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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
ANOTHER COAL FAILURE.
Receiver for the Lehigh Coal & Iron
Company, st. Paul and Elsewhere.

st. Paul, Mimi, April 25.-In the
United States court today Judge Sam
bourne appointed L. r. Doty receiver
of the Lehigh Coal & Iron company.
The company has offices in st. Paul,
Minneapolis, Duluth, West Superior and
milwaukee,. with property in the cities
named valued at over $1,OOO,OOO.
A. G. Yates, of Rochester, n. Y, who
failed April II was president of the
Lehigh Coal & Iron Co. and his failure
involved the Ohio Coal exchange
The Lehigh & Franklin company, Of
Milwaukee is embarrassed by the fail
ure. The failure is not the result of
bad year but solely the result of COM
plications mentioned.
1t was thought best to have a re-
cciver appointed to protect the interests
of all concerned The creditors are
chiefly in the east. No complete fig
ures are yet obtainable.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05

DallaS, IeAaS, April "a News cor
respondent learned from PASSENGERS OF
the east-bound train this evening that
the destruction by cyclone at Cisco is
simply appalling. There are not more
than twenty-five or thirty houses stand
ing and up to the time the train passed.
| about 2 o'clock this afternoon, twenty
one bodies had been recovered from
the ruins and there were ten or twelve
more persons missing.
The station with walls two feet
thick was leveled to the ground. A
heavy freight engine and a whole train
of cars was blown from the track and
demolished and several hundred feet
OF side track of railroad was torn up.
The building which Frank Hickman
Occupied was blown down and five
children were killed.
Late this evening Mayor Levy, of
Weatherford, received the following
from Bell COlman: '"The town is near
; ly all demolished, twenty are killed, 125
injured. Hundreds are without food
{, or shelter. Raise all the relief possible
and send to John T. Patterson, chair
main of the relief committee"
The following telegram was also re-
ceived by Mayor Levy, from Cisco.
| Cisco has been destroyed by the most
destructive cyclone that ever visited
Texas. More than four-fifths of the
people are without houses There are
| many killed and wounded. Help is
needed to bury the dead and take care
OF the wounded and relieve those who
lost verything.
wv. G. Davenport, county Judge,
G. w. Graves, mayor
Mayor Levy called a meeting of cit
liens of Weatherford to take measures
for relief of sufferers.
L. f. Willie, who arrived at Dalles
tonight was at Cisco an hour and a
half. He says that twenty-one dead
persons have been found Over 100
wounded have been counted
Later.
A later special from Cisco confirms
the worst features of the cyclone. Less
/ than fifty houses remain standing, the
storm having wrecked everything in It's
path three-quarte1s of a mile wide
through Eastland county.
No church or schoolhouse is standing
and but one business house is intact.
it is impossible to detail the damage
done to life and property.
A partial list of the dead is as fol
lows:
Mrs. Jones and baby, David Cameron,
Capt. Whitesides, five children of W.
A. Hickman, one child of NJ b. Owens.
Bledsoe, Mrs. J. T. Thomas, Mrs. Hor-
ton and Mrs. Knight
The list Of injured includes not less
than one hundred and fifty Among
those whose names are already known
the following are probably fatally
hurt:
Frank Vernon, Mrs. Davis. jim
Hayes, daughter Of Mrs. Stevens, Mrs,
Powers and daughter, Mrs. r. M. Jones,
George Harris, Mrs. Kennard, section
boss whose name is unknown and wife.
and II. III. Bidwell.
Everything is in such a confusion
that it is very difficult to get the
names of the injured and dead. Seven
miles northeast of Cisco Mrs. l.. D.
Ladd was killed and three miles further
on Mr.. Ferguson was killed.
The mayor Of Fort Worth, Texas,
sent $500 by wire tonight and stated
that badly needed supplies are on there
way here.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
Bank Closed at Columbia, Tenn.

COLUMBIA, Tenn, april a.
Promptly at o'clock yesterday morn
ing the doors of the Second National
Bank of Columbia were closed and the
following notice was thereon: ssOwing
to the continued Withdrawals of de-
posts from this bank since the Nash
vile failures it is deemed best to sus-
pend payment temporarily" Cashier
Childress said that since the run was
made on his bank in October, which it
stood without shaking, he had had
smooth and easy sailing until the re-
cent failures in Nashville. No state
ment Of the banks affairs has been
made public
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
The RAZOR BACK-HOG'S PARA
Disc.
Down on the Muskrat Marshes of Fish
ing Bay, Maryland.

