Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-09-15


nominee is over, and the men are now
receiving their usual rate, so cents an
hour. The Buffalo boats, the steam
barge Curtis and tow, which caused
the strike, were watched by union men
and no scabs were allowed to loaG
them. The vessel owners held out az
long as possible, but were finally forced
to pay the regular rate
Sir John Millais intends to pass the
autumn in Scotland, and he has rented
the earl of Ancestors Stobhall shoot
ings. which are a few miles north Of
Perth. StobhaE house, the ancient
hunting seat of the dukes of Perth
occupies a lovely situation on the bank
Of the Tay, just above the Linn Of
Campsie, where the river hurls itself
over a rocky fall, expanding below into
a wide lake with many whrlpOo-S
which is a fayorite resort for salmon.
At the Treasury department Satur
day 4SS.GO0 ounces Of silver were offer
ed for sale at prices ranging from O..
1880 to O7450. The whole amount was
declined at the prices asked and a
counter offer Of O.7350 made.
The pan-American medical congress
will open it's session in Washington
The congress comprised the most emf
nent physicians in the two Americas
and was in session for three days.
At picnic in Rails county, Missouri
Lawrence Turaer was killed by Charles
Helms in u quarrel over a girl, who
was herself wounded in the encounter
between the rival lovers
Paper money is not much used ia
San Francisco, and over $1OOO,OUU OF
paper AIUhey tnat had lain III the treas
ury vault ten years has now been
taken out and shipped east.
Representative Bland left Washing
ton for his home in Lebanon, Mo, be
ing called thither by the illness Of his
wife. Mrs. Bland was i'll when be
started for Washington five weeks ago
and has not improved since.
Harry NJ. Walraven, keeping a res
taurant at Mankato, Mimi, was muir
dered near his own door while re
turning home 1T night with $249 in
his pockets, and there was evidence
of severe struggle and attempted
robbery.
Mrs. Marcus A. Quinn of New York,
who thought she had buried her hus-
band after the body had been dragged
out Of East river, now finds her hus-
band Il pneumonia patient in the hospi-
tai on BlackwelPs island, to which the
] police had taken him.
| Robert Alexander Lamberton, l.. l..
d., president Of the Lehigh university,
died suddenly Saturday, of apopleXy.
He served on Governor Curtin's staff
| during General Lees invasion of Penn
| Sylyania.
| Woman SuffragiStS of Kansas have
adopted Il platform and taken up the
campaign work for the election in the
fall of 1894, when the constitutional
amendment for universal suffrage will
be voted on.
William Chitman, messenger on the
western express of the Frisco line,
was Shot and killed Sunday by bandits
who held up the train at Mound Val
ley, Kans, and secured $1,000 and the
| jeWelry of the passengers.
A freight train with Il passenger
coach attached, on the Chicago, Bur
Iington Il Quincy railroad, went
through Il bridge near Streeter, Ill.,
Saturday night, and two unknown men
were killed and eleven persons injured
L. V. Park, editor of the Joliet Daily
Times, failing to get Mayor Henry H.
Stassen to sign Il warrant for $9O5
claimed to be due him for city print
ing, has begun suit against the mayor
in Il justice court, alleging corruption
and malfcaSance in office.
Obituary: AT Rock Island, ILL.,, Ex-
Postmaster Howard Wells.--At Bur
lington, Iowa, p f. Unterkircher, aged
IsiXty-seven.-At Padonia, Kan, Mrs.
Ellen Palmer Allerton, the Kansas poe
tess At Paris Lucy NJ. Hooper, wife
of ViceC Consul General Hooper.
The employees of the Louisville &
Nashville railroad, on the Henderson
division, struck last night and not a
wheel is turning. Trains are running
in and out of Louisville, but the men
on that division are dissatisfied with
the compromise their officer accepted.
! At Cincinnati Sunday evening an cleo
tric street car on the Eden Park line
! dashed down hill at a frightful speed,
left the track, broke Il telegraph pole,
and shot into a saloon. AS a result
! two persons are dead, six are injured
beyond recovery, and nearly forty more
are hurt, many of them dangerously.
| Supervising Architect ORourge
i makes Il very qualified report, as a
result of his examination of the Chica-
so post office building, respecting its
unsafe condition, of which there have
F., been so many alarming statements.
/ He says there is no immediate danger
Of its collopsc, but further than this
he declines to express IN opinion.
Twenty-Five thousand people witness
ed the laying of the corner stone for a
new Polish church in Chicago Sunday,
! to accommodate a portion of the 49,
900 members Of st. Stanislaus' church.
The church is the largest in America
and the parish the largest in the world.
The drainage canal contractors of
Chicago have agreed to put 5000 OF
the city's unemployed at work. Sun
day booth was opened on the lake
front and 1850 registered, giving an
account of their condition, which will
be verified by the police department
and if found correct the men will be