Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-11-28


secretary of the interior that its east
ern terminus Is at Thompson, MINI.
or Superior, Wis, instead OF Ashland
A man named Karl Franz has beer
arrested In Milwaukee for election
frauds in Baltimore. There are likely
to be scores of arrests In Baltimore
for the same crime.
Representatives OF sixty agricultural
papers published in various parts o.
the country, met at Chicago yesterday
to form a National Association Of
Agricultural Men.
The system of ward detectives abol'
ished by former Chief OF Police
} Byrnes will be adopted by the New
York police commissioners because Of
the enormous increase of undiscovered
crimes.
Gov. Atkinson of Georgia gave a re.
ception at the executive mansion al
Atlanta to Gov. Hastings of Pennsyl-
vania, Gov. Greenhalge Of Massachu'
sets, and Gov. Lippitt Of Rhode Is
land
William u. Chisolm, a College Point
a.. ~ millionaire, died after pro-
tracted Illness. Mr.. Chlsolm was born
! in the south and went to College Point
when he was young man. He was
i 70 years old.
Henry Fink was appointed at Gin
Cinnati receiver Of the Norfolk and
! Western ralrond. The Mercantile
trust company of Boston, which holds
i $4,000, 600 Of the mortgage bonds, was
/ The petitioner.
Japanese CoOlic labor has been tried
by the French sugar planters of
! Guadaloupo with most satisfactory re-
suits according to the report of United
States Vice Consul St Crois De la
i Rocierc to the state department.
Mrs. William Barrett, wife of the
notorious burglar serving life sen
tcnce in the Massachusetts state prison
and who disappeared after the arrest
Of James s. Chaffey in Boston, has
been located in Jersey City.
An epidemic Of poisoning from eat
Ing head chess, Is now prevailing at
are six members Of one family. Three
of these cases, 1t Is thought will result
fatally.
Charles Ochs, formerly n saloon
keeper AT WostpCrt, Conn, has cloped
with Mrs, Charles Gregory, formerly
Of WoStport, but now of New York.
1t IL said that Mrs. Gregory has mort
gagged her property for $1,000.
Tx Comptroller Edward Wempc, of
l'ultonvillo, N. y. was arrested on u
warrant charging him with arson in
having set fire to II neighbours house
He is suspected of other incendiary
fires In fulonyile,
Mrs Caroline Mem and her ten
ycar-old daughter were cut and
dubbed to death near Central City,
Texas, by II man supposed to be Will
liam or Samuel Kunt2, who killed
himself to escape lynching.
A meteor passed over Morgan, Tex,
it's course being southeast. 1t lighted
up tho heavens like lightning. A re-
port was heard In about four minutes
like thunder and a shock was dis
tinctly felt which caused windows to
rattle.
80. =
Arthur Dacro and his wife, we'll
known English actors, committed sui
eide ut Sydney, N. s. W. The former
self with n revolver. The acts wcrc
caused by dcspondoncy arising from
thoir unsuccessful tour Of Australia.
Captain w. Il. Evans, United States
army, who was recently detailed at the
state university of Wisconsin as mill
tary instructor has requested the war
department at Washington to revoke
its order sending him there. Ills rca-
son Is ill-healtl His request has
been granted,
Dr. II. G., Minor, one of the most
prominent physicians of Cincinnati.
took II dose of belladonna by mistake
for bromide of potassium, and his con
dition Ia serious. He was once city
health officer and police commissioner,
II member of the state board Of health
and of tho national board of health.
| Tho municipal reform party, which
Is Il fusion of the prohibition, social
istic labor and populist parties, at a
mass convention at Boston last night
nominated Prof Frank A. Parsons for
J mayor, jeremiah Shauhncssy for street
, commissioner and board Of alder
B men.
Word was received AT New Haven
of tho death of Capt. Harrison A.
/ Skillman, formerly editor OF the Pal
, ladium, at his homo in Kingston, n
4 Y. During the war he served in a
New Jersey regiment. He was Ell.
gagged In newspaper work In Washing
ton, Trenton and Troy, n. Y.
Burglar barrett whose wife and sou
lived In elegance in New York while
he robbed New England homes
buried many thousand dollars wortt
of plumber Chaffcy. accused of re
,eiving stolen goods, is said to HAY,
burned $4,000 worth of bonds to cs
cape detection
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