Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1893-03-10
WISCONSIN.
CONDENSED NEWS,

The 500" has made a round-trip rate
of $35 from st. Paul to New York, and
$40 to Boston.
A battle occurs in the CONGO state
where Europeans are in danger.
The president has approved the act
granting a pension to the widow Of Ma
Jor General Doubleday.
The treasure Of the Phillips Brooks
memorial fund reports $1O,527 sub
Scrfbed.
At New York 100000 in gold IS or
dered for immediate shipment.
A sixteen-year-old girl at Craigleith,
Ont, murderd her mother and cousin.
The cattle census reveals Il very large
decrease in the number OF stock cattle.
Rugglcs Hubbard, an Oakfeld pioneer,
died suddenly at his home Monday Of
heart failure, az II rs years.
The Inc9ndescent Light and Power
compaa Of NorWalk, g.. has filed i
deed Of assignment. The Ii; JiIities are
estimated at $4,000 and assets at 500
900.
H. &. Burt and Son, seed merchants,
OF Cleveland, Ohio, assigned Oh the 18th
with liabilities Of 10000 and assets Of
$4,000.
A milk famine is threatened in New
York, and unless there is better wealth
or up the state soon, the situation will
be serious.
The headquarters Of the Sovereign
Grand lodge, /. q. q. L. were on the
28th transferred from Columbus, O.,
to Baltimore.
A woman III Detroit, Mich, is sen
fenced TO prison one hundred times in
twenty years for drukcnness.
David Wheeler, alias De BIachettc,
the slayer Of Detective Carey, Of New
York, was on the 18th sentenced to
twenty years III state prison.
Queen Victoria and her daughters,
the German Empress DoNager and the
Princess Beatrice have arrived at Buck
ingham Palace, where Her Majesty is
preparing to hold court.
At Centralia, ILL.,, the strike which
has been on for u weeks mpIicat ting
400 miners has been declared off, the
men returning to work on the terms
dictated by the operators.
Mrs. Louis Warrington, woman OF
the Stockbridge tribe, was found dead
in the road near Gresham, ShaWanO
county, Sunday, and IN investigation
showed that she had been criminally
assaulted and afterward murdered. Two
men are suspected Of the crime.
AT Boise City, Idaho, 40 Japanese
from Nampa, on their way to work
on the Rayetta canal, were met by Il
party of unknown men and warned to
leave the coutry, which they did.
In the Placer District on Hasayampc
river Il white man named MichaeIs on
the 2Sth killed two MeXicans who at
tempted to jump his claim. They be
gan the fight, lie returned the fire and
shot both dead
Admiral Gherarli, with the United
States Warships Baltimore, Charleston,
San Francisco and Yorktown, arrived
at Fort Monroe on the 18th.
The people Of Belgium voted in re-
rercndum on the question of universal
suffrage. The proposition is favored by
a great majority, apparently.
Berry. Il noted car thief, on the ntght
of the 18th effected his escape from the
Kendall County Jail at Yorkville, ILL.,.
for the second time. Two months ago
he sawed his way out of the same pri-
son, but had his feet frozen and was
recaptured
At Chicago, contrary to expectation,
the ease of Daniel Cou@hIn did not
come TO trial on the 25th 1t will be
called next week, but will not be actll-
ally begun for over a month"; as there
are nearly 40 cases which take prece-
dence over it.
1t is announced that Vice President
eject Stevenson has appointed as his
private secretary his son, Louis Jean
Stevenson, Of Bloomington, ILL.,
The radical members of the house
or commons ut Il meeting held Oh the
18th decided to advocate the payment
of salaries to all members of the house
A dispatch from New Orleans says
the Hyan-nawSon glove contest for the
championship OF America and Austria
la is off for good.
The Panama investigating committee
has postponed further examination of
the witnesses for the present
At GAINESVILLE, s. c., while colored
woman was 1T Il frolic her five children
We're burned to death at home.
Allen MARVEL, president of the Santa
Fe railroad died on the 18th at the ho-
tel Coronado, San Diego, Cal.
John s. johnson skates 200 yards in
II IS seconds, lowering the record /
20 seconds.
The Canadian government has taken
no action OF the matter of America
silver Clarke w uace. controller of
customs, says that no prohibition has
been placed on it in the custom houses:
It IS taken readily but subject to the
current discounts
Mate Charles Alison and Seaman Geo.
Lawrence, OF the schooner, Isaac T.
Campbell, We're swept overheard in a
squall of Hog Island on the 2Sth and
drowned.
The Brussels office de affairs of the
Congo state has received dispatches to
the effect that Arab slave-traders I'M