If you would see the razor-back hog
in his papadise," said 4 Marylander,
go down among the Illustrating vii
border of fishing Bay. The muSkratters
are a tattered and unEept race of be-
ings, and they slaughtered hot less
than 100000 muskratS every winter
and spring, trade in the skins of these
animals being their only visible means
Of support. They live in rude cabins
on the marshes, and the extraordinary
number of their children is equalled
almost by the number of razor-back
hogs of aparticularly sharp and promin-
ent species. This nondeScript duty to
perform in these unique settlements,
and he does it untireingly and with un-
disguised pleasure. This duty is the
making away with the hundreds of sur
plus muskrat carcasses that accumulate
about the huts of the trappers and
hunters, for although the flesh of the
muskrat is an important article of food
with the muskratterS and their fami-
lies. they necessarily gather great deal
more of it than they can consume them
selves, and so the razor back comes to
them and uses up the surplus. AS to
the matter of this not over particular
class of people making food of the
muSllrat, though they are only making
Il comOn diet of what many high-up
folks with Il cultivated palate, down
in that land of terrapin and canvasbacl1
l1lal< CIn1s II ,rrnat In1ianav
These raZOr-back hogs grunt and
snort and squeal around those musk
rafting huts by the score and seem to
be nobody's property any more than
the buzzards are. A remarkable thing
about them is that although they de
YOUR untold pounds of fat and juicy
muskrat meat every day, they never
show the richness and generosity of
their keeping by adding a single pound
of flesh to their attenuated bodies,
Law" said an old darby muskrattcr
to me once, "yo' can't fat one dem
raz'back hogs no mo- n yo' kin ell
rack sahv'
'"They have another kind of live stock
down there that seems to be indigenous
and peculiar to that queer region. This
is an animal called the marsh cow. 1t
is dwartish, tangle-haired, and scrawny.
1t has long, crooked horns, wrinkled
like a merino rams. During the sum
mer these cattle find good pasturage
on the lowlands, but they are so wild
that when they are wanted by the
trappers they have to be rounded UP
and corralled. Sometimes late in the
fall, they leave the lowlands and take
to the wooded uplands, and will not ap-
pear again unless very cold weather
drives them back to the village for such
shelter as the muskratters see fit to
give them"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
No Smallpox on the Mogul.

TACOMA, Wash, April 80! The state
ment telegraphed that the Northern
Pacific steamship Mogul had smallpox
aboard among the Chinese when she
landed here, 800 of whom are now in
Chicago, is evidently wholly untrue.
The records show that the Mogul was
given clean bills of health after thor
ough examinations by the health off,
GERS of British Columbia and the
United States respectively at Victoria
and Port Townsend on her way to Ia
coma. Collector WATSON, the Chinese
inspectors and officials of the steam
ship company strenuously deny that
there was single case or symptoms of
smallpox on board the steamer while
she was here.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
ANOTHER BIG CRASH.
Union Loan & Trust Company, Of Sioux
City Goes to the Wall

Sioux City, Iowa, April 25.-The
Union Loan & Trust company, with a
capital of $1,OOO,O0O, one of the fore
most financial institutions of Sioux City,
today made an assignment and closed
it's doors
General statement of liabilities: Due
to banks $14,339; expenditure bonds
and interest $233,352; due on deposit
$497, 1888. Total $745,754 The assets
aggregate 100000.
f. Smith. secretary and treasurer of
the company, gave out this signed state
ment: Our assignment was necessary
to protect the interests of both credit
orS and stockholders"
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05

Whole of his property, amounting to
S2O,UO. had been thus bequeathed.
The children sued for the money ON
The grounds that undue influence had
been used by the archbishop upon their
father at the time he made his will.
and also because of the indefiniteness
of the bequest. Mr.. McCabe is a trrls-
tee of the church to which the property
was left
No attorneys appeared for the de
PENDANTS, while J. E. Mcmillan, of
Chiffon, and Lyman J. Nash, of Mani
towoc, appeared for the plaintiff.
Judge BurneH overruled the demurrer
and the defendants were given leave
to file answer within twenty days on
payment of costs.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
Swept bv a Terrific Storm.

