Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-02-06
KILOGRAMS in BRIEF.
OF A DOMESTIC NATURE.

writer Oh the World, is dead.
John III. Karsner, an aged resident
OF Rensselaer,, Ind, Is dead.
Nicaragua citizens want a dictator
ship and revised constitution.
Mrs. Hannah Cronkrite, aged 70
years, is dead at Neenah, Wis.
The Alger club banquet at Detroit
Included speech by Warner Miller.
Lindley Hoffman Chaplin, millionaire
and club man, died in New York
Frederick Foreman, wealthy citi-
zen of Metropolis, ILL.,, is dead, aged 81
years.
John Tyler, eldest son Of President
Tyler, died in Washington, aged 76
years.
Theodore Runyon, United States am.
bassador to Germany, died suddenly,
aged "a.
At Pomcroy, o., James Edwin Camp
bell, OF Chicago, dialect poet and story
writer, died.
John II. Goodwin, rich Alabama
planter craZcd by religion, killed his
wife and himself.
A pitched battle occurred in IA West
Superior court room growing out Of
receivership contest.
Congressman John x. Cowen was
elected president of the Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad company.
Bank statement: Reserve, increase,
$5333 900; banks hold $37 ,G7S, 900, In
excess Of legal requirement.
President lIill, OF the Great North
ern, denies report that he is to ac-
quire two California railways.
John Scott, n farmer of Lebanon,
Ind, while working In gravel pit,
vas fatally injured by n cave-in.
II Is prophcsied that congress will
recognize not the belllgerency of the
Cubans, but their independence
Frank Hunt, who went from Naper
vile, H., to the south In search of
health, Ia dead at Thomasville, Ga.
Governor and Mrs. Mckinley cclc-
brated their silver wedding annivor
sary with dinner at their home.
Cleveland's message advising Vene-
zuelans TO refrain from violence at this
critical time was delivered to Crospo.
Mrs. John w. Maclay and family
have sailed for the United States with
the remains of John w. Mackay, Jr.
At South Bend, Ind, the 2-yoar-old
child of August Peschke fell into n
pail of boiling water and was killed.
Americans In the Transvaal claim TO
have wrongs to redress and ask Soc
rotary Olney to help do the redresslng
The ship Foyle, of London, from
Calcutta for New York, with n gen
eral cargo struck on the Shrewsbury
rocks.
Mrs. Ithoda Blanchard Sterans died
ut tho residence Of her daughter, Mrs.
L.. II. Farrar, at Paxton, H., aged "a
years.
John G.. Richardson, postmaster of
Prairie Farm, Wis. returning from the
burinl of his father was killed by II
train,
The farm barn of John Kennedy, of
Capron H., was destroyed by fire,
cromntlng eight horses and nineteen
cattle.
Fred Groscns OF Kankakcc, H., fell
forty feet from railroad bridge into
the river ut that place and was
drowned.
George w. Powell, visiting his par
'ents Mt Frooport after an absence of
eight years, committed suicide by
shooting.
Senator llansbrough Of North Du-
hota amends his bin to prevent the
subsection of "old glory" to improper
uses
Lyman lnmon, for fifty years resi-
dent Of GAINESVILLE, Wis, Is dead aged
"a years He leaves widow and five
children.
In Otta, H., the Marseilcs Manu-
fncturing company, agriculture nipple
mont manufacturing concern has as-
signed
The Venezuelan commission held It's
FIRST rCgular weekly meeting In Wash
hngton and discussed the subject of
lmaps,
John Russell Young, cN-ministcr to
China, has been studying Mexican bat
Tie fields to learn of Gen. Grants doing
fhcrc NSiO.
Governor Morton Is looming up as
the leading candidate The political
situation in the south and west Is fay
orahlO To him
Thieves blew the rustoncc safe at
Eliwood. Pa, with dynamite and Sc
cured 81 900 in stamps, money and reg
isteIcd letters,
Tho british government definitely
concludes to arhitrato instead Of fight
over Venezuela
While playing with Il box of matches
Charlie Ray the Syear-old son OF
William Ray, of Sioux city, Iowa, was
fatally burned.
Farwcll a. Wilson, aged "a, is dead
at Ann Arbor, Mich, lie was former
member Of the legislature and leaves
largo fortune