Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-08-18

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! taken on Jamaica Bay, L. l., Sunday
evening by severe thunderstorm, and
lightning instantly killed two and injur-
ed five others.
While cleaning a revolver LorenZ
Kaufman, a saloon-keeper of Belleville,
, Ill, accidentally shot and instantly
/ killed his 12-year-old daughter, Mary.
John Heigl, of West Menasha. Wis,
attempted suicide in two ways, first
by shooting and then by cutting his
throat with razor, but was unsuccess-
full in both attempts.
| Edward Jones was fatally shot at
Birds station, ILL.,, by Charles Griffin.
Griffin was drunk and Jones was en-
ldeavoring to take the revolver from
him when Griffin fired
| A. NJ. Noel, wealthy stock dealer,
was killed at Flora, ILL.,, by an Ohio
and Mississippi passenger train. He
was deaf and walked in front of the
train.
! n. L. Corte q Co., importers of tin,
| tin-plate and other metals at New
York, have assigned. The liabilities
are about $35O,OOO with large assets.
| John Il. Koetting, cashier of the
South Side Saving bank of Milwaukee,
who mysteriously disappeared at the
| time of the failure, barely escaped ar
rest at Denver.
/ The governor of Arkansas has order
! ed a special election in order to fill a
large number of offices made vacant
/ by death.
| DR.. David Il. Dyche, prominent in
medical and church societies of Evans
ton and Chicago, died Wednesday.
Railroad officials says there is an
immense coal tonnage in sight and eX-
pect the business to be four times
greater than last year.
| Citizens Of Lansing, Iowa, are not
satisfied with the causes assigned for
| the death Of Mrs. Tekea Alstead and
a post norton will be held.
Sixty persons, including the sheriff
and other officers, have been indicted
at Memphis for lynching and cremat-
| ing the negro, Lee Walker.
] -Four Convicts in the Missouri peni-
! Tertiary at Jefferson City scaled the
| wall and escaped, with a guard only
| ten feet away.
Bobby Taylor, fighting under the so
| briquet of the Sailor Kid was killed
in prize fight at Denver by William
Robinson.
| Habeas corpus proceedings in the
case of fourteen men charged with
killing Solomon Bradshaw have been
commenced at Quincy.
Joseph Ii. Howell, who murdered
Mrs. NanoE Hall and seven children
Jan. 10, 1892, was hanged at Trenton,
Mo.
Rear Admiral Human, command
| ing the French fleet at Bangkok, has
declared the blockade of Siam at an
end.
The Ialian government has decided
to forbid all pilgrimages to Rome i'm
| the event of cholera continuing abroad.
| The Austrian government has issued
an edict prohibiting the circulation in
Austria of the Chicago Stats Zietung.
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were opened at Richmond, Ind, for
use. Fifteen tracks are provided for,
making one of the largest and finest
yards on the southwest system of the
| Pennsylvania.
| An Indiana mob attempted to lynch
| two young brothers who had been ac-
cused of numbering their father The
| 1iSnn,Snl hh
! Would-be lyncherS, killing four and
fatally Wounding another.
! For the third time in ten years the
J. c. lverson company, dealers in pic
| ture frames, art goods, etc, at MilWau-
| kee, Wis, were burned out on Sunday
Loss, 100000; fully insured.
| The trustees of the Wesleyan uni
vcrsity of Lincoln, Neb., have selected
Isaac Crook, late of the university Of
| the Pacific, as chancellor.
A well on the farm of one Parmen-
| ter, near Galesville, Ill, will be cleaned
! in the hope of finding the body of Hen
derson, Il farm hand, who is thought
! to have been murdered.
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| Iowa are making an effort to secure the
| permission of state authorities where
| by the payment of taxes due in Septem-
! Der may be extended under bond to
| April l, 1894.
| Broker Henry CT. We'll has been sus
pended for one year by the governors
of the New York stock exchange for
circulating reports detrimental to the
Manhatten National bank.
Hinton 4. Carr, the defaulting presi-
| dent of the Tuscumbia Banking COM
pany of Florida, Ala, has been captur-
| cd in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, after a two
| mCDtnS' chase. Carr is short $4,000
| 20 his depoSitorS.
Walter T.. Shaw, who murdered his
mother and aunt, was hanged at Hous-
ton, Texas. He went on the gallowS
swearing and smoking cigarette.
Two suits have been commenced
against Senator John Mitchell, of Mil
waukee, aggregating $4,000. This
| is an outgrowth of the Fire and
Marine Bank failure.
Mayor Miles, Of Peoria, has com
menced determined warfare on ,he
saloons in order to have them closed
Sunday evenings.
Nicholas ReiZ. Chicago book agent,
was arrested and fined in indianapolis
| for selling obscence literature purport-
ing to the copied from Catholic books
Governor Tillman, of South Carolina,