Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-05-19

! wife, telling her Of his deed
1t is estimated that 100000 square
| miles Of the earth's surface are still
uninhabited or ownerless.
Uncle Jerry Rusk, who is still in
Washington, looks upon the various
brands Of recent bad weather with a
feeling Of ghoulish glee.
The Egyptian Government is soon to
rattle off, among the great museums of
Europe, the mummies of the high
Philadelphians believe in life insur-
, ance; Wanamaker has taken out poll
cies aggregating $1,5OO,OOO, Hamilton
Disston, 100000, and J. B. Stetson
S515, 900.
George SwOpe, a negro in attempting
to burglarize Suppes pawnshop at Par
sons, Kan, encountered a trap-gun and
now lies captive with q large portion of
one of his thighs shot to pieces.
An S-year-old son of G. n. Bennett. "a
member of the Christian Science sect OF
Beatrice, Neb., died of some simple all
ment This is the second child Ben
nett has lost by failing to give proper
medicine.
Arrangements are complete for a
great uprising Of the Cubans against
Spanish rule the first week of June.
Expeditions have been fitted out in
Vera Cruz and Key West, Mobile, Ala,
and New York.
A tile works kiln collapsed at Casey,
A "a
proprietor; aged So; William Helm,
aged %, and Elias Reed, aged %. Carr
and Helm were killed instantly, while
Reed was extricated.
Henry Feadler, restaurant keeper
at Seymour, Ind, was shot dead by
Leopold Trenck, who had assaulted the
woman cook in the restaurant. Fead-
Ter was defending her, when Trenck
| drew a revolver and fired.
Herr Won Brandt, formerly German
minister to China, will retire to private
life in consequence Of imperial dis
favor, which he incurred through his
marriage to Miss May Heard, daughter
of Augustus Heard, of Washington.
The JCiet rolling mill is now closed
in all departments, and plant which
has furnished work for $500 men is
now idle, it being, in the opinion of Off
GERS, impossible to resume at present
prices Of iron and steel.
| Rector Alhwardt the Jew-baiter and
member Of the late German reichStag,
has been arrested and will be returned
| to prison to serve his sentence for hav-
ing libeled the Loewes small arms
manufacturers The period of his i'm
mUnity expired with the reichstag.
! J. n. Bitch, a prominent turpentine
operator of Coffee county, Ga, was
murdered near WillacOochee early yes
terday morning by negro employee.
The negro demanded pay for work in
advance and shot his employer because
it was refused.
Seymour, Ind, nearly had lynching.
Lou Fink shot and killed Harvey
Feadler because the latter interfered
to protect his cook from Fink'S abuse.
After the latter's arrest 1000 men
surrounded the Jail but were held at
bay by the mayor while the sheriff
Sir James Anderson died in London.
He was the chief electrician on the
Great Eastern when the first Atlantic
cable was laid, and it was he who
transmitted the message from the
President of the United States to the
Queen which inaugurated the cable
service.
Thomas Wallace, an inmate of the
Shawnee county. Kan, poorhouse, was
awarded $4,000 damages against the
eyes and two fingers of his left hand by
the premature explosion of 4 defective
fuse in a Rock Island stone quarry.
While returning to his home neal
Marshalls Ferry, ILL.,, in Il skiff Peter
Jackson was caught in Il current Of
the Wabash river, which is now miles
wide, and the sl1iff, becoming unman
ageable, was overturned and Jackson,
his wife and two child rem were drown.
ed.
A. w. ThurSton, a n archant at Haz
elton. Pa, posted 4 ice on the door
of his store offering 5000 for his ap-
prehension, and disappe AIRED. He was
subsequently tracked to an abandoned
mine, in the mazeS of which he is sup
posed to have purposely lost himself
and died.
A Union Pacific train for Denver was
wrecked four miles from Boulder, Col,
by the spreading of the rails. The rear
coach was overturned. III. NJ. Russell,
of Los Angeles, Cal, was probably fat
ally hurt, and Charles Dabnev, of Boul-
der, received internal injuries. Several
others were slightly hurt.
Daniel DAILY, pipe-ftter at San
Francisco, killed John j. Laughton and
probably MORALLY wounded John Car
roll, brother and friend respectively of
Michael Laughton whose home he had
dishonored. Laughton and Carroll had
been employed by Michael Laughton to
watch the latter's wife and DAILY.
Ten persons were killed and dozen
seriously injured in a wreck on the
Big Four at Lafayette, Ind. The dead
are: Otto Gerselson, of Chicago; Post
al Clerks A. R. Chadwick, of Shelby
vile, Ind; E. B. Meyers, of Walton,
Ind, and Jesse II. Long, of Lebanon,
Ind: John Lennon, Lebanon: Fireman
Sterling McInnis, ENreSS Messenger
Thomas McMohan. Charles Meyers,
Charles Seahilt and Engineer Michael
Walsh.
Obituary: At Indianapolis. Judge