Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-04-28


ne municipal middle at Cleveland
Ohio, came to an end when Mayor Ross
gave up his office to Mayor Blee upo1
advise Of the corporation council.
Herr Krupp, whose great 122-ton g11r
was placed in position at Jackson Pari
on Sunday, has arranged to spend 81,
100000 on his worlds fair exhibit. In
| this princely expenditure he is encour
aged by the Kaiser, who earnestly re-
3quested him to represent German in
dustI. in a fitting manner
In an address last week Professor
Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard. speak.
ing of James Russell Lowell, said: 'He
and l wer friends for more than forty
years. We used to see each other al
most every day, and I do not remem-
Der ever hearing lin say anything
which ever gave pain f.. any other hi
man being
| Mcdonald Cheek, serving a life sen
| tence for murder in the Indiana sta te
prison south, was pardoned by Governor
!, SlattheWs. He had served twenty-one
years and had a good record.
A. Il. Sutton, the whisky warehouse
receipt forger, of Louisville, KY, was
held for trial in the sum of $50, 900 and
bis hook-keeper, Beecher, in $4,000.
w. A. Mcdonald, leader of the OBJ
position party in the Manitoba legisla-
ture, was unseated by the courts for
! bribery during the late election.
+. G. Horen, of Chicago, aged %,
| baggdgemaster on the Illinois Central
railroad, while trying to board a freight
train at Odin, Ill, was run over and cut
to pieces.
The casket and coffin manufacturers
OF New York, Brooklyn, and other large
manufacturing places have organized
trust or consolidation for mutual be-
nefit
Workmen at Brussels engaged in a
universal suffrage riot, attacking the
parliamentary buildings. Several sharp
encounters occurred between police
and rioters.
Fred May, the well-known New York
er, who in 1883 assaulted a policeman
and jumped his bail of 81, 900 has re-
turned from Chill and surrendered him
self to the authorities.
The canadian officials will cooperate
with those of the United States in their
efforts to keep the scourge of contagious
disease from getting a foothold in the
country by Importation
The stockholders Of the Sibley Qowa)
bank lose everything by the recent
failure, which is the first failure of a
State bank since 1867. The depositors
will be paid $122, 900 in full.
The stockholders of the Texas Central
OF $2,OOO,OOO in bonds secured by mort
gage to be sold and the money used in
improving and extending the road.
Admiral George Brown denies that he
wrote Il letter to John Cummins at Hon
olulu in which he said that he favored
the monarchy and would do all he could
for its re establishment
There appears to have been an alarm
ing increase in sickness in New York
city during the last week, as well as in
the death rate over the preceding week
which was unusually heavy for this
season of the year us compared with
previous years.
Burton Mansfield of New Haven was
confirmed as insurance commissioner of
Connecticut vice John S. SEYMOUR
of Norfolk, who resigned to accept the
United States patent commiSionership
L. Ii. Garter chairman of the repub-
lican national committee, publishes a
call for meeting of that body at
Louisville, Ky, May 10, for the purpose
of consultation with view of securing !
uniformity and harmony of action by
the party in the several states and
territories.
Joe Berth, prominent horse dealer
whose operations extend over several
Western districts and Southern states
suicide at Pine Bluff, Ark, !
by shooting. He was once engaged in
bushes in Baltimore.
Unknown parties fired into the house
Of Oscar Gaffney, seven miles north
Of Clarksyille, Texas, and instantly
killed Mrs Gaffney. Two months ago
Gaffney received notice from the White
Caps to leave the country.
Wbite-Faced horse, the Sioux Indian
chief who accompanied Two Strike in
his raid on Humphreys ranch, in which
four cowboys eyre killed, committed
suicide at a camp on White river by
himself through the head.
The united brotherhood, the secret
name by which the wing or section of
the Clan-na-Gael controlled by John
Dewey is known, has because of internal
dissensions and in view Of Mr.. Glad
stones home rule bill, resolved to dis
band as a secret Irish revolutionary
body.
For the first time since the greater
New York bill was defeated at Albany
the commissioners of the consolidation
inquiry met when it was decided that
nothing further could be done with
the bill in the present legislature and
that agitation should continue with the
view to influence the next session.
In a case involving S40,S assessed
against the Pennsylvania railroad COM
pany, under the corporation tax law of
New York, the court of appeals has
rendered a decision of great interest,
declaring the action of eX-COmptroller
Wemple void upon the ground that the
sole business of the Pennsylvania road
within the state Of New York is COM
MERGE between the states, and that a
tax upon such commerce is unconstitu-
tional.
WISCONSIN, LEGISLATURE.