Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-12-20

coal breaker Of the I.alIin Coal com
pany ut Latin. Pa. The loss Is $780,
600.
The comptroller Of the currency has
appointed John |. Cox receiver Of the
First National bank 1T Johnson City
Tenn.
Wilson McMllcn. Charles Conroy
and John HartwelI were arrested at
bureau, H., on charge Of robblng
freight cars.
At liberia, Ind, Miles Smith. a mcr-
, chant, 23 years old shot and killed
William pettitt, aged "a, during a
quarrel.
Roman Catholics In Archbishop Ire
lands diocese are being permitted to
Join any secret society excepting the
Free MasOns.
According to Bradstreets Financial
where are clamorlng for revision Of
the currency system.
Dun's Financial Review says busl-
ness In nearly all branches Is mt
stand, although prospects for the new
ear are good.
Smallpox has appeared In the lum-
Der camps In northern Wisconsin and
Michigan, having been spread by
transient laborers.
Attorney X. II. Towne was beaten
into inscnsibility by Chicago footpads
and robbed of all his money and
papers.
Timothy Smith and Timothy Slagh,
owners Of a planlng-mill at Holland,
Mich, were arrested for setting fire
to the building.
Evans Scott, owner OF ranch near
Newport, Neb., killed one OF his elm.
ployes with whom he had quarrel
about wages.
Drunken rowdies attacked q party
of deputy marshals near Guthrie. o.
r. Two OF them were killed and two
badly wounded.
San Francisco gossips believe that
Valentine Gadsen and John Herd, Jr.,
are In scheme to secure the fortune
OF Lady Yarde-Buller.
Three masked men robbed J. t. San.
ford, n wealthy farmer living ut
Huntington. w. Va, of $1,000. Elijah
Wyatt, George Adkins and j. ID. Bos-
Ter are under arrest on suspicion.
William Conan, the venerable mayor
Of Geneva, H., was found dead In his
bed. His death Is supposed to have
bcc1 caused by heart disease. lie was
81 years old.
IL. NJ. Judge, one OF the leading law
yers Of Alabama and for many years
Il member OF the legislature Of that
state, committed suicide at Eutaw by
shooting himself in the head.
Samuel Steele, one of the oldest
school teachers In Wisconsin, WAS
killed by being thrown from his wagon
while on his way from Racine to his
home In Mount Pleasant.
Near Dillingham;, H.. burglars were
discovered In the store OF J. =. Con.
don, and In attempting to arrest them
sheriff Tedrlck shot one Of the despcr
ADDE'S, probably fatally.
At Nashville, Mich, Clayton Barnes,
II, broke through the Tee while sllat-
ing. Irving Boston, II, went to his
I'NCllt UHl lbll WtIt hIo"lc'l lc
bodies were recovered
Warren Sutlill, II prominent whole
sale merchant and president OF the
Illinois Travellers Protective aSSocla-
tiun, was married to Miss Bessie Nc
Lee at Peoria, Ill.
burglars blow open the vault Of the
First national bank ut Marcelina, Mo,
and got $4,000. The THEFT was not dis
covered till o o'clock Thursday morn
ing. There is no clcw to the burglars.
John X. TAFT, the dcfauiting paying
teller of the Chemical national bank,
was taken before United States Com
missioner Shields II New York and r.
leased in $4,000 bail.
United States Judge Caldwell at ST.
Louis ordered Il foreclosure sale, on
motion of the Manhattan trust COM
pany of New York, trustee for 81
1tOOOu, of the Sioux CITY, O'NciIl
Western railroad bonds,
1t is reported in Milwaukee that Al
dcrman Rudolph has secured the
promise OF majority of the members
Of the common council to vote In favor
of impcachiug Health Commissioner
kempStcr,
William Dlckcrson, who married Il
T. ycar-old girl at Atlanta, Ga, n few
days ago, is now in Jail charged with
hiSamy, his first wife, whom he de-
serted at Omaha, Neh., being his nc
cuscr.
BliXt, who Is said to be the actual
murderer Of Miss Cling in Minneapolis,
makes two contrndicting confessions,
each of most sensational nature.
Harry Hayward who planned the
murder, is safe in the st. Paul jail.
Joseph J. Silva. who has served
three terms of Imprisonment for coun
tcrfciting and who was arrested At
Boston on n charge of passing mutt
lated coins, was held In ) q Tor the
grand jury. In default he was sent to
! Jail.
! Numa DudouSsat n member OF the
/ New Orleans city council. charged