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

volcano in Mexico, over century
uuiescent, is in a state Of eruption
and inficts great damage upon the
surrounding agricultural country.
Joseph PigG of Tere Haute, Ind, was
arrested on the 9th on a charge OF
numbering the 4-months old chilli OF
his step-mother.
Reports from the wheat growing states
Indicate that the condition of the cereal
has greatly improved during the past
week.
Near Salem, Ore, l.. Skinner, veal
thy farmer, was buncoed out OF SLOW
by two strangers, who used the famIlia
tin box method.
The remains Of Mrs. Charles Kin,
who died az Fort Wayne, Ind, few
DAYS ago, have been shipped TO Fond
du Lac for interment. Deceased WAS
formerly & resident Of Fond du Lac.
The arrangements for a series
Evangelical meetings, to be conducte
by Dwight L. Moody in Chicago dur
Ing the fair have been completed.
Governor Flower on the 18th signe
the bill appropriaung 100000 add
tionaI for the exhibit of New York
state 1T the Columbian exposition.
Secretary Carlisle has requested tn
resignation Of j. y. Patterson, second
auditor Of the treasury department.
SO far he has declined to resign.
+. d. Underwood, general manager
IF the 500 road, has become second
yice president and general manager of
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas.
0. w. Potter, Chicago millionaire,
has been sued by Detroit people who
accuse him of having dishonesty man
aged an estate of which he was ex-
ecutor.
A movement is being inaugurabed
with Il view of combining all the prin
eipal woollcn mills i'll Canada i'll syn
dicate for tne purpose of regulating
prices, output, etc.
1t is said that the interstate commerce
commission will again tackle" the coal
railroads on the ground of charging
eXorbitant freight rates on anthracite
coal from the mines to tideWatcr.
At Cincinnati Bacon and CheeSeldine
iron commission dealers have assfgne
to Lewis \. Catch. Their assets are
iron furnaces and iron ore in Wise
county, w. Va, valued 1T $4,000. Liza
bilities about the same.
The remoytl Of duties OH corn, Hhcih
order went into effect Oh March ID, has
caused another great rush of grain III
to Mexico from the United States.
Two 'whitecapS" were shot down by
negroes III Il raid they were making i'll
a plantation near Fort Valley, Ga. Jus
tifiable homicide was the coroner's yer
dict.
The five-story brick building, ia and
120 jefferson avenue, Detroit, occupied
by Sne,licor and HalaNa, manufacture
ers of boots and shoes, was detroyed on
the 9th. Loss, $4,000.
Second vice president Robinson, Q
the Santa Fe railroad, has resigned. 1
is believed he will be successor to 5.
Ill. Ii. Clark rs president OF the Union
Pacific railroad.
BY Governor Marllham's approval I'll
Two state prisons i'll California Will re-
lease over LOCO convictS on parole
many being desperate thugs. Governo
Markham is being roundiy scored to
bis clemenCy.
Anarchist Matthew, RaNachol.s Ill
III in rllA
gear since, has been identiileu. lie WA
arrested for robbery, aud i'll his shoes
were found papers connecting him with
anarchlStic plots
At springfield H., III accordance with
the recent instructions of Lieutenant
Governor Gill, Attorney-General Molony
has instituted suits gainst the Republic
an eX-auditolS of public accounts The
suits are actions in debt, and are to
recover on insurance fees alleged to
be Illegally withheld by the auditors.
The carriage and wagon workers OF
hours work and 10 hours pay on and
after March -, and threaten to strike
case their demands are not granted.
The two Columbus carayels, the Pinta
and Nina, have arrived ut Havana under
the escort of the two United States
WarShlpS. Newark Bennington,
on their way to take part i'll the great
Columbia naval review.
Mile. Lind Il young cousin of the in
comparable Jenny Lind, inherits at leas
a degree of her famous relatives muSi
cal charm. She has been singing in Paris
this winter III her native Swedish and
French with pronounced success
The fine and costs were promptly
paid. Judge Webb, in pronouncing the
sentence, alluded very feelingly to the
confidence people had rested in Cool
idge socially, politically and in a bus
mess way for many years and to the
causes of his perversion in these re-
Spects.
A telegram from Washington SAYS
&C. IL. Benedict, of st. Paul, appeared
serene in the belief that he would be
selected for consul ut Nassau. Ho
thinks he would like the climate of
ne Bahamas and incidentally the 5000
salary connected with the Office Nh.
Benedict is 4 Son-in-law of Levi Crouch.
. Baraboo lawyer
The cruiser New York returned fro1
her test rial on the 21th after proyin
herself the fastest vessel atloat Sh
made in this and the unofficial test a
average Ell 1895 miles per hour Sh