Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1895-05-16

held for examination.
The election ana annual banquet oi
the Ohio cOmmandery of the Loyal
Legion was held in Cincinnati, ONO,
General j. -. Cox was elected com
mander.
Judge RookstavGr, of New York,
adjourned a motion made on behalf
Of Attorney General Hancock to ap-
point Il receiver for the Equitable
Mutual Fire Insurance company.
Mrs. ELLA May Watson has begun a
suit In New York against Mrs. An
tolnettc Watson to recover $4,000 for
the alienation Of her husbands aft &C.
tons.
Mrs. $. s. Merrill, widow Of the
former general manager Of the Chlca
90, Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad has
! been elected n member Of the Mil
waukcc school board by the council
The Federal Court In West Virginia
issued an injunction against the
striking miners Of the Fiat Top re
gion interfering with the United States
mails or Interstate traffic
Special Government attorney j.. -.
| MckiSsicK, Of san Francisco, has re
ccivcd kilograms instructing him to
push the government suit for $4,000
| 900 against Mrs. Jane Stanford with
out delay.
| by Il decisive vote the board of
directors Of Mccormick seminary,
| Chicago, has rejected the proposition
Of the Presbyterian general assembly
for Il surrender of the property and
control Of the seminary.
A general demand for higher wages
all over the pirtsburg district was
made by the ironworke1@. The pud-
dlers Of the Oliver Iron and Steel com
mny demanded the 50 rate ana were
ut once granted the advance.
thirf llaHcn, Of the secret service,
has received Il telegram announcing
the arrest al Canton, ohio, Of David
kasncr Ior collntcrGcitinE. Counter
rcrng materials, moulds and coin
were found in his possession.
Mrs. Laura ONciIl is under police
surveillance at her home, No. 27oG
Butler street, Chicago. She is ac-
cuscd by her husband, John O'NcilI,
an cX-saoon keeper with having
poisoned her two children Anna, aged
=, and Laura aged II.
The German steamer Albano, cap
tain kracft, which arrived in New
York from Hamburg, brought Captain
Hansen and the crew of the NUrWc-
GIan bark Marie, numbering fourteen
IN all, which was abandoned ON April
2G in latitude Is, longitude -, in Il
sinking condition.
Vice President Stevenson who has
been in Bloomington, Ill.,, almost con
tInuouSly since the close OF congress,
says: II shall remain here all summer
except that possibly toward the end
OF the heated term Mrs. Stevenson and
may spend II few days at some At
lantic watering place.
The mississippi valley congress of
women met in ST. Louis and was in
session several days. About POO dele
gates were present. Addresses were
made by Mrs. Susan b. Anthony, Rev
Anna Shaw and II number of women
prominent In the REFORM movements.
United States Consul Kidglcy, at &c
ncvn, has written to the state depart
mcnt that the Swiss national cNpuSi-
tion to be opened May |, 1896, is to-
u" Il purely national affair and neither
the exhibits of America nor of any
other country except Switzerland will
he received.
Judge Woods, of Chicago, discharged
Charles ]. aud Frank K. y. Meadow
croft, insolvrnt bankers, from iudtct-
mcnt ON charges of rrcciv ing money
when they knew their bank was IN
solvent. Three indictments are still
pending besides the ease that has
been appealed to the supreme court.
Deaths: Judge Harvey Huston, nj
Monticello, H.; Gabriel ~ Nelson. at
Lafayette, Ind; John Whistler, at
Wabash. Ind; \. j. Mccormick, at
Monmouth, H.; Mrs. Humphrey Qum-
Ian, at Harvard, H.; George Powell,
III Rockford. H., Captain Thomas
pohhs, At Oswcgo, y. T.; George Der
dine, ST., At Valparaiso, Ind; Mrs
Amos Wilson, ut Valparaiso, Ind.
At the Interstate uraluriral contest
rouprlStuG ten states and represents
ing sixty colleges. at GaIrshurg, III.
The first prize was won 10y q, A.
tlaNcrlmch, Of Knox college Gales
burg, second prize 10y Charles W.
Wood, Of Rcioit, Wis. 'rhr latter is
Il mulatto and in lSS2 was Il Chicago
hoolhlack. He has played Hamlet in
his own colorcd company, and last
February was the King in the pres
"ntation of the Greek play Ocdipus 10y
the Rcloit students.
{. Arthur Crane, prrsidcnt; Frank
EASTWOOD, director, aud $. C. llancs,
secretary, OF the dctuuct Mutual Re
serve Fontiuc Savings Society, of
Omaha, were arrested IN Chicago 10y
government authorities. The men,
With other officers Of the concern. were
Indicted IN Omaha last November. it
hctug alleged that they were using
the mails for purposes similar 10 q
lottery,