Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-02-09

Ter TO Honduras and Salvador, IS at
home on leave of absence.
Parsons college, Fairfield Iowa. has
received a gift of $4,000 from DIR.
Thomas H. Skinner of Chicago.
Indiana's supreme court has de
clared the fee and salary law, passed
by the legislature in 1891, to be con
stitutional.
The new Burlington switchyards at
Galesburg were closed, throwing 100
men out Of work.
HI" postmaster general has appoint
cd two commissions to examine into
the postal needs Of New York and Chi
cago.
John L. Goudy has been elected
chairman Of the Indiana republican
committee.
III al attempt to commit suicide II.
". Jones Of Dubuque. Iowa. jumped
from Il fourth-story window, breaking
Il leg, but not causing fatal injuries.
hon NJ. Stoskopf, Il democratic law
Yer at Frceport, will make a bid for the
United States district attorneyship in
that district.
Congressman J. G. Sibley DEM, of
Pennsylvania, has resigned his seat in
the house because he cannot consistent
~ support the democratic tariff bill.
Thomas Lyons of Benton Harbor,
Mich, has a slow heart. The pulsa-
tons have gone down to twenty a min
ute, and yet Mr.. Lyons lives and
works every day.
Dr. James q. yelling, president Of
Columbian university, in Washington,
has resigned, to take effect at the close
Of the present scholastic year.
John Seabold of South Danville died
in terrible agony Friday Of hydropho-
bia. He was bitten on the right arm
by Il horse ut Paoh, Ind, five years
ago.
John Haley Spears, hale and hearty
1T II at his home in Jacksonville, ILL.,,
is laughing over u report that he has
J.aSsed beyond the dark river Of death.
Secretary Hoke Smith has app we'd
the increase in the hotel rates proposed
by the Yellowstone Natior.I park as
socia ton. 1t was shown that the hotel
1T tllH pau IL iOoC IHo!it.N ldSL se.tl.
The Judiciary committee of the house
fa, orally reports the resolution ques-
tionng Secretary Carlisles authority
to issue bonds.
The record Of the case of the Con-
Solidated Electric Light company vs..
the Mckeespori Light company in the
federal supreme court comprises three
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$1,000.
Senator Bate, of Tennessee, has as
Sumed the craftsmanship of the senate
committee on military affairs, made
vacant by the resignation Of Senator
Walthall, at the request Of the commit
tee.
Mrs. Josephine Mcdonald, widow of
Senator Joseph Il. Mcdonald of In
dianapoIis, has filed suit against her
husbands partners, Snow & Butler,
charging them with swindling her out
of $4,000.
Roy Huff and Miss Libbie Davis
two youthful lovers of Washington,
Ind. went to Cincinnati and got mar
ried against the wishes of their par
ents, and then asked forgiveness
which they got.
Adventists 1T Battle Creek dedicated
the Haskell home for orphan children
and friendlesS and aged poor. The
home cost 100000 and will accommo-
date POO persons.
Undertaken .Iudson of Milwaukee has
been charged with selling bodies of
pauperS ntruSted to him by the county
authorities for burial.
| Juniors and SophomOreS at HillSdale
college had 4 row at Il junior party.
The "sophs'' captured the junior presi-
dent and locked him up in Il frat
house.
First Lieutenant Joseph S. Oyster.
fourth artillery, has been relieved ut
his own request as professor of mill
tary science and tactics at the Leland
Stanford, Jr., university.
General John McNulta, ex-presidcnt
Of the Corn Belt bank at Bloomington,
H., has begun suit against the bank
for $1,000, which he claims is due him
on salary and commission.
Secretary Miller, of the Union Pacific
~ Sltul, HIS EOIlllcu lut3 SECRETARY Ol
the interior that Oliver Ames, Of
Massachusetts, has been appointed
trustee to fill the vacancy caused by
the death Of Frederick A. L. Ames.
DR.. Flemin" Carrow's clinic at the
University of Michigan has taken a
portion Of the skull bone from the
forehead of Mrs. Danbury of Coulon,
Mich. and she is recovering.
Two hundred carpet-weayers who
struck work at Taylor & Sons carpet
mill 1t Philadelphia Il couple Of weeks
ago returned to work Monday, they
haVin@ agreed to accept the reduction
IN wages against which they struck.
Augustus c. Hall, as trustee, has be-
gun suit i'll the federal court at Grand
Rapids to fOrecloSe the mortgage of
S2.,5,On0 on the Frankfort and South
eastern railroad. He charges miSman-
aGement
Lee Louis. Il Chinese laundryman Of
kalamazoo, after filing his first applica-
ton for the second time, will be allow
ed 10 live in iris country, of which fact
he is very proud
Natural gas gave out in one of the
suburbs of indianapolis, and many of
the residents narrowly escaped freez-
ING. Everything wooden was burned
that could be got hold Of
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