Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-07-26

ophe., OF Aurora, set fire to grain
stack, destroying farm buildings and
machinery
c.. II. Lowell, of Illinois. was re-
elected supreme oracle Of the Patri-
archal circle in annual sitting at Nil
waukee.
! According to the Iron Trade Re-
view, delays In railway transportation
caused by strikes, have caused almost
a total suspension Of business in iron
Nicholas Moltesse, Greek fruit ped
dler, was struck on the head in Chi
cago and killed by countryman dur
ing a quarrel.
Patrick Eugene Joseph Prendergast,
the assassin OF Mayor Harrison, was
hanged in the county jail, Chicago,
Friday.
Agitator Phelan. who interfered
with trains at Cincinnati. was sen
fenced to six months Imprisonment
by federal Judge.
John Smith and g. w. II ghtower
were arrested at Mount Carmel H..
charged with forging names on n
check.
In the presence Of an audience OF
5000 at Topeka, Kas., Mrs. Anna H.
Diggs called Mrs. Mary ~. Lease a
liar
Fire almost entirely destroyed tho
| ,IIl - EInp IAlt
inhabitants. Eighty buildings were
burned.
Marie A. Schroeder. daughter OF
Millionaire II. G. Schroeder Of Red
Bank. ~ j.. was married in Rome to
Count Pompco Pieri
All the engineers and conductors on
the southern division OF the Illinois
Central have been sworn in az United
States deputy marshals.
w, II. Baxter and Samuel Klaus
OF the Lincoln board OF trade, n
buckctshop, have disappeared. They
are accused OF swlndling creditors.
Miss Lizzie Patterson has been ar
rested In New York charged with
buying many diamonds and paying
for the same with forged checks.
At Brazil, Ind, three men and Il boy
were found guilty OF numbering En-
ginccr Barr. They were sentenced to
two years Imprisonment each.
John -B. Creekmur was acquitted at
Decatur, H., OF the charge OF having
murdered Rolla Boyd last April In n
barn In Whitemore township.
The supreme court OF South Dakota
granted stay OF execution on a
writ OF error In the case OF Jay Hicks
sentenced to he hanged at Sturgls
The employees OF the Ohio River rail
road have asked their chiefs to order
n strike to compel the company to re
store 10 per cent cut In wages.
Four strike leaders have been ar
rested In Galveston, Texas, for OBJ
structlng the mails. Their arrest has
broken the strike.
Chicago union men are very much
aggreved at their leaders for order
Ing them to strike, and predict the
downfall OF unionism.
Several railroads have already given
notice that they will not rc-cmploy
members OF the A. Il. u. or any labor
agItators
Chicago railway officials announce
that they will manage their proper
ties independent of labor unions here
after.
Congressman Duhorrow publicly dc
nlcd that he had expressed approval
OF Governor Altgeld's course in the
strike
Frederic Cover Il Maine man, hus-
band OF Nordica the singer. and sup
posed to have been lost from a bal
loon, is alive in London.
The American Loan aud Trust com
pany OF Duluth, Mimi, has assigned,
II was pinched through loans made to
the Mesaba range spectators.
The chemical works OF Williams \
Clark said to he the largest in the
world, were burned at Carteret, \. j.,
loss $5oo,ooN
An exmayor and city marshal of
Thayer. Mo, are under arrest with Il
dozen other rioters. They prevented
the running OF trains.
Forty CoXcyitcs under Gen, Wilson
captured way freight near New
Hampton. Ia, and arrived there Au-
thorities are trying to hurry them
along
Three persons were injured In the
wreck Of II Northern Pacific train
which ran into an open switch in
Chicago and colIdcd with another
train.
A Brooklyn stair builder has per
frctcd an armor. lie puts on the
shield and Is shot at. A forty iiv.
ealiber lead bail penetrated to depth
of only thrc,~quartcrs e an inch.
Dispatches from North and South
Dakota Indicate that the intense heat
did great damage to the growing
crops. Tho mercury registered Ion