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Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.

Washington, March Is. There was
the usual full attendance in the senate
Monday by persons anticipating con
tinuanre of the Cuban discussion.
Elkins Tep., W. Na,) offered Il rcsou
ton directing the committee on for
cign relations before vote is taken
on the resolution to MAKE Il report to
the senate of all material facts on the
subject; specifically whether war eX-
listed in Cuba and for how long;
whether the insurgents have adopted
a constitution, organized a govern
ment. in what place the seat of gov
crnmcnt; what places and ports are
occupied by the insurgents, how would
recognition affect our relations with
Spain On request MI Sherman con-
scented that the resolution go over.
Palmer dem, HID, offered resolu-
tion declaring that unlimited coinage
Of silver by the United States would
suhvcrt existing legal and commercial
values, Nh Lodge rep, Mass), then
made II speech on immigration, The
senate Judiciary committee reported
substitute for the house bill fixing the
salaries of United states district attor-
ueys marshals and deputies, As
rule II raises salaries.
In the house Il resolution was
adopted directing the secretary Of war
to mako Il survey and estimate the
cost of brcakwater at Marquette Bay,
Mich. The bill authorizing the con
Structi0n of a fog signal At the North
Pier of Mcnominco llarhor Wis, was
passed
Washington, March H. The senate
galleries are beginning to assume their
normal condition owing to the delays
and uncertainties on the Cuban rcSolu-
tons The resolution of MIR. Elkins,
rcp, \, ", directing The committee
on foreign relations To report on the
status ol the Cuban war went over uE
I'll tomorrow Mr. Mitchell Crcp., Orc0,
complained that the Cuban resolutions
were making no Roadway. Mr., Shcr-
man rrp., o., responded that he saw
no reason why the Cuban question
but he did not desire to cat OIL
speeches The senate committee on
pcusions authorized n favorable report
on Mr. Gallingar's bill accepting the
fact that soldier was accepted AMI
mustered in at the time Of his enlist
mcnt MS proof OF soundnCss in body
and mind The bill affects a large
number OF pensioh applications
The house devoted the day to the
bill 20 amend the administrative tarin
act OF 1890 and passed II without sub
stantal amendment The house COM
mittee on naval affairs decided % pro-
vide in its appropriation bill four new
hattleships and fifteen torpedo boats,
The hattleships are 70 be ll.NG6 tons
and 10 cost not more than S5T5A.00
each, inclusive of armor and arma-
meut Ten of the torpedo boats are
to cost $500. 600 each and five of them
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26

LIS tableware, silver and cut glass
brought fabulous prices at auction in
Honolulu. Each piece bore the royal
monogram.
A dispatch from Rome quotes terms
of peace proposed to Menelik by the
Italians, and reports an interview
with Signor Oreste Corsi on the po-
litical situation in Italy.
The Argentine Republic is going to
send team of polo players to Eng
land next summer, and much interest
Is expressed to see their ponies, which
are said to comprise specimens OF
every kind bred in South America.
England's oldest peer Is the earl of
Mansfield, who has just reached his
Der of the upper house for SIS years
and wa; Il junior lord of the treasury
GO years ago.
Australia has found it impossible
to abate the rabbit plague. In New
South Wales alone 1000, 900 acres of
land have been abandoned and Il ,O0O,-
600 spent. The only plan that has
any good effect is wire netting, ana of
this $1,000 miles have been used.
All the students at Bede college a
training school for teachers near Dur
ham, have been suspended for refusing
to eat the beef put before them After
demonstrating in vain they left the
dining hall in a body without touching
their dinners, and out Of Ga men only
II would apologize.
An English expert points out that II
England were to put all her battle
ships In commission it would absorb
10000 of the $1,000 petty officers and
seaman of the navy, leaving but 10000
to man the 300 and more remaining
vessels Of all classes in the navy.
This would leave 200 vessel un-
manned.
At the international medical con-
gress to b. held in Moscow in 1897,
French will be recognized as the Off
cial language. Papers may be read in
other European languages, but the dis
cussions must be in Russian, French,
or German This decision has nade
English doctors angry, and they talk
of not attending the congress-
M. Meslaus has examined the rela-
ton between tn" penCtrabiiity by the
rays from CrookcS tubes of various
substances and their chemical nature
He finds that carbon and its combina-
lions with hydrogen, oxygen, and nj
trogcn are peculiarly transparent to
the rays, while the presence of other
clements, chlorine, sulphur, phos-
phorus. and above all iodine with
metals increases the opaqueness.
Oil burners on a system invented by
an engineer named Cuniberti have
been put into all the new Italian war
ships and have also been adopted by
the German government. The fuel
used Is not crude petroleum, but pc
trolcum rcsiduum, which Is more
economical and has the advantage of
not producing smoke when burnt. The
British admiralty is about to expert
mcnt with liquid fuel on the new fast
cruiser Gladiator.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26

