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

The prospects for the home rule bill
are anything but encouraging.
The German government claim a ma
jority Of one in the reichstag.
G. W. Northdurft's livery stable in
Chicago, was damaged $1,000 by fire.
Harvard beat Yale at baseball, 4 to
B, ia 10 innings.
Disastrous wreck occurred on the
eastern Minnesota railway; two killed
The Minneapolis Whist club wins the
Hamilton trophy by four tricks
DR.. McGIynn has returned to New
York from Rome.
The Loan and Savings bank of Fres-
no, Cal, suspended, but resumed.
DIR. Nansen has sailed from. Berlin in
search Of the north pole.
The American Derby, worth $4,000,
at Washington park, Chicago, was
won by Boundless.
The business portion of Mount Ster-
ling, Ind, has been destroyed by fire.
Brooklyn has a population of 1,OOO,-
300, according to estimates based on
the city directory just published.
1t is reported that the strawberry
crop i'll Winnebago county has been
ruined by the drouth.
Miss Della Mculmann was married to
Walter ii. Burns ut the home Of her
parents in Green Bay
Olaf Simpson and Peter Johnson
were drowned by the capsizing of a
sail-boat in Chicago.
Mrs. Henry Morris, of Chicago, COM
mitted suicide on the street by taking
O dose of carbolic acid.
The Viking ship is now en- route
from New York to Chicago, coming
on the Erie canal.
1t is now stated that the engagement
of Princess Alice of Hesse to the CZaro-
witt is definitely settled.
The creyasSe at Rescue plantation,
IberVille parish, La, is 600 feet wide
and has caused $1,OO0,0O0 damages.
John Johnson, the Minneapolis boy,
broke the worlds record in the Emile
handicap bicycle race 1T Pittsburg.
a South American boa constructor
was found in a bunch or bananas con
signed to Il Minneapolis firm.
Germany has broken off the negotia-
tons with Russia for q commercial
treaty.
The Minnesota sangerbund at ST.
Paul elected Carl Heerle of Duluth,
president.
u. IL. Todd, Il Quincy, ILL.,, carriage
manufactures, committed suicide with
a revolver.
Milton Boyer was adjudged insane
at Galesburg, Ill. He shot his sister
a week ago
Burglars robbed the safe of the Buck
eye dry goods store at Terre Haute,
Ind, of 5000 in cash.
Mrs. Jennie johnson committed sui
eide ut Cleveland by leaping from a
fourth-story window.
The Astor mansion in New York has
been sold by John Jacob Astor to Mrs
j. Coleman Drayton for 100000.
Rear Admiral Markham and the Off
GERS of the CampcrdoWn are to be
courtmartialed for the Victoria disas-
ter.
A union of French Canadians and
other Catholics in the dominion is urg
ed by ex-Premier MERCER, of Quebec
Seven members of the Conrad Lehnig
family, of Omaha, We're poisoned and
one daughter has died. The poison
was placed in the food
President Cleveland has accepted IN
invitation to attend the centennial cele-
bration of Williams college ut Will
JAMESTOWN, Mass, October 8.
President Diaz of Mexico is making
preparations to visit Europe this sum
m"r. He viii probably pass through
tie United States and spend a few days
III Chicago
Of the BIG deputies now elected, 11G
will enter the German reichstag op-
posed TO the army bill and $50 favoring
1t. Eighty-one constituencies are still
to be heard from.
L. }. Richardson, for Is years con
nected with the art department of the
Minneapolis public schools as super
visor, has rendered his resignation, to
take immediate effect.
Burglars robbed the hardware store
of u. Nanderyeen, the grocery of G..
Smeenge, and the poSt-office at Hol-
land, Mich.
Hot weather and high winds are
said to have materially damaged grow
ing grains in the Dakotas and north
ern Minnesota
Five men We're entombed in mine
Fear SWiSSvale, Pa, by fall of earth.
All We're rescued, but Henry Kane will
probably die.
Charles Oleson, a miner 33 years old,
WAS killed by fall of slate in the
Osk:lloosa Coal and Mining company's
mine ut Beacon, Ia.
Miss Jennie Doughty, of the west
Side high school at Jackson, Mich.
was injured, probably fatally, in a
runaway accident
George W. ChiIds, the Philadelphia
philanthropist, will place a monument
over the grave of Richard A. Proctor,
the astronomer.
Colorado,s supreme court has refused
the Writ of habeas corpus asked by
DR.. Thatcher Graves, and he has been
Temanded for trial
A carriage in which we're three wo-
men and two children was struck by a
train at Ayondale, n. J., and all but
one Were instantly killed.
A resolution TO boycott the worlds