HALIFAX, N. S., April ga terrific
storm swept over Prince Edwards Is
land yesterday. The schooner Anna
Bell is a wreck at Merigonish and the
Rising Sun is ashore at Caribou. The
wind blew forty miles an hour and it
was bitterly cold, with heavy snow
and hail. A large number of lobster
men were blown out to sea and un-
doubtedly persisted. Four boats and
their crews were blown out to sea
from Canoe Cave and six boats and
their crews from Black Point. Four
men were picked up by tug off Point
Prim.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
DIR. HUGHES APPOINTED.
He VIII Succeed Dr. Taylor at the Men
dota Hospital

The state board Of control has elected
j. j. Hughes, now second assistant. ply
sician at the northern hospital for the
insane, to the position Of first assistant
at the state hospital at Mendoza, vice
DIR. E. A. Taylor, resigned.
DR.. Taylor rendered his resignation
to take effect June /. He resigns to
renew his private practice.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
THE CHURCH GOT ALL.

Oshkosh, Wis, April 28.-Judge Bur
nell overruled a demurrer in a very
interesting case yesterday. 1t is en-
titled James McHugh ct al, VS.. Patrick
McCabe ct al
A few months ago the father Of the
plaintiffs, they being thirteen in num-
Der, died, leaving his estate to ''The
Catholic church of Green Bay" but not
specifying which church nor giving the
name Of the society. Mr.. McHugh had
accepted the Catholic faith but short
time previous to bis death and his rela
tives were surprised to find that the
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
Knocked Out a Michigan Law.

LANSING, Mich, April 2e.-The SUI
preme Court yesterday declared I'M
constitutional the act of the present
Legislature requiring banks and in
surance companies to be assessed on
their net assets without regard to the
value of their real estate mortgages.
The mandamus asked for by the
Standard Life and Accident Insurance
Company of Detroit to compel the De-
troit Board of Assessors to deduct such
mortgages from its net assets was
granted
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
Lansing Bank VIII Reopen.

LANSING, Mich, april 2s.-The di-
rectors of the Ingham County Savings
Bank have recovered from the scare
which resulted in their closing the
bank and are making preparations to
resume business early next week.
There is no question of their ability to
do so, as they have ample securities to
pledge for the needed currency. The
other banks of the city have expert
enced no difficulty
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
CROKER A JOURNALIST.
The New York Politician to Expound
His Favorite Doctrines.

New York, April 26-Richard Croker.
it is said. will shortly start a publ
cation to be called the New York Amer
lean. and its columns will be devoted
in the main to politics and the turf.
George III. Dickinson, wellknown
sporting writer, is mentioned as editor
of the new paper
1t Is understood that the capital stock
of 100000 has been subscribed by
Croker, Mike Dwyer and a few other
sporting political gentlemen.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
Wants $4,000 for Being Whipped.

GOSHEN, Ind, April 2e.-Louis Writer,
who took exception to remarks con-
corning him in the Bremen Enquirer,
was made defendant in suit filed here
yesterday by Cal Sunninger, editor Of
the paper. Sunninger asks for $1,000
damages for physical injuries inflicted
upon him by Writer. His teeth were
broken, face disfgured. several ribs
cracked, and he is suffering from in
ternal injuries resulting from kicks in
the abdomen by the belligerent Writer.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
Weekly Bank Statement.

New YORK, April 29.-The weekly
bank statement shows the following
changes: Reserve, decrease, 2,627,-
050 loans, decrease, So, COS, 100; specie,
decrease, 81, 551, 700: legal tenders, de-
crease, 1927, 500: deposits, decrease,
50, $50. SOC; circulation, decrease, S32,-
500. The banks now hold S12, 156, $50
in excess of the requirements of the
25 per cent rule
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
Double Murder and Suicide.

reached this city yesterday that Ed
ward R. Bunnen, prominent farmer
of Wallowa County, had killed his wife
and daughter and then hanged him
self. BunnelI was over so years of age
and the tragedy is ascribed to domestic
troubles, an action for divorce having
'een commenced by his wife.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
Died from His Injuries.

