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

illness.
J. S. RawIns, democratic delegate
to congress from Utah, has resigned.
Six prisoners broke Jail at Lansing,
Mich
A wolf was captured in the street at
Monmouth, Ill
X. A. Havenor, q grocer at Harlem,
n u, has failed for $4,000.
The case Of DR.. Briggs will come
up at Washington, ID. c., on May Is.
Mrs. Biddy Mckee, colored, died at
Seymour, Ind, aged 101 years.
John Jones, Of Pottstown, Pa, was
relieved Of $500 by bunco men.
The reichstag has refused to pass
the army bill.
Immense eight-oared demonstrations
were held in Great Britain.
The Tacoma Ledger asserts that
conspiracy exists to flood the country
with Chinese.
The Spanish government has quelled
the Cuban revolution by buying up the
revolutionary leaders.
Six men were killed and many in
jured, some fatally, by u steamboat
accident at Belmont, Mo.
President Cleveland has issued a
rule declining to receive office-seekers
who wish for personal interview.
Robertson Robinson, "OId Bob the
life convict at Michigan City, who re-
fused to accept pardon, has just
died in prison.
The Joliet rolling mill, which has
give, employment 10 $500 men, has
been closed because Of the low price
Of steel and iron.
a Goldberg, wholesale deai.r in
clothing at New York, has failed for
$4,000.
Two cowboys were fired on by
Nayajoes at Cross Canon, Col, one
being killed.
Miss Emma Rottman was drowned
at Grand Rapids, Mich, by the capsiz-
ing Of q boat.
The governor of Prussia has issued
a decree closing the frontier to immi-
grants from Russia.
The New Orleans New Delta, organ
of the anti-lottcry party, has suspended
publication.
j. g. McMullen, vice-president of
the Alton road, who is i'll in New York
Is in critical condition
Michael Davitt, anti-Parnellito mem
Der of parliament for northwest Cork,
has been adjudicated a bankrupt.
A conflict occurred between the union
and non-union sailors at Redondo
which resulted in the death of two
men.
Judge William Lochren has resigned
from the bench in Minnesota and left
for Washington to assume his duties as
commissioner of pensions
The will Of j. Henry Stickney of
Baltimore bequeths $4,000 to CON
gregauonu societies. The college at
Beloit, Wis, also gets Il share.
In Henry Lederer's printing office
at New York 5000 counterfeit union
cigar labels were sieZed Lederer is
awaiting trial.
Prospectors ut Lchigh, Ia, while Dor
ing for coal struck veins OF natural
gas which flows freely and has good
volume.
The Premier Steel company, of In
dianapolis, has failed. The company
employs 1000 men and has a capital
of S1,5O0,000.
The Capital City bank, of Nashville,
Tenn, chartered under state laws, has
gone into voluntary liquidation. 1t will
pay 60 cents on the dollar
The appointments for the Sub-fresh-
man exhibition ut Lawrence University,
Appleton, are as follows: Misses Addie
BrockWay, Myrtle Ball, Laura Crump,
May Nye and Clara Stansbury and
Messrs Archie D. Ball, Lee e. Bassett,
Walter IL. Brockway, Anton Hattlested
and Edward James. The exhibition
will take place June II.
The common council at Waupun has
granted a franchise to the Waupun
Electric Light company and agrees to
take eighty incandescent lights for
street lighting. 1t is expected that the
electric plant will be built this season.
The Isaac Stephenson farm at Trues-
dell, kenoSha county, of which z. c.
Torrey is superintendent, beats all the
records this year for twins. There are
twin boys, twin calves, twin colts and
100 pairs Of twin lambs. Out OF 400
lambs only nine have died. These
lambs are ShropShires.
The Pecos company, with a capital
stock of $5,0OO,oO0, has been incorpor-
ated in New Jersey for the purpose of
promoting enterprises in New Mexico
and Texas.
-Four thousand government troops
and 5000 insurgents fought for six
hours near Uruguayaua, Rio Grande
do Sui, Brazil, Saturday. Both sides
claim victory.
John E. Lewis, the agent of the Fort
Wayne road who absconded from south
Chicago with $1,000 of the company's
cash, has been arrested in Texas.
John w. Mackay, the bonanza king.
reSistS the payment of doctors and
surgeons bills aggregating $4,000, for
their attendance after he was shot in
the back by Rippi.
E. 7. Swift, of New Haven, Conn.,,
embezzled $4,000 of the funds of the
Birmingham, Conn.,, National bank.