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


works of E. II. Todd & Co., was found
dead in chair in his room at the New
comb hotel, Quincy, Ill, Sunday noon,
having shot himself.
The opinion is now currently hold
among the members Of the Minneapolis
police department that the desperadoes
who murdered James r. Harris will
not be caught-unless the reward for
their capture is increased.
In order that holders of Reading gen
eral mortgage bonds may receive thei1
July interest, arrangements are being
made to sell the coal on hand at auc
ton.
A masked burglar robbed the saloon
Of Ames Coles at Harrisonville, Ind
The amount taken is not known. Two
large horse pistols helped him to es
cape.
GOttlieb Mueller shot himself at St
Louis Mo-, leaving a note saying that
he was tired of life and willing the
$3.50 on bis person to the man who
should find bin.
Elmer E. Morse, of San Francisco
the local cashier of the National Fire
Insurance Company, was lost over
board from the yacht Rover off Mare
Island and drowned.
GoIdsbrouga, Mort & Co., bankers
and merchants in Melbourne, Australia
have suspended payment. Their liza
bilities are f2,5OO,00O. They are ex
pectet! to resume business shortly.
Previous to being sentenced to death
at Houston, Tex, for the murder O1
his mother and aunt, Lawyer w. A
Shaw made a speech in which he abus
ed everybody connected with the case
Another army officer has gone wrong
Col. Townsend of the Fort Leaven
oWrth Military School has reported the
disappearance of Lieut.. Warren 3
Fox, Tenth Infantry, leaving many
creditors.
Editor A. c. Baker, of the Bremen
Ind, Standard, was horsewhipped by
the wife of Editor Sininger, of the
Bremen Enquirer, because he had print
ed articles rejecting upon her.
Mrs. Maud Haynie, alias Arlington
who describes herself as war
widow, is held at New York for extra
dition on charge Of setting fire t.
her house on Twenty-second street
Chicago, last winter.
Bartholomew J. Doran, the Detroi
pugiliSt, committed suicide at Roches
ter, n. Y, by throwing himself under
train. He had previously killed hi:
little boy by giving him a dose O.
Iaudanum, and had tried to drown hi
wife.
Ex-Judge f. B. Tiffany and G. J
! failed state bank of AinSWOrth, Neb.
have been arrested. The former i:
charged with receiving deposits whe1
the bank was insolvent and the latte
with classifying the records.
The Baltimore police claim to have
unearthed an anarchist plot to eXtor
money from bankers and manufactur
ers under threats of death and the de
struction of their establishments by
dynamite. An alleged messenger o.
the conspiratorS is under arrest.
A freight train on the eastern Min
nesota was wrecked by a cow near Par
fridge. Engineer Ingerson and Brake
man McNanny were killed and Fire
man Reilly and Conductor Hall badl.
injured.
Charles A. Winfrey, a constable, il
trying to levy upon some hogs belong
ing to James Frame, a hotel-keepe
at Hastings, Neb., was shot, and he il
turn killed his assailant. The con
table will recover.
Fire at Minneapolis Sunday destroyed
the Bassett planning mill, the Clayton
& Bassett plow factory, and the Bid
well rendering works. Loss, $4,000
with but light insurance.
Harden and Glover, two American
SwindlerS arrested in Berlin on Ma.
% for theft, robbery, picking pocket
and confidence work, have confessed
to five big robberies. Pearls valued a
25,0OO marks which they stole iron
jewelers. have been recovered.
The commission of inquiry into thu
Panama canal scandal has made d re
port to the French chamber of deputie
eXculpatinr from all blame M. de Frey
cinet, ex-miniSter of war, and NJ. Flo
quet, ex-president of the chamber
The story that 104 deputies wer
bought with Panama money is decla1
ed to be false.
On complaint of Charles n. Porter,
resident of Pittsburg, Pa, two mel
were arrested in this city on a charg
of having kidnapped Rose Geinzer ant
of holding her for the purpose of oh
tanning ransom money. They are w
D. McAuliff, of 800 Morgan Place, ant
C. T. Colwell, of Milwaukee and Aus
tin avenues.
Obituary: At New York, Charles
Graham, an early aboitionist, aget
eighty-two.-At Washington, Charles
Roeser, of Wisconsin, chief topographel
of the postoffice department, aged for
| ty-nine-At Bar Harbor, Mrs. Fannie
Bryant Goodwin, wife of Editor Parkt
Goodwin and daughter of the poet Will
lam Cullen Bryant.
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