MAscoUTAH, H., April 29.---Josoph
Dorey of Leroy, n. Y, travelling sales
struck by an Air Line passenger train
at New Baden. several days ago, died
from the effects of his injuries last
night
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
BRINGING THEIR FOOD ALONG.
Kansas Visitors to the Worlds Fair
Coming Well Prepared.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-, April 80 Worlds
Fair visitors from Kansas are taking
their food with them. All trains to
Chicago over the various lines yester-
day carried more than the usual num-
Der Of passengers. They were going
to the opening Of the great Exposition
in all kinds of fashions and with bun
dies and baskets of various sizes. A
party of seven travellers from. Western
Kansas had great baskets with them
filed and heaped with things good to
eat, They had heard of the high
prices Chicago intended to charge for
food and had taken a supply with
them. The party carried nine baskets,
four grips and each had a bundle.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05

The German empress paid a totally
unexpected visit to children's hospi-
tai in Berlin the other day, talked with
the little inmates over an hour and
left them a scrapbook made by her g.
year-old son Oscar
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05

Anton Wilkins was arrested at Wau-
sau on a charge Of criminally assault
ing young girl. He was bound over
for trial in the sum Of 81 900 bonds. In
default Of which he went to jail.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
BY BANKSI
CARLISLES SCHEMES DO NOT
PLEASE GOTHAM.
CLAIM THE PLANS ARE NOT DEF
MITE ENOUGH.

Proposed to Switch Gold Balances
Back and Forth Between New York
and the Treasury Conference De
cides to Adjourn Without Announc-
ing Results-Further Negotiations.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05

Passenger and Two Trainmen Hurt in q
Coll sion at Griffin Pa.

Collision at Griffin Pa.
PlTTsBURG, April eat $50 this
morning the Uniontown and Pittsburg
''t'lyer" train No. i, on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, collided with freight
train at Griffin station, near West
Newton. Conductor Hunt of the pas
senger train, was seriously in
jured. Fireman Thomas Nevill
of the freight also received
painful injuries. A passenger named
j. NJ. Hill of Dawson, Pa, had one of
his feet badly CT ushed. The freight
train was crossing from the east to the
west bound tracks to get out of the
way of the flyer. The collision oc-
Cured at the crossover switch. Both
trains were badly wrecked and the
tracks blocked several hours.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
Another Wreck on the Ann Arbor,

HOWELL, Mich, April 2s.-There was
another wreck on the Toledo, Ann Ar
Dor q Northern Railroad at 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. Two freight trains
were approaching each other at high
rate of speed at Howell Junction in
charge of new engineers and would
have collided with awful force had not
a brakeman thrown the switch, run
ming the south-bound train into side
track, where it struck a string of box
cars, scattering them in every direc-
ton and demolishing several. The
crews jumped and received only slight
injuries. This makes thirty-one wrecks
in the last thirty-three days, with
total of eleven deaths.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
A LEADER OF LABOR
EUGENE DEBS OF THE NEW
RAILWAY UNION.
HIS BRILLIANT PAST LIFE AND
FUTURE PLANS.

The Late Editor Of the Firemen's Jour
nal a Man Of Enyiable Resources and
Skill-His Criticisms Of the Brother
hood and What He Hopes to Do
A Conglomerate Railway Union.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
WANTS BUT ONE SALARY.
Milwaukee's Mayor Congressman Going
to Washington Tomorrow.

Milwaukee, April 29.-Mayor Somers,
accompanied by his wife, will leave for
Washington Monday. 1t is the inten-
ton of the congressman-elect to call
upon President Cleveland and learn if
possible if special session of congress
will be held this fall Mr.. and Mrs.
Somers will remain in the east for sew
eral weeks. Mr.. Somers now announ-
ces that ne does not intend to draw his
salary rs mayor after his pay as a
congressman begins.
Mr.. Somers recently wrote to Secre-
tary of State Cunningham, asking him
when the certificate of his election
would be forwarded to the clerk Of the
house of representatives, as from that
time he will be entitled to salary as
a congressman. Mr.. Cunningham re-
piled that the vote would be canvassed
and the certificate forwarded about
Monday.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-05
CYCLONE AT CISCOI
THE TEXAS TOWN ALMOST COM
PLETEI.Y DEMOLISHED.
ONE ARE KILLED AND
OVER A HUNDRED WOUNDED.

Not Il Church or School House Stand
ing and Only One Business Block
Intact-Telegrams for Relief Going
Out-Partial List of the Dead and
Injured.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1893-10-26
The Tariff Wranele.

