Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-03-17
WISCONSIN.
CONDENSED NEWS.

New York tenement.
North Dakota legislators are agitated
over a woman suffrage measure.
Taine, the celebrated French writer,
is dead.
Landslides have wrecked many
houses at Sandgate, England.
Major HaIford sailed from New York
for Havre on the 9th.
Columbus, Ind, had it's first dry
Sunday in ten years. Every saloon of
the twenty-five in the town was closed
tight.
An annexation club with a member
ship of two hundred has been organic
ed at Amherstburg, Ontario.
John Hastings, Of OnancOck, Del,
was killed by tree which he was fell
ing falling upon him.
The Senate confirmed ex-senator
John S. SeymOre Us Insurance Commits
sioner at Hartford, Conn, yesterday.
Four burglars attempted to rob the
the night of the 9TH, but were frighten-
cd away by Jamtof StufKe.
Samuel f. Newton was convicted OF
selling cigarettes to Il public school
pupil in Rockville Centre, l.. l., and
School Commissioner John =. Merrill
will prosecute other store keepers there
Tor the same offence.
a combine of the Touring interests
of Utah has been effected and will go
into operation during the next three
months.
large boWlder OF galena recently
mined at CenterVilIe, Mo-, Is said to
have weighed 3,4oO pounds.
The lumbermen of Missouri, Kansas,
Iowa and Nebraska meet At Kansas
City, Mo, March I.
Jones Brothers, clothiers, Columbus
tiles of $1,000 each.
Michael Flynn committed at Lima,
o., by throwing himself i'll front OF
a Pennsylvania railroad train.
twenty-five boy pupils at school
ut Milton, Oregon, were recently expelled
for smoking cigarettes.
Inhn Spicer, aged SO, one Of six broth
ers and sisters whose aggregate ages
is 5O6 years, is dead at Laurel, Del.
William Coy, who murdered John
Whalen ut Warrington, Mass, in Aug
ust last, was hanged on the 4th at
PittSfield, Mass.
Princess kaiulani and party left New
York on the 4th for Boston, where
they will remain until going from there
to Washington.
The Mississippi Valley Lumberman's
association held its annual meeting In
Minneapolis and raised prices.
The national fast Geographic toulna-
ment will not take place in New YORK
city on March II. 1t has been post
poncd until March %.
The friends of Ex-Governor Gray, Of
Indiana, have received assurances that
he will be rendered the Mexican mis-
sion by President Cleveland.
Wilmer Worrel, of Lambertville, n.
J., was on the 4th terribly mangled
DIV an eAplOSlOn VI lluhhlS. AA0 "''
thawing it 1T u fire when it exploded.
DIR. Il. c. Moore, of New Haven,
Conn, a graduate of Yale in the class
of 'S6, has accepted position as pro-
fessor in Greek ut Dartmouth college.
The organization of the Associated
Press is completed. Melville Il. Stone
of Chicago succeeds William Henry
Smith as general manager.
George A. Became, veteran actor,
latterly with the "Old Homestead
company, died on the 9th at Cincinnati
Of paralysis and apoplexy.
Ernest Rudy, Il young man who came
to this country Il few weeks ago and
was not able to find employment, COM
mitted suicide by hanging himself to Il
chandelier at his home, No. SO Six
teenth street, in Patterson, n. j.
The people of Titusville, n. j., are
alarmed over an outbreak of typhus
fever in boarding house there. The
disease was brought by a typhus pa
tent who arrived few days ago from
Ne" 1OIh SitS. oLiC uSoIA As'S $50 SeNNJ
occurred.
When he entered on his duties, Mr..
Stevenson was presented with a gavel
made from an oak grown on the farm
on which Lincoln was born.
James Sidney Brown, a once we'll
known artist of New York city, is lying
dangerously injured at Bellevue Hos
pital, the result of fall on Washing
tons Birthday.
E. E. Brown, a live stock commits
sion merchant of st Louis, was robbed
and fatally beaten on the 4th by three
footpads. He died shortly after the
assault.
The Government of Brazil has seized
six cars of arms destined for the Revo-
lutionists, who are besieging Santa
Anna. The cargo of the schooner Car
-nelita has also fallen into the hands
Of the Government troops.
Count Koochejay. of Camden, n. J.,
was remarked on the 9Th TO Nellie Win
gate, the woman whom ne married
while still the husband of Colonel SEQ
wells daughter. He was convicted Of
bigamy. but was recently paroled by
the Board of Pardons.
The Baltimore Methodist Episcopal
Conference. in session at HagerStown,
Md, after an address by Bishop Hurst,
contributed $4,000 to the American