Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-09-29

notices have been posted on gins for
bidding the owners from ginning cot
ton until the price reached 10 cents a
pound, and for disregard of the notices
several gins have been burned.
Light rains and a change Of wind
have checked the forest fires in central
Wisconsin, but in the northern part of
the state about Ashland and Superior,
the change Of wind has driven the
fires toward these cities, causing heavy
damages and some loss of life.
County Treasurer James X. Arm
strong is now in Jail at KokJmo, Ind,
held for trial for embezzlement of $43,-
| 900, and his son Cal, his chief deputy,
for embezzlement of $4,000. Two
other SONS, Mont and Joe, who escaped
at the time of the exposure, are also
indicted.
John Shanahan, Frank Wilson, Thorn
as Roach and Thomas Gray We're ar
rested in Troy, \. T., for holding up
seven different men on one of the prin-
cipaI streets in that city and rit1ing
their pockets.
| Erie O. Van Broklin, eX-secretary of
the Buffalo board of IRE commission
ers, who pleaded guilty to charges of
forgery and grand larceny, was SEN
fenced to eight years and tive months
) imprisonment
Peter Zowar, who was sentenced to
the Illinois state prison for life in 1868
for the murder of u girl because she
refused to marry him, regained his
, liberty his term having been committed
by the governor.
| The New York Concert company (the
| Casino was formally declared dissolv-
) ed by Judge McAdam, Of the superior
court, yesterday, and the temporary
receivers, FabiuS NJ. Clarke and Henry
Gutter, were made permanent.
/ Thursday the convention Of post
, office clerks, at Chicago, completed it's
labors by selecting Benjamin Parkhurst,
Of Washington, president; w. Il. Crum-
hacker, of Chicago, secretary, and L.
A. Lewis, Of Boston, treasurer. The
next convention will be held at Boston.
| The post office department has re-
ccived notice of the arrest at Spirit
Lake, Iowa, Of Frank Randall and
John Burke for robbing the postoffice
at Estelline, S. d. Also notice of the
arrest of Edgar II. Cooper, postmaster
at Cortiz, Col, charbed with embezzling
money order funds He was released
on $1,000 bonds.
Thursday in the treasury building at
Washington, conference between
treasury officials and representatives of
Canadian railroads and steamship com
panies, for the further consideration of
an agreement between the United
States and Canada to regulate immi-
grafton was held
American customs officials have been
i'll Montreal investigating frauds that
,, have been going on in the shipment Of
| Sumatra leaf tobacco from that city to
! the United States. The customs officials
ut the border are suspected of having
stood i'll with the exporter in Montreal.
| is thought the frauds amount to $15,-
600.
Fire at Emperia, Kan, destroyed
property valued at 100000. The prin-
cipal losers were: G.. Il. Barwick, livery
stable; j. S. Watson, lumber-yard;
Wheldon, drugs; c. I. Ireland, grocery;
John IIenning, market, and the
Knights of Pythas Hall.
| st. Louis Catholic fear that the ven
cradle Archbishop Kenrick has become
insane. He has in his control 100000
land nearly $75O.G00 worth Of church
property, and Il delegation of priests is
to be sent to Mgr SatOlli seeking &C
ton to place control of the church
finances out of the power of the arch
! bishop.
Rev. Friedrich 4. Rocker, vice rector
Of the American College in Rome, has
arrived at New York He is the bearer
Of important messages from the pope
to Cardinal Gibbons and Mgr. Satolli,
and also has in his custody for the
cardinal Il bas-relef of the pope carved
in stone and handsomely set in
diamonds.