A report is being circulated in
Washington to the effect that a Sc
rious disagreement has been exist
ing for some time past in the Con-
mittee on Ways and Means. It is
unfortunate, to say the least of it,
and, especially so, just as the present
time. After the recent dissention
in our ranks over the silver bill.
every possible effort should be made
by the Democratic party to preserve
unity. 1t is d current belief that no
tariff measure will be adopted at the
present session of Congress. The
embarrassment is caused by per-
sonal and selfish considerations
blocking the policy of the party at
large The members seem dissatis-
fed with most any scheme pro-
posed, simply because in the
opinion Of some committeeman
local protection is esteemed more
highly bv far than the general
good The doctrine of Democracy
upon this subject is clearly defined.
There should be no cause for doubt.
Congressman can determine with
out any over amount of brain work
the course to pursue if the party's
pledges are faithfully kept. A tariff
for revenue only may not suit
the sugar dealer Of Louisiana, or the
iron miner of Alabama, but it is be-
yond question sound doctrine, the
preaching of which placed their rep
resentatives in Congress. IL should
be, and, doubtless, is the desire of
every honest Democrat to see har-
mony and good will once more re-
stored among our leaders.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1893-10-26
Freight Rates Lowered.

DALLAS, Oct 26.-W L. Wright,
commercial agent of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas railway, when seen
by a press representative concerning
the lowering of freight rates said: Il
have just received a telegram from D.
Miller, traffic manager of our line, as
follows: We will make the same rates
to Dallas as the Rock Island has put
into Fort Worth. From this you will
see that the Katy has met the Rock
Island rates. just when these rates
will take effect I cannot say. but the
new tariffs will doubtless be put out at
at once
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1893-10-26
4 Thrifty Kansas Woman.

GUTHRIE, O. T, Oct ga Kansas
woman named Plumber, who located
in the Usage country several years ago,
while not very aesthetic in her tastes.
has proven herself capable of looking
out for best interests financially.
Within the past year she has married
off four grown daughters, all to Usage
Indians, and as soon as a divorce suit
which she has pending against her hus-
band is decided she will take to her
heart red blanketed member of that
tribe. Every member of the Usage
tribe is worth SIS, 600 in cash and pos
sesses nearly 2000 acres of land, and
these women now become members of
the tribe and are entitle to their full
share of the funds and lands, which
makes the family very wealthy.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1893-10-26
An Old Vendetta Renewed.

SHREVEPORT, La, Oct. 26.-Another
chapter in the Ramsey-Tuggle vendetta
OF Claiborne parish, in which some 20
men have been killed since the begin
ming of the feud in 1889, was enacted
near Homer at the nursery of a. K.
Clingman. Thomas D. Kinder. the
last and the most desperate of the
Ramsey gang. rode up to Clingman's
residence determined to kill him, but
Clingman. seeing Kinder approaching,
secured his gun and began to fire,
shooting Kinder's horse from under
him. The firing was kept up until
Kinder reiterated, and it is believed he
is wounded. Clingman was unhurt.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1893-10-26
Timber DESTROYED.

Fort DODGE, Ia, Oct. 26.-The most
destructive forest fire that ever visited
the Des Moines valley has just been
checked south Of here. The flames
burned iercely for over a week. Tie
valuable timber on more than 1000
acres of land was destroyed, besides
many farmers stacks and barns. 1t
was only by the most desperately or
ganized fire fighting that the farm
houses were saved and the flames IL
nally subdued.
Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1893-10-26

vhoe Presidents st~v~a-on's ~"n 10 MAR,
n Eoted Reuut,iicx,s. Daurht~r

Noted Reputiicx.'s Dsugfy-r.
BLooKINGToN, Ills. Ger, 26-The
marriage of Lewis Green Stevenson
and Miss Helen N. Davis is announced
to take place on Nov I'll The groom
to-be is the only son of Vice President
Adlai E. Stevenson, and his bride is
the eldest daughter of Vim. O. Davis.
proprietor of the Bloomington Daily
Paragraph. The marriage will be
solemnized at the Davis residence in
this city. Mr.. Stevenson and fancee
have been lovers since early childhood,
and the announcement of their mar
rage is not matter of surprise to
their friends.
The wedding viii be prominent So
cial event and large number of distin-
guished people viii be in attendance.
The bridal couple will make a tour of
Europe, and on their return will take
up their residence at Washington.
A notable feature of this marriage is
the fact that while the groom is the son
of the Democratic vice president the
bride is the daughter of the proprie- T
of the leading Republican newspap r
in central Illinois, and granddaughter
of Hon. Jesse W. Fell, deceased, one of
the founders of the Republican party
and one of the foremost Repu blcans in
Illinois IN his day.