Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-04-07

hour day and eight hours on Sat
urday with ten hours pay. In conse-
quence of this action of the manufac-
turers a general strike will be inaugur-
ated.
The officers of the much talked-of-
leather trust will, it is said be Thomas
E. Proctor, of Boston, president; Ed
ward +. Ladew, of New York, vice
president; Joseph T. Tubby, Of New
York, secretary, ard James R. Plum,
of New York, treasurer The United
States Leather Company will be the
name Of the corporation.
At Warren, O.. suit for $4,000 and
interest from April 2, 1892, was COM
menced in the Trumbull county com
mon pleas by the first national bank
against the executors of the will of
John Huntington, deceased, to deter
mine the validity of the signatures
Of the late John Huntington, which are
claimed to be forgeries.
After the jury in the Panama brib-
cry cases returned a vedict against
Charles de LeSSepS and Blondin, the
cout sentenced NJ. Baihut to imprison-
ment for five years, to pay a fine
Of 10000 francs and to the loss Of
civil rights. NJ. Flodin was sentenced
to imprisonment for two years and
Charles de Lesseps to imprisonment for
one year.
There is a renewal Of activity in the
orb OF IN,
for export and in the crude certificates.
3; The strength Of the market is now ex-
planned by the announcement that the
ROthschilds have succeeded in consoli-
dating the various Russian companies
and interesting them in the Standard s
scheme for the control of the refined
market Of the world
Upon the request Of State Insurance
Commissioner Ellerhee, Of Missouri, a
warrant was issued on the 25th for the
! arrest of Percy Stone, Of st. Louis.
on charge Of attempting to do an III
surance business in violation of the
insurance laws. Mr.. Stone represents
the Guarantee and Accidents Lloyds.
which does business as an association
Of individuals for the purpose of avoid
ing the requirements Of the insurance,
laws.
At Ottawa, Ont, A. NJ. Burgess, dep
uty minister of the interior, has been
examined before the agricultural COM
mittee on the question of immigra ton
He said that the progress made in in
ducing settlers to go to Manitoba and
the Northwest from the western states
was marked during the past year.
There were 297 agents operating in the
United States. The result of the work
was that $50 homesteads had been tax
Ell up by the newcomers.
Greece, Roumania, Seryia, Turkey,
Japan, Norway, Sweden, Peru, Chill,
Mexico, Denmark, Ecuador, Salvador
Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Belgium, Portu-
gal and China have notified the Navy
Department that they will not send
vessels to the New York naval review
The bodies of an old Mexican named
AIontez and his son, aged IA years,
We're found lying ia their cabin, near
Wickenburg, Ari., on the 9th. The
skull Of each of the victims had been
crushed with Il pick-aX. 1t is believed
that the victims We're murdered by
miners whose object was robbery.
At Philadelphia, at full meeting OF
the committe of arrangements of the
, 3t6 banquet, Gen. James A. Beaver
presiding, it was determined on account
of the naval review at New York on
April 81, which will be participated in
by number of the 500 from differ
ent sections of the Union, to change
the date of the banquet from April
- to Tuscday, April %.
Fire broke out on the 9th in rhe
shop Of the Claggett Saddle Tree Com
pany, in the east wing of the prison at
Jetfersonyi!le, Ind, and the entire wing
was soon in ruins. The loss is $40, 900,
Ca@gett Company, which carried 800
600 insurance. The convicts made no
attempt to create a panic and escape
all Of them assisting the firemen.
Three young men we're drowned on
the 9th at the dam at the head of
Marietta Island, near Marietta, Ohio.
: They We're attempting to shoot the
, swift water and so above when the
boat capsiZed They We're George Dow.
II years: Harry Dow, Is and Frank
Ackerson, 20. All were good swimmers
! and made a heroic effort in the cold.
swift water to save themselves