Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-07-14
CONDENSED NEWS.

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In June the public debt decreased ST.
ZIG, 253.
Corbett and Mitchell will probably
have their fight in Chicago.
Indications are that the new Ger
man reichstag will pass the army bill
Plans have been prepared for the
state elevator at Duluth.
The Minneapolis city ball act has
been declared unconstitutional by the
supreme court.
Minnesota and North Dakota farmers
have been cheered by heavy rainfall.
At noon next Wednesday Costa Rca's
fair building was formally opened to
visitors.
Silver bullion has recovered % per
cent OF the recent decline.
The transcontinental lines have failed
to reach an agreement, and a passen-
ger rate war is expected.
Mayor Harrison Of Chicago, i'll a
Dominion day" address at the worlds
fair, Is Kissed for advocating annex
2:I1u.
Allen Pyles, an ex-conVict Of Rich
mond, Ind, in an alteration with his
divorced wife, stabbed his stepson and
was arrested.
Private Secretary Thurber has re-
turned from Michigan and resumed his
duties at the executive mansion.
Bank clearings at eighty-three cities
,r the week showed a decrease of IA
ger cent from last year.
Four negroes and one white man
were hanged Friday at various points
in the south for murder.
Colonel G.. Il. Pfster Of Milwaukee
paid 100000 for the Hinsey electric
road at receivers sale.
With display Of flags and bunting
and the booming Of cannon the Spanish
c;IravelS were welcomed to Detroit.
Dizziness in the iron trade has caused
the shutting down Of the mills at Joliet,
ILL, and Milwaukee, Wis.
The work of allotting lands to the
aaWnees, preliminary to the opening
of the Cherokee strip, has been COM
Qleted.
Lightning set fire to the prairie in
Hodgeman county, Kansas, and three
farmhouses and many head Of horses
and cattle were burned.
William Smiley died in Greensburg,
away two weeks ago. He was a di-
rector Of the First National bank.
President Cleyeland's action III call
ang an August session Of congress CIV eS
a great impetus to trade. Wheat ad-
'vanced IA cents and silver ID IA.
Several persons at F'indlay, Ohio,
we're dangerously poisoned by eating
ice cream which had been allowed to
stand in the can for several hours.
The eX-EmpreSs Eugene of France is
the godmother of >, S34 French children
who We're born on March 16, 1856, the
day of the birth of her son, the prince
imperial, who was killed by the Zulus.
The ex-Empress had promised to stand
in that relation to the children born on
the same day rs the prince imperial
The first full cargo Of hay ever sent
from the United States to Europe is
being loaded at New York for France,
where there is prospect of selling at
good prices.
Mrs Eliza Slabaugh, of Goshen, Ind,
Is suing for divorce from her husband,
John Slabaugh, to whom she was mar
tied forty-one years ago.
4 violent rainstorm, followed by hail,
passed over 4 portion of Iowa in the
vicinity Of Boone, doing considerable
damage to growing crops.
Peter Seibel, a worthless character
of Muncie, Ind, shot and possibly fatal
iy wounded his wife. The couple have
not been living pleasantly together for
months.
Secretary Gresham left Chicago for
indianapolis after brief visit % his
aged mother at GAINESVILLE, Ky. His
mother has been quite i'll but is now
much better
Scott Wike of Illinois, the new as
AStant secretary Of the treasury, has
qualified and entered at once upon the
duties Of his position.
Two supposedly insane prisoners in
the penitentiary at Pueblo, Mexico,
killed three fellow -convictS and wound
ed seven others with shoe knives
Officers were elected and reports of
state leagues made at the closing ses-
sion of the United States League
of Building and Loan associations in
Chicago Friday.
J. &. Gormley, assignee of Charles
CFoster, has filed Il partial statement
which shows that the liabilities will
approximate $1,0OO,00O.
Yale defeated Harvard in the varsity
race on the Thames at New London.
Rough water caused slow time, Yale
Sinishing in 25:11 L.
President Cleveland has issued
proclamation for the converting of con-
gress III extraordinary session on Aug.
z, to consider the financial situation.
Convicts working in the stone quarry
at Folsom, Cal, penitendary made a
break for liberty June 81, and in the
fight which ensued three convicts were