Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-01-06
CONDENSED NEWS.


sound towns.
Ex-senator McNaughton denies the
report that he has been selected to be
Assistant PostmaSter-Gener under
cleveland.
The Missouri State Democratic Com
nittee held a meeting yesterday in st.
Louis and endorsed Gov. D. r. Francis
for Cabinet Office.
William Shepherd, of Jacksonville,
Ind, took fatal dose Of morphine on
the 25th because he was drunk and
Jealous.
Northwestern pelicyholders in the
Western Manufacturers Mutual In
gurance company have applied for re-
ceiver and charge President MontgOm-
cry with fraud.
Stephen Faro, an Italian miner, was
killed by an American miner named
Farmer at Geneva, Ind, on the 18th,
and the dead mans countrymen there
swear vengeance.
Deputy Acknowledgement Hogan, Of
New York, gave an opinion that Mon
day was legal holiday under the
Statutes, Christmas falling on Sunday.
Miss Mamie Creegan, of Joliet, aged
%, was found dead in bed on the 18th
from the bursting Of a cerecral blood
Sessel.
Rev. DR.. Curtis, of Chattanooga,
Tenn, has been elected president of
The Methodist University Of Ogden,
Utah, and may accept.
While walking in his sleep Andrew
Delaney, OF Kentucky, fell from train
and was picked up near Mexico, Mo,
In dying condition.
Edward W. Hallinger was hanged at
Jersey City, N. J. Death was by slow
strangulation He had murdered his mis-
tress. lie was formerly Baptist min
lister, but was dismissed on account Of
his infatuation for the women.
At Chicago the Northwestern Lumber
Company, A. l.. Mellor, president, has
made an assignment. Liabilities, $50,
600; assets, $4,000.
William Pensanhagen, of Morris, ILL.,,
was killed by train on the Rock Is
land road near his home. He leaves a
widow and five children.
Herman Thiessen, Prussian farmer
of ellis, Neb., was found dead at home
on the Goth, with Il revolver and dog
by his side and hole in his head
At Trenton, n. j., smallpox has
broken out in the county Jail. The
To ,riun in
formation concerning the outbreak.
The resignation of w. 3. Breene,
secretary of the Americans Bankers
association, which was rendered on the
oath inst, has been accepted.
War is threatened between Chill and
Argentina, growing out of d Chilean
eepti0ns.
Three children of Marcus White, OF
Wayerly, Tenn, were locked up In the
house ca Wednesday night by their
parents. The house was burned down
and the children burned to death.
At Lowell. Mass. Thomas w. Han
son. aged 10 years. farmer, from
Fargo. North Dakota. has arrived. TO
marry Mrs Caroline +. Hunt, Il nurse,
83 years old
A representative of the Nicaragua
Company has arrived III St Louis to
my out plan for organizing Il commit
tee FOR the advancing OF the Nicaragua
canal enterprise.
At Cheyenne, Wyo., the Supreme
Court has given notice that decision
VI the Carbon County mandamus case
would be handed down on Tuesday,
the 9th of December
Judge Specr, of the United States
court i'll Georgia, decided that the fact
that man belongs to Il labor union is
not sufficient reason for his discharge
from employment
A 6year-old son of Charles Burke,
residing near Casey, ILL.,, was acct
dentally shot on the oath by an older
brother. The ball entered above the
right eye. He cannot recover.
A Frenchman named Samuel Tyrant,
lately sold 600 certified Vera Cruz lot
terry tickets to people in Windsor, Ont.
The Frenchman has gone and the peo-
pie now know they were duped.
1t is now believed that the name of
the murdered man who was found
Monday night in Toledo by the Wabash
car Inspector, is Lock Duff, who four
years ago ran a butcher shop in Duff
The strike at Spring Hill collieries,
Nova Scotia, has ended. mutual conces-
Hons being made by the miners and
the corporations The miners, how
ever, gained most OF the points for
which they contended.
Maxwell EyartS, son of ex-senator
Evarts, has resigned the assistant attor-
neyship of the southern district of New
York and will so into private law prac-
tee with his brother-in-law, Charles H.
Tweed, who is G. p Huntilgton's at
sorney.
Mrs Thomas Chapman Broadalbin of
Amsterdam, =. u, took dose of Paris
green and died from the effect. Dur
ing the past year three of her children
have died. and Il few days ago her son
and his wife died within a few hours
of each other. Mrs Chapman was so
years Of age.
Frederick Leonard, young farmer,
aged %, who bad lived for eleven
years past with the family of Frank
Bushnell near Chatham, n. Y, COM
mitted suicide a few nights ago by