Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1896-07-09
TELEGRAMS In BRIEF.
DOMESTIC .DoINGs.


was chasing a flibusterer along the
Florida coast is false.
The Cretans have elected proYl'
sional government and decided to pro
claim the union of the island with
Greece.
Wilcox &c Draper, shoe dealers al
Omaha, have failed for $4,000
Ford Dexter, aged 16, was drowned
while bathing in the Mississippi neal
Clinton, Iowa.
Ex-United States Senator Lyman
Trumbull died at his home, in Chicago
aged SO years.
Theodore Eisenhower was found
guilty at Pottsvile, Pa, of murder IN
killing John Schwindt.
Ex-State Senator Oil has been ac-
quilted of the charge Of bribery at
Columbus. Ohio
Niles, Mich, peaches are four weeks
ahead Of time The crop Will be the
largest ever known.
Quincy Oliver Eckford, Jr7 son OF
@. O. Eckford United States consul at
Kingston, Jamaica, died.
The Celery City Cycle company Of
Kalamazoo, Mich, has assigned. Liza
bilities, $4,000; assets, $4,000.
Fire In the Odd Fellows block at
Seymour, Ind, caused loss Of $4,000
mostly covered by insurance.
Richard Evans, prominent citizen
OF Galena. H., for fifty years, and n
noted musician, is dead, aged II.
Burglars robbed the residence Of
George Monroe Of Bronston township
Michigan, of 800 and II gold watch.
A bequest OF $1,000 to the Ladies'
Library association of Pontiac, Mich,
was made by the late Byron G. Stout,
Patrick McKcown, nominee Of the
late democratic state convention fof
food and dairy commissioner In Ohio,
ia dead.
A matrimonial event of much inter
est In Watertown was celebrated In
nuptials of Max G. Kusel, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. D. II. Kuscl and Miss Amanda
Schcmpf, daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Leonard Schempf.
FIX Mayor j. c. Haworth Of kinmun-
dy, ILL.,, died suddenly, aged IS years,
He was prominent n secret societies
md Will be buried with honors
Rebecca Sutton, housokeoper at
lifts hotel mt Hampton, NJ j., after II
quarrel, shot and killed her paramount
n Oh .,i uIi ia "a
While attempting to shoot rattle
snake Richard Gates Cf Wichita. Kan,
killed his hunting companion, Robert
Davis of Decatur, Texas, at Duncan
J. u.
Tho first man to be arrested In Hen
ton llarbor, Mich, under the new bell
and lamp ordinance Cor bicyclists Is the
editor who strongly advocated 1t in his
paper.
Two men who murdered Sheriff RoE-
era, while resisting arrest, narrowly
escaped lynching at Glencoe, MINI,
and were only saved from a mob by
the arrival of militia
Captain William Mntthics, aged -
years, II prominent attorney and ply
stefan of Kansas Is dead at Lcavon.
worth. He had served In the lcglsla-
turc and been speaker Of the house,
Three men and one woman dead and
n man under arrest, IL the result of
Il womnn's unlaithrulnoss and II man q
pertdy at Helena. They are partly
Ealf hrccds
Judge Henderson Elliot, who had
served for twenty years on the common
pleas bench at Dayton, Ohio, Is dead
For number Of yours he was editor
of the Ledger of that place, now the
Times
The state bar association of indiana
was organized in Indianapolis AT n
meeting represented 10y lawyers from
oil over the state Gen benjamin.
Harrison was chosen first president
unanimously.
owing to the intercession of the
United states the Venezuelan govern
ment has released the British surveyor
Harrison, and his party, who were ar
rested for alleged encroachmcnts on
Venezuelan territory
Six thousand Sioux celebrated the
twentieth anniversary of the dcstruc-
ton of Clusters command on the Iiitlc
Big Horn, June %, 1876, They gath
cred at the scene aud INDUCED In all
the fantastic dances nd ceremonies
The West Wisconsin and Minnesota
Telephone association has been organ
l2ed ut Winona, The object Is to
unite all independent companies by toll
limos and in other ways promote their
interests. Tcn companies were rep
resented
Herman Cole, an ,lororaut, was killed.
Mt Grand Rapids. Mich, ana several
thousand Witnessed Lis death, As his
balloon assembled the wind dashed IT
against u building He fell fifty feet.
landing on his head, and died an hour
later
Gen. Pierce NJ, II, Young, United
States minister to Honduras and Guate