Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-01-26

Nine persons were killed and more
! than thirty injured in rear-end COLI
ion ON the Lacka wanna near Hacken-
sack, n. ].
Mrs. Mary Clancy died at Jackson
vile, Ill, at the great age of 1O3 years.
She was home in Ireland.
Colonel George P Sanford, promi-
| nent in Michigan politics for nearly
thirty years, died at his home in Ian
sing. -
Administrators of John Courtney and
w. P. Hillsman, killed in the Louis
vile bridge wreck, sued the Phoenix
| Bridge company for $4,000 damages
| each
St Louis is to have 4 building in
| which all the women's organiza tons of
| the city will have a home. 1t will
| also include theater. 1t will cost
100000
| That Texas soil is favorable to to-
bacco culture is proved by experiments
covering four years.
| Ill with the grip. Mrs. Martha Han
!
a fifth-story window after cutting her
| throat.
| Reductions iii royalties and railroad
rates have led to renewed activity in
the Lake Superior mining region.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher was taken
| ill while attending services in Ply
mouth church. She was unconscious
| for some time.
| The Mobile and Ohio is said to have
| decided to build branch into Biz
mingham, Ala.
In an interview Governor Mckinley
said the Wilson tariff bill was 1.-The
assertion of the policy of the old
south"
| Members of the national republican
executive committee are still wrestling
with a 100000 debt incurred in the
last campaign.
Thomas II. Carter resigned the chair
manship Of the national republican
eecutivc committee, and Joseph III.
| Manley of Maine was chosen temper
airy chairman.
Secretary Carlisle has issued an order
difficulty in securing authority for an
issue of Short-term bonds bearing low
rate Of interest.
The coinage committee voted to re-
port favorably BANDS bill to coin the
seigniOrage in the treasury and for
| the immediate issue of silver certifi-
Gates to the amount of $55,O00,00O
Secretary Hoke Smith has signed a
lease granting to the Yellowtone Ma
| tional Park association site for Il
hotel at the fountain geyser, in the
park.
Mad dogs are terroriZing the people
of CottageviIe, w. Va. Charley Bar
nett died there today from hydropho-
bia and an aged couple named Griffith
have been bitten by rabid dogs and
have hydrophobia.
The Paris opera house cost at the
rate of $4,000 Il seat. The Vienna
opera house cost $3.50 seat.
Moe Jokai is to have Il dinner given
to him in London as the creator of
modern Hungarian literature.
Ma4scagni's use in the Cayalleria
Rusticana of Il song before the play
begins has been imita ted crriously by
Il German composer. In a one-act
opera, the plot of which turns on a
murder, the deed preceding the story,
the audience is supposed to be inform
ed of the crime by the firing of Il gun
behind the scenes in the middle of
the overture
The prestige enjoyed by military
bands has made their concert tours
so successful that the Brussels Vlanist
Verbond has requested the Belgian
prime minister to ask the French
prime minister to forbid any French
military bands from going to Belgium
and to promise on the part of Belgi-
UNI that no Belgian bands shall travel
through France.
A widowers' association has been
formed in Dresden. No man can join
unless his wife is dead, and if he mar
ries again he becomes an honorary
member merely. One of the chief
purposes Of the association is to help
newly made widowers by looking after
their wives funerals and caring for
their children Members will also meet
for mutual sympathy and entertain
ment There are at present forty