violet and mauVe seem destined to
come and crowd into the shade the
famed waistcoats of the dandies of a
hundred years back.
If any innocent should leave an or
der with his metropolitan tailor for
moleskin waistcoat it would be wise
for him to have an explicit under
standing beforehand as to the price,
because they run tremendously high.
Only the very fashionable tailors deal
in them, and a Fifth avenue concern
regards $50 as a very moderate fee for
one of these creations. Not dozen
men in town own them. and most of
these lights of fashion purchased
theirs in England, where the prices
run from $50 to 500
No man who makes any pretensions
in the way of fashionable attire will
wear buttons on his waistCoat where
they can be seen. The button holes
should be worked in an under lapel.
the same as on an overCoat. Particu-
lar attention should also be paid to
tue INGktiS. Fsdtll StlOulu Dt Hllth
with a lapel at least two inches in
depth. with square edges, and the
lapels must always be kept in view.
There must never be the faintest hint
of a crease or wrinkle in the waistcoat,
and to maintain them in their pris-
tine smoothness they should be sent to
a tailor after every two or three wear
ings to be pressed
Heretofore the waistcoat has merely
figured as an incidental but now II
has jumped into first place. 4 stock
of seven Of them made by tailor Of
note costs in the neighborhood OF $3.50.
and where a suit Of clothes cost so a
year ago the price now runs 70 800
and over.
4 sign Of the spring is the brown
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26

even more vivid than those OF last
summer. Many men are having linen
ascots and club ties made of the same
material as their shirts and matching
them in color
It is considered in these days o
fads ry smart" to order your tie
from the bolt of goods, and instruc,
your particular haberdasher how you
want them made up. This fad has
produced quite a number of dealers
who make a speciality of that kind OF
thing. and who have hired rooms and
studios and chambers. You must 60
to them and examine samples, or send
for them and they will come to you
and take your order.
In the matter of trousers and coats
there is not much change to speak of.
The trousers are gradually growing
narrower. but so slowly that the
change is barely perceptible A width
of nineteen inches at the knee and
seventeen and half inches at the
bottom is about the average. Some of
the human fashion plates predict that
within a year tight trousers, the kind
which were in vogue fifteen years ago,
will again be the rage Men with
slender legs will not be pleased to
hear this. and will fervently hope that
the rumor may prove untrue.
Men are paying more attention these
days to underwear than ever before.
r. e ~
gravely announces that he has a fine
assortment OF mems lingerie. The
very swell young man keeps a stock
of twenty suits of pajamas on hand all
the time. A fairly good suit costs SIS
and some of the fancy ones run as
high as $50 Bath robes are now the
subject of much ornamentation. the
prices Of the good ones running from
500 to $3.50.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26

The spring dude of 1896 promises TO
be gayer thing than for many years
past. And the young man who aspires
to be in the push" must have a long
pocketbook or he will fall by the way
side with ignominious haste. The
particular glory of the man of fashion
will be his waistcoats. He should
have at the very least seven of them,
one for each day in the week and an
other for Sunday. Their IS lothing
more impressive than Il handsome
waistcoat worn on an exuberant chest,
difficult to impart to this item of ap-
parel the swelling dignity 10 which it
Is justly entitled.
These waistcoats are made of all
manner of things. The finest are
made of russell colored velvet, black
velvet and dark blue velvet. For or
binary wear they are made of cordu
roy moleskin and leather. All shades
of brown are the popular hues, but
some of the willie Boys" with a
characteristic desire to appear unlike
their fellowmen, are adopting all kinds
of the more sober Colors. The tend
ency, however, is toward the brighter
hues, and unless it is speedily checked,
lively as those worn by song and
dance artists oa the variety stage.
Pink, yellow, blue, scarlet, green, rose,
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26
LITTLE, BUT so WELL OFF!

