Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-08-02

Elkhart, Ind, was killed OH the Lake
Shore & Michigan Southern railway BY
passenger train
After a chase OF ten months, Frank
and Robert Conner, charged with rob-
berry. were arrested at Menominee and
returned to ST. Joseph, Mich.
\ military company OF seventy.tive
members has been organized at Abing-
don, III. 1t will make application to
join the Illinois national guard.
Tired of eXorbitant coal rates, resi-
dents of California are moving to Sc
cure change in the control OF the
| Central Pacific.
H. j. Hall, an oil merchant of New
York, horsewhipped his wife In the
streets of Wlnsted, Conn, creating
great excitement in that village.
Dun's Review Of Trade says business
Is still paralyzad by the two recent
great strikes and slow work In con
gress.
The in factory Of j. b. Hass ut 151
was burned out. Tie loss Is estimated
AT between $4,000 and $4,000.
The third fire in three months Wis
red the town of Traer. Ia, and -
business houses were burned. The loss
aggregates $4,000. The insurance Is
$4,000.
John Llewlyn, aged 80, Joseph Sa.
denbush, aged 3S, and Martin Tate.
aged 40, were killed by an accident
to the hosting apparatus in Il mine
at Wllliamstown, Pa.
Mrs. ellen Roberts 70 years old,
wife of Providence, Il. l., jeweler,
hanged herself to bedpost at her
home because Of dependency caused
by sickness.
Fifteen men Of Montclair, N j., who
went In bathing at II picnic, had their
clothing misplaced, and In making
their way through the woods barely
escaped being shot by farmer.
Agents who have been searching for
Il James Kearns, the heir to 100000,
left by Anthony Kearns, of Ennis
county, Ireland. believe they have
found the man In San Francisco
Tho total loss caused by the burning
OF Nelson, Morris Il Co.'S market, II
frame structure, at Chicago, is esti-
mated at $4,000. The fire Is thought
to have been OF incendiary origin.
George A. Reynolds, of Michigan,
has filed suit ut Cleveland, o., to com
pei Clate Smith of Youngstown to
turn over books and papers OF the
Order of Elks.
News has been received from Al
bernie, Is. G., of the drowning of three
girls in Sproat lake, five miles from
that place, Emma Faber, 70, Mary
Fabcr, IL, and Dorothy Faber, II.
The girls were bathing.
In Il wreck on the Delaware and
Hudson railroad Fireman Henry Pal
mer, of the fast express, was killed,
and Engineer Truman Austin badly
injured. The train ran into an open
switch.
Nnety.three per cent. of lemon ex-
tract Is alcohol, and Il stranger IN
Webster, Ia, finding prohibition en-
forced, drank forty-clght bottles In
three days, getting gloriously drunk.
Theodore Fox, Interested In the Con
solidatcd California and Virginia Min
ing company, has brought suit against
Mackay, Jones and other bonanza
kings. charging them with divcrting
millions.
-Four hundred pounds OF powder eX-
plodcd at Fort Pulaski, Ga, fatally
injuring the sergeant In charge, badly
burning II woman and setting fire to
the fort.
Seycn-year.old Ida Brack. of Vine
land \. j., was strangely restored to
health after she had been dressed
for the grave, and her voice returned
after she had been mute for more
than Il year.
Thc committee on education OF the
New York constitutional convention
voted in favor of the amendment pro
hibting appropriations of public
money for srctarIan schools,
Mrs. kinSclla, the widow of Big
Tom kinsrlla, the New York burglar,
died; SHE was an important witness
in coming trials, aud 1t is thought she
may have been poisoned.
The Hamburg American line has
made Il cut In stcernge rates and made
their new rate SO, the same rs that of
! the White Star aud other British
lines. The Hamburg lines rate was
$ll,
! Fire broke out in the building OF
| the Union manufacturing company at
Swissville station. Pa, on the Penn
sylvania railroad and completely de.
stroyed the plant, The total Joss is
100000
Il. NJ. Phillips aud Thomas Mason
two prominent Larkinsvillc, Ala
farmers, met and renewed a quarrel