Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-02-03
CONDENSED NEWS.

The annual Alaskan Sesl-klllnS cif-
cular has been issued by the treasury
department.
The United States vessel Of war, ke'lr-
sarge, has arrived at Colon.
At Buffalo, y. Y, on the 10th, tire de-
stroyed a rag warehouse. Loss, $4,000.
Measles is an epidemic in FELTON,, Del,
more than half Of the children in the
town having the disease.
A dispatch from Louisville says that
q further advance of five cents has
been established by the whisky trust.
Senator CulIom, of Illinois, is lying
Iii at his residence in Washington from
the effects of a heavy cold.
w. IL Brooks, freight agent Of the
Sioux City and Northern road in Sioux
City, Iowa, who is In default nearly SIX
thousand dollars disappeared gu the
10th He played faro.
Farmers about Geat Falls, Mont,
taye been blowing for the last three
weeks The thermometer now stands
80 degrees above zero.
The Toronto World, loyaliSt paper,
demands that the Canadians who are
advocating annexation DC treated as
traitors.
Smallpox is reported TO be Oh the III
crease i'll Brooklyn. Six patients We're
moved to the hospital III two days.
The Manitoba government has dechn-
ed to send an exhibit TO the Chicago
fair There is no reason given.
Next Saturdays Canada Gazette will
contain proclamation putting LII force
the modus viyeLdi for the coming fish
lag season.
Canadian poaching sealerS will be dl1-
ven out OF the business by the recent
decision Of the British Columbia courts
In the matter of the seized schooners.
The Kansas City board of health has
adopted resolution providing for the
establishment Of Il laboratory for the
culture and development of cholera
ger.ns.
Taylor coIored, who killed Il fellow
convict, was sentenced by Judge Adams
In Auburn, N T., to die III the electric
chair i'll the week BEGINNING March 3.
The national executive board of the
Brewers and Matters Union authorized
several EQUATIONS Of cash to various
unions affected by strikes.
Burglars failed to open the safe in
die LenoX, Mass, post office III which
were 81, 200 in stamps and money. They
left after rifling the money drawer of
e.
At Joplin, Mo-, the Pitcher Lead com
pany's big works have been shut down
on account of Il scarcity of lead ore. The
bad weather has curtailed the prOduc
ton of ore.
The comet medal of the Astronomical
Society Of the Pacific has been award
ed to Prof. W. X. Brooks of Geneva,
N Y, for his discovery Of the comet
on November -, 1892.
Julius Eichberg the widely known
musician, died Oh the 10th ut his home
In Boston. He was Sixty-four years
old.
Mrs. Allen T. Rea OF Rockford, Ill.,,
died on the 10th. She was prominently
Interested in church and missionary
work.
At Kansas City the Ninth-street the
alter was totally destroyed by fire on the
10Th. Lorenzo Bros. were playing, and
hey lost all their effects.
At Montreal, S. Lowery has been AZ
II no
of $500 from Pain X Co., manufact-
ureIs of fireworks, New York city.
A large gathering of Canadian dairy
men 1T Kingston, Ont, requested the
government to tighten the farmers bur
dens by promoting treer trade relations
with the United States and Great Bri-
tlln
AT LeayenWorth, HIS, Joseph Selgler,
y s;lloonkeeper, shot his wife i'll the head
and then committed suicide. Mrs. Sci
gler Will recover
A Toronto paper says that Edward
Farrar is the authority for the state
ment that Goodwin Smith will start an
annexation paper with a capital of
$2OU.uoU.
The Hartford, Conn. Board of Trade
fayIrS the passage of the Torrey bank
ruptcy bill and the repeal of the Chi
nese exclusion act and silver purchase
Law.
Indiana congressman have been in
strucled by Il party vote i'll the state
senate 10 vote for the opening of the
worlds fair OF Sunday. 1t is believed
that lie house viii also indoISe Sunday
opening.
At Peoria, H., at the whisky trust
eadquartcrS the statement that 4 house
In the TRUST had reduced the price of
spirits 1U.cents per gallon was declared
To be absurd.
An explosion Of tire-damp occurred
on the 18th i'll the Bernard colliery at
Chaleroi, Belgium. One man was killed
and three seriously injured.
An express train from Buda Pest was
showed in for twenty-four hours near
PreSSburg. The weather was bitter cold
and the passengers suffered severely.
Z. Cox. an Old miner, has just returned
from the San Juan gold fields and con-
firms the statement that the rPpo9t of
rich gold placerS there was the worst
kind of Il fake. Ee
AT Des MoineS. Ia, II. A. Van Angel
beck has been arrested for the fraudu-
lent use of the nails in connection with