Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-11-24

Adam Bright farmer near Troy,
Ohio, exchanged $500 for box he
thought held $4,000. He found two
stones.
Three life-term convicts at Birming-
ham, Ala, escaped from the peniteMi
tiary with false keys. Dogs are on
their trail.
Harry Bomholz, a Peoria county,
Illinois boy, put bullet in his broth
er Rudolph's brain in trying to shoot
Il quail.
Minncsota'S treasurer is to be sued
to recover commissions paid him for
depositing state money in certain CON
Germs.
Grief for the sudden insanity and
subsequent death Of a son killed Rev
Henry Kay. of st. Joseph. Mo.
Robert Stevenson, a farmer of Pettis
warrant charging him with stealing
hogs.
General Juan G.. CortiIla has been
imprisoned by order of President Diaz,
Of Mexico, for attempts at revolution
News Of the resumption of iron mines
in the Lake Superior region is received
by all classes with qualification.
President Peixoto's troops will at
tempt to capture Desterro when the
Brazilian insurgents have established
a provisional government.
The paid admissions to the world S
fair grounds Sunday were 727; whole
tickets, 69o; childIen's tickets, 30.
Director General Davis was tender
ed a banquet in Chicago by the for
eign commissioners and presented with
4 loving cup.
La Grippe is epidemic on the coast
defense vessel Monterey, now at Mare
Island, Cal. Members of the crew are
daily being taken to the naval hospital.
John u. Rockefeller presents $5OOOOO
to the University Of Chicago, making
the total value Of his gifts to that in
stituion $3,25O,OOO.
Secretary Gresham, in letter to the
president, strongly opposes the annexa-
ton Of Hawaii and favors the restora-
ton OF the monarchy.
Pension Commissioner Lochren files
his answer in the suit brought by Judge
Long of Michigan to compel his res
tOratiOn of the pension rolls.
Lord Randolph Churchill, speaking
in Dundee, predicted that Mr.. Glad
stone would fall between two stools
homo r1,Ia an1 tho Nauca flo proor,..,r
New Jerseys legislative apportion-
ment is declared by the supreme court
unconstitutional, and another election
for the assembly may be necessary
Stonewall J. De France, wanted in
Minnesota for bank sWindling, was re-
leased at Detroit, Mich, but rearrested
and taken to Kalamazoo to be tried for
forgery.
Edith Bitner, playing near flame
Of natural gas in her fathers yard,
at ElWood, Ind, was burned to death
by her clothes catching on fire.
-Four members Of the Smith family,
near Fayette, ILL.,, died from drinking
water from Il well in which was the
decomposed body Of a muskrat
Andrew Warren, "a wealthy octosena-
rian resident of Warren Parks, ILL.,,
asks a divorce from his wife, who is
said to be addicted to speculation.
An increase in deposits of $S,429, 300
and in reserves of $3.50, 100 is shown
by the New York bank statement
Farmer Bright living near Lima,
Ohio, was done out of 5000 which he
drew from the bank to satisfy two
strangers that he had it. Mrs. Bright
died from the shock produced by the
loss.
In view of the accident at Santander
the Mecsey dock board has ordered that
vessels carrying dynamite shall not
enter the river, but shall trans-ship the
dynamite outside Of --ook Light, six
miles from the central docks.
1t cost over $1,S91, 6SS to place the
staff and the sculpture work ON the
buildings ut Jackson park and give
them collectively the name of the
white city.
The Western Colorado Development
company in sinking q well east of
Grand Junction, Col, struck strong
pressure of sixty pounds is obtained.
flow of gas at a depth Of 800 feet. A
Recent scores of football games:
Yale, Il; Pennsylvania, 6; Lehigh, IS;
Cornell, 0. Ann Arbor, 46; Purdue, 8.
Minnesota, 40; Wisconsin, O. North
western, SO; Lake Forest, %. Univer-
sity Of Illinois, IS; st. Louis Pastimes,
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Francis III. Weeks, the convicted en-
bezzler, was taken from the Tombs in
New York to Sing Sing prison to serve
his 10-years' sentence
John G. Chapman, a pension agent of
New Haven, was arrested by United
States Marshal Strong. He is charged
with having collected exorbitant fees
for obtaining pensions.
Grenville w. Nichols, a book-keeper
who resides at New Brighton, S. l.,
and is employed by John II. Jacques
A Broadway, New York, was arrested,
charged with embezzling $1,000 from
his employer.
Silas III. Goodenough, of Winchester
Conn, Yale junior, is said by the
physician in attendance at the Yale in
Urinary, TO be dying Of portion; It's He
struck an iron gate while running at
full speed and received a severe alb
dominal injury.
More than 1000 men, driven from the
Pacific coast for want Of work, are
Cncamnai in the Oman con,ntru i,rst