Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-05-28


falling material.
Ex-Governor Mckinley, OF Ohio, Will
deliver patriotic address on Washing
ton before the Methodist General con
ference, al Cleveland.
Charles Becker and James Organ
were arrested in Newark, for swindling
San Francisco bank by raising a
draft of $12 to $4,000.
While tearing down on old barn at
Morrison, Wis, John Zirk, aged 80, was
killed by falling timber. He leaves
widow and four children.
4 Banker Francis l.. Higginson, OF
Boston. has been granted divorce
from his wife, who eloped with James
w. Smith last November.
The house committee on coinage au-
thorizes favorable report on the
Stone resolution looking to the ahop'
ton of international coins.
! W. r. Welch, who killed Glen Santee
at Chadron, Neb., was acquitted on
preliminary examination, on the
grounds Of self-defense.
Three more jurors, making eight In
all, were obtained to try Mrs Mary
Alice Almont Fleming for the murder
, of her mother in New York.
| Charles Sheridan, aged 3S years, OF
Fort Wayne, Ind, after drinking
heavily. laid down on the tracks neaf
Wabash, Ind, and was killed.
Nicholas Uchmacher, aged Sc and
unmarried, committed suicide hy
hanging in his boarding house at
/ Springfield H., while Respondent.
AT Lebanon, Ky. the jury In the case
of Lee Boyle, charged with murder,
failed to agree. Boyle's bail was liked
at 81 900, which he will furnish,
The Youngstown (Ohlo) Bridge com
pany has been awarded the contract at
$210, 600 for steel bridge over the Ten
nessce river at Knoxville. Tenn.
The monument which Boston Is
erecting in honor of John Boyle
O'Reily will be unveiled June IL. 1t
includes Celtic cross Is feet hign
The president gave an interview TO
J. l.. Curry and Gardiner Hubbard,
who presented to him the memorial Of
the international arbitration confer
ence.
A tornado visited the towns of Sher-
man. Justin, Howe and Gribble Springs,
In northern Texas, destroying much
property and killing fifty or sixty per
SONS.
The secretary of state has issued a
warrant Tor the surrender to the Ger
man authorities Of Ernest Goetz, held
in Philadelphia for forgery in Ham
burg.
House committee on elections No.
unanimously decided the contested
election case of Denny vs.. Owens from
the seventh Kentucky district, In favor
of Owens,
Members Of the fifth district Iowa
Editorial association have decided to
hold their annual midsummer meet
| ing at Dclayan Lake the first week In
August.
At Pierre, S. d., the reform mayor,
and his chief OF police used an AK to
! force their way into one OF the saloons,
refusing to obey the orders of the
mayor.
The Bank of Buffalo, H., was robbed
Of $4,000 by two masked men. Nh"
burglars entered the town on bicycles
and held up the assistant cashier in
broad daylight
At Clemson college, the South Caro-
| lima state Agricultural institute =. n,
Lindsay, u convict guard, shot w. -.
James, foreman of the college farm,
who will die.
Ex-senator Thomas G. Plat in an
interview declares that Mr.. Mckinley
Is an unsafe man for II presidential
candidate owing to his straddlo on the
financial question.
The Markham house, adjoining the
union depot. Atlanta, and one of he
bcst-known hotels In the country, was
burned, loss, about $4,000, covered by
insurance Of $4,000
Warner Miller denied that ae had
gone back on Morton. He also denied
| lHdt III lIl dlttlllllltN W tlttl II utul
with Mark Hanna, looking for second
place on the ticket.
Mrs. John rhall died ut the resi-
dcnce of her daughter, Mrs. jacob
Thompson, Hastings, MDnp, from
paralysis, aged Is years Sha,, was a
pioneer resident.
Miss Ida May Steers of Cropsey, H.
VAS Shot and fatally wounded by vii
liam lIurlcll, Burrell then shot and
killed himself Miss steers had re
fused to marry him
T, j, Carter and viii Garter were ar.
rested ut Nandalia, H., by federal au-
thoritics on charge of attempting to
dcIraud the government Ivy means Of 4
postofllcc money order.
The schooner Mary u. Agar was
sunk in collision with the steamer
Onoko, off Crosse Point, Lake Mcht.
gan. and Ave members OF her crew
were drowned and two saved,
Charles Timer Of Hopkins, Mo
prompted by jealousy. killed Leslie