Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-03-24
WISCONSIN.
CONDENSED NEWS.

James il. heene denies that lac is
trying to create corner III wheat.
MIR. Gladston has been summoned
to an audience with the queen.
Secretary Smith cancels permits for
timber cutting in Montana.
The Mississippi breaks up at Rock
Island, the ice doing considerable dam
age.
The old soldiers OF New York city
have started movement against the
existing pension laws.
Floods rayished parts Of the country,
but the Northwest has escaped thus
Tar.
Consul General New denies the re-
port of clerks defalcations III his
office.
James w Hyatt, ex-treasurer OF the
ri 9utou sIq IL pEop 81 's3lelS poaIu1
NOrW;lk, Conn.
The Milwaukee and Northern rail-
road and the Chicago and st. Paul Will
be consolidated.
Railroad companies are credited With
the intention Of fighting the order OF
Railway Photographers.
There are about fifty applicants Tor
the position Of Assistant Secretary VII
lets, of the Agricultural department
The schooners GlenWood and EnOs
y. Phillips have gone to pieces on Nan
tasket beach.
new railroad to connect Manitoba
and northern Minnesota with Lake
Superior is projected.
Representatives Of all the railroads
entering Chicago have agreed not to
grant the demands made by the switch
men
The Commercial Cable company has
declared a quarterly dividend or 1 ~
per cent, payable April j.
Governor Turney Of Tennessee, is
very much improved. He expects to
b about in q few days.
W. Il. Sterling, United States dis
u1ct attorney for South OAK ota, has
resigned.
Ex-Speaker Reed made his first APP
pearance rs lecturer before a Chica-
20 audience on the night Of the 18th.
A Winona physicians has returned
from Germany and says there is but
little danger OF cholera epidemic
IN the United States this year,
Thousands OF miners in Indiana have
been thrown out of employment by the
swift, linens strike.
The Chicago council has passed an
ordinance limiting the height Of build
mgs to $50 feet, or 10 stories.
The towns Of Nincennes and Brook
En, Ind, We're visited by a cyclone
that did much damage to property.
IA Grinncl, la, the buggy plant o1
the Spaidlng Manufacturing compan,
burned. Loss $1,000; insurance, SO,
600
The steamer Exeter City arrived al
Boston OH the 18th with the derelict
schooner Agnes Manning in tow
At New York the Edison Genera
Electric company held its annual meet
mG OH the llth. The company proposes
TO issue S3,UoO,0Oo additional stock.
Additional damaging revelations IL
Connection with the Panama canal scan
dI are made i'll Paris. j. bourgeois
minister OF Justice, resigns i'll coilse
quence
The English railway train for exhl
bitlon 1T the worlds fair was umIoadet
from the tunic 1T New York on til,
18th.
sherman Arp was hanged ut Mont
Somely, Ala, on the 18th for the muir
der Of Villain pU.ue. He confessa
his crime.
1t is reported that the Chicago, Burl
ngton and Quincy contemplateS bid
dlng III the Oregon Pacific when tina,
road is sold and will use it in Compel
fns its line To the Pacific coast
Lee MantIe's admission to the United
States senate is made more difficult by
a discovery OF Il defect in his faith
srs naturalization papers.
Mrs. Hitler of Wilmington. Mass. =
woman reported to be worth $500, 900
is about to marry her French coachman
and then after the honeymoon send
hun to Harvard to be made presentable
III society.
The schooner kate " Auken, from
charleston to Philadelphia, was lost
of Charleston harbor The crew OF
seven We're saved
Luke SchOolcraft, the veteran min
strel who had a role in Society Fad
which has been playing latterly in Gin
dnnau. died there OF digestion.
III the New York state assembly on
the 18th Mr.. Farquhar introduced Il
slll embracing complete revision of
she tax laws of the state.
Secretary Lamont has appointed
John Seager private secretary i'll place
OF ). u. Miller, son OF ex-Attorney Gen
eral Miller, resigned
Senator Roach, the new member from
North Dakota entered an emnhatip
denial to the story sent out from Grand
Forks TO the effect that he intended
70 resign.
Tn Rev. DR.. W. P. Everett of Elsin
died on the 18th He was pastor of
Elglns First Baptist church from 1865
10 1872. when he went to Quincy, III,
remaining about two, years ago. Re
firing from active service he then made
Elgin hisshome. He leaves one son in
Chicago.