\ successful bachelor maid is Lolita,
who has wooed a goodly fortune from
the tickle goddess, She is credited
with having $4,000, well invested in
a hotel in Boston next to the Park
Avenue Theater, which she also owns.
In this city she has a fine apartment
house, and she owns real estate all
over the country, She and her mother,
Mrs Crahtree make all of the invest
ments without the help of men. Her
father was an unsuccessful miner, and
it was from a log cabin on Rabbit
Creek, Cal, that the actress made her
debut
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26
WHEN HE Is MlSER ABLE.

Speaking of one editor stealing from
another, we think it is all right. When
a brother tilches from us one of our
brilliant thoughts and publishes it
without credit. we are so tickled over
II we never think of complaining. But
when brother editor steals some
luminous evolution of the mind we
have cribhed from some other fellow.
then does the iron enter our soul. and
sorrow Is ours indeed Mobile Re.
Gister
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26

Washington, March 1S-During the
consideration in the senate of reso-
luton to open the Uncompahgre reser-
walton in Utah, Secretary Hoke Smith
was severely criticised by Senators
Cannon of Utah, Wolcott of Colorado
and West of Missouri, and the last
named said that there had been a time
when a cabinet officer who deliberately
disobeyed the law would be brought
before the bar of the senate. Mr. Villas
dem, Wis.,, offered an amendment to
exempt asphalt lands from the opera
tons of the law opening the reserva
ton and pleaded for time to consider
the resolution. It's passage would be
a reflection upon the secretary and
even upon the president. The resoh
tion finally was laid aside as unfin-
shed business.
The Bayard censure resolution was
called up in the house by Mr.. Hit
Tep., HID, who made a strong speech
in support of it and was followed by
Mr. McCreary dem, Ky), who opened
for the opposition
1t is stated that the Venezuela COM
mission has come to the opinion, from
the result of the investigations al
ready made, that the British claim is
untenable, and that Venezuela's claim
Is IA just one.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26

s850000. The committee on immigra-
ton decided to favorably report the
Mccall bill, which excludes from ad-
mission to this country all males be-
tween the ages of 16 to SO who are not
able to read and write English or some
other language.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26
GAY AND GORGEOUS
THE SPRING DUDE A MARVEL IN
COLORS.
WONDERFUL WAiSTCOATS

A Different One for Each Day in the
Week Means an Expenditure of
$25O-Rainbow Shirts and Other
Gaudy Things for the Spring Sea-
SON.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26

\ liberal uuionist has asked in the
house OF commons for information as
TO who i responsible for Alfred Aus
tins laureate poems. II no minister is
responsible. ho will propose that the
Icrl Chamberlain >evis, his political
verse.
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26

Lambert Nau of Green Bay. business
man is dead
Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-03-26

Washington, March 19.-In the house
the debate on the resolutions to censure
Ambassador Bayard was called up
early. Representatives Taft, Pearson
and Representatives Mccall and Wat
son against them Mr.. Tawney rep,
Minn), under direction of the ways and
means committee, has prepared a bill
looking to the regulation of the filled
cheese traffic, even more stringent than
the oleomargarine law.
Cuba had the entire attention of the
senate, speeches being made by Stewart
pop, New, Gray dem, Ga) and CAT
fiery (dcm., Lao, the debate being en-
Iivened by many spirited incidents.
Mr.. Gray's plea for Cuba brought on
a running cross-firc of comment and
inquiry from Mr.. Hale Ncp, Me). The
Delaware senator caused much amusc-
ment by referring to Mr. Hale as "thc
senator from Spain" A fresh and
vigorous contribution came from Mr..
Chiffon dem, Tex, who has seldom
was abundant work at home to occupy
the attention of congress instead of
in humanitarian CrusadeS
abroad, with their possibilities of war.
Messrs Chiffon and Stewart in their
arguments insisted the resolution
should be in a joint form.
Washington, March 20. In the house
the three days debate on the BayaId
censuring resolution was passed by a
vote OF lS0 to n. Six democrats,
Mcssrs. Bailey and Cockreli (TeX),
Cummings IN. W, Latimer Is. Co.,
Layton and Sorg (OD, voted with the
republicans for the resolution and five
republicans, Mcssrs Baker tMdJ, Cook
ullD, Draper (Mass), Pitney IN. j.,
Willis DelD, with the democrats
against ii.
In the senate an interest was shown
in the Cuban resolutions by abandon
ing routine work and taking them up
Immediately. Mr.. Can dem, Fla,
while supporting the resolutions read
letter from a personal friend in Ha-
vana telling of the bloody massacre
on the I'D ul; 1t gave details of the
slaughter of twenty men and the i'm
prisonment of seventeen Cubans. They
were sacrificed in the streets of sub
urb of Havana. Mr. Call vouched for
the integrity of the writer Of the
letter. Mr.. Mills also spoke. Mr.
German dem, Md, succeeded in post
moN ing to adjourn until Monday whi2h
p"''"" prevailed. The Benoit-Boat-
ncr contest was called up and the seat
declared vacant. The senate commit
tee on territories agreed to report fay-
orably the bill for the admission of
Arizona as Il state of the union.
Evening star., 1896-12-30
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY.
Reception to the Faculties Of the u
partments Last Night.

Reception to the Faculties of the De-
partments Last Night.
reception to the faculties of the aca-
demic, law and medical departments of
Georgetown University was given last even
ing by the Georgetown College Alumni So
ciety in the college reception parlors. About
two hundred members of the society were
present. Rev. ]. Havens Richards, presi-
dent Of the college, was at the head of the
receiving party. The affair was entirely
social, and lacked that stiff formality which
frequently marks such occasions. Music
was provided and lunch was served. Dur
was given. and the Riggs Library and
Coleman Museum, together with the lab
oratories and students libraries, were
thrown open for the inspection Of the visit
ors. Arrangements for the reception were
completed by a committee consisting Of j.
Nota McGill. William F. Quicksall, E. D. F.
Brady, DR.. ]. Dudley Morgan and DR.. F. O.
St. Clair.
Among those present were: Justice Brown,
United States Supreme Court; Justices
Louis E. McComas, Martin F. Morris and
Seth Shepard Of the District courts; r. Ross
Perry, George E. Hamilton, T. A. Lambert,
NJ J; Colbert, Charles A. Douglas. DR.. c.
L. Allen, Thomas E. Waggaman. DR.. Joseph
Taber johnson. DIR. ]. F. Moran, DIR. Geo.
]. Lochboehler. DIR. Joseph J. Kinyoun.
Drs: Levin j. sothoron and Joseph T.
SOtnorOn, Dr- T. a IlDDS LIZ. clarence n.
Dufour, DIR. W. Sinclair Brown, Jules
Boeufve of the French legation, Ed And
rade Penny of the Venezuelan legation,
Rev. John A. Morgan. Anton Gloetzner,
Emil II. Block, DIR. Joseph Jouy, Charles
Calvert Lancaster. Thomas Bryan Huyck.
William G. Waggaman, Charles T. Simp-
son, Frank A. Reynolds, Thos. A. Stephens,
L. o. Howard, Louis P. Shoemaker 8. D..
Judd. DIR. w. N. Cegan, E. w. Reisinger,
DR.. G. l.. Magruder, DIR. 8. s. Adams, E.
R. Hodge, DIR. Fehleisen, 8. NJ Yeatman,
Byrns, John s. Larcombe, Gen. ]. Madison
Cults Admiral Weaver, U. 8. N; DIR. Geo.
NJ. Kober, DIR. Thomas N. Vincent, J..
O'Connor. l. s. Stone, DIR. b. X. Ashford,
Job Barnard Commissioner Ross, Edward
p Harrington, DIR. Kleinschmidt, John j.
Dolan, H. b. Brown, V. M. Dorsey. w.
Henry Walker. William H. Dennis, John
]. Stafford. James F. Scaggs, d. P. c. Cal
laghan and William j. Donnelly.
Evening star., 1896-12-30
A KINDERGARTEN TALK.
Miss Blow to Give n Talk to tn
COlumbi Association.

Miss Blow to Give n Talk to the
Columbian Association.
The Columbian Kindergarten Association,
Of which Mrs. John G. Walker is president
Mrs. Lucius Tuckerman, Mrs. J. G. Crop
ger, DIR. William T. Harris and Col Carroll
D. Wright, vice presidents; Mr.. B. Pickman
Mann, secretary, and Mr.. Henry B. F. Mac
farland, treasurer. has invited Miss Susan
E. Blow of st. Louis, daughter of the late
Governor Blow of Missouri one of the
foremost living workers in the kindergarten
cause in the United States, to deliver two
free lectures on the kindergarten, the first
of which will be given at the assembly hall
of the Columbian University Saturday
morning, January 2, at IL o'clock, when it
Is expected that there will be a large at
tendance of kindergartners and the inter-
ested public Of Washington. Miss Blow has
for years largely devoted herself and her
means to the promotion Of the kindergarten
cause. For years after the Introduction of
the kindergarten system in ST. Louis she
conducted gratuitously large training class
es, and subsequently became the inspector
Of the more than fifty free kindergartens es-
tablished by the municipality of st. Louis
VI der the supervision of DR.. William T.
Harris, now United States commissioner of
education. She is an attractive as well as
an instructive speaker.
1t Ia proposed by the Columbian Kinder
garten Association to follow the lectures of
Miss Blow with a series Of free lectures by
eminent kindergartners of the country.
Evening star., 1896-12-30
A WEEKS MORTALITY.
A Good Showing Made by the HeaIt
Officers Report.

A Good Showing Made by the Health
Officers Report.
According to the report of the health
officer issued today covering the week end
ing last Saturday, the death rate of the
city during the last week was 1872 per LOCO
inhabitants. The average rate for the
last month and this up to date was 175
This is per 1000 below the annual average
OF the city, which is 23.5. The deaths re-
ported to the health department numbered
%, OF which 20 were white and % colored.
or the total mortality.e acute lung cases
amounting to II. and consumption II, COM
pose 2Sla per cent. There we're deaths
from d1phtheria, and the new cases re-
ported fell from 25 in the previous week to
~; houses released fromUqua tantine from
~ to IL, and premises Still isolated were
reduced from SO to 4S. New cases of scar
let IeVer reported were h,ucards removed, G.
ana premises remaining nlacarded. 10.
VI heart maladies there were deaths. an
increase of over lastoiweek1 and those
from affections of the kidneys rose from ,
to 8. - ~ -
The meteorological conditions indicated
an average temperature. Of the air of %
degrees, with relative humidity of 60 and
parometric pressure ofi3O.12 The ther-
Hometer fell from 80 degrees on the I'D
10 o on the 18th. ranging % degrees in the
TWO Gays. Northwest winds averaging 7
mn mlies per hour, reaching 80 niles on the
ZSd, with but a trace of rainfall. -
blrths reported. "A; white. Al; colored. 21
marriages. reported, 45; white, 40; colored.
Evening star., 1896-12-30
REV. WIN. e. RIxGwALr DEAD
FORMER Local Newspaper Man Sue
cumbs to Typhoid Fever.

A Former Local Newsnaner Man Suo-
cumbs to Typhoid Fever.
A report comes from New York of the
death OF Rev. W. E. Ringwalt at Brent
"ood' HI, early yesterday morning of
/ 'ypho,d FEVER Mr.. Ringwalt had been in
charge of the Episcopal church located a r
brentwood. Central Islip and Ronkonkoma
1or the past two years.
MI HingWat was for number of years
engaged IN newspaper work. In Washing
ton, and had wide acquaintance. His
father was a member Of the firm of Miller
Rlngwait & Hack, publishers of the Even
ing Critic of this city, and It was on this
paper that he served his apprenticeship in
newspaper work. He continued with the
critic as reporter and later as city editor
Tor a number of years, doing also work for
tEe baltimore American, and representing
the New York Commercial Bulletin in this
CITY HIS excellent work on the latter Jour-
nal won such esteem that he was asked TO
1cln the editorial staff, and later he moved
10 New York. Here he devoted himself
with such ardor to his work for several
years that his health gave way, and he
was compelled to relinquish editorial work
II was during this enforced rest that his
mind turned to the church, and first as law
reader and then as rector he threw into his
work the same devotion that had Character
ized his efforts in the secular field. From
this latest report it is evident that he has
again succumbed, and that this time he
failed to rally. He was Of the stuff of
winch missionaries are made-men who
freely wear out their lives to make the
world better. -,
Evening star., 1896-12-30
Re.tratned From Selling.

Upon the petition Of Richard s. Windsor.
Judge Cole today restrained the marshal
from selling lot 0. square 13. the property
of the petitioner, on an execution in favor
of the First National Bank Of Alexandria,
Va, 10 the use of Samuel c. Mcdowell and
others
The execution was issued in a suit filed
by the bank against John w. Brown and
against the complainant and Mcdowell &
Sons as indorsers on a note Of 81, 800 the
judgment having been assigned to Mellow
ell & Sons. Mr.. Windsor asks the court to
ascertain his liability to said Mcdowell &
Sons, which amount, he says, he Is ready
and willing to pay. His counsel Messrs
W. L. Cole and Edmund Burke, presented
the petition to Judge Cole, who granted 8
temporary restraining order, returnable
the Ilth Of next month.