by the manufac-
turers of sardine boxes in PASSPORT.
AS the duty on tin is exceedingly high,
the manufacturers reaped good harry
est in profits by smuggling it.
The treasury officials are of the opin-
ion that this illegal importation of tin
has been in operation for some time
and that tie government has been de-
frauded Of thousands of dollars duty.
Two hpndred cases were seized aboard
a vessel here yesterday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
Jersey Cattle Sale at sruncfe.

MUNCIE, Ind, June 3.-The first
com bination sale of the Eastern In
diana Jersey Cattle Breeders Associa-
ton occurred IN Munc1e and sixty-eight
head of very fine specimens were sold
at an average price of $50. Over
three-fourths of the number sold were
calves. One COW sold to John DUNCAN
of Muncie for $3.50. Two hundred bid
ders present represented Indiana and
all adjoining States. A. T. Dempsey
of Columbus, Ohio, purchased about
twenty head
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
SCHAFFNER g. CO. ASSIGN.
A Weii-known Private Banking Firm
Goes Under.

CHICAGO, June ). Herman Schaffner
& CO., the well-known bankers at %
to l02 Washington Street, failed to
open their doors for business at 10
o',lO * this morning.
About ten minutes later the firm filed
an assignment in the County Court to
the American Trust and Savings Bank.
No schedule of assets and liabilities
was filed.
The following note was posted on
the door. This bank is in the posses
son Of the American Trust and Savings
Association"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
MANY WERE DROWNED.

Zaragoza Foundered Near Magangue,
South America-AH Aboard Lost.
PANAMA, June 1.-Advices from the
interior of Colombia state that on the
night of the 18th ult. the steamer Ear
agoza foundered near Magangue.
Five bodies were recovered and those
Of the rest of the passengers and crew
are supposed to have sunk with the
steamer or to have been carried down
the river.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
Refunding Bill Rejected.

PARIS, June IA special committee
of the Chamber of Deputies has re-
jected bill authorizing the State to
refund to M. Monchicourt, liquidator
of Panama canal, the sum of $4,000
francs, which amount Banker Vlasto
loaned to ex-Minister Bowler in con-
nection with the canal scheme
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
sPoFFERD FOLLOWS WILLARD.
President Wetmore Gives His Friend

PRESIDENT Wetmore Gives His Friend
Barton Place--Other SUGGESTIONS.
New YORK, June 1.-The retirement
of Henry Willard from the presidency
of the North American company has
been followed by the resignation of
his private secretary, Charles A Spot
ferd, as director. E. ID. Barton, q
friend of c. w. Wetmore, the new
president, takes the place of Mr.. Spot
ferd.
A successor to Mr.. Willard as direc-
tor has not yet been named.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
Falls Heir to a Fortune.

ELGIN. Ill, June 3.-Beniamin o.
Linke of Chicago has learned that he
has fallen heir to $4,000 by the death
of his father in Germany Linke is a
railroader and was hurt here May II,
since which time he has been in q
hospital here
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-06-09
Cholera on the Tigris.

LONDON, June 1.-Lloyd's sanitary
inspector at Bagdad, Asiatic Turkey,
announces the outbreak of cholera at
some of the stations on the Tigris and
at Bussorah, a port on the Shat-el-
Arab, in consequence of which river
traffic